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by geebee 11y ago
I'm 50-50 on SF. I did grow up in SF (west of twin peaks, though, so a less urban experience even by SF standards), but I was exposed to a more urban experience when I lived for a year in Paris when I was a kid, and later NYC for a ye
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by geebee 11y ago
It depends on the nature of the city, of course. I live in SF, and I actually find myself lusting for both the peace of the countryside and a more urban city. Seriously, I do mean the peace of a big city. I actually think many parts of
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by geebee 11y ago
Maybe it's changed by now, but I was caught badly off guard by my first technical "interview" (exam) out of college. I thought it would be more or less a normal "interview", the tell me about yourself, your interes
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by geebee 11y ago
What I'm writing is tangential, but related to the topic. When we discuss tech interviewing, I think it helps to start with the basics of the process and the motivations behind technical interviews that are essentially exams. Recruitm
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by geebee 11y ago
Is it really either or? (BTW, I don't find your question objectionable - I disagree, but it doesn't bother me at all that you asked it). For instance, across the bay from Stanford, there's a large state supported research un
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by geebee 11y ago
It may feel like it, but you can reduce any computer program to a mathematical expression. Even that distinction feels a little silly and artificial, code almost just feels like a different kind of notation for math. If you can patent cod
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by geebee 11y ago
You've identified why I have so much clutter in my garage and house. I do exactly this - it's cheap to buy most of these tools compared to the cost of renting, and there's a surprising amount of overhead and liability in ren
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by geebee 11y ago
In the opposite corner: Immigration skeptics… Ouch. I disagree with this, so much. The US takes over a million new legal immigrants into the country every year. These immigrants are free to choose their career path in response to market
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by geebee 11y ago
I get it, lawsuits. There's very little upside for the employer, the benefit would go to the candidate, and the liability is on the employer. I suppose one benefit for the employer might be that the candidate could improve, should th
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by geebee 11y ago
Estimates are a tricky thing. Ultimately, I don't think they work in software. We should be looking for a different solution. Think of it this way - a physician can prescribe a medication and tell you how long you'll be on it, b
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by geebee 11y ago
I agree with you about salary. You can move up in salary and title, and the data here seems to suggest that it won't make a huge difference whether you majored in CS at MIT or San Jose State - you need to go to a proper program, sure,
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by geebee 11y ago
They are very elite schools, but you know, they really aren't the typical elite schools for tech. Not a huge fan of the US News rankings, but here is the list for top undergraduate engineering programs (at doctoral granting institution
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by geebee 11y ago
Interesting article. This confirms something I've suspected for a while, which is that elite colleges matter immensely if you don't study STEM. You could turn this into a different question - is the value of an elite college that
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by geebee 11y ago
I agree with you, but there are two very different angles on this. On one hand, there are programmers complaining that they can't get exactly the job they want at what they feel is good pay. Your answer to these complaints is fair eno
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by geebee 11y ago
I wouldn't want to go back to waterfall, but my experiences with "on demand on schedule" (a very astute phrase, that) have caused me to realize it did have advantages. Good software usually doesn't result from massive up
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by geebee 11y ago
I like the headline, but I felt the rest of the article didn't really live up to it. The setup is intriguing - for instance, the notion that micromanaged children will become excellent concert violinists, but may not become ground brea
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by geebee 11y ago
It's a very difficult situation. I know we spend a lot of time discussing this on HN, but I'm glad we do, this really is one of the biggest issues facing our industry. We (software developers) essentially have to study for and p
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by geebee 11y ago
Why is it better to let corporations decide who gets to live in the US and become a resident or citizen, rather than doing this by lottery? I mean, in the absence of open borders, we have a limited number of spots available. Why should som
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by geebee 11y ago
While I'm glad to see the NYTimes covering this issue, I am disappointed with the headline. The US takes over 1.2 million immigrants legally into the country every year. These new free and full citizens pursue educations and careers
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by geebee 11y ago
Is it just me? I find it unbelievably demanding. I think writing even relatively simple web apps almost always turns into something mind numbingly difficult. The amount of extremely dense material you have to read and ingest, the number
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Expect some unicorns to lose their horns(nytimes.com)
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by geebee 11y ago
It's tough across the board, certainly. That said, can you think of another field that experiences a similar same drum beat about a "shortage"? Maybe nursing, though out here in SF, nurses actually do out-earn software devel
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by geebee 11y ago
Wow. I'm a little surprised to read such a dim view of the lot of a software developer in the economist. I'm glad to see it in a mainstream publication, though. I don't think that software development is necessarily a bad c
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by geebee 11y ago
There's a lot to this, but a university like UC Berkeley does educate far, far more undergraduates than a very elite private like Stanford or Harvard, and enrolls more low income students than the entire ivy league combined, something
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Unlocking trapped engineers(techcrunch.com)
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by geebee 11y ago
One approach is lawsuits. http://missionlocal.org/2015/12/sf-group-renews-call-to-sue-...
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by geebee 11y ago
That's an excellent point. I live in an R1 neighborhood, but a buddy of mine lives in a SFH in an R2. He would technically be allowed to convert his SFH into two 3bd/2ba apartments, he could sell one of them, and profit so much
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by geebee 11y ago
To me, the really depressing thing is the way that JS development is becoming required of all web aps developers. It is so dominant on the front end that you really can't avoid it. Even worse is the notion that because it's alrea
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by geebee 11y ago
This is a rant, but I feel the author's hurt, and it helps me a bit to read it. Here's my story, for whoever wants to read it. I started programming for the web in the late 90s. At first, it was a jumble of P languages (JSP, A
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by geebee 11y ago
Part of the problem, though, is that they don't get what they "deserve." I'm a little hesitant to get into what "deserve" means, but I would agree that people who oppose new housing often don't experience

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