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by geebee 10y ago
Well, satire like Kafka is satire.
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm not sure that nimby behavior can be explained by a desire to maximize the cash value of a single family home. Keep in mind, owners typically own the land their house sits on as well. If I were allowed to purchase a SFH in palo al
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by geebee 10y ago
We're having this discussion in slow motion. We're both looking at exactly the same words, sometimes people just reach different conclusions. You've said that we don't need to put down other professions, but consider yo
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm not sure what the impact of $5k a month is on a site that needs to scale to 125k requests per minute (I really do mean I'm not sure, I'm not saying this to dismiss the cost). Total costs and revenue might put this in pers
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by geebee 10y ago
There is some evidence that foliage on pedestrian streets does increase a sense of well being, lower blood pressure, and so forth. There was an article a while back that showed greater health benefits to walking around trees than walking a
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by geebee 10y ago
Oh, so it's not purely a rainfall issue, it's whether you can get away with a deliberately drafty house. That makes a lot of sense - SF may be cool, but it's rarely cold. SF heating bills, even in houses with a pretty ancien
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by geebee 10y ago
Hmm, San Francisco obviously doesn't get as much rain as Seattle, but it has averaged about 24 inches a year for the past century, most of which falls in a few months. And over the summer, in many neighborhoods, it's foggy enough
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by geebee 10y ago
I couldn't agree with you more that nursing is a tough job that deserves excellent pay (though out here in SF, registered nurses do earn more, at the median, than software application developers, though this is a bit unusual and not th
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by geebee 10y ago
Just to be clear on your last point, I don't object to immigrants pursuing engineering, at all, provided it was a choice they made freely, that the immigrants were also free to choose not to become engineers as a condition of entering
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by geebee 10y ago
My impression was that we were talking about providing new construction in job centers for people who are not currently working. I would see a difference for someone who has already been there for many years, or was displaced recently. Eve
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by geebee 10y ago
Does it make sense to force a low income worker to commute from antioch to menlo park every day, while providing a subsidized menlo park apartment to an elderly person who doesn't participate in the work force? If we're going to s
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by geebee 10y ago
Absolutely accurate, but you did leave out the part about "when your boss asks you," which I think is what gave the OP a shudder. This is the big area where scrum goes awry. Defenders of scrum object, reasonably enough, to the cl
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by geebee 10y ago
Interesting angle. Funding for prop F in SF (which would have placed tighter restrictions on airbnb) largely came from the hotel unions and affordable housing advocates, not the hoteliers themselves. http://www.businessinsider.co
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by geebee 10y ago
This reminds me or a reaction I had to a very old internet war about PHP and Rails https://sivers.org/rails2php "...The entire music distribution world had changed, and we were still working on the same goddamn rewrite
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by geebee 10y ago
That helps but doesn't necessarily solve the problem. There is a similar situation in real estate. The broker's main financial incentive is to ensure the deal happens. Keep in mind, if you're getting paid a commission only
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by geebee 10y ago
I suppose this is a good place to discuss how we make these calculations. I analyzed it by looking at the difference between buying and renting, assuming that the difference is invested. So, let's assume that you have a 20% down payme
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by geebee 10y ago
I agree that it doesn't undermine the main point of the article (which I think you summarize accurately). But it is worth a mention. I'd be interested in knowing how the lower priced new violins do, maybe into the $15,000 range,
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by geebee 10y ago
I tend to agree with you that lawns aren't necessarily a bad thing. There are also more eco-friendly varieties of grass (though in my experience, they don't tend to be the nice soft grass). If all you're looking for is
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by geebee 10y ago
I actually think lawns are valuable, we just need to realize that they aren't "free", especially in places where water is increasingly scarce (like most of the heavily populated parts of California). Lawns are pretty great pl
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by geebee 10y ago
"I'd rather rip it all out and have some kind of native plants jungle, but that takes time and money I haven't been able to spend on it yet. I'd be just as happy if the front yard didn't exist and my house fronted d
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by geebee 10y ago
Well, this is the angle that airbnb likes to push, that people are renting out a "spare" bedroom that wouldn't otherwise be used, or are renting out their place while they're on vacation. In other words, there is no dis
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by geebee 10y ago
Could it be that now that Google is no longer able to retain staff through a no-poach collusion, its CEO is instead trying to discourage other businesses from setting up shop in a place where they might be able to hire developers away? That
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by geebee 10y ago
Interestingly, I'd agree with you if you'd left airbnb out of that list. I see something more menacing in airbnb, probably because I've witnessed families getting outbid for single family homes by owners who turn around and a
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by geebee 10y ago
I agree that there is some legitimate ambiguity in the term sharing. For instance, if my pal and I decide to order the extra large sandwich and pay for it jointly, it's part of the vernacular to say we are "sharing" it. Howev
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by geebee 10y ago
I know this isn't the main point, but airbnb lost me a long time ago with statements like this: “If it becomes law, this legislation would threaten thousands of low- and middle-income New Yorkers with fines of up to $7,500 simply for l
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by geebee 10y ago
It may be that the candidate doesn't want to waste time. There's a big difference between putting in some time on weekends and evenings for an important work issue that arises, vs doing some homework assignment that might not eve
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by geebee 10y ago
30 minutes sounds less objectionable than what I've experienced. The episode that turned me badly against take home tests involved a two-phase approach. Both were handled through a recruiter. The first was about a one hour set of ques
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by geebee 10y ago
You may want to consider these posts by Gayle Laakman McDowell (who write "Cracking the Coding Interview") on possible problems with take-home exams: http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/compani
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by geebee 10y ago
This is an interesting question. I'm actually not sure that there is an unlimited amount of R&D or interesting engineering work to go around. Just to be clear, I'm not convinced there isn't , either, I just think it&#x2
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by geebee 10y ago
I kind of think the basic-ness is the point here. The article is mainly about identifying the opportunity, finding and cleaning the data, making some choices about what to feed into the model, and applying results. Having worked in busines

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