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There is a movie I believe, about scammers trying to use futures market to have illegal profits by betting on failure of their theatrical piece, and then making a piece thqt praises Hitler, hoping it would bomb really hard.
People seem to take these studies as entirely quantitative, but the basis for scoring is a test that almost certainly saturates before the upper levels of high school.

I went to a magnet STEM school for half of every day in my last two years of high school. In my rural county, there was no way I was going to get good calculus and physics classes, let alone any programming, modern physics, or advanced math, without the pooling of resources among the several farm town high schools. It undoubtedly increased what my high school education could provide me.

It also would not show up on any testing that would be measured in these studies. I could have watched Netflix instead of taking classes for all of my last two years of high school, and I still would have showed up the same from the perspective of this study: passed every standardized test.

But people fall for these metrics time after time, and school rankings are based on them. My public high school was ranked in the bottom 10% because our pass rates are abysmal, which obviously stems from our huge number of impoverished broken families. The 85-90% AP test pass rate told a different story: show up every day ready to work, and they had some good teachers who would really work with you.
Expecting somebody to know what a hash table is and understand the time complexity of inserting and looking up elements is fair. Expecting them to build one from scratch on a whiteboard is just ritualized hazing.
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I think you're missing the forest for the trees. Yes, I personally can go live 30 minutes away. So how far away should the teachers live, then? The police? Because if I can afford San Mateo, then that means they largely can't. So where are they going? Is it acceptable for them to be coming up to PA from Gilroy? Tracy? Stockton? At what point do we say that we've created a ridiculous system in which people are needlessly spending years of their lives in traffic and throwing rent money in the toilet all because we can't build some more apartment building next to our jobs centers? I'm not insisting that city work live or own in PA, I'm highlighting that they can't own anywhere near PA, since, as you state, even 30 minutes out of PA is where two-income professionals can afford, not them.
I'm generally of this opinion, but with Haskell I think more often than not the "clever" one liners are actually not clever -- they're just completely standard usages of fundamental language constructs, and they only appear clever to people who haven't used the language.

It's very common to see newcomers or people who've never used Haskell at all mention <$> and friends in this regard. Then someone will say that if you just used do notation explicitly it'd be a lot clearer. And then someone will point out that do notation might look familiar, but semantically it can be spectacularly different from what one might expect from truly imperative languages (e.g., when using the nondeterminism of the list monad). So by encouraging overuse of do notation, you're making the code feel familiar, but you're not actually making it more understandable; if anything, you're making it harder to understand, because you're making it look like something that it's not.

Additionally, while do notation is very generic and broadly powerful, <$> does exactly one thing: it applies a function to a wrapped value, producing a new wrapped value. Once you've used Haskell a fair bit, you very strongly internalize this and tend to immediately understand code involving <$>. If all this code were expanded out to use do notation, you'd have to spend a lot of extra timing reading through the do notation to realize that, oh, this is just a re-implementation of fmap, over and over again.
So this only reduces inefficiency while the the engine revs too low for the turbo to kick in? Then it is competing with electrically assisted turbocharging (spin the turbo electrically when there is not enough exhaust pressure, basically a super/turbo hybrid using electric transmission), as both are addressing the same inefficiency.

I know where I would put my bets in terms of price, reliability and ease of development.
Probably not. Better question, since you're basically in the recruiter space with this idea would an employer pay to use a "can you code" website? And aren't you already competing with the bazillion unofficial 'can you code' sites out there like hackerrank?
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s/residents/home owners have always been opposed to that. Renters would be thrilled about it, but home owners love seeing their home values skyrocket. Multiply this if they've been in the area for a while, and again if they're currently renting out their place(s).

A lower-end but not ghetto apartment in SJ is around $2200 for a 700sqft 1bedroom. This would not be in a place walking distance to a train station or to a downtown area. The mortgage on a 4 bedroom 1200sqft house valued at 800k (i.e. What most people would call a normal average single-family home) would be about $2800/month (assuming you had the 125k or so down payment). You can then rent 3 of the 4 bedrooms and end up making money on the house you live in vs flushing >$2k a month.

This is why normal people can't get ahead out here and end up moving away. The way things are is massively skewed toward home owners and property investors. Building more apartments won't necessarily help, since all the apartments built after the rent-control cut off are getting renovated or demolished to be replaced with brand new units which are "luxury" ($2800/month and up for a 1br).

Apartment places almost always have units available where I've looked. It's not like you can't find a place out here, just not a place for under about $2k a month. Apartment places would much rather rent out 85% of their units at exorbitant prices vs 100% at half that. I don't believe that adding more housing (which won't be under rent control and will undoubtedly be "luxury" housing) will lower average rents. I don't know what it would take to get the Bay Area back to rents in the $1000/month for a 1br range. I'm not even sure that it's realistic anymore.

Does anyone have a link to or know of a place built in the past 15 years in Santa Clara, Cupertino, Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Jose, Saratoga, Los Gatos, etc with units under $2k a month? My pessimistic side just thinks that adding more new apartments will just drop the price on the high end, so that $3k/month loft in the glass tower in downtown SJ might only be $2800 next 11-month lease term, or maybe only go up by 12% a year instead of 18%.

We need to do something drastic if this is to be again under control, but I suspect that due to the very large sums of money involved, the entrench interests are attempting to prevent that by whatever means necessary, and we're basically screwed until this bubble bursts, if that even happens this time.
Sorry you aren't going to build a multi-unit dwelling in Palo Alto in secret.
> Why do rural areas need the Internet the most?

Because rural areas do not have the same concentration of services that urban areas have.

In urban areas you can visit offices/shops close by to get things done if you don't have the Internet. In rural areas you have to travel X miles to get a single thing done if you lack online access.
Prop 13's effects for primary-resident housing have been less problematic than its effects for commercial land and purely speculative real estate, but it isn't good-- if we allow this subsidy strictly for housing, we'll still run out of developable land (just not quite as quickly.)

Too, the policy that reassesses the site upon re-sale takes away mobility for Bay Area residents-- this lock-in is extremely destructive for the housing stock (not to mention transportation), and will continue as long as Prop 13 exists in any form.

The idea that "being taxed out of your home" is a bad thing is extremely overblown (remember that any person to suffer this malady is suffering from overly valuable land). Rather than the heavily distortionary effects of Prop 13, better approaches would be:

* Building more. That's what the folks who suffered high property taxes in the 1970s should have done. The property tax burden for each housing unit would be driven down.

* Community land trusts offer the possibility of stability for residents who want to be completely removed from the rises and falls in housing value.

* For the "poor widow" situation, a direct subsidy on an as-needed basis (food stamps for property taxes, as it were) is a better solution than what Prop 13 does.
Maybe I should just have said "standard", then. All except for very old, very cheap houses have at least single brick walls and tile or corrugated iron roofing. Nicer ('average' rather than 'high end') houses are double brick and tile.
Dude, where do you get off telling her what choices to make about where to live?
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True but at least it's a lot less unbelievable than someone (outside of superpowers or a mecha suit) punching through a brick wall.
The full description, from the linked ABS document is:

"Processing units (excl. processing units for personal computers & those of 8471.41 & 8471.49) whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input and output units"

8471.41 and 8471.49 according to [1] have ANZSPCs of 45200.10.10, 45200.10.90, 45200.20.10 and 45200.20.90, which according to [2], represent:

- Mainframe, mini- and super- computers

- Other multiple-user computer hardware

- Desktop computers (PCs)

- Other personal computers

TL;DR: A quick Google could have shown anyone who cared to look that the granted restrictions explicitly exclude "CPU and/or server sales". Great journalism.

[1]: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/4A0A6AEB68EACF76CA...

[2]: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/7A227A665A44E625CA...
Kim-Mai Cutler's excellent and thorough analysis from a couple of years ago [0] is still broadly relevant, though I think there have been some changes -- the whole Google bus thing blew over, I guess, and Mountain View's city council got largely replaced, the new council being more housing-friendly. But there's still a lot in here that's applicable.

ETA: Oh, and here's a great piece on Henry George [1].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/nothing-like-this-has-ever...
> According to her, she'd present an aesthetic design, and then the building corporation would trim away all the better elements to cut costs, leaving an ugly vaguely historical-looking box with windows, a door, and a roof.

Couldn't it then be argued that her design did not fit the specification? If these houses need to be produced as cheaply as possible, wouldn't it then be better to focus on achieving aesthetics using the minimal amount of extra materials, ensuring that there is nothing to trim away?
They can't. The EU requires its members not to extradite anyone to the US if there's any possibility that a death sentence might be applied. On the other hand, China has a whole lot more human rights issues than the US.
TypeScript would be a simpler translation target because it's very similar to Swift, and then TypeScript could handle the translation down to ES6, ES5, ES3, etc. Why reinvent what's already available?
xhr, promises, a modern build tool (webpack? browserify?), prototypal inheritance, virtual dom, object oriented programming, when to add more abstractions and when to tear them down, front-end performance & memory profiling, browser dev tools, canvas, svg, service workers, browser caching, cookies, websockets, SASS, Ecmascript 6, API design principles, data modeling, when to use a hash and when to use an array, basic concepts of UX, and of course, most importantly, box shadows
When you are a billionaire the cost of running something like this is probably a rounding error.
> a government ISP has inherent anti-competitive properties (such as tax funding),

It is exceedingly rare that municipal networks are built with direct tax funding. Municipalities just don't have that kind of money lying around. Municipal networks are normally funded with bonds, much like commercial networks.

> even if it doesn't go even further and ignore regulations it applies to everyone else.

That's an interesting assertion. Can you name one regulation that municipal networks can ignore, that applies to everyone else?

> Imagine trying to compete with a competitor that everyone has to pay for (in whole or in part) whether they use it or not,

Municipal networks are usually paid for by it's users and subscribers. Sure, you can imagine things, but this scenario just doesn't play out that often in reality.

> and that gets to set the rules you have to follow but that it can choose not to.

Which rules are you referring to?

> I don't think any of the ISP objections or court cases would hold up against an actual community effort, as opposed to a government effort. If a group of people got together and decided to start a community ISP, nothing should stop them.

Unfortunately this isn't true. Some states even regulate what networks co-ops can build and operate.

Some ISPs even do their best to annihilate open access and dark fiber networks by municipalities.
Have you actually talked to many Bay Area homeowners? The primarily reason that many long-time residents oppose new denser housing developments has little or nothing to do with property values. The real reason is concerns over quality of life, such as traffic, noise, pollution, school overcrowding, etc. You're not going to convince them to support higher housing density without addressing those concerns.

Personally I think denser housing developments in some neighborhoods would be a good idea. But the infrastructure improvements need to be constructed first, not as a reactive afterthought.
In my experience interviewing candidates and being interviewed, the experience is wildly inconsistent. Most times, if it's a Front-End specific position, I wouldn't (and haven't been) asked about algorithms or data structures. I think the most important thing is to be able to talk intelligently about a bunch of subjects. Some examples:

- Do you know a client side MVC? Do you know why the internet thinks this client side MVC is bad? What are some alternatives? When should you use what?

- Why is SASS valuable?

- In javascript, describe the this keyword. What is the difference between Call and Apply? Bind?

- What is prototypal inheritance? How do you feel about it (no right or wrong answer, just a thing to talk about).

- Typical web security vulnerabilities.

If I whiteboard a candidate usually it'll be something very basic, something like write a palindrome function in JS, then write it a different way, then tell me when to use which. Also, I ask a lot about a candidate's interests. Why do you think Elm is cool? What've you written with D3 that was nifty? Talk about the problems you've solved, how you solved them, and why it was interesting.

Most importantly: be passionate about learning and doing.
Have you got any points you'd like to share about your consulting success? Seems like many people who consult or do digital sales do through SEO - do you think there is much appetite in the SME space for CRO/analytics?
It's almost as if programs are useless if they don't perform some IO and therefore, trying to encode this kind of side effects in the type system is theoretically interesting but practically inconvenient.
All correct! Babel, Redux/data flow and immutable data structures. Basic software design principles. Anything else?
Quite the contrary, as someone who has spent a lot of time doing and testing GUIs in complex applications, the things he talked about was very relatable from a GUI design perspective.

People who are poor at GUI design do exactly the same sort of things as has been done with the McMansions.

When you do usability tests and people don't like a GUI, they often don't know why. But if you know design principles you can tell almost right away why they don't like it. It is because common design principles have been broken.

Like with a house, a magazine page or a GUI design should have visual balance e.g.

Your complaints really show that you didn't fully comprehend the problems and their potential solutions. The solution to the off-shoot sticking out isn't necessarily cutting it off. You could have achieved balance in multiple ways: Cut it off, expand the central mass, reduce secondary masses, simplify overall design. A big box of a house would have had better balance and more space.

You could have solved the problem with excessive amounts of voids by simply having larger windows and simpler design. That would have had the opposite effect and given you more light, not less.
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Formerly America's deadliest highway (prior to the dividing barrier)

As you say, lane-closing accidents daily...but also hillbillies in huge 4x4s from Redwood Estates who also hate tech people and are often high
I don't see anyone mentioning requiring one to build all these data structures from scratch. I'd agree with you that this is a less useful exercise for interviews, in particular front-end interviews, but I don't think it's fair to assume that this is what the poster above meant. Only "basic knowledge" was mentioned.
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The point is that if two professional salaries aren't enough to buy a home in Palo Alto, then it highlights how much everyone else must be struggling. It highlights just how far away all of our service workers must live. Highlights just how miserable housing prices and commutes have gotten for the vast majority of people in the Bay Area who aren't lucky enough to have two professional salaries. If two professionals are, according to you, expected to have a half an hour commute, then everyone else is melting into their car seats every day.
Hopefully not! Surely _.debounce would be more appropriate to avoid locking out your UI - or worse, returning out of date responses - but even then you would potentially want to handle the responses more robustly.

Not to mention needing to handle .fetch()s lack of abort if you're not using xhr.
Title when I wrote that didn't day "Indie Hackers". Those were a magical extra two words ^__^
They are not. As someone who does GUI design, I recognized many of the rules. If you look at GUIs that don't follow rules for balance e.g. they clearly looks worse than balanced ones.

The McMansions look cool in a theme park way. But there is nothing timeless about them. It is like the things we thought looked cool in the 80s like big shiny metal fonts. It was cool then, but today we are like "oh my, how did we ever think this was good!"
There are much bigger fish to fry than "clever" one-liners when onboarding a new Haskell programmer.
ditto (i'm using chrome). weirdly, after looking at the version on archive.org, it started working, although that's probably coincidence.
I would add pragmas.

People like to say there is just one implementation of Haskell and it's ghc, but there's actually n different ones, with n being the number of combinations of pragmas that exist.

Each combination you use in your source is a different version of Haskell.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/30/angela-merke...

Seems like this is what they were talking about. Of course reporting violence gets equated with committing violence, but that's how governments work.

Preventing violence is hard. So they don't. Especially not when preventing violence might gasp limit how easily big companies can abuse immigrant labour. We can't have that. Preventing people from finding out about the violence, however, that's much easier.
> The thing about getting rid of prop 13 is you'd price out a lot of residents that bought a long time ago for something they don't have a whole lot of control over.

One thing to consider is that the removal of Prop 13 would drive prices down, so in the tax burden wouldn't be as high as it would be, when compared to today's market rate of housing.

> If you thought that gentrification is bad now...

It's important to note that gentrification only happens to poor/disenfranchised neighborhoods, whereas the burden of removing Prop 13 would fall upon all, including the affluent. This is an important measure for fairness.

> To solve this, build more housing, or build more infrastructure to enable people to live further away, or both. However, residents in the bay area have always been opposed to things like that.

Largely because policy like Prop 13 shields them from the consequences, which has led people to remain in the same property interminably (even when they may wish to move), and to push for restrictive zoning policy.
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Why? JS is crap compared to Swift. There are various technologies that allow you to do that anyway(i.e nativeScript)
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We usually start out with a non working version, using `var` and just returning `i` from the function and then ask what that would print out and why.
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As someone who has done a lot of GUI design, I recognize many of the design principles. The point of balance and symmetry e.g. is very relevant for GUI design as well.

It is very useful to know these sorts of principles because without them you notice stuff looks wrong but you don't know why and you don't quite know how to fix it.
101 to Gilroy will often be faster and saner than 17 to Santa Cruz... sorry but you are in for some serious commute pain. Even people who only need to go as far as Summit Road eventually crack. 17 was never designed for commute traffic
The question we have now is can it be done by enemies of freedom and still lead to more freedom?

There is the logic of polarisation, of fight - both sides use whatever comes their way to weaken the opposite. Russia wants to weaken the USA, so they expose the political dirt to destabilize, and that works in the short term - but I like to think that in the long term it removes the dirt and makes the free system stronger.

The same thing:
https://stopagitprop.com/2016/08/13/exposing-edward-snowden-... - it escapes them that sometimes to reform and to make the system better in the long term you need to weaken it in the short term.

Update:

And yet the same thing with the ex-soviet spies (for example https://www.google.pl/search?q=ex-soviet+spy+youtube) who defected to the west - all they see is the destabilisation caused by the western activists - they don't see how the whole value of the west is based on the improvements that happen because of the activism.

And this is not to say that there is no danger of destabilisation - it is a dangerous thing - as we have seen in the Near East recently. But we must face the danger with courage - because giving up the freedoms would make the western system the same as the other side. And it is probably not as dangerous as the dictatorship agents thinks it is. The dictatorships have a lot of internal tensions - if the dictator looses grip - it all goes boom - but in a democracy the tensions are released in small portions - by the activism.
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It's time for fancy apartments to offer balconies for drone landings
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Completing the first half of a symbol that I've been typing already works reasonably well with Cursive. What I'm looking for is something that looks at the result of an expression and figures out what other functions can accept that as input. Matching up specced postconditions with preconditions might work, but I'm not sure how well.
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