jupiterjaz

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by jupiterjaz 11y ago
I'm a junior dev with just 1 year of experience and this was my immediate instinct.
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by jupiterjaz 12y ago
Location: Portland, Oregon Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: HTML, CSS, jQuery, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Git, AJAX, TDD, SQL Databases, Object Oriented Design, JavaScript, Agile Methodologies, Pair Programming, PHP, Drupal Res
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by jupiterjaz 12y ago
That and unwilling to accept immigration.
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
I just finished Marvel Comics: the untold story by Sean Howe. One thing I was really surprised to learn was that Stan Lee was in his 40's and had already been a comicbook editor for 20 years before he co-created all the famous Marvel h
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
So much of this would go away if the city would just loosen its building and zoning regulations.
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
Honestly if autonomous cars can reduce even 10% of accidents caused by drunk driving and other human errors then they will have payed their way and more.
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
Sometimes I feel like "do what you love" is a kind of psychic barrier-to-entry for certain fields. People say "you really have to love this field in order to be successful at it". Which implies that just being hardworkin
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
I blame NIMBYs. Landowners in rich cities stop anything that might bring down the value of their property, especially additional housing.
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The coming tech-lash(economist.com)
2 points by jupiterjaz 13y ago|0 comments
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
Disrupt all the nimby's who lobby against building additional housing. Landowners hate new housing because it drives down the value of their assets. If anyone's truly despicable in this culture it's the landowners who refuse
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
"Cutting everyone a check for $1,000 a month, which most people in that room would consider too little to live on, would cost almost $3 trillion." ...What? I work a low skill service sector job and I only make $850 per month after
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
Why does this topic keep creeping up here? Are people really that interested in this stuff?
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
Well some kinds of education will. Keep in mind that tutoring or face-to-face job training is a kind of education as well. I don't think the price of that will decrease and become as abundant as air. As high paying jobs become more dif
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
Often those jobs require a physical address.
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
Here in downtown Reno they're 9am-5pm Mon-Thur and 10-5 on Sunday. That's basically post office style hours (ie when everyone's at work or in school) with the added bonus of being closed Friday and Saturday. That's prett
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
Local library business hours are terrible.
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
This guy gets it. Liberalizing zoning rules and restrictions would go a long way to alleviating this problem. For some reason liberals are against liberalization in this day and age.
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
My feeling is that if most of the rich world's education systems weren't run by inefficient, corrupt, and overly subsidized government bureaucracies then this whole income inequality issue wouldn't be a problem. Of course som
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The Treehouse job board in now live.(teamtreehouse.com)
1 points by jupiterjaz 13y ago|0 comments
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
Cynicism aside that was a pretty entertaining read.
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
betterment.com their you're done.
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by jupiterjaz 13y ago
The ironic thing it that deregulating zoning laws is something that conservatives commonly argue for. Well maybe not conservatives but libertarians do.
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Online Education and Jazz(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by jupiterjaz 14y ago|0 comments
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by jupiterjaz 14y ago
Here's an idea. Allow people to build more buildings in San Francisco.
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by jupiterjaz 14y ago
This assumes that everything is just fine and dandy in the brick and mortar college world. It isn't.
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Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Mediocre People(therumpus.net)
64 points by jupiterjaz 14y ago|4 comments
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by jupiterjaz 14y ago
"Trying to get answers before fully considering the problem." "Being uncomfortable with not knowing." These two things seem totally at odds to me and it's something I struggle with constantly. How do you ever know if you've considered the p
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by jupiterjaz 14y ago
Once a month or once a quarter I think.
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by jupiterjaz 14y ago
I don't know what you're reading. That article had plenty on the large welfare states.
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by jupiterjaz 14y ago
If you can afford it then do it. Those social lessons you are learning are no doubt invaluable. The issue is that for a lot of people it's just not affordable. And it's getting less so every year. If you're well-to-do and have the money the

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