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> Does a family making 250K-300K in Seattle really count as "rich"? ...A family earning 200-250K in Seattle will definitely feel this tax.

A family of 4 could live pretty well on half that in Seattle. Maybe they aren't "rich" as in "filthy rich", but I don't see how they'd actually feel it, other than savings goals having to be slightly less aggressive.

At $250,000 / year, your pre-tax monthly income would be about $28,833 and a tax of 2.25% would shrink that by $468. I don't see how I could honestly say I felt the tax if I made only half of 250k and they double it to 4.5%.

That sounds like how people become low level managers, too.

Leaking air also isn't as much of a problem, since a pump just pumps more in, as long as the leak isn't too bad.

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> It lets you define types for more safely interacting with other Javascript code

You define types for everything.

It lets you define types for more safely interacting with other Javascript code. It doesn't magically make browsers have consistent behavior.

Why would someone use ClojureScript instead of this? Unless they're a Clojure expert.

Why koi instead of tilapia?

Because some places have winter, no?

Clearly they must be racist, too.

Ok, now do it for someone with 5 and 10 years of experience.

I like how you discriminate against CS knowledge in general because a single person couldn't get stuff done.

A trial week seems like it would only work for more desperate candidates, ones who are currently unemployed.

Is that still a PITA to install correctly?

Do you eat them whole, without the feathers?

Unless it's farm subsidies.

You can find plenty of examples on Zillow.com and craigslist. What would you consider affordable with a 15$/hour minimum wage?

They are the two most massive, so that is tautologically true...

I easily find affordable housing in and around Seattle via Zillow. What are you expecting exactly that's not already out there?

Isn't that why a lot of companies do tech phone screens?

6 different overlapping lines like that make it easier to read? It's amazing what people chalk up to personal preference.

But don't financial incentives lead to thieves stealing your organs?

Please get off your high horse? I'd honestly like to know if someone has a way to predict that.

Sure, but a whole team/office where no one has lunch together ever?

Oh come now, I never said anything about it being mandatory.

You never have team lunches? "a social life outside work" wouldn't stop you from having beer with the team or part of the team once every week or two. And I just said a red flag. If it looks like it's more "adults" on the team or more like a government job, maybe it's just fine. YMMV

Yeah, let me know if you have a crystal ball that will detect that.

It would be a red flag if the team never did anything together, like their team events were solely an outing every 6 months.

This would help white guys, too. It's not like we're immune to toxicity. IME it's usually one bad manager and/or one genius on the team that makes things so bad for everyone else. Maybe it's just been blind luck that I haven't worked on a whole team of sexist people. Here's what I would ask to mitigate these problems (keeping in mind I haven't necessarily asked these myself):

  In what ways does your manager make your life easier?
  How blame oriented is the team?
  How big are the egos on the team?
  What things about the culture or technical processes will surprise me here?
  How would you compare your team, manager, and coworkers to the others?  
    Are they more fun or experienced or do they have team events more?
  How many people have left in the past year and why do you think they really left?

> but ping pong tables and free beer doesn't mean shit to me if I'm going to be underpaid

It's not like you can't tell if you're going to be underpaid before you agree to a salary, is it?

IME outsourcing was thought of as a way to get things done faster. It didn't seem to be a net gain and it was just viewed as a minor extra annoyance the team lead had to deal with.