sAuronas

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by sAuronas 9y ago
Transit-oriented development is great but not quite radical enough. It’s usually focused at rail nodes and if you take Oakland, as an example, you would barely move the needle on housing supply. One problem is that there is already some den
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by sAuronas 9y ago
This isn’t a “master planned community” in a traditional sense. The intent matters. I worked for KBHome and Toll Brothers. The builder’s intent determines the outcome - Bill Gates didn’t buy that many acres to master-plan a community 45 mil
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by sAuronas 9y ago
MVP sans the third-party frameworks works pretty well and is easy to read, maintain and test. I prefer it to MVC, for sure, but if you really wanted to... you could still write lightweight view controllers using a lot of abstraction (and do
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by sAuronas 9y ago
Speaking for Chicago: f*ck yeah! I imagine your issues with Amazon evolve around traffic congestion and competition for housing... Chicago is a much larger city and one that experienced years of decline. Adding an Amazon will speed up the r
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by sAuronas 9y ago
Every city in the country has the potential to "SF'ed" - zoning laws make it so. If there is one place we would actually benefit from deregulation (as a country) it would be in eliminating zoning regulation. The places that n
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by sAuronas 9y ago
Serial has its issues too. We are using a serial port over BTLE and when you need to do anything with debuffering/buffering and online data... you no longer have a UI because the transmission is so slow.
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by sAuronas 9y ago
Cities like LA will become denser over time. It might seem counterintuitive but increasing density alleviate traffic (people walk). You can't clean a hotel or flip a burger remote. Public transit has failed to solve the problem despit
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by sAuronas 9y ago
Edit: You can't just replace White with Chinese: unless Chinese people enslaved and murdered a race of people for hundreds of years, then segregated them in tiny ghettos while charging higher rents than other 'Chinese' had to
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by sAuronas 10y ago
It is an accomplishment. I, too, am self-taught. It means being self-motivated, even more committed and thorough. I think it sounds awesome and so do the recruiters that I hear from.
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Uptane: Open Source Automobile Update Framework to Prevent Hackers(forbes.com)
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by sAuronas 10y ago
You could...
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by sAuronas 10y ago
> start acting like a scientist. I started late (38, 41 this year) and I couldn't imagine jumping from Ruby to Rust to whatever new hotness arrives when it's clear that there are handful of technologies that go deep (enough) an
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by sAuronas 10y ago
The key idea, if there is only one to be had, still has to be "owned" by the reader and that requires knowing the why. I took more issue with the notion that having an MD behind your name makes what you say more valid (Deepak Chop
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Wearing multiple hats is for the partners/owners. Startups don't hire generalist to do anything. I worked at Zomato's NEXTABLE (reservation software on the iPad) as the iOS dev along with two interns. I used to do some Nodejs
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by sAuronas 10y ago
You don't need an [overall] "drop" in prices. You need housing prices within a broader range. The other problem is Prop 13, which freezes taxes for the current homeowner, thereby incentivizing the fight against new developmen
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Housing costs are probable twice as much... unless you live in CA...then they are 10 times as much. Imagine buying that ranch in the Oakland hills for 70k in the 80s that's worth 800k. There is the ability of these same boomers to figh
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by sAuronas 10y ago
> "What is obvious here is that the poor neighborhoods are profitable while the affluent neighborhoods are not." I didn't understand the argument either. I've lived all over the country and doubt the poor neighborhood
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by sAuronas 10y ago
The application for it might be another form of mass(less) transit. Think about dedicated, low-lying air paths for travel between cities in the Bay Area: airBart It's not about space ...it's about congested roads. Dedicated rail (
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by sAuronas 10y ago
+1 travel as the crow flies from Oakland to Mountain View in a fraction of the time. Pagether
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Zoning is not a show-stopper everywhere. You'd be surprised to know that many places you can develop much higher densities "by right." Phoenix, for example, has the density potential of Brooklyn near its downtown (just south)
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Except it doesn't... developers skip the urban infill for the burbs because the gross costs (entitlement fees) are way higher. Sure, it cost less per lot for urban infill when you only consider lot costs for sewer, water, etc (in-tract
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Mental ability is innate. I think his point was that is also plastic. Perhaps even low IQ individuals can develop genius level ability on a specific topic or function in life or even brought up to the IQ of someone capable of success in gra
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Great explanation: you just described the perfect 9-12 year education for the future software developers or even a "STEM track" for those so inclined.
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by sAuronas 10y ago
“If this is what learning to code is supposed to feel like every day, I’ll be miserable. Is this really my passion?” “Wouldn’t this be easy for me if this was my passion? Do artists struggle to produce art? Do writers struggle to write a gr
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Well said... sometimes choosing to be poor brings more wealth: the world-class, millionaire skateboarder comes to mind. I would have preferred the "narrowing" of an elite Stanford education myself. Still trying to escape my State
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by sAuronas 10y ago
I will add to his anecdote with my own. I have been teaching my nieces (10 and 16) how to program and I approached it the same way. My 16 y/o niece was told Python was the way to go, but I resisted teaching her that. I'm an iOS de
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by sAuronas 10y ago
My first role was in Charlotte - at a startup. It's not everyday that you get to work for a company with fewer that 10 people and less than 10 months old but it happened for me in a market notorious for only having banking mobile dev r
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by sAuronas 10y ago
I agree with much of what you said. I self-taugh that way (Codecademy). I teach my nieces this way. However, If I had it to do again I would have started with iOS - my current profession - or Android, simply because the IDE is more defined.
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by sAuronas 10y ago
I agree - I started at 38 (41 now) and work on a team as an iOS dev where we have mobile, backend and machine learning engineers - ALL - under 30. My interview was blind, so no one knew I was old - or black. They couldn't discriminate
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by sAuronas 10y ago
It works the opposite way: cities operate on a zero-sum basis, especially when an MSA is declining in population the way many Rust belt cities are. Detroit may be the epicenter of the MSA but the other cities have all the incentive to see D

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