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by geebee 9y ago
A good summary of the article's thesis comes at the end: "instead of telling poor people what they should do to work around a system that’s leaving more and more people behind every year, we need to consider how the system can ben
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by geebee 9y ago
I like to be mentally engaged, but in something that is not the same sort of mental engagement as programming. Tennis is great. I don't do much ballroom dancing, but what I've done I really enjoy. I also play a lot of music. T
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by geebee 9y ago
Sounds like you know a bit about this - any chance you could weigh in on my question above? Does tackling serve a different strategic purpose in rugby vs American football (ie., not giving up an inch can be a big deal in US football), and
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by geebee 9y ago
I don't understand Rugby, Australian rules, or Gaelic football especially well (or US football for that matter, though I've watched it casually over the years), but my understanding is that tacking in these sports has a different
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by geebee 9y ago
I'm not a professor, but I started my career as an industrial engineering grad (MS, not PhD) who was writing code to build and solve a linear program for a supply chain application. It was definitely one of those programs that does thi
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by geebee 9y ago
I think it depends greatly on the kind of application you're designing. A lot of web apps have a pretty simple backend, mainly persistence. If that's the case, for some small apps a pure back end or front end dev might not have
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by geebee 9y ago
I quit a heavy coffee habit recently. I cut my caffeine in half each day (and went from a quarter cup to zero) I did experience some withdrawal symptoms, including headache, lethargy, and some mild but notable depression. The worst of it w
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by geebee 9y ago
Adam Smith wrote, in the Wealth of Nations in 1776: "Disagreeableness and disgrace affect the profits of stock in the same manner as the wages of labour. The keeper of an inn or tavern, who is never master of his own house, and who is
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by geebee 9y ago
Would playing piano be harder if you had to make your own piano? If the level of playing expected of you remains unchanged then yes, certainly. That to me sums up the difference. It is now vastly easier to write and run a program. But that
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by geebee 9y ago
I guess the question is, why not Django? I mean, I get it - for a personal project, I did exactly what you just described, wrote the web app in rails and wrote some scikit-learn stuff with python. I did this mainly because I like rails, I
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by geebee 9y ago
I agree completely. Rails actually is useful as rails-api, but the real benefit to Rails is the simplicity you get from the integrated development system. You lose a lot of that when you go away from Rails and start using a JS based front
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by geebee 9y ago
Yeah, that kind of surprised me too. I would have expected a move to Node, or some other javascript framework. I did think the quotes from Zed Shaw and Paul Watson were good. Zed's point, that Rails and Django are server-rendered fra
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by geebee 9y ago
I don't think it's too high. If all you're willing to pay is 100k, I'm not prepared to believe that you're trying to hire a desperately needed, highly skilled worker, especially in silicon valley (where claims of a
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by geebee 9y ago
My problem with paying the "market rate" is that if there's a shortage, this is probably a sign that the market rate is too low. "Is it too low?" That isn't really for me to say. Generally speaking, it isn&#x2
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by geebee 9y ago
What would you estimate as a minimum salary level for your definition of "high end?" To me, since these workers tend to have grad degrees and are very talented, I'd peg it to a fairly high level law, medical, business, or fin
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by geebee 9y ago
You might be interested in a RAND study (a historically very pro-immigration institute) that considers this subject. It concludes that the reason US citizens and people who are free to choose their profession in the US avoid these degrees
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by geebee 9y ago
I know, I know, we go over this too much on HN. But... isn't half the sentence missing when you say they can't find qualified local candidates without mentioning the pay? What positions were you trying to fill, and what pay and w
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by geebee 9y ago
I highly recommend following and reading the link to the full report. Here it is again. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/foreign-... There's an interesting breakdown of a more narrow definition
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by geebee 9y ago
"The victims are the teachers, firefighters, artists, nurses, secretaries, and everyone else who isn't a programmer." I'm coming late to this just to make a narrow point, but I'm not sure you should put nurses int
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by geebee 9y ago
That's not a bad argument. I still think that its more beneficial to make transactions as public as possible, though. Think about real estate. I think it is immensely helpful for the public to have access to the sale price of houses.
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by geebee 9y ago
That's pretty excellent. San Francisco, unfortunately, occupies a pretty dismal place in the parking hierarchy. It's just dense enough that having a car is generally a hassle, just sparse enough that about half the city is very c
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by geebee 9y ago
That's absolutely true. However, my question is whether part of the decline of text readability is due to a resume building need to involve technologies that don't have much to do with basic text. Here's the thing - people d
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by geebee 9y ago
Do you think this may be related to the rise of javascript and heavy front end, client-side frameworks? To be clear, this is something I'm mulling over, not a hard conclusion, but here it goes... Creating a simple, server rendered, tex
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by geebee 9y ago
She probably could buy south of 280 in the excelsior or portola. You can still get in for less than a mil, though it's pretty tight.
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by geebee 9y ago
Oddly, economics is one of the fields where you're probably better prepared for graduate work in economics if you major in something other than economics. Math, physics, or engineering may be better prep. Of course, one solution is to
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by geebee 9y ago
I don't think you're recognizing a critical distinction between the type of decision being made. The difference here is that a job offer or an investment is a decision made by an employer or an investor. US citizenship or work&#
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by geebee 9y ago
How many of those immigrants were sponsored by a corporation or investor and restricted in how and where they could work by the terms of their employment? How many came here as free and full members of the workforce, allowed to pursue their
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by geebee 9y ago
The US does currently take over 1.2 million immigrants legally into the country every year. Certainly, a reasonable person could argue that number should be higher, but that's still a pretty high number for a country that is "clo
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by geebee 9y ago
I can't say I'm tremendously enthusiastic about this visa. My objection to it is the same as my objection to almost all specialized, employer sponsored visas - I don't think employers, universities, or investors should be em
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by geebee 9y ago
Over 405 comments, I am late to the party here, especially since this is just my 2cents. I think TDD "failed" largely for creative reasons. And it didn't actually fail. The reason I was willing to use the word failed, in quo

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