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by geebee 9y ago
I want Silicon Valley's tech employees too, for $5 an hour. Pretty sure everyone does. Not sure if that means a damn thing, though. Are Canadian companies raising salaries to comparable levels, or at least something competitive? If n
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by geebee 9y ago
That's a good observation. A lot of guys ask how to meet women (well everyone asks how to meet everyone). The key is to engage in social activities where you expand your social circle. Here's the thing - most activities that exp
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by geebee 9y ago
I understand how you feel. Keep in mind, a lot of what we do in software is either dull or not highly inspiring. If your work is dull, you are most likely doing lots of intricate bug fixing or feature addition in constantly evolving framewo
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by geebee 9y ago
Interesting that they never mention law firms. Summer associates at top law firms generally earn the prorated salary for a first year associate, which can be easily in excess of $15,000 a month. I'm bringing this up because it is impo
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by geebee 9y ago
I appreciate your reply, but I do see this as just a more detailed claim without evidence, other than referring to documents floating around. I understand publicly available data is hard to come but, but this also just doesn't square
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by geebee 9y ago
I hear this comment every now and then. Because so many people say this, I really do mean this as a sincere question and opening to a discussion: have you considered the concept of supply and demand curves? At a low price, the market will
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by geebee 9y ago
Can you post some kind of evidence for this? I know salaries are somewhat secretive, but do you have something to support this? The reason I'm skeptical is that while I do know people at google as relatively senior dev (very talente
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by geebee 9y ago
If Mr Palmer is going to claim he'd pay 500k, I'd like to see some evidence that he is actually doing this for his top performing employees. He says he lost a few "perfect" candidates to Facebook and google. Did he off
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by geebee 9y ago
I regularly use raw sql in rails. ORMs are fine for convenience, but for me, they never make or break an app. They can save you some typing on very basic stuff, but if you find you're writing complex ORM code, I think it's a goo
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by geebee 9y ago
"Edited: Way too many people haven’t noticed this is satire. I’ve seen an article on Facebook claiming $100k isn’t enough to live in the valley, and then another one claiming $130k isn’t enough. Then there’s another Twitter employee c
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by geebee 9y ago
Sounds like a good match for you. I actually kind of enjoyed studying for and even taking my google exams. My day job often involves a lot of very intense and intricate work, but not necessarily fun concepts. I actually enjoy trying to fi
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by geebee 9y ago
There's a big difference between software development job interviews and job entrance exams that is often not evident on people who aren't deeply immersed in software culture. Interviews happen in every industry. An interviewer a
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by geebee 9y ago
Completely agree. If you need an affordable house with good schools, recommending SF borders on nuts. I'm mentioning this because people often describe SF as an expensive place with failing schools. That's not quite accurate. SF
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by geebee 9y ago
I think it's a California state test. So you could compare to a top school in a wealthy California suburb, but not to a school outside the state. I think . Another thing is range. 10/10 is nice, but as you can see, a bunch of
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by geebee 9y ago
You know, maybe not. Even in the excelsior, a 1200sf ft house that is liveable (not remodeled highly, just liveable) will run you $900k. It can go up from there easily. It's possible , I suppose... You'd need to be a one income
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by geebee 9y ago
Can I ask you about one thing, though? Both my kids are in SFUSD schools, and San Francisco actually has a large number of 10/10 rated schools. This is based on test scores, of course, so it doesn't tell the whole story. For ins
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by geebee 9y ago
I interviewed at Google with a no-hire. I asked for 3 weeks to brush up on algorithms and data structures. I should have asked for 3-6 months. This is where it falls apart for me, though. Based on my experience, you really do need to be
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by geebee 9y ago
Do read this bit about take home tests, though. http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/companies-who-give-cand... No real need for me to summarize it, it's all pretty well expressed in this blog post.
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by geebee 9y ago
Interesting points. I generally agree, though I'll expand on it a bit anyway. For starters, yes, I agree that "everyone better off" isn't the right way to put this. Not much to discuss there, I agree for the reasons yo
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by geebee 10y ago
Yes, your last point is astute. Sandwich shop owners, for instance, benefit from the presence of more people here to buy sandwiches but who are prohibited by visa restrictions from entering the sandwich shop business. In theory, we all ben
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by geebee 10y ago
Agreed. My big problem with the H1B isn't that increases immigration, but that it does this in a very narrow way that distorts markets. For instance, suppose that land can be used to grow either lemons or avocados. Avocados suddenly b
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by geebee 10y ago
"There are more than half a million open computing jobs in America today" What does this even mean? Doesn't basic economics tell us about supply and demand. At a low salary, demand for developers will be high, and supply wi
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by geebee 10y ago
It is a problem. In some ways, this is why I'm ok with the government setting the rules, sometimes fairly strict ones. One example might be laws limiting business hours, or laws the make a certain amount of vacation leave mandatory.
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by geebee 10y ago
There may be one under-reported angle on this. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264513198_Penalizin... There is clearly a correlation between men having children and men getting higher salaries, and the reverse
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by geebee 10y ago
There's a general rule about people who harm others with externalities. They always loudly wonder why the people they victimize can't just mind their own business.
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by geebee 10y ago
I learn a lot from debating on HN. I will avoid saying this in the future. I will agree that the statement is ignorant if taken very literally and, in my opinion, uncharitably. I don't actually think NZ is literally a giant national
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by geebee 10y ago
To be clear, I absolutely agree with you that percentages are a factor. Our disagreement with you is whether they are the only factor. To take in a comparable percentage of immigrants, by your calculation, the US would need to take in 3,75
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by geebee 10y ago
Your point is reasonable, but you are calculating rates from a vastly different denominator. At some point, I do think that sheer scale has to factor into the analysis.
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by geebee 10y ago
As mentioned above, keep in mind the US has a higher total population precisely because it has had higher historical levels of immigration. Suppose the US had a total population of 500 million and NZ only 2 million. Would that mean NZ i
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by geebee 10y ago
Mr Drury's specific quote may be just that company's hiring expectations. Even if that is the case, though consider this context: "A municipal program to fly in 100 developers next month — wine them, dine them and offer them

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