When you say "shoplifting," do you mean someone has simply walked/run out of the store without paying for something? If so, I don't really understand what that has to do with safety. Same with plenty of other crimes, such as someone jumping a subway turnstile, graffiti, etc. These things surely lead to a lower quality of life and I'd prefer that they didn't happen, but I personally wouldn't say that they make a city dangerous.
This is controversial. Some studies have found that petty crime like this leads to more crime. Or stated differently if you solve these little crimes there is less big crime as well. However this is very controversial and those studies have been criticized - I am not able to figure out the truth here, feel free to do your own research.
A policing tactic back in the 1990s was 'Broken Windows', which did what you said - fix the little stuff and the big issues will improve. It was controversial, as you say, because at least in some places the strategy became 'oppress black and brown males' so the white people can feel safe.
I've read one news story on an analysis of Broken Windows (so not a lot of data) said that outcomes were not correlated with that strategy. Crime went down everywhere, whether or not they used Broken Windows.
Mayors and police chiefs, etc. are called geniuses or fools in strong correlation with national trends, especially the economy. Lots of 1990s mayors, etc. were geniuses as the economy boomed and crime came down nationwide.
Focusing the discussion around "safety" doesn't make sense to me. It's just as reasonable to focus around "order" or "lawfulness" or "cleanliness" or anything else.
I never felt unsafe in LA, but I sure as hell felt disgusted when someone spit on us, and a bunch of other negative emotions when you saw the worst of the homeless population or drug use or anything else.
Was I unsafe ? No, but was it clearly disorderly? Yep.
Airlines are among the worst when it comes to this for some reason. I gave a talk[1] a while back about the problems that occur when programmers introduce logic around people's names, and a good chunk of my stories/examples involved airlines.
I wonder if airlines are no worse than any other organization at dealing with human names, but they're exposed to many more edge cases than the average company, since they're in the business of enabling rapid travel between continents.
I think that's the case. Any other organization is bound to some kind of context with it's own set of arbitrary choices and restrictions, but only restrictions in GDS are "two names both at least one (or two?) letter each, spelled with Latin alphabet, non-case sensitive". Funnily enough, the set of restrictions used by Visa/Mastercard one step later in the process is subtly different.
I'm building a gamified habit tracker, similar to Habitica[1], but simplified in some ways, and with offline support. My biggest issues with Habitica are their lack of offline support (even on mobile), and their extremely downtime-prone servers. My goal is to make something more pleasant to use.
I don't have a link to share since it's still fairly early in development, but I'm making good progress!
If you do graphics like Habitica, I think another improvement over them would be to do the graphics better. Not sure if others share this opinion but Habitica's art style I really find awful, generic and boring. Less so the pixel art (I like pixel art), but the colour palettes and sprites just don't feel great for me.
I played with this a bit years ago when it was still called PostgraphQL. My biggest issue with it was that there didn't seem to be a recommended (or even suggested) version control method for things like functions. Using a standard migration tool to update functions seems like hell, so I gave up on using it.
Looking through the docs, I still see no mention of version control or even migrations at all. Is this something that has been solved?
SEEKING WORK - Netherlands - Remote-only
I'm a full-stack engineer looking for projects to build on a freelance basis. I am not interested in staff augmentation.
I'm most experienced in PHP/Laravel and JS/TS/React, but am pretty tech-fluid.
Previously, I worked at Etsy (three years) and Trello (five years, both pre- and post-Atlassian acquisition).
My ideal project would be solo-shipping an MVP in the span of 2-4 weeks depending on the complexity, but I'm also happy to work on more ambitious projects.
