throwawayboye

Yeah, HN seems like the kind of place to downvote that comment. Maybe if I had suggested healthcare and livable wages on the blockchain or using React it would be more popular.

A livable wage and modest healthcare sounds like a nice compromise.

Then you need to go to the ER and suddenly you owe $25,000. Oops.

Are there no existing tools to search through data?

I don’t care if candidates can figure out BFS under intense pressure in 30-60 minutes. That is nobody’s job anywhere ever. I want to know if someone can think creatively, if they’re a pain in the ass to work with, if they’re thoughtful and careful or if they shoot from the hip. Admittedly, these are hard to measure (which is one reason why I would support some kind of mild licensure, but that’s a different subject), but being able to derive BFS does not correlate with competence or ability. Maybe if you’re doing router hacking or something, I guess, but specific algorithms are so little of most developers’ careers.

Honestly, we all might as well read chicken entrails because that would be about as predictive as our current interview practices.

Heh. Monthly rent if you want walls and running water, purchase price if you don’t (be sure to leave extra for the back taxes).

Detroit is in a hype bubble, I think (sauce: lived there for a bit). You can absolutely pay $2,000 for an apartment in a part of town with some blown-out buildings nearby and nothing much to walk to. Why you’d do that, I don’t know, but you can. There are jobs if you wanna work for GM or Quicken Loans, but that’s about it.

There are affordable rents there, but what you save in rent you pay in car insurance. Michigan has the highest in the nation, and Detroit has the highest in the state. I paid almost $500 per month for mine. The legislature keeps trying to change policy to fix this (as it is ultimately a policy issue), but it usually gets shot down by the GOP who think it goes too far and Democrats who don’t think it goes far enough.

It’s not just SF, it’s every community. I’ve spoken with developers (like, housing) and they face difficulties in every community in America. NIMBYism is running rampant, and disenfranchised voters are unable to fight, or don’t care enough to get involved. This is why local elections matter. My city just elected a NIMBY city council, which means we’re screwed for years, but we won’t stop fighting. People deserve to have places to live, and people deserve sane cities.