You don't just take a punt on a childcare provider like you might with temporary accommodation on AirBnB.
From personal experience and those of other parents I know, it's a heavily researched, quite intensive process involving multiple visits to different providers.
An AirBnB for long-term childcare seems like a non-starter, perhaps beyond initial discovery and shallow research.
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Also, there are so many societal benefits to affordable child care for all. For example, more primary care givers returning to work, earning and therefore paying taxes etc.
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We have a startup vibe and ethos: act like an owner (anyone joining will become one), impact is more important than hours etc. But we're also successful and stable, friendly, welcoming, and respectful of work/life balance.
Adzuna | Backend (Perl) and Infrastructure Engineers | London, UK or Remote, Europe (+/- 2hrs of London)
Adzuna is a job search engine that lists every job, everywhere. From launch in the UK in 2011, we now have more than 10 million visitors a month and are busy conquering the world from our office in West London (with our distributed colleagues).
We have a startup vibe and ethos: act like an owner (anyone joining will become one), impact is more important than hours etc. But we're also successful and stable, friendly, welcoming, and respectful of work/life balance.
If you're able to, take your partner away _before_ the baby arrives. They deserve it for growing a human and you both deserve some quality time together before everything changes :)
Other than that, it's amazing (and challenging). Be patient and kind to each other (and it goes without saying, to your baby).
Are any apps at all actually good for route planning especially on a bike? It seems like that this is something in software that just sucks. I don't even bother anymore, I open up a topographical map and figure out routes by hand. No more turning left across six lanes from a stop sign. No more route thats "mostly flat", aside from the 400ft of undulating terrain that saps you. No sharing the road with semitrucks that go 50mph and are actively trying to force you off and into riding on the sidewalk. No more surprises. All this planning turns things into a homework assignment, but its worth the investment for points of interest you regularly are going to.
I've been really happy with ridewithgps.com for route planning. I do sometimes have to go to other sites for areas I'm more unfamiliar with. It syncs any routes I make automatically to my Wahoo GPS, and gives me options to share with others on that platform.
Disclaimer - my site. It’s very focused on quiet routes, so will generally prefer a hilly road if the alternative is a traffic-infested one. Europe/North America/AU+NZ only at present.
Really impressive site, thanks for sharing it! Bonus: I'm just used to sites not having data / support for Canada; this was a pleasant surprise.
UX observation: clicking to create a start and end was relatively intuitive, but it took a while to find "Close route" to reset it (and be able to click for start / end points once more).
How do you determine quiet-ness? Is it just by the grade of the road, or do you have some kind of data feed for quietitude?
E.g. in the UK, some A-roads can be very quiet despite being technically major, whereas some B-roads or even ungraded can be very busy, e.g. if they are used as shortcuts.
It's by historic traffic data where available, defaulting to road class if not. (Before I added the traffic data, it used to route over rough mountain tracks in the Highlands to avoid A roads...)
This is good. Guessing you're already ahead of me, but a feature that I find super useful in competitors is an elevation map of the route after I've selected it.
Komoot is by far the best IMO. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
My workflow is 3 monitor setup. Komoot in the middle, actually planning the route. Strava heatmap on the left to see where people often travel in an area. Gmaps on the right to see streets and street view.
It's still a pain to plan, but it's _so much easier_ with komoot.
> Are any apps at all actually good for route planning especially on a bike?
No.
Google Maps directions for bikes is a good start but you have to take the routes with a big grain of salt (even with that Google is still better than every other app I've tried). I street view the route to make sure there's a least a good shoulder and re-route appropriately.
This is potentially quite interesting to me we are having conversations on/off at work about data reporting, visualising etc., which is leading me to pay attention to related topics.
However, it's lacking in any context explaining what you're trying to achieve and why.
It's probably obvious to some people but for me, it's not, which I think is a shame.
Beyond just data replication/archival purposes, it seems you can use the this to run analysis against Goodreads entire public dataset. This is much more efficient than using their API alone.
the architecture also seems pretty complex - i am wondering at what level of requirements or data complexity people should consider something like this, as opposed to running a little cronjob on a $5 server somewhere.
not dissing the author, genuinely trying to understand the spectrum of data science needs
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From personal experience and those of other parents I know, it's a heavily researched, quite intensive process involving multiple visits to different providers.
An AirBnB for long-term childcare seems like a non-starter, perhaps beyond initial discovery and shallow research.
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Also, there are so many societal benefits to affordable child care for all. For example, more primary care givers returning to work, earning and therefore paying taxes etc.