timothycrosley

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by timothycrosley 9y ago
While there is def some sound logic to what you're saying I think the key piece you're missing is paying the same amount of monthly payments enables developers in Seattle to buy a home, which in the end means they are building equ
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
It's not hard. And they're not. You're friends are paying 1K-1.5 to have a room . In the end if you have to pay as much for a room in city A as a whole apartment or mortgage in city B, you are getting paid less. To expand, b
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
You sort of prove the cherry picking argument. Average salary means nothing in a vacuum without cost of living considered. And when it is... Unsurprisingly NYC comes in at the bottom of the list, https://www.codementor.io/bl
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Does this also mean that areas that rarely get snowfall also have a lower rate of heart attacks?
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
as someone with lath and plaster walls and all hardwood floor: this doesn't feel trivial at all.
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Way to spin trying new ideas and having determination to find a way to succeed despite failures in a negative light? The fact this has become the norm is good! People used to think that all the smart people just came up with a good idea all
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
This has happened to me on both services. It's inherent to the whole concept and has nothing to do with Lyft. If you ride enough it will happen to you to. The other day I ordered an uber, it was 5 minutes away, it drove to an entire di
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
All these releases are meh... I'm waiting for the Reese's release to bite
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Even if you were right, and someone made 20% more total compansation, they would loose more than half of that right off the bat due to the mutliple layers income tax in San Francisco, and easily the rest and then some to increased housing c
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
This is all about perspective. Now that's definitely the case with AWS and service first design etc. But from the beginning it was trying to be a bookstore, an online one, for sure. But not pure technology, as say a search engine or an
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
The same people who make 300-400k in San Francisco, also do so in Seattle. I don't know where your getting your information from, but all existing stats disagree with you for a reason.
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Eh, it doesn't really matter what stats you drive from they all paint the same picture. More and more engineers are moving here from San Francisco for that reason. People never report that there leaving net income on the table, especia
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Not as many as San Francisco, but there's a ton of startups here and the city has a solid startup culture: https://www.geekwire.com/startup-list/ . Some notible ones include Zillow, Redfin, Rover, and OfferUp. I ag
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
What your describing is not a lack of engineers, it's a low uneployment rate. There are enough engineers for 100s of new startups. The only thing that excarbates more than San Francisco, is that there is much less a culture of jumping
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
100% agree. We are doing better than most tech cities right now, but that's unfortunately a low bar. I want us to build so much that anyone who wants to live or start some crazy business here can without hesitation.
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Yes. With 3 important caveats: 1) similar things have happened in the past and got overturned, because it's against the WA state constitution. A challenge has already been mounted and the income tax isn't even in effect yet. 2) Th
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Sure that's true. I take Vitamin D, and have a light that I use during the winter. However, it's really both the Spring and Summer that are beautiful IMO, which is half the year. I make sure to take my vacations during the other h
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Depends on what viewpoint your coming from, but from that of a software developer there are many alternatives that have been much better than San Francisco for years, especially Seattle https://www.codementor.io/blog/
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
For people looking for an escape from San Francisco: come join us in Seattle! https://www.codementor.io/blog/best-cities-software-engineer... it's great here. And we have been building several times the housing to
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Seattle. Lose ~2-5 thousand a year in income on average as a Software engineer, save 1-2 thousand a month on rent, and no income tax: https://www.codementor.io/blog/best-cities-software-engineer...
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
People having to split small spaces, has the same quality of life impact to most people. There is no misconception of what NYC is, lots of people just don't want the life of either paying a ton of money, or not having what they conside
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Essentially it's saying the average (legitimate) software engineering salary in Moscow is too low to afford the average rental + cost of living. Which probably helps explain why so much ransomware etc comes out of there...
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The most profitable place to be a Software Developer: Seattle(codementor.io)
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
So you think, having more retail space, more office buildings, more construction, etc is unrelated to jobs. Yep makes sense... What do you really think is more valuable a block of houses in San Francisco among many other blocks of houses, o
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Without bringing job density into the equation, the demand is much much higher from the land value increase when zones move up. Is not at all unheard of for a SFH that was worth max 500K on the SFH market to be bought for over a million by
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Good. There has been a Yimby movement for a while in Seattle which has built several times the housing of San Francisco and Oakland combined over the last few years: http://www.spur.org/news/2017-06-15/keep-buildin
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
It's more complicated than that. Yes by increasing density, you are increasing supply of housing units, but you are also increasing the demand for your property - as now it's not only a single family that would be looking to buy i
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Can this get deleted somehow, it used to be relevant, but all the surrounded comments got deleted.
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Seattle has built several times the housing of San Francisco and Oakland combined over the last few years: http://www.spur.org/news/2017-06-15/keep-building-oakland . , and while getting more expensive is doing muc
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by timothycrosley 9y ago
Reddit is this you?!?!!?

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