Cookingboy

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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>It was doable 10-30 years ago And 150 years ago you can probably buy a few acres of land in SF Bay Area for less than the inflation-adjusted price of a townhouse in Mountain View these days. Real estate is one thing that does not scale
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>"I can't afford the house I want Americans especially have a very skewed expectation when it comes to housing. Many people here are like "I have an upper middle class professional income, my family should have no problem
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>it's pretty messed up if you're making 3x the national median household income 3x national median income would actually mean something if real estate costs the same nationally, but obviously it doesn't. Many areas in the
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>Don't you think that children of Baltimore deserve accountability from Baltimore politicians? Nope. Education is such a complex and critical task that letting local politicians to decide the fate of our children in the hyper compet
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
Compared to what? I grew up in Shanghai and went to great schools but I also attended one of the best public school districts in Texas for high school, and there are many areas that I think my high school did better than its Chinese counter
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>solve poverty, and/or socio-economic divides in housing distribution Most countries don't have education quality this much tied to local property taxes. It is totally possible to increase equality for education without fully f
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
If you want relatively equal access to education and ensure minimal gap between poorer areas and wealthier areas, then there is no alternative other than a centralized education system where tax is collected federally and funding and initia
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>Salaries and prestige are relatively low for developers in Japan Yeah, I was pretty surprised to hear that a Senior Engineering Manager at Rakuten, the "Japanese Amazon" and one of their top software companies, only has the TC
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
Hmmm… I wonder why people make movie adaptation of novels then if text can do everything .
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>Very curious again, because even in HN there were a lot of stories where people are willing to even resign, to keep the freedom that they discovered with not having to work in strict constraints What do you mean by "even HN"?
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>You're making the assumption that people behave rationally. What? No, my original post was completely about how people don't act rationally, and that's why WFH will not be as amazing despite it can be more product in ma
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>If they did a survey and collected opinions from their employees the decision would be pretty trivial. There are surveys at Facebook, Google, etc. The vast majority of people do not want full remote only. Most of them prefer a hybrid
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
I don't have much to add and I don't disagree with much of what you wrote, just wanna say thanks for the write up.
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
I'm not moving goal posts at all, I'm simply giving you concrete examples of things you cannot accomplish as well under full-remote. I never said you can't be a fully remote code monkey, and you may be surprised to find out t
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>This is likely because the prize money is significantly funded by the tickets sold to the “meatspace”. Absolutely not. The prize money was exclusively funded by the sales of in-game battlepass, which is purely digital.
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
> Of course this is true, but that isn't evidence that hackathons are inherently more productive if they're in person. In some ways, they're less productive in person. But human beings aren’t robots, and we value a ton of
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
There are a ton of productivity to be gained for people who otherwise cannot be as productive working alone remotely, that’s something you seem to not realize. There is so much to measure how much an engineer contributes other than how many
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
A huge portion of an engineer’s job (especially senior level engineers) aren’t strictly technical. This seems to be something people miss.
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>Such things are usually unnecessary to the task at hand, and often detrimental Have you considered the mere possibility that many people's work have different types of tasks than yours? It's so hard not to make stereotypical j
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
It's interesting how you used Taiwan and hackathons as example. Despite their successes, I'll bet a decent amount of money that after Covid is over, many hackathons will resume to be in-person events. In fact, think of this the ot
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>I was under the impression that comps have the practice of giving work to people that might produce good results with that kind of work, and trust me, people who might produce good results will want the freedom WFH makes possible. Just
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>Your point is not very clear, sorry. I honestly don't know how is my point not clear. Being able to have both face to face communication and technology based remote communication is better than being limited to the latter alone.
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
But guess what, chatting online and video calls augmented our communication, instead of replacing face to face. The fact that even in this day and age, we still hold major online videogame tournaments in person shows you how important mea
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>In fact, in technical discussion, not conveying too much emotion is a great advantage.. But I'd just like to remind you that even the most hardcore engineering company cannot possibly having only technical discussions. This really
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>They are doubling down on real estate because they have sunken costs, I'm pretty sure a company like Google that has no problem killing unsuccessful products after multi-billion dollar investments, knows how not to fall for the sun
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>all that is overridden by the notion that this must take place in Silicon Valley. No you are missing the point. I never said it has to be in Silicon Valley. It's already happening in many places in the world. Google has offices in
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, as long as you are happy and you get what you want out of your job. My entire argument is that for most people, they will unlikely be having their cake and eat it too. But if you never cared
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>There's nothing magical about in-person communication. Other the fact that the brains of our entire specie has evolved for millions of years for this exact type of communication, there isn't anything magical, I guess... The in
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
>Not knowing how isn't proof it can't be done. Human interaction skills falls into the category of things that knowledge doesn't even remotely guarantee outcome. You can teach a group of socially awkward and introvert peop
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by Cookingboy 5y ago
Or rather that demonstrates the absolute value of physical meetings. If all day long Zoom calls and Slack messages could have led to spontaneous discussions/new initiatives like that they already would have, but they didn't, I saw

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