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by tryitnow 11y ago
Good for him. The world needs more developers and web development is a skill that is worth far more than the measly $199/course. Presumably these courses are worth it compared to trying to cobble something together yourself via free
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There's some good points in this article, but those are lost in the false comparison of OSS/SaaS/APIs. That's not even like comparing apples to oranges, it's like comparing apples to apple trees.
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Why is 50 considered "middle age"? That implies life expectancy of 100. I would say 40 is middle age. Regardless, I applaud the work on trying to increase fluid intelligence. It's a truly hard problem and if humanity can cr
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Is there ample evidence that microfinance works? I thought it's been fairly controversial. It just doesn't seem like it supports long-term solutions to developing world poverty. My hypothesis would be that microfinance just encou
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Wow. I don't know where to start with some of these comments. There's just a real lack of understanding of central banking. Protip: Your critique of "status quo" (e.g. central banking) systems will be taken more serio
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I live on the "urban frontier" in Oakland (east side of Lake Merritt) and it's pretty nice, I don't feel endangered at all. South of me there's just huge swaths of residential and commercial land that can be develop
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Do you have any citations for your assertion about NYC circa '65? I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious and would like to read more about it.
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Instead of a subsidy you could just allow the write-off of the structure's depreciation. Structures, unlike land, lose value over time since they have to be maintained and suffer wear and tear. The bigger the structure, the bigger the
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I used to support the view articulated in this article, but I'm more skeptical now. If higher density were the solution I would expect to see highly dense cities have cheaper real estate than less dense cities. Instead, it's just
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What does he mean by "hard tech"? And would most engineers consider Cruise really hard tech? I don't know (I mean that honestly, not passive agressively).
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Why don't you just move to a nicer neighborhood that has nicer schools? And have you managed 13 year olds? I'm sure they will be well-incentivized at $60/hr., the question is whether you will have an incentive to put up with
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I honestly don't think collective bargaining is the right approach. But professionalization of software engineering could lead to more long term stability. This is what doctors, lawyers, accountants, and actuaries do. Professionaliza
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Weird. I've experienced a similar thing, except most people I know haven't given up on Uber, they just prefer Lyft. Not sure why. And I don't think network effect is all that sustainable of a competitive advantage here. Sw
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I agree, but I think you may be overly optimistic about the viability of bootstrapping indefinitely. If you're sustainably harvesting profits from your niche then eventually that's going to attract other firms, some of whom are go
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No, funding should not necessarily be used to enable faster growth. It can also be used for development, for refining product/market fit, etc. A lot of businesses would never be able to survive their early years without outside fundin
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Why are they too population dense? Broadly speaking there are usually advantages to economic specialization. It seems to make sense that cities specialize in being places where humans live and work since there are advantages to being close
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I'm familiar with the evidence for all your claims except for the one about caffeine. Why limited caffeine? What I've seen is that caffeine works for some people and it doesn't work for others.
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Hmmm. I don't follow your words here. Does it really take you hours every month to "learn" bookkeeping? No. It takes a few hours upfront to learn it. Then you use what you learn to appropriately vet accounting professionals
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That's the problem with hiring any professional, you've got to do the homework yourself to (1) be able to communicate effectively with the professional and (2) make sure the advice you're getting makes sense. This is true for
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Thanks! This is one of the best explanations of the problem with using p-values. Furthermore, I can recall many times when my stats professors would make it very clear what the "right" answer was, despite it being counter-intuiti
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I disagree. And I agree. What I disagree with is that you shouldn't learn bookkeeping. I agree that you should learn accounting. The problem is that you do need to know the basics of bookkeeping to learn accounting. And seriously, l
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And what happens when all these newly minted coders look for jobs at roughly the same time? I disagree with the common belief that somehow coding is the path to a stable economic future. History has shown time and time again that if a profe
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While I agree with your statement, it's not terribly germane to Cowen's argument. What he's saying is that all the fuss over Silicon Valley technology is not warranted when it comes to actual productivity gains. This is a rea
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Plus there's no guarantee that moving to the Bay Area will prevent similar problems. There's a boatload of reckless spending on developers and engineers right now. It's only a matter of time before financiers start pushing f
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I work out at the 24 hour fitness next to Zenefits HQ and I've overheard several conversations that seemed like they belonged in a Wall Street boiler room. I just assumed these guys were working for some rinky dink boiler room type op
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Google keep. I've given up on any hope of organizing my ideas (at least in first draft form). The important for me is being able to enter them quickly and easily on any device and then being able to retrieve them quickly via search.
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For a more formal treatment of using probabilities to estimate valuations read Douglas Hubbard's How to Measure Anything. It's an eye-opening approach to thinking about things that are hard to measure (like startup valuations). H
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I get nervous when tech trends start appearing in popular publications with little history of covering tech. My spidey sense suggests that this signals an approaching peak in the covered technology. Frankly, I think the expectations around
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That's a well-intentioned idea, but it's probably just throwing good money after bad. There are some old hotels (literally) out there that can still crank out cash and they're fine investments as long as you set your expectat
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Compensation for developers will drop over the long term, especially at the junior level. Compensation will come in line with the comp received by other professions which require similar levels of IQ. The comp for those other professions i

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