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by geebee 6y ago
> a profession that has some limitation to demand >> This is the lump of labor fallacy. No profession is so fundamentally limited in the long term and no skills are set in stone. Interesting observation. What you argue is true in t
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by geebee 6y ago
"If compensation were higher, qualified software engineers would be more abundant." Supply and demand isn't just about what's out there right now , it's about elasticity of both curves. When prices rise, supply inc
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by geebee 6y ago
So what if we allow more software engineers from other countries? We do! The US takes about 1.2 million immigrants legally into the country every year, and they are welcome to become software engineers. Now, if you ask "so what if we c
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by geebee 6y ago
When you were desperate, what compensation package did you offer?
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by geebee 6y ago
I have no problem with private companies deciding who gets aa job at that company based on leetcode style tests. I have a huge problem with private companies deciding who is allowed to enter work, and remain in the united states based on le
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by geebee 6y ago
Interesting observation. While I maintain tech isn’t friendly to families with children, I do agree it’s not a driving factor in SF losing this population. The cost of housing and schools have a lot to do with it.
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by geebee 6y ago
Silicon Valley doesn’t really like people with family obligations. In interviews in my 30s, I found myself hiding the fact that I had children. Once a recruiter, trying to lure me away from a stable company for a startup, told me that I bet
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by geebee 6y ago
I don't think they're supposed to ask about that - I believe that kind of question can be legally actionable. You're probably correct that employers assume these things won't be an issue for men - though I did read a pap
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by geebee 6y ago
Fascinating. I'm pushing 50, and I've lived almost my entire life in San Francisco. It really wasn't that long ago that the benefit to working in tech was that you get to live in San Francisco. In fact, people considered the
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by geebee 6y ago
This article is pretty light on data, and mainly relies on the latest experience from a couple of real estate agents. Sometimes “word on the street” is the best you can get. But for now I’d say the headline is clickbait “mad rush”, a very e
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by geebee 6y ago
I think it's a both a weakness and a strength. In an era of cancel culture, I think there has been a counter movement to avoid cancelling people, which may lead to an over abundance of tolerance and politeness toward genuinely noxious
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by geebee 6y ago
No idea, but I'm not sure it's material to whether "staring at books" is a good description of reading.
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by geebee 6y ago
"mocked me". That's really reprehensible. One point I've made repeatedly here on HN is that technical "interviews" have morphed into a form of entrance exam with very little oversight. If you read about entranc
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by geebee 6y ago
It's no joke in STEM either, I'll give you that. I should have said it's hard for humanities majors relative to STEM, because I definitely wouldn't try to claim it isn't a big difference for everyone, graduating i
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by geebee 6y ago
Thanks for your story. I had a similar moment after college myself. I graduated into the recession of the early 90s, in San Diego, which had been hit very hard by defense cutbacks. Almost everyone I knew worked service jobs, and even those
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by geebee 6y ago
I see a reluctance to involve the government in long term wage garnishing or collection I very vaguely recall an article on reason.com that opposed protecting credit card lenders from cancellation if debt post bankruptcy (similar to student
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by geebee 6y ago
I’m not sure you’re right about libertarians. I haven’t sensed widespread libertarian support for long term debt collection by the government to recover money for foolish lenders.
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by geebee 6y ago
I believe it is not the point of view of US based contract law.
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by geebee 6y ago
I took a semester of contract law, though I am not a lawyer either. I believe what you write is not accurate. I vaguely remember a case about someone who sold a refrigerator for four times it’s retail value to a low income couple, collected
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by geebee 6y ago
Part of the problem is determining the threshold and keeping the crowd size below it. If nobody else is at the basketball court then sure, it’s safe. But the basketball court is empty because a lot of people who would love to play are stayi
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by geebee 6y ago
One thing I prefer about whiteboard coding interview exams is that the do require an investment of time from the interviewing company. Take-homes allow them to externalize the horrendous inefficiency of the interviewing process. Beyond that
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by geebee 6y ago
Their jobs may be important, though. It's a privilege to have a stable and meaningful job, but it's also important to do it.
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by geebee 6y ago
I actually disagree with this part: "The particular struggle reflects the most privileged perspective — that of two fully employed adults, sharing the burden, without fear of losing our jobs." While this is hardly an unenviable po
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by geebee 7y ago
Elite US students scheme to get into top law, MBA, and medical school programs, but they don't show nearly as much enthusiasm for graduate engineering programs. This is probably rational market behavior, the result of opening engineeri
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by geebee 7y ago
The story is outrageous. However, how many of you here on HN throw up a red flag when an article uses the word "poach" around scientists and engineers? I'm permanently distrustful when I start to hear this word. I think this
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by geebee 7y ago
How odd our field really is. Many of these questions are basic stats. Others seem like the kind of statistics process control I learned in my undergraduate engineering curriculum. Some are more modern, and would be learned by going through
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by geebee 7y ago
I'm no fan of prop 13, and I agree that it contributes to the housing crisis. However, I wouldn't call it the main driver. I still think that a failure to build (actually, this is probably better described as a deliberate success
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by geebee 7y ago
Sounds like we may be experiencing the revival of the folly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly I suppose extreme income inequality, along with deteriorating urban conditions that plague public spaces, could actually
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by geebee 7y ago
Potential ambiguity here. Yes, “staff” engineers at google earn very high salaries, but people unfamiliar with titles might think this term means a competent but otherwise unremarkable member of the technical staff. At google a Staff engine
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by geebee 7y ago
It's remarkable that the United States can have the highest number of immigrants for any country by a wide margin and still be in this position. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/interactives/internationa...

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