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by geebee 10y ago
I hope nobody minds if I run with your "aside" a bit. I miss the JOS blog a lot as well. It influenced me a lot over a decade ago. It presented a very optimistic view of the field and career path of a programmer, with good writi
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by geebee 10y ago
Too late for an edit, but here's the link: https://zedshaw.com/2015/06/16/early-vs-beginning-coders/
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by geebee 10y ago
"I'd argue passing AP calc in high school is 90% of the battle. If you can tackle that the basics of programming are nothing." As a math major who took on programming later in life than most, I feel a lot of ambivalence about
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by geebee 10y ago
Is this really true? At Berkeley and other UC schools, the programs are often "impacted", meaning they are looking for reasons to kick people out (or, more likely, deny them entry in the first place). A bad early semester with a
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by geebee 10y ago
I agree, and this is a good thing. However, there are reasons for this. It's quite difficult to gain admission to a top law school, but the people who apply tend to come from very low attrition majors like history or literature. Furt
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm still not sure I agree about Austin. Going from low to medium density by Austin outskirts standard may just be too different from going from 15,000 residents mi to 30,000+ to say it poses the same problem within the context of und
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by geebee 10y ago
Hi rainier - but what about my comment above? Austin City Region is 271.8 square miles. SF is 47. My question is, how much of that growth in austin occurred in the regions of Austin, TX that were at or above SF's average density of
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by geebee 10y ago
What about growth outside SF in nearby areas, though? For instance, Austin Texas, a city growing rapidly, has a current population density of 3,360 per square mile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas But here&
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by geebee 10y ago
I am curious about this, though, and I have posed this question to HN. Is there a lot of precedent for a city that has been at a medium level of density for 75+ years suddenly going to a much higher density model? One example I frequently
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by geebee 10y ago
The valley and SF need to build more, but eventually we need to accept that many talented technology workers will neither wish to nor be able to live in a small peninsula in central northern California. High tech companies will change then
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by geebee 10y ago
"My point was that the wage distortion caused by top-tier companies hiring employees on H-1B is small to nil." I'm really not sure that's true. Even at top tier employers with high salaries. What I'm trying to get
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by geebee 10y ago
"these large tech firms hire H-1Bs out of necessity, and not to keep wages down". I generally agree with you in an immediate, present sense. Google doesn't hire H1B workers specifically to suppress the salaries of the local
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by geebee 10y ago
The proof is trivial and is left as an exercise for the publisher ;)
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by geebee 10y ago
I agree completely that SQL is not the language for the kind of data analysis you're discussing in this book - to me, the question is whether it's useful to do querying and filtering through SQL and data analysis through python an
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by geebee 10y ago
Great book, I'm getting a lot out of the site and I'm looking forward to the release. Thanks! I understand there is always one more library or topic that could be included... .. but with that acknowledged, what do you think of
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm not surprised by your comment - I never got the feeling younger developers were the source of age discrimination.
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by geebee 10y ago
I am curious, though, when you say "they" are importing their horrible toxic culture, who are you referring to? Not individuals necessarily, but are you referring to all San Franciscans, including those who were priced out of the
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by geebee 10y ago
Interesting analysis. I've thought about this from a tax, interest rate, and transactional approach. Although we often think of landlords and renters in an adversarial way, they might be able to work out a deal that is better for ever
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by geebee 10y ago
"I've seen reputable, multi-billion dollar companies offering in the $140k range for this type of role in New York. That's wildly below anything reasonable for this sort of thing [in NY/SF"] Man, do I ever agree. T
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by geebee 10y ago
I've had this discussion with people, and your opinion is a common one. What can I say? I am personally bewildered that people think that men don't face really serious consequences. For what it's worth, I do agree with you t
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by geebee 10y ago
True about the serfdom, but the students aren't necessarily delusional. The US takes 1.2 million immigrants a year, but it is extremely difficult to gain admission as a random applicant without family connections. One possible way for
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by geebee 10y ago
I agree with your edit. This is my big problem with the H1B visa. But how is what you are describing different from general immigration then? The US takes in approximately 1.2 million immigrants a year, and these immigrants are (by and l
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by geebee 10y ago
In many ways, I like the idea of setting a high minimum salary. It's a simple approach, but complex regulations often just produce elaborate ways to exploit loopholes. And honestly, the higher the salary, the less I worry that the vi
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by geebee 10y ago
I'd guess the attrition rate is higher than that. Just a guess though. Would also be interesting to see if the attrition rate is mainly transferring to a different field rather vs. changing jobs within the same field.
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by geebee 10y ago
I don't have information about attrition rates on MS programs in STEM. The only thing I've read was a summary of a paywalled publication that put overall attrition from STEM MS degrees at about 30%. I don't know if that app
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by geebee 10y ago
Hard to say. The RAND institute did a study concluding that there is no meaningful shortage of STEM graduate degrees, that the aversion to these degrees, to the extent it exists, is a rational response to completion times, attrition rates,
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by geebee 10y ago
Thanks! (and thanks for not pointing out that I should have thought to check the alt text).
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by geebee 10y ago
Any idea where that picture of all the people looking at their screens was taken? Looks pretty depressing if it's a workplace, honestly, but I'm figuring it's not.. maybe a conference or meet up something like that?
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by geebee 10y ago
"If there are phenomenal marine biologist, who generally do not make 120k, they should be able to use the program." Why should a employers be assisted by the government in their efforts to hire high talented people for low salarie
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by geebee 10y ago
Not the OP, but I actually think there's a chance greater density might, long term, increase housing costs in SF, though this is kind of an artifact of borders. SF isn't taking full advantage of the business opportunity that great

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