sAuronas

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by sAuronas 13y ago
As a city planner/RE developer turned software developer, I am dismayed by how little attention is paid to basic innovations that would have great impact and, yet, are never or barely mentioned in these future-tomorrow vids. I won&#x27
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Thanks for the comments. I am trying to read less HN and more of the C book. Really, I just need more time than 24 hours in a day.
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by sAuronas 13y ago
A lot of us today (including myself) are bootstrapping our own CS education and cannot, in fact, build from bare metal. I, for one, learn more and more when people post things like this and I am also very grateful...and on my way to underst
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by sAuronas 13y ago
You can walk around downtown/Uptown at dark. The crime, especially murder, is not spread evenly around the city. There are neighborhoods that experience flash points quite often -- as is the case in most cities. Oakland, for reasons un
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by sAuronas 13y ago
The crime problem is overstated. While it appear high on a per capita basis, cities are dynamic. The cancers that plague the city will be forced out of downtown and Jack London once business activity picks up, because that will coincide wit
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Why not focus on his general point: that CoffeeScript does not fix the problems of JavaScript because it introduces other problems? He obviously knows a lot more than "day's experience". If you make the argument that he needs
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by sAuronas 13y ago
function endPoorPeoplesHousingProblems(planningPolicy, taxPolicy, currentPolitics) { return failedStrategy; } Still, we ought to be aiming a lot higher in real estate development and planning. In planning: General Planning and the zon
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by sAuronas 13y ago
>Malls aren't dying. Cities are. Certain "rustbelt" cities and towns to be more specific. The malls that die are invariably in areas of decline. Caruso may be shifting the game with his paradigm of outdoor faux townscapes
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by sAuronas 13y ago
As one GT grad (MCRP03) to another...get off the bridge a build a castle (or a speed boat) -- on a solid foundation. When I sang "I'm a hellava engineer" at graduation I was entering real estate for a short and successful (un
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by sAuronas 13y ago
As someone over 30 with two degrees and programming for 7 months now (JS and now Objective C), I found this story quite interesting. I mentioned my two degrees because they are worth about as much as his no degree. My masters was from Georg
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Sure we can...however, as a former (post-race discussion) black man learning to program on my own, I can say that the problems of "urban black youth" (as I was once called as an undergrad by a professor) are unique and not going a
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by sAuronas 13y ago
I used to build mixed-income housing (one third subsidizes public housing units, one third 80% of area median and one third market rate) for a private partnership to redevelop Chicago's public housing. I can tell you this...fail. Does
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by sAuronas 13y ago
I used to build mixed-income housing (one third subsidizes public housing units, one third 80% of area median and one third market rate) for a private partnership to redevelop Chicago's public housing. I can tell you this...fail. Does
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Then do not commute! If you were in Oakland, you workers could actually afford to live near work and...walk. Commuting in SF is horrible because it is packed. Oakland has enough problems without memes about non-existent commuter issues. PS
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Do away with grades and focus on effort, attention and output. And give kids three areas of focus and allow them to drop three subjects, keeping a core. In this age, kids need to develop deeper skills, faster and not memorize.
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by sAuronas 13y ago
All the talk of jargon while a paradigm has shifted... No doubt, you are all very smart (and literate) but the point was to notice how f^@k1ng big this is.
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Glad you brought up the Bay...entirely different animal than anywhere in the country. Oakland does represent a potential bright spot, but I disagree that there needs to be displacement to achieve it. Oakland, like most cities, suffers from
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Nice post...I wish you had talked about market disruption and the failure of cities as agencies of change. The realtors' lock on transactions and the lack of transparency in the marketplace is one issue. The antiquated and closed-sourc
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by sAuronas 13y ago
[Corrections] Really happy to see a post like this. It was an awesome post too... However, as an adult over 30 who just learned to code, I can say that it was not as helpful as it might have been, primarily because it makes the author sound
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Really happy to see a post like this. It was an awesome post too... However, as an adult over 30 who just learned to code, I can say that it was not as helpful as it might have been, primarily because it makes the author sound as if he is b
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Reposotory: rep'n positive, so you know my story(code)... They used "hooked on phonics". I can see how they forked that (up).