Iftheshoefits

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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
A lot of those NIMBYs are the landlords, though, presumably because they like the high rents and the ever-increasing property values. The cost of ownership makes those high rents incredibly inefficient and the returns on "investment&qu
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
What is "insultingly lowball?" Were I a YC company I'd definitely leverage its reputation in targeting a certain group of eager, young, and naive labor. I'd view it much like I'd view the labor market in the video g
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
Most desktops are far overpowered for the (relatively) trivial computing tasks they are used for. As a result the relatively poorer performance of the webapps most people use desktops for is masked to a large degree, where it's even re
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
That's not really accurate. In mathematics and logic the "rules" are not only known but defined a priori by a human being. Not so with physics, and as a result the "proofs" of physics, what are known as scientific t
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
I've an alternative hypothesis regarding the US and business/startup creation: it is the most resource-rich country on the planet that is also almost entirely unscathed by the ravages of decades or centuries of war. It wasn't
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
Do engineers really have that big an impact on the success of the company? Their salaries and ownership share certainly don't reflect that, in my opinion.
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
That's why companies who have raised any serious funding in B-round or later or have revenues to justify it ought to raise early engineers' salaries to bring them (closer) to marker rate on a continuous basis. There is no good re
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
I'm hoping the parent is making a joke by riffing on the absurd technical requirements demanded by startups for working on what amounts to a glorified CRUD webapp. The math heavy analysis that a CS degree provides just isn't neces
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
Please provide evidence for your assertion.
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
I wouldn't call it a joke, at least in the insular world of SV VC webapp companies. I view "full stack" as a phrase the same way I view "we want someone whose passion is programming": they're both indicators th
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
It's not shocking to me. There are a lot of hiring practices in software development that are based on inertia, bandwagons/fad-following, empirically unsupportable perceptions, and HR nonsense.
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
It's small if one is geographically constrained or one has risen up to a certain point on the promotion ladder. Beyond those factors I am skeptical that it's worth worrying about whether a past manager will have anything bad or
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
And if the former supervisor has an axe to grind his implicit negative reference doesn't mean much. Add to that the fact that employees carefully cultivate positive references and you have just one more reason why references are a poor
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
It's not necessarily more constraining, but from my perspective there are two reasons to choose Django over other python frameworks: the ORM and the out-of-the-box Admin (which depends on the ORM). If you take those away, there is no g
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
No, it is not like that at all. It is like asking a Carpenter to build a cupboard and thinking he's unqualified for the job if he's only ever used Craftsman screwdrivers because that means he can't use Husky screwdrivers. Its
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
Even when I'm in a discussion using the whiteboard at my current job its not like I'm up there verbalizing every thought that comes to mind as I write. And typically in these sessions I'll be completely silent for a majority
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
I'm biased, being a family-raising person myself, but I agree. I'd go much further, but then this comment would be downvoted into oblivion, so I'll stop here.
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
I don't believe they're scrambling for talent. I think a lot of the supposed "demand" for labor out here is a combination of your typical resume collecting from the larger organizations and bandwagon-driven "we need
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
To emphasize pmcgrathm's point, the $60/hr "level" is for "Management/C-level" candidate interviews. If you're paying a consultant to ask "the right questions," then at that level you'r
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
I suspect people without kids or other similar obligations tend to work more in any industry or location; it's not specific to the Bay Area. The difference is that in the Bay Area it may be that the ratio of those with to those without
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
Eh, I think the approach we (as in, that's how I learned programming, too) learned with is the correct one, really. Computational physics is less about programming and more about the constant tension between the demands of efficiency a
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
I don't think a generation has been tricked into giving "free" (as in beer) software; I think the generation brought it on themselves, and continues to do so. We've always been free (as in speech) to charge money for our
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
Are you talking about, e.g. "AirPair"? I wouldn't be an "expert" for hire on those services, either, because the prices are all race-to-the-bottom programming/engineering-skill-is-a-commodity prices.
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
What you've described is a manager/supervisor->director->VP->SVP/C-Suite chain, but with different terms, (possibly) shorter tenure, and with a perhaps slightly more democratic allocation procedure. It's a manag
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
Giving managers titles that don't have the word "manager" in them doesn't mean that there aren't managers. Describing their responsibilities as being "mentor"-like rather than "managerial" doesn&
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
In America, there is plenty of money to be had by taxing the affluent, wealthy, and "obscenely" rich (a lot) more. There is nothing to guarantee any source of money beyond varying levels of confidence. Medicare and SS have lasted
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
People who choose not to vaccinate their children are by and large beyond the reach of reason, in much the same way the typical religious person is. I wouldn't advocate mockery and ridicule because it is as equally wasted as reason is
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
Your experience seems pretty shallow and narrow if the only people you've met who are capable of "properly" breaking things down are programmers, mathematicians, or lawyers. I've known plenty of people outside of those d
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
You're going to get a lot of "yes" responses to your questions that themselves are going to be embellishments (or outright lies), omit context, pretend that refactoring an existing set of code is the same as writing it from s
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by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
I find myself reacting more and more negatively to "language-specific-experience-required" statements in a job posting for a full-time employee. It's fine for a contractor or consultant needed to solve a specific problem or s

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