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> Housing is interesting because it's one of the few things we buy that is priced mostly around our ability to pay for it rather than the value of what we are buying.

No, its not. Real estate -- including housing -- is very much driven by value, and for most real estate -- and definitely housing -- and key component of value is location.

> That's why in SF it seems that housing prices rise in lock step with wages in the dominant industry (tech).

Convenience to work of a given pay is a key component of the value of housing; its not priced according to what the buyer can pay, its priced according to value, and the buyers are the ones who can pay that value.
My girlfriend had a nerve cut during knee surgery. The doctor did not acknowledge that error but waffled around. Only after consultation with two more surgeons it became clear that this was clearly an avoidable mistake.
This seems like a really good idea. Otherwise brilliant and highly trained humans make mistakes.

Any process or plan that requires everything going perfect as the only acceptable outcome seems like a terrible one.
>With the exception of #1, it seems all of these strategies are aimed at eliminating signals that skew heavily toward elite-educated men so that the top of your funnel is more diverse.

The top of a company's funnel could also be made more diverse by starting with "OK, there are 7+ billion people on the planet..." - that doesn't make it a good idea.

>And perhaps there aren't enough resources to improve said process and handle a greater volume of potentially unqualified applicants.

That's how you handle a great volume of applicants - you look for indicators of skill. None of them are necessary or sufficient; they just increase the likelihood that this will be a good hire a little bit. Giving every single person who is able to use the "resume" template in Microsoft Word an in-person interview would catch those false negatives you're missing, but it would be ridiculously inefficient.

Or am I to assume that when you want to hire a plumber you canvass your neighborhood door-to-door so you dont miss out on someone who might be qualified but just drummed out of the plumbing industry for institutional reasons?

Although I do like how you dismissed points 2-8 with a simple handwaving of "elite males are more likely to score higher on these points, so they're no good."

Not to mention the fact that that argument does virtually nothing to contracdict point #8. If youre someone who truly believes they're a Great Programmer Who's Not Being Given a Chance Due To White Male Supremacy, a github profile is the greatest arrow in your quiver that you could possibly dream of.
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Well, the engineers who go through our process are in a good position to verify the effectiveness of the matching. Granted, the bar to reach that point and check the quality is higher than it is for Pandora (readers can't go check right now what their matches would be). But I don't think that's an argument against trying to do a better job matching engineer with companies. This is an important area that's been largely overlooked.

The categories that you mention (applied problem solving and professional code) really are important. Companies differ widely in how much care about those two things (solving problems in the interview effectively vs. showing clean, well-structured code and good testing process). When an effective but iterative (and sometimes sloppy) programmer interviews at a company that values process highly, the result is wasted time and pain for everyone.
Great trick. Incredible that it's not on by default.

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Oh how the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence! As a web developer, I'm used to hearing about how mobile app development is so much better because there's a sane layout system and you don't need to deal with crufty old CSS. And how it's so easy to get native functionality, and the UI is easy to make run at the coveted 60FPS, etc.

Nice to be reminded that as lucky as us developers are in the grand scheme of things, we still have hard jobs and changing your tools or platform won't solve all your problems but rather just gives you different problems :)
This idea of a "dead-end job" is foreign to me. Only privileged, spoiled people talk like this. All job experience is valuable and will teach you lessons if you let it. If you can't look at even an entry-level job as a chance to gather experience and use it as a stepping stone to something better, and you'd rather sit back and be idle and privileged with some welfare check over working then you're the problem, not the economy.
I can't tell if you're praising his effort or condemning it; but I'd point out that that sort of conflict is a Hobbesian warre of all against all, in which cohesion and self-sacrifice are impossible -- which is what both James and the pre-WWI militarists were afraid of.
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All I can say is:

It hurt to read that article -- but at least we know now.
It is in large part speculation and conjecture. The evidence I thought I had doesn't really hold up to scrutiny.

All the same, if you don't support the right of horrble people to say horrible things, you don't actually support free speech.
That brings up an interesting point. What if UBI was $50K. And garbage men made an extra $50K for working. So do the lettuce pickers, and then sewage workers, and the newpaper deliverer, burger flippers, -- basically every job that needs to get done that isn't pleasant. Sure, they won't all get $50K - some more, some less. Labor _costs_ are now very high, high enough that I think prices would have to rise significantly. Suddenly $50K isn't enough to live on any more... Seems like a spiral that could never be satisfied.
I've been looking for a product like this (or thinking about building one).

Some feedback:

Signup process is tedious. I have to create an account to even see how it works. I have to pick a username AND give an email address. I have to validate email address with multiple clicks (click link then click button on loaded page). Then I have to reenter everything to sign in.

First view of the system says to click and drag links to reorder them. Clicking and dragging links does nothing until you enter edit mode. I almost gave up assuming the thing didn't work at all before I discovered this.

No "Save" button in edit mode. Just close edit mode... but this doesn't allow NOT saving, which is somewhat unexpected since it's a separate mode.

Visiting a new page seems to automatically put you in edit mode, which persists when visiting other pages. Honestly, I'm not sure at this point why I would ever not want to be in edit mode. I suggest getting rid of modes and providing an undo to roll back any accidental changes.

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This is such an important point that so many seem to miss. The more income you have, the higher your disposable income. A person who earns $20k per year probably spends $20k per year. A person who earns $50 million a year isn't going to spend $50 million every year. Even if their income skyrockets to $150 million, they likely aren't going to spend $50 million in a year. It's just not feasible. Therefore, any sort of FairTax or FlatTax is hitting the poor a lot more than the rich and is regressive by definition.
Not particularly. The parallel to learning how code works is learning about UX/UI design, not necessarily photoshop.

The parallel to learning photoshop would be asking you to learn vim/emacs/<insert IDE>, source control, etc.
Classic :)
The reason I argue against the "idea guys have no worth" is the exact reason you mentioned: real idea guys have a vision, which includes an implementation strategy, understanding of what the tech is gonna do to solve the problem, how to market and sell the product, who to target, a realistic plan to build and scale, a good name for the product, an idea of what the logo and slogans should be ,etc.

An idea is way more than just one line (uber for X).
My idea of an idea is insights into the market, designs for the MVP, and marketing strategy all in one.
I think the focus will go toward making hardware more power efficient instead of faster.
In places that cold, the gist I get from reading about heating/cooling is you are better off bringing down your air changes per hour [1] (a function of how airtight your residence is), then insulating (including nearly eliminating all thermal bridges), then passive heating, then active heating, in that order.

I've read field reports of people with measured air changes per hour that meet the PassivHaus standard, with 60+ R-value insulation (again, PassivHaus standard), isolated the foundation with insulation, consolidated all possible thermal bridges into a single, small conduit, and heat input from passive solar concentrator, enjoying NE US winters with only double-digit gas/electric bills for active heating in the worst months. With a rocket stove, most could avoid even that nominal amount and take care of burning their brush pile at the same time.

The insulation will cost you upfront, though. Corning FOAMGLAS is my favorite at the moment because it doesn't involve greenhouse gases during its manufacture, but it and its installation can easily add 15% to your overall build cost. Use EPS (looks like giant styrofoam blocks roughly the size of 3 feet thick doorways, wish all the styrofoam we throw away into landfills could somehow be recycled into these) instead, and you still are looking at around a 10% upcharge. Granted, you're hovering around 70'ish R-value with that much, and thermal changes take a much longer time compared to conventional residences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_changes_per_hour
They're only required to deliver source to anyone they give a binary to. Having a "github repo" isn't any part of the open source/free software definition.
Of course. I'm not saying that the advertisers are wasting their money. I'm saying that it seems that both the advertisers and the ads network could have made more money with a better targeting. At least in my case, they've wasted the cost of the impression and the potential gain from showing a more relevant ad in that space. And this is probably happening millions of times a day.
But that's exactly the point... these days, even 4 whole years isn't enough to learn "all the fundamentals", at least not while balancing things so that you learn enough practical skills to also do something useful. So what do we do, have people do a 4 year degree, and then go spend 8 weeks, or 16 weeks, or a year, learning to actually build systems?

I don't know, maybe that is the answer. But I suspect the MIT guys have a point in terms of making some small concessions in favor of pragmatism. Of course, one acknowledges that college isn't mean to be trade school... Hmmm... maybe there is no perfect answer.
So "googling" our personal health data would serve the doctor 40% google ads, 50% bait, 9% invalid information put there by some crackpot, and 1% (buried in there somewhere) of actual valid data?
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Honestly, if the competition for those keywords is that weak, I'd go for an SEO blitz. I pulled a SEMRUSH profile on your site (other tools exist, I just like that one)

https://www.semrush.com/info/phantomjscloud.com

- Identify keywords you want to target, with decent search volume and not too many strong competitors. Use those words in your headlines and article text
- Start a blog and bulk up your articles; knock out 4 - 5 1500+ word articles on the problems you are solving and which audiences would benefit from them
- Share those articles on social media
- Your site could benefit from additional back-links (you've only got 14); look at your major competitors and see if they are getting links from highly reputable sources. Reach out to those sources and offer them a reason to link to you. Avoid links from spammy sites and low-end blogs (do NOT do the $5 link building package on elance or wherever)...

[There's a ton more, but that will give you a running start on respectable SEO]
I'm really surprised to see anyone making this kind of argument. Do you honestly believe it or is this just devil's advocate stuff?
This is one of the worst articles I've ever read about adtech and is clearly written by someone who has never worked in it and knows nothing about it.

It's all summed up by this at the end of the article:

> Q: It’s all baseless speculation.
> We base our research on subjects that are gaining traction in the overall news flow. We have found 94 articles about "ad fraud" over the last 5 years, only looking at influential, qualified sources (http://11wall.st/?to=2016-05-04&from=2011-05-04&query=%22ad+...). So, no, we’ve not dreamt this up, this is something real that the media is talking about. This is the whole point: as coverage of online advertising’s shortcomings grows, people will start to grow aware of it, and will start to question the system.

The "news" coverage is similar to this article in that it's about 20% accurate and 80% sensationalist stories. Also 94 articles is like a week of normal trade press output so it's not even a big number over 5 years.

Advertising and marketing technology is one of the most data-driven and results-oriented industries around. That's just fact. It's been like that for decades. The reason there are hundreds of billions being spent is because there's so much control, flexibility, efficiency, scale and accountability available today that can drive sales and massively improve a company's revenues.

Adtech today is bigger and better than ever because even when things change (like mediums, platforms, audiences, technology), the industry always adapts just fine.

Anyone thinking advertising doesn't work should look at how exactly the successes of the favored Silicon Valley companies have come to be, because outside of making a decent product, it's all marketing. In fact, two of the biggest companies in the world today have been built around advertising and it's clear it's going to stay because it's an integral part of the economy.
There was a lot of evidence that this was how things were moving a century ago, but the predictions made at the time look more than a little bit wrong. Not only have the sons of the increasingly obsolete production line employees mostly found jobs, but so have their daughters!

Trouble with breaking down jobs into smaller subsets is that you need an awful lot of robots, and suddenly the rental on those doesn't look an awful lot better than the cost of hiring unskilled labour. I mean, the core role of the average fast food service employee in exchanging cash for heated product was rendered obsolete by the heated coin-operated dispensing machine more than a century ago, but it turns out that they're also quite good at upselling to larger items, dealing with unusual requests, getting rid of unruly customers and removing stains from locations you'd need a robot with really impressive articulated limbs and computer vision to adequately deal with. And they don't cost very much per month compared with specialist business process software licenses, never mind hardware. So fast food vendors, with some of the most obsessive attention to process optimization imaginable and some of the least highly-regarded employees, continue to be huge employers
Call me old fashioned, but I would rather be ignorant of my chances of cancer (even if showing me allows me to live longer). I know getting a high percentage would just cause me lots of anxiety throughout the rest of my life. I'm rather happy not knowing, living in peace, and dying sooner.
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>> Whats more likely to happen is that someone will come along with better search with less advertising

and no one will ever find out about it, cause GOOG owns the OS on billions of devices.
That's because at some point the industry lost the plot.

The fundamentals are fundamental. They don't change very fast.

Applications change all the time. So do frameworks. But there's very little genuinely new in most frameworks, or in most languages for that matter. They're mostly repackagings of the same few ideas.

Which is why it's a lot easier to pick up applications and do a good job with them if you know the fundamentals than if you're hacking away without any contextual or historical understanding.

Meanwhile someone is going to have to do the next generation of pure research, and it's a lot harder to do something creative and interesting in CS if all you've ever known is js, Python, and Ruby.

The reality is that software quality is decreasing. Never mind maintainability or even documentation - applications are becoming increasingly buggy and unreliable.

It's common in the UK now for bank systems to crash. Ten years ago it was incredibly rare, and twenty years ago it was practically unthinkable.

Software is too important to be left to improvisation and busking. So "just learn to make applications from other applications" is not a welcome move.
I feel exactly the same way as you. I'm 37 and financially "stable" (i.e. I would be "okay" for a while if I lost my job today), but I wish I had gotten started earlier. I constantly am trying to get my girlfriend, who is just 21, started in saving and investing. She's recently became interested in "credit" (building a credit history, etc.) and so I still have my fingers crossed I can get her starting to save.

Part of the problem, I think, is instant gratification -- the younger generation, especially, wants everything NOW. I'm guilty of this as well, running out to order the newest tech gadgets. She sees me doing this and wants to do it as well, not really realizing that I can do that a little easier because I make multiple times what she does.

There was a time not long ago when I would have been screwed if I had suddenly lost my job. Fortunately, if that happened today I could enjoy a few months off before even starting to look for new employment, let alone stressing about how to pay my bills. The difference in anxiety / stress levels is astounding.
I disagree that you have +EV with stock picking in general. Most companies go out of business, most stocks go to $0.

Index funds, however, do have +EV.
Please take advantage of your job mobility. Changing jobs in our line of work isn't as simple as flipping a switch, but you still are in so much demand. There's no need for you do engineering work you're dissatisfied with.
But who does pick the lettuce? What does that do to the price of lettuce? If we apply that same thinking to every other food item, what does it do to food prices? I think you've hit on the problem -- UBI is not anything more than wage inflation, which will force people to work again to keep up with the spiraling prices.
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High-efficiency solar cells produced from earth-abundant materials are an exception and have the potential to provide many tens of terawatts on a few percent of the Earth’s surface. Present-day solar technologies will require substantial innovation to meet this standard and the development of cheap energy storage technologies that are capable of dealing with highly variable energy generation at large scales.

Nuclear fission today represents the only present-day zero-carbon technology with the demonstrated ability to meet most, if not all, of the energy demands of a modern economy. However, a variety of social, economic, and institutional challenges make deployment of present-day nuclear technologies at scales necessary to achieve significant climate mitigation unlikely. A new generation of nuclear technologies that are safer and cheaper will likely be necessary for nuclear energy to meet its full potential as a critical climate mitigation technology.
> Also education cost spiked because of easy availability of student loans. Could there be many more products/areas like this?

Anything that isn't provided by a freely competitive market can be like this in the long term, and anything where the supply side can't quickly respond to demand-side changes can be like it in the short term.
I travel frequently between three countries, with three different currencies. For me, the larger demoninations are very useful -- say you need $5000 spending money for your trip to Country Two. If you can take 50x$100 it's pretty easy to manage; if you can only take $20 bills it becomes at least five times harder to manage.

This is a very real thing for many people with modest, entirely legitimate needs. People for whom the bank fees and profit-seeking exchange rates are a significant burden.
Also, the US has generally higher rates than the rest of the first world, and it's not entirely clear that this actually leads to better outcomes. I think more in the medical field are starting to rethink this.

See: https://www.statnews.com/2015/12/01/cesarean-section-childbi...
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No they are actually benefits from learning photoshop because you understand what they are doing more technically. Adding a drop-shadow as an example. Or doing a gradient with specific ratio, angle and so on.

You literally get access to the very parameters and their values you might have to use.

It's not about learning how to use photoshop. It's learning how photoshop works, just like I learn code to understand how most code work. That doesn't mean I would call myself a developer who can code like a pro.
True. A 128MB works absolutely fine, it actually only consumes about 50MB peak. However, in lambda the memory is linked to the processing power and the speed increase offsets the additional charges by being that much quicker. I was surprised myself and really I should put some quick stats in there to backup my recommendation.
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That's why I mentionned that having a trusted friend/relative to go in with the patient is preferable.
Well, from my experience hanging around in leftist subreddits, I can say there's an awful lot of loud and repeated objection to the Reddit admins harboring neo-nazi fora such as the aforementioned /r/european. Whether the admins allowing that speech is virtuous or villainous is a different debate, but the leftist subs routinely criticize Reddit the company for harboring actual Nazis.
> what's the source for CO2 by the ton?

Coal. Using it like this you avoid all the pollution problems (all the impurities are captured inside the process and not simply emitted).

True you still emit some extra CO2, but that vast majority of the energy content of gasoline does not come from the coal, it's added from the solar power.

So even though you do still emit CO2, as a percentage it's much more minimal.
I guess that the interviewer needs to in a put in a bit more effort to present a problem that warrants using a debugger. Who debugs a hello world program?
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It should probably be noted that unemployment rates then are not necessarily comparable to unemployment rates now. They were collected differently and less perfectly, as the entire concept was quite new as of the 30s afaik.
Is solar using rare metals that we will run out of soon? So will in the end solar fail anyway?