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by kevinburke 5y ago
Yes, New York is expensive because it doesn't build enough housing. Per capita, New York builds less new housing than California (1.8 permits per 1000 residents vs. 2.7 permits), and that's saying something, because California doe
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by kevinburke 5y ago
The building he wants to build in UCSB already exists in Michigan and it has the highest ratings of any student dorm there. "In fact the building has a rating of 8.8 out of 10 on veryapt.com. Reviewers praise the building's amenit
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by kevinburke 5y ago
If Davis had made it legal to do any of the things you suggest, they would not be in the position where it's legal to build skyscrapers now.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
That's a really neat project, but it's using a different state law than the one in the article; the project there is using density bonuses, but does not have unlimited density. However, if San Francisco does not submit a valid Hou
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by kevinburke 5y ago
I guess that’s the idea behind trying to add infill housing, is to prevent ugly sprawl. Davis has one of the highest bicycle mode shares of any city in the state. It’s an ideal place to add denser housing without the additional traffic or p
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by kevinburke 5y ago
Buy a single family home, tear it down and construct a fourplex, sell each unit of the fourplex for less than the single family home cost to purchase. Congrats, you have lowered home prices by adding dense housing.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
Per censusreporter.org, Davis had about 29,500 homes in 2019: https://censusreporter.org/profiles/40000US22420-davis-ca-ur... Per California HCD, Davis issued permits for about 1350 homes between 2013 and 2020, or roug
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by kevinburke 5y ago
True, though, you could potentially buy land near downtown at single family home prices, which would help. Also the same rules currently apply in Redondo Beach which is a little bit more expensive.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
It would depend on which cities actually try to meet their housing allocation - RHNA - and which try the same sort of bad faith stuff that Davis did. San Francisco is a very likely candidate and some of the richer suburbs - San Mateo, Palo
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by kevinburke 5y ago
Correct, but the law at issue is specifically about housing needs, so you’d need to build apartments in this case, you couldn’t build commercial.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
A lot of issues here, and the historic placement of public housing was often set up to fail (cut off from the rest of the city by freeways, for example, and then underfunded), but I'll just note that housing is so expensive now that a
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by kevinburke 5y ago
yes - thank you - edited the comment.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
This law wouldn't exempt you from paying any impact fees that Davis charged to e.g. support additional school or water infrastructure. I'll also note that the alternative to infill housing is single family home suburban sprawl, wh
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by kevinburke 5y ago
Was doing to do a post on this tomorrow but my guess is construction costs would be around $300 per square foot and new condo construction downtown is probably getting about $500/square foot. Also you’d be offering something that’s not
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by kevinburke 5y ago
My understanding (not legal advice!) is rules that preclude development at a given density would not be enforceable especially if they deviate from e.g. the International Builders Code, unless you could make some case that Davis was uniquel
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by kevinburke 5y ago
To be clear, you don't have to build a skyscraper, you could build a "5-over-1" (5 floors of apartments over ground floor retail) which would not be out of place at all in Davis. One of the earliest test cases for the law was
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You can build a skyscraper anywhere in Davis, California(kevin.burke.dev)
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You Shouldn’t Use Faker (or other test randomization libraries)(kevin.burke.dev)
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by kevinburke 5y ago
So I wrote that because a client had a bunch of existing nacl messages that were signed using Python, but the existing Go library uses a different protocol to sign messages than the standard Python library. The existing Go library also didn
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by kevinburke 5y ago
Attention to detail and recall, mainly, but again I don’t think you can justify screening for it at all without additional academic research.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
> whether or not you communicate well So whether you would be good at the job being hired for, then. The whole point of the post is that the phone screen isn't just screening for deal killers. If it was you wouldn't flunk peopl
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by kevinburke 5y ago
People say this but then they reject answers that e.g correctly code the brute force solution or they don’t provide an algorithm to code for, so it’s not just “can you code,” it’s can you find the optimal algorithm and also code it, and usu
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by kevinburke 5y ago
I address this in the post and part of the problem is that this is more difficult on Coderpad, and also interviewers (n=~8 out of 10 or so) discourage writing tests.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
I’m very confident that I come across in interviews as someone that you want on your team.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
I worked as a sole proprietor/consultant for several years, which involved lots of “personal review” during the sales process. I am well aware of how important that is.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
I use Vim, it's just different learning and development styles, I think. I’m very capable of focusing when there is a lot of money on the line.
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by kevinburke 5y ago
I describe an alternative set of objective criteria in the post (I’ve also submitted code that solves the problem “perfectly” and been rejected, no idea)
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Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens(kevin.burke.dev)
231 points by kevinburke 5y ago|324 comments
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Different Realms, Different TLD's(kevin.burke.dev)
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Fast, parallel, correct tests against a database(kevin.burke.dev)
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