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It's funny to see that developers have so much leverage on the job market that you can read phrases like "don't hire this employer, you're better than that" and act like that's the most normal thing in the world. I guess it's time for having paid interviews again.
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In my opinion the high cost of living kills everything else on that list. I'd much rather have a comfortable living, travel the world and be optimistic that i will have no problems buying a nice house for me and my spouse/family if i need to/should i want to. I don't really see this possible based on what i hear from a couple of friends living and working there. Both consumed by their tech jobs, some cool things to do every once in a while when they're not slaving away for a startup. I guess people have different priorities. All this stuff is great until you're in mid 50s and you realize your less-than-comfortable living is leaving you with a less-than-comfortable retirement.
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Pricing page portion for the Free/Solo package is a bit confusing. "30 Day Free Trial" for a package that is free? Perhaps you could replace it with "Always Free", or "100% Free"
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That sounds like the results of progressive taxation and federal welfare. California income is higher than the national average. Mississippi's is lower. So some federal tax dollars from California end up in Mississippi's medicaid fund.

But you can't blame all of California's suck on that. It is not exactly a low-tax state!
Try being a (American) football fan in Europe. Some games start at 2am, watching the Super Bowl usually involves me taking the next day off work as the game usually ends around 4am.
You're suggesting giving schoolkids a 3kg 15.6" laptop? It seems clear that it's not acceptable no matter how good the specs are. A rugged 11" laptop makes way more sense.

As for ChromeOS, it seems like a perfect fit to a school environment. But the same ThinkPad model has been available for about a year with Windows.
In Santa Cruz we typically called it "SF", or else the full "San Francisco". Didn't hear anybody use "San Fran" or "Frisco", and "The City" was too nonspecific.
Here in Texas we have dysfunctional government and ridiculously shitty services.
How healthy is the angel funding scene in Denmark?

The western European model seems great if you want a life safely doing what has always been done.
> Pro Tip: Oakland gets a bad rap, but there’s tons of great concerts and other events there worth checking out.

Or, you know, the multitude of world-class restaurants and great bars such as: Chez Panisse, Gather, Boot & Shoe, Cafe Van Kleef, Claremont, Heart & Dagger, etc.
Definitely true with regards to sports and costumes, but otherwise I'm not so sure this holds any more. Everything around D.C. is much further away than you think, for example, and more than half the people I meet work in the tech sector somewhere. I have friends in Boston and it's much the same there - live in the 'burbs and you won't leave your neighborhood much except to go to work, as the city is very spread out. The East Coast is changing, especially D.C., which is a totally different city than it was even 10 years ago, and has a burgeoning startup scene that is not solely dependent on the government teat. There are a lot more young people here, doing interesting things, than there used to be. I would wager than in another decade the differences between East and West Coast will be even fewer, if things keep on the same general trajectory.
This. Also bear in mind that it is widely publicised that google and MS etc use these sorts of puzzles in their hiring process (whether or not this is true I have no idea).

So there's a certain element of "if it's good enough for.."
I think the implication from the original was that you don't really meet the other people, in that sure, you encounter them, but they somehow don't matter or are less interesting.

I don't think the poster meant that, so I wanted to call it out to encourage us techies to see that we are part of a larger culture and context.

We depend on a hell of a lot of people, and a lot of infrastructure that's not just for us, but keeps the entire city going.
OMG I have been waiting for something like this. Deep Belief Networks have been smashing machine learning records in jsut about every domain. The only problem was that they were annoyingly slow to converge, and hard to program/debug

see Hinton's google code slides for more info on how powerful these things are:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M
(that's 2007, things are even spicier now)
Empty words from Carmen Ortiz, and quite Orwellian indeed. Adding 9 felony counts just about proves that the prosecutors were NOT measured in their approach. Whatever MIT's responsibility, it doesn't diminish how wrong the behavior of Ortiz et al was.
And this is pretty much why I have switched from the WSJ to Bloomberg Business Week. It's Wall Street news for people who can't help but laugh at info-graphics with single moms earning $260k standing with their sad looking young children.

Also: I'm trying to figure out what's interactive about this "interactive graphic."

Also: It's amusing to play "guess the profession." Mine: the single mom and the single women are lawyers--senior associates but not partners. The single mom is divorced. In the family of six, the dad is an MD at a bank, but in one of the less cash-cow divisions. The wife is a college educated stay at home mom. The retired couple: the man is a retired NYPD deputy chief, and the woman is a retired teacher. The single woman lives in Manhattan, the single mom lives in a gentrified part of Brooklyn, the retired couple has a nice place in one of the gentrified parts of Harlem, and the family of four lives in Greenwich and the dad commutes down every morning.
I'd say Minnesota and the midwest states take it for worst roads, especially in the city areas. The freeze/thaw and snowplows decimate our roads every winter.
Chrome OS with Thinkpad? Sweets. However, if I get one of this laptop, I will install Ubuntu or other Linux system on it. Because in most time, without networking, Chrome OS is useless.
I don't particularly think there's much to be gained by going against the hivemind on all of this, but I also don't "blame" the prosecutors for Aaron's death. Aaron killed himself. Suicide and depression are tricky things, and not one single person currently living knows what the full story is. If that's enough to get me labeled as "usually reasonable" as well, then so be it.
Both Google and MS have banned such riddles from their interviews, because they have been proven to be ineffective and results in large numbers of both false-negatives and false-positives.
I'm a freelancer and I didn't get a good sense of why I would use your product. Why is analyzing how I spend my time and looking at graphs going to make me more effective? Isn't the goal to spend more time working on projects and less time managing my tools?

I think for many freelancers the question is going to be: why would I stop using Harvest to use your tool? For me, I didn't see the reason.

Not saying you don't have a good product here - just think the marketing message could be clearer.
RPMs / dpkgs require root to install to the machine-global database. Both package formats have mechanisms called "triggers" which allow the package to run arbitrary shell script at install or uninstall time. Since install/uninstall are run as root, this means arbitrary root code execution on install.

Vs: a non-root user extracting a tgz and then running some file, root is never involved.

I'm not in agreement with OP about this being a concern worth his or her mitigation strategy, but the logic is sound.
That is one most biased examples of reporting I have seen. Blatantly trying to manipulate peoples perceptions by leaving out the cases that will apply to the vast majority of people.

I'm really disappointed that the WSJ would lower themselves to that.
I also hear "The City" for San Francisco often enough to find myself using it on occasion (Something I vowed I'd never do after bristling at my friends using the appellation for NYC when I lived in the Northeast).
You are sounding as though in order to be creative one must break the laws.
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How summing a series backwards improved the accuracy by an order of 4 magnitudes
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Seems like that was only true in the past. I've even had a Google interviewer tell me something along the lines of "I don't have a lot of questions picked out ahead of time cause they've told me I can't ask puzzles anymore" so hopefully that new state of things will trickle down in time.
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PBR? Ew.
The combined income of my apt doesn't even make $180,000/yr and we live in one of the top 5 richest counties in the US! It's not about perspective. Those number aren't relative. They're rich by any measure, especially if you're retired and don't have mortage/loan obligations.
We should add for those still wondering that the point of the post was really about the graphic that accompanies the article. You can find it by clicking on the cartoon to the left of the article (for the people whose browsers don't open the graphic automatically).
Minor correction: A U.S. Attorney is an employee of the DOJ, not the White House. While the DOJ is an executive agency under the supervision and oversight of the WH, the WH does not have any say in the day-to-day operations of the DOJ or in prosecutorial decisions. If the WH had such control, there would have been no reason for Ford to pardon Nixon.
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Different states have different levels of economic development. Since all states share a common currency, it isn't possible for states like Mississippi to devalue their currency in order to be competitive with California. Large fiscal transfers between states are necessary to keep things balanced out.
As a San Francisco native, I can say that this is the single best post of its kind that I have ever read. I wouldn't change a thing, except to add the pro tip that you should never, under any circumstances, call it "San Fran".
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Having spent the last year interviewing for jobs. It has become clear to me that companies have no idea that they're being interviewed as they are interviewing me.

Can't find a time to call me when I've given you 5 dates and times? Red flag.

Can't get my resume into the hands of the folks who are interviewing me? Red Flag.

Tell me it will be a week and it takes two? Red Flag.

Call me 30 minutes after the scheduled time and not apologize. Red Flag.

Tell me I'm a perfect fit for the job, then the HR person calls me 5 minutes later to say that they will not be moving forward with the interview process. Red Flag.

Set up a time to Skype call me, cancel hours before the call, send an email 2 days later saying the job was filled before my interview. Black listed

Tell me on the phone interview that I will be called in for the face to face, send me an email 2 weeks later saying the job was filled. Black listed

Delay the hiring process because you want to hire another position first. Red Flag.

I could go on, and all of this has happened in the last year.
I was amused by point "SF is a super fit city." As someone who lives in Boulder, CO and frequently visits SF, I feel like SF has a lot of out of shape people compared to Boulder. Guess it's all relative.
If you're going to do this keep in mind it's illegal.
You're assuming that the ability to solve one specific riddle (on the spot) is a reliable indicator of general intelligence.
I'm not sure the author understands the difference between a riddle and a logic problem, a riddle typically uses misdirection and veiled meanings to hide an answer while a logic problem is one that can be solve by applying logical analysis.

So for example "What has two heads, four eyes, six legs and a tail?" is a riddle because it's so open ended and relies upon linguistic trickery. On the other hand most bridge crossing problems are logic problems, you typically have a finite number of options and by deduction and logical analysis you can arrive at the correct answer (i.e the answer is not a trick answer).

The advantage of logic problems as opposed to domain specific problems is that they let you separate an individuals logical reasoning ability from their experience. When you're hiring you want to make sure that the person you're hiring can deal not only with more general problems of the type they've seen before, but also that they can deal with esoteric problems that are very specific to the nature of your product. And that's when the ability to reason logically becomes much more important.

Obviously if the candidate you're interviewing is already familiar with the logic problem you're presenting then you probably won't get much value from the candidates answer and you need to ask alternative questions to ascertain the same information.
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Apparently they all found out the one weird trick for making money online.
On the plus side, you get considerably more for it (I don't regret moving from California to Denmark myself). For example, healthcare is included in that price, whereas in the US you have to pay for it separately. If you subtract what you'd have to pay in the U.S. for healthcare premiums + copay, your takehome pay goes down considerably, especially if you're older than ~40, a freelancer / small businessperson who isn't part of a corporate group plan, or have a family. And the public transportation infrastructure is also much better in Denmark, at least in Copenhagen; it's much easier to get by in Copenhagen without owning a car than it is in the Bay Area. Also, university is free, so nobody has student loans (another thing that reduces many Americans' real takehome paychecks). Actually, better than free: university students are paid a small stipend to cover their living expenses.

I'm less annoyed by the level of taxation in California than the fact that, despite paying it, the money doesn't suffice to buy you health care, higher education, or good transit. If those were different I'd be happy to pay 50% more! (Also, you don't really pay an effective 60% tax in Denmark unless you make quite a lot of money. I make a decent professional salary and paid <40% overall.)
This seems like a very small market you're going after. It requires people to have good knowledge of deep neural networks (they have to choose the model, architecture, hidden units, multiplicative units, etc.) I think it would be more interesting and open things up to a wider audience if some of these parameters could be chosen for you.
I know it's just one anecdote, but a Subway employee in SOMA once asked me if I knew anyone that would hire him as a DBA. The feeling in SF is that the tech world is inescapable, which some people seem to like.
What about "Frisco"?
It's never new information. Reality has been a harsh, harsh mistress for decades and decades now.

It's what makes debating with ideological idealists so contentious IMO. There's no way to convince them to settle for anything other than "what's right", even if the only way to get to that state is to first settle for gradually less-wrong states in between.

Even RMS had the pragmatism to start developing GNU on a proprietary OS with proprietary tools.
Will it be available on the Kindle or as an ePub or solely PDF and print?
I agree 100%. There seems to be 2 camps when it comes to what makes a programmer great: aptitude versus domain knowledge. I think both are important but aptitude is harder to train someone on.

I'm a big proponent of tough, small problems in an interview, that the candidate has never seen before. Much like the author is against. This is because it has been the best indicator of performance in my experience.
No, but you can buy an "8-ride ticket" for a slight discount.

From San Jose, you'd need a 4-zone ticket, which would cost $64.75 -- this gives you 4 round trips to SF.

http://www.caltrain.com/Fares/farechart.html

(Note: You'll need to acquire and use a Clipper Card to use 8-ride tickets, see https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/index.do - or just go to a Walgreens when you get here and you can buy the card and the 8-ride ticket at the same time.)
Guns, really? My first thought was replacement parts...
California is too large a state to be well-governed. Because of its size, it requires a big budget to campaign. As a result, the public sector unions dominate state politics. Democrats have had the majority in both houses of the state congress for 40 of the last 42 years - that gives you an idea of how dynamic our politics are.

In good economic times the legislature hikes union benefits and in bad times taxes are hiked to pay for benefits which are no longer affordable. We just passed prop 30 to increase our income taxes to the highest in the nation and most of the money behind the proposition was from unions. The $4 billion in revenue from prop 30 earmarked for schools will barely cover the state's shortfall in its teacher pension fund. Not a dime will go towards actually making the schools better.

California has the trifecta of suck - high taxes, bad services, and big deficits. That's what a state looks like when the government exists to serve its unions and not the people.

Others have pointed out the proposition system. Propositions do tend to be somewhat spastic - voters seldom balk at spending money on boondoggles like the high speed train that is supposed to be finished any decade now. But I don't think it is a huge problem. The proposition is one of the only outlets for non-liberal policies in the state, so I think it gets more hate and blame than it deserves.
"Still, I was not taught to shoot on the idea that I might need to kill a rapist. I find that a somewhat horrifying message to give a young woman."

And neither was that the message I intended to give them. It's an educational issue. I live on a farm and we kill a large portion of what we eat ourselves. Given a collapse of the supply-chain ecosystem that keeps grocery stores stocked with food, my family won't be scratching their heads wondering where the food went. I don't expect the global collapse of a food supply chain. I would guess it's statistically less likely to affect any one individual than rape is. But the tools for dealing with a worst-case scenario are best learned in advance. And so I intend to educate my children about self-defense in much the same way.

"I do not believe that overemphasizing a need to be prepared to physically assault another person is a means to teach women to not behave as prey in relation to men."

Isn't it similar to how you emphasized a need for mutual consent to your children? Moreover, isn't physical defense merely one more tool to pull out when others have crossed a boundary? I understand your argument that it isn't likely to be used, but it seems like you're drawing a distinction between the value of having boundaries and not letting people cross them, and the value of being able to reestablish those boundaries once crossed. Why do so strongly prefer the former to the latter?

This seems especially odd considering your own position of being physically capable of defense. Doesn't it seem like a good idea to have other women be as capable of defending themselves as you are?

"..., I will suggest you are putting your children at grave risk to view protecting their sexuality as an issue for their teen years."

That's the question I mentioned in my last post that your experience has raised for me. I intend to very carefully reconsider how I'm protecting my children in their current environment. Thanks for pointing me in that direction.
There's something unsettling about "Mega Conz"
I'm nowhere near the $230k mark but - based on my first paycheck so far - the increase will be well more than a mortgage payment for me.
The quote has lots of zing to it, but it ain't true.

What it says essentially is that progress is an outcome of revolution. While revolution leads to big changes, progress is a product of evolution. And evolution has to be done in "reasonable" ways by "reasonable" man.

To say that "all progress depends on the unreasonable man" is wrong.
I love the way you guys have stated the advantages and disadvantages of RethinkDB in your FAQs. Just wondering about one thing in there:

"RethinkDB is a great choice if you .... are planning to run anywhere from a single node to sixteen node clusters."

With a sharded master-slave setup with one slave each, this leaves us with a total of 8 shards. This is enough for most use cases, but is there a reason it is limited to 16 nodes?
Well, ideally you would have a test consisting of several riddles that was constructed by a psychologist who is an expert in IQ and g.

Another proxy that is often used here is "Do you have a good degree in a difficult subject from a prestigious university?".
This is anecdotal, so I guess you can take it with a grain of salt.

But as someone from Vancouver who has visited SF quite a bit, SF always seemed to have more homelessness (it does have a warmer climate than Van) and more parts that smelled really bad. I might be desensitised to it already, though. Also, throughout my time living in Vancouver, I've never witnessed a robbery/theft/crime, whereas visiting SF last month I witnessed a random theft from a homeless at a Walgreens and they were really abusive towards him.

What I'm saying is, it still feels like a different country with a different culture, instead of it only being a west coast thing.
I am right near the 101 myself, so I hear you on the love/hate thing. I figure, at least it isn't the 710.

Even the medium sized midwestern city I am from has problems with road widening. I think it's basically a scourge wherever it goes on. There are some freeways in LA that almost seem impossible to shut down under any non-catastrophic circumstances, such as the 5 downtown (or anything downtown, probably) so it'll be interesting to see how they approach that over time.
The worst company I ever worked at (now out of business, fortunately) had an interviewer / hiring manager who asked these sorts of riddles.

He also had a really thick accent. Later, he also proved to be technically incompetent.

I quit after 6 months.
How does this compare to anyterm? I understand one's client-side and one's server-side, but aren't they both rather exposed?