if I were renting a place out I'd let the houses on either side know and give them my number to let me know if anything seems strange
The houses on either side are likely FURIOUS that this is happening and just waiting for proofs to report them 16 ways over. AirBNB neighbors don't exactly make the best friends.
That's my biggest gripe with this. They did the AirBNB thing. Shit happened, but they knew the risks. Their neighbors however didn't ask for this, and if the area was zoned purely residential, a house used commercially shouldn't have happened. They had to deal with 300 random people parking outside and enough shit that the cops were called. All because someone got greedy and can't follow the rules.
(If that kind of shit is allowed in their municipality, then the administration of the city needs to go to hell)
Despite all that, people's default reaction was to assume I was faking it for some unknown purpose
An unfortunate result of the crazy amount of people who do fake it.
if a student goes the distance of going to a doctor, being referred to psychologist, meeting with that psychologist long enough to get referred to a psychiatrist, and then is willing to take the poison/medicine prescribed that makes them sick every night, then chances are they really do have a pretty serious anxiety problem
On that, my significant other does have "real" anxiety issues, though not as severe as what yours seem to be. I'm absolutely not implying they aren't real. But even in her case, she didn't have to go through any of that to get a doctor's note. You can absolutely get one (and the medication) from your primary care, and some of the medications in low enough dose have very little side effect (and well, very little EFFECT too...). That's what gets abused to death.
But this seems to be asking for more. That it makes a student "uncomfortable" doesn't rise to the need for reasonable accommodation
Bingo. The tweets referred to in the article mention that this should only be for "diagnosed anxiety". Unfortunately, we live in the real world, and in the real world, a parent that is persistent enough can ALWAYS find a doctor who will diagnose their kid with anything.
An all too common example: when i was young, I was extremely out of shape, so physical education was problematic for me. I also really needed it. But one visit to my doctor, and since those were the days when "everyone has asthma", it took 10 minutes to convince him I did, he wrote me a note, and I easily got out of having to do any significant physical activity. I also believed it (I didn't try to lie...I truly thought there was something wrong with me).
My wife has real asthma and could have an attack/end up at the ER if she overdoes it. Obviously she should be excused of something like this. How do you tell them apart though?
Another example is how a friend of mine couldn't accept their kid were mediocre at school. Not bad, just not A+ students. They went to every doctor they could find until one gave them a dyslexia diagnostic. I think they said it took 15 (FIFTEEN!!!!) doctors before one agreed to it. And they repeated that with their next kid (Oh, yeah, 2 kids in a row with dyslexia that in both cases required 15 different doctors to agree to it. In the second case, even the doctor who diagnosed the first didn't agree...). Yeah, I'm sure it's legit.
The article, to me, is the same thing. Someone in the twitter thread said something akin to "When I had to give a presentation at school, the day before I couldn't sleep and my hands were sweaty. I was scared to death".
Yeah cowboy, you and EVERYONE ELSE. Congratulation, you're a human being. But i'm sure they talked to their doctor and got a note, and could get excused from it. That's absurd. Do a few dozen of those presentations, learn to prepare, confront your fears, and you'll get better.
At the same time, some other people mention that they'd get a panic attack. Well, forcing a kid to do something that will trigger a panic attack in front of everyone is probably not great. That person needs therapy. I'd also totally excuse them from it.
However, someone like the above is VERY VERY rare. But if you ask around, you'd think it's 1 out of 5 kid. Bullshit.
How do you find which is which is the tricky thing though. A lot of people will argue its better to let a couple of lazy fragile snowflakes get away with it than have a victim. They're probably right, but can we do better than that? I'd probably say if you can prove you're going to therapy for your anxiety, you're clear. Some will manage to fake a note about that too, but it should be much harder than "I talked to 2-3 doctors until one gave me a doctor note to make me go away", like so many kids do these days.
A writer had discussion with players of games over an AMA (or something along those lines), and posted some of the hot takes on their personal twitter. One of the more famous players of said game followed up on the hot takes, by putting in their own views (in quite the civilized manner) in an effort to engage in a dialog.
Writer did not like that a player could disagree with them, and went absolutely berserk on them. That caught the attention of the player base. Generally, telling your customers to go fuck themselves is bad for the business, so they got fired.
Go away, take some tissue, it'll be gone in a day or so.
While it varies a lot (as you said, hundreds of types), the average cold lasts a heck of a lot longer than a day.
Nobody of normal health loses even a day of work to a cold over their lifetime
And while you're usually contagious before you even know you're sick, so it's not really possible to ever avoid infecting other people, if you go to work while you have a cold, you're a flat out asshole. Some people are not as healthy and risk serious issues if they get sick from you...others will have to stay home and possibly lose money if they have bad sick day policies (so could you, but its one person vs many), etc.
I'm Canadian myself (living in the US), and while I think Trump is absolutely batshit crazy in general, I can't help also feel the current immigration situation is also crazy. To be fair, I'm not particularly informed on the matter, it's just an initial impression.
Is there another 1st world country with such open immigration policies (not whats written in the books, but how it works in practice) that isn't getting any significant backlash from its population?
I moved to the US because it was much harder to get my significant other (American citizen) to move from the US to Canada. Recently that was the whole deal about someone in France being denied for not shaking hand. If I remember well Germany had a fairly open one but got a lot of flack for it a while back. Japan is LOLNOPE. What country is the US less open than?
I graduated in early 2000s myself. The finals were all on paper. I had a lot of programming related classes. 3-4 of those 2+ hour tests back to back.
Writing small apps, quick sorts, manipulating data structures, you name it. As much as hundreds or even thousands of lines of code handwritten over the course of a few days, every year. My finger had a mark from the pen. And if you made a mistake, not all professors were ok with just drawing arrows to "insert" code, so there was a lot of starting over too.
The challenge in those exams was not figuring out the solution. It was writing it down. I still have nightmares from it to this day.
It's kind of the other way around (originally) right? Hundreds/thousands of pre-IPO Facebook/Google/Whatever folks with too much money for their own good, all at the same time, started buying up stuff. Since they were making so much money, value went up. Now it's "market rate", and even if you work for them remotely (and live in the middle of nowhere), you get very close to the same rate. It's not just to pay for housing either: if you want to hire those folks and those who got hired afterward, you need to pay enough to make them give up their unvested RSUs.
So it's more "since people are paid so much, housing cost goes up". With people in other countries (even Europe, Japan, etc) buying paid a fraction of that, it's not particularly competitive. Combined with the insane flood of new CS grads and bootcamp/self taught folks following the hype train, supply and demand will catch up on this sooner or later.
When that all happens, prices will tank pretty hard (and we're going to be stuck with a bunch of silly zoning rules and various other laws that only make sense when a bunch of millionaires tries to buy the world)
Well, yes. The post I was replying to wasn't saying "Do everyone pay this much money to get their house cleaned?!". It was "Do [some] people pay this much to get their house cleaned?"
I was giving an example of why, yes, some (A LOT!) of people do. It's still only a tiny percentage of household. But that's true of a lot of things. The vast majority of people will never go through a kitchen renovation. There's still an entire industry around it.
Yeah, and honestly, its a bargain. Keeping a fairly large place squeaky clean (not just kind of clean, but ACTUALLY nicely clean) is a lot of work. My place is a little larger than the example, at 2000~ sqft, but between the kitchen (especially the kitchen appliances like the grill, cooktop and oven), the floor (there's, well, 2000 sqft of it on 2 floors plus the stairs), the bathroom, the entrance, the shelves, the furniture, etc, along the fact that I'm getting old, it would easily take me 5-8 hours a week to keep everything looking good.
If we use the bottom bound of that, so about 20-25 hours a week, that comes up to thousands of dollar of my time AND its boring as hell. I'll happily pay 500+/week if I have to.
I actually haven't pulled the trigger on a cleaning service yet (and my place looks it), but I will probably soon. It's just a no-brainer. I can easily get more money. I don't have an easy way to make more time.
Yeah. While there's been a fair amount of reports about this, the news were already going crazy when there was only like 2~ known reports, and only minutes after those reports popped up.
Its like, calm down people. At the end of the day, these devices sell dozens of millions of units. There's going to be issues.
Now, if its something like the Pixel 2 XL screen, the Nexus 6P battery, and the exploding Galaxy Notes...its warranted, but it doesn't happen to all devices @.@ (of course, all 3 mentioned above are pretty big flagship devices, so its a bit of an issue).
Apple has its share of issue too (the perf throttling when battery goes poof), though they seem a little better at addressing them. Too bad I refuse to buy Apple out of principle. Are windows phones still a thing?
And why isn't this "hostile work environment" a problem for all the places that do have open salaries, like every government and union shop in the world
It is. The professors at the public college I went to were ALWAYS bitching about this. I also worked in the IT department of a manufacturing company and watched the shop workers cheer and applaud as they signed the dismantlement of their union, partly because of this.
The reality is that almost everyone thinks they deserve more than the next person. No one will ever admit they're second rate even if they are. With hidden salaries, there's just 2 people "fighting" with each other. The company to pay as little as possible, the employee trying to get everything they can.
When everyone knows, then everyone starts looking at each other. "Well, I'm better than THIS person. The 10 people I play pingpong with during lunch TOTALLY agree". It's already bad enough that this happens with titles. To properly gauge why I make a certain amount of money, everyone comparing themselves to me need to know not only my salary, but everything I've done, all my contributions, all of the deals I might have made (eg: special vacations or waving certain benefits I can legally wave). There's also plenty of other things that can affect compensation that are simply no one's business (maybe someone has some health issues that reduce productivity and they made a deal to work smaller days and don't want the world to know).
It's fine that HR and maybe my manager knows this. The rest of the company simply doesn't need to. Right right now that asymmetry is often used to discriminate against minorities, so people want to get rid of it. It won't always be that way (heck, right now in a lot of companies the other way around is happening). You don't want that shit public.
Sure, some type of organizations do, and some have to, and they make it work. Doesn't mean it's optimal.
Usually Google suffer from poor marketing, and this is part of the issue here. Android Wear, however, is a major part -technical- issues.
I got 2 android wear watches so far. The first was the LG one from launch. It was slow as hell and very buggy at the beginning.
I eventually got a Moto 360 second gen. It was better, but also buggy. Connectivity issues, weird glitches, random battery drains. The stupid flat tire meant none of the watch faces looked good, too.
It got worse though: when they updated to Android Wear 2, a lot of options changed or were hard to find. Worse, now when I get a new phone, because of the requirement to reset the watch to pair, it becomes semi-incompatible with the current version of the phone software. That makes pairing incredibly difficult. If you try enough times it eventually works. Or you can just download an APK of an old version on a sketchy website and have it work for sure (wtf?)
If they could just get the software to work reliably and consistently, they'd have a chance.
The part that really worries me is the reliance on unqualified developers. This was very much the case during the dotcom bubble. There was so much investment money floating around, it didn't matter if 5, 10, 30% of your software developers were barely useful. Know html tags? You're hired!
It's not quite this bad now, but we still have a huge influx of people who can barely copy paste from stack overflow to make things "work" (until they don't). They rely on the few experienced devs in the team to clean after them, or worse are just happy with half baked things that barely work.
When the next big market adjustment happens, all these people at the bottom will end up competing for the few junior roles left and wondering how they're going to fuel their 100k+/year lifestyles.
Yup, if you have someone with a decent background (CS, self taught seriously, or from an adequate bootcamp) who actually want to learn, it's pretty easy to turn even the most junior dev into a fairly productive member of the team pretty quickly.
Right now, a non-trivial amount (I almost want to say the majority) of new devs just quote whatever latest blog article they found interesting (we're in a world where someone, somewhere, wrong an article about any position about anything) and get pissy if you don't do everything they say.
People leave because companies don't pay them what they're worth
And if that was the only thing happening, sure. We're in an industry right now where in some cities, someone with 3 months of reading books and doing a few projects goes out and cry a river if you don't over them 110k+/year. That's not "not paying them what they're worth", its them being full of themselves.
I've seen people who can't even build a simple app on their own do the job hopping dance.
The "Geez, wonder why" part is a little silly. It's not like people don't hire junior devs or that there's not enough open positions. It's the actual reality that there's a million entry level devs, including a lot of very, very low level ones (you can thank universities that cut corner, and crappy bootcamps, on top of the "self taughts" who really aren't, for that) flooring the market.
You can only train so many people at a time. The majority of people we hire at my company are entry level and co-ops. In a single cohort, we can easily have 25% of our software engineers be entry level of some sort. And we keep doing it. Still, we get an absolutely insane amount of applications (hundreds per day, and we only have 250~ engineers). We need these folks to gain some experience (or hire more senior engineers laterally) before we can take more in. That takes a while, when the ratio of applicant junior to senior can literally be 1000:1.
What makes matters a lot worse when it comes to supply and demand, is that "being close to work" has a pretty high value to you when you have everything else.
I don't live in California, but I do live in one of the other big tech centers. Same deal, housing prices out of control.
Which isn't too surprising: when talking to most of my teammates, a good chunk of them don't want kids (so more disposable income), want to live by the subway (no car payments), and put an extremely high value to short commute (many live a block from the office).
When you're making 150, 200, or 300k a year on your own, and your significant other may also be in tech and make the same amount, who cares if 50% of your income is going to housing (especially if you bought). Quickly enough, half the money you're putting in is going to you anyway (equity), and a tiny fraction of your income is more than enough for food, utilities, insurance, and saving for retirement.
That means anyone NOT in that situation is completely hosed, obviously. That's the problem.
What does that mean exactly? Only single family houses? because if we were in a housing shortage, I'd expect the target to be multi family buildings and condos, by design. Kind of hard to improve density by building bungalows.
I found out a while ago that even on Nexus devices (which Google mostly controlled), if there was a change to certain drivers, whatever carrier your sim card was registered to could still block the update by not approving it.
That's some next level bullshit there. If the phone wasn't that popular (eg: Nexus), then it could take forever to get an update. I love Android, and despise Apple, but they're such a joke in that regard.
Agreed. I mean, those people trying to limit NN do have a point: in some scenario, it can hurt customer choice. Like, if i wanted to pay for an internet package that only allowed Netflix and nothing else, but was drastically cheaper...why not?
But that only really works if I can choose one of 20 providers, all with various price points, packages and features, all competing against each other. When there's 1-3? That can only go wrong.
So NN is really not the first choice. It's the last resort.
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The houses on either side are likely FURIOUS that this is happening and just waiting for proofs to report them 16 ways over. AirBNB neighbors don't exactly make the best friends.
That's my biggest gripe with this. They did the AirBNB thing. Shit happened, but they knew the risks. Their neighbors however didn't ask for this, and if the area was zoned purely residential, a house used commercially shouldn't have happened. They had to deal with 300 random people parking outside and enough shit that the cops were called. All because someone got greedy and can't follow the rules.
(If that kind of shit is allowed in their municipality, then the administration of the city needs to go to hell)
An unfortunate result of the crazy amount of people who do fake it.
On that, my significant other does have "real" anxiety issues, though not as severe as what yours seem to be. I'm absolutely not implying they aren't real. But even in her case, she didn't have to go through any of that to get a doctor's note. You can absolutely get one (and the medication) from your primary care, and some of the medications in low enough dose have very little side effect (and well, very little EFFECT too...). That's what gets abused to death.
Bingo. The tweets referred to in the article mention that this should only be for "diagnosed anxiety". Unfortunately, we live in the real world, and in the real world, a parent that is persistent enough can ALWAYS find a doctor who will diagnose their kid with anything.
An all too common example: when i was young, I was extremely out of shape, so physical education was problematic for me. I also really needed it. But one visit to my doctor, and since those were the days when "everyone has asthma", it took 10 minutes to convince him I did, he wrote me a note, and I easily got out of having to do any significant physical activity. I also believed it (I didn't try to lie...I truly thought there was something wrong with me).
My wife has real asthma and could have an attack/end up at the ER if she overdoes it. Obviously she should be excused of something like this. How do you tell them apart though?
Another example is how a friend of mine couldn't accept their kid were mediocre at school. Not bad, just not A+ students. They went to every doctor they could find until one gave them a dyslexia diagnostic. I think they said it took 15 (FIFTEEN!!!!) doctors before one agreed to it. And they repeated that with their next kid (Oh, yeah, 2 kids in a row with dyslexia that in both cases required 15 different doctors to agree to it. In the second case, even the doctor who diagnosed the first didn't agree...). Yeah, I'm sure it's legit.
The article, to me, is the same thing. Someone in the twitter thread said something akin to "When I had to give a presentation at school, the day before I couldn't sleep and my hands were sweaty. I was scared to death".
Yeah cowboy, you and EVERYONE ELSE. Congratulation, you're a human being. But i'm sure they talked to their doctor and got a note, and could get excused from it. That's absurd. Do a few dozen of those presentations, learn to prepare, confront your fears, and you'll get better.
At the same time, some other people mention that they'd get a panic attack. Well, forcing a kid to do something that will trigger a panic attack in front of everyone is probably not great. That person needs therapy. I'd also totally excuse them from it.
However, someone like the above is VERY VERY rare. But if you ask around, you'd think it's 1 out of 5 kid. Bullshit.
How do you find which is which is the tricky thing though. A lot of people will argue its better to let a couple of lazy fragile snowflakes get away with it than have a victim. They're probably right, but can we do better than that? I'd probably say if you can prove you're going to therapy for your anxiety, you're clear. Some will manage to fake a note about that too, but it should be much harder than "I talked to 2-3 doctors until one gave me a doctor note to make me go away", like so many kids do these days.
Might be supposed to, but certainly don't, not even if you're at the end stations.
That....is not what happened.
A writer had discussion with players of games over an AMA (or something along those lines), and posted some of the hot takes on their personal twitter. One of the more famous players of said game followed up on the hot takes, by putting in their own views (in quite the civilized manner) in an effort to engage in a dialog.
Writer did not like that a player could disagree with them, and went absolutely berserk on them. That caught the attention of the player base. Generally, telling your customers to go fuck themselves is bad for the business, so they got fired.
While it varies a lot (as you said, hundreds of types), the average cold lasts a heck of a lot longer than a day.
And while you're usually contagious before you even know you're sick, so it's not really possible to ever avoid infecting other people, if you go to work while you have a cold, you're a flat out asshole. Some people are not as healthy and risk serious issues if they get sick from you...others will have to stay home and possibly lose money if they have bad sick day policies (so could you, but its one person vs many), etc.
Assuming they are making a profit on hardware (though I think NIntendo usually is). Makes attach rate on games look bad though.
I'm Canadian myself (living in the US), and while I think Trump is absolutely batshit crazy in general, I can't help also feel the current immigration situation is also crazy. To be fair, I'm not particularly informed on the matter, it's just an initial impression.
Is there another 1st world country with such open immigration policies (not whats written in the books, but how it works in practice) that isn't getting any significant backlash from its population?
I moved to the US because it was much harder to get my significant other (American citizen) to move from the US to Canada. Recently that was the whole deal about someone in France being denied for not shaking hand. If I remember well Germany had a fairly open one but got a lot of flack for it a while back. Japan is LOLNOPE. What country is the US less open than?
I graduated in early 2000s myself. The finals were all on paper. I had a lot of programming related classes. 3-4 of those 2+ hour tests back to back.
Writing small apps, quick sorts, manipulating data structures, you name it. As much as hundreds or even thousands of lines of code handwritten over the course of a few days, every year. My finger had a mark from the pen. And if you made a mistake, not all professors were ok with just drawing arrows to "insert" code, so there was a lot of starting over too.
The challenge in those exams was not figuring out the solution. It was writing it down. I still have nightmares from it to this day.
It's kind of the other way around (originally) right? Hundreds/thousands of pre-IPO Facebook/Google/Whatever folks with too much money for their own good, all at the same time, started buying up stuff. Since they were making so much money, value went up. Now it's "market rate", and even if you work for them remotely (and live in the middle of nowhere), you get very close to the same rate. It's not just to pay for housing either: if you want to hire those folks and those who got hired afterward, you need to pay enough to make them give up their unvested RSUs.
So it's more "since people are paid so much, housing cost goes up". With people in other countries (even Europe, Japan, etc) buying paid a fraction of that, it's not particularly competitive. Combined with the insane flood of new CS grads and bootcamp/self taught folks following the hype train, supply and demand will catch up on this sooner or later.
When that all happens, prices will tank pretty hard (and we're going to be stuck with a bunch of silly zoning rules and various other laws that only make sense when a bunch of millionaires tries to buy the world)
Well, yes. The post I was replying to wasn't saying "Do everyone pay this much money to get their house cleaned?!". It was "Do [some] people pay this much to get their house cleaned?"
I was giving an example of why, yes, some (A LOT!) of people do. It's still only a tiny percentage of household. But that's true of a lot of things. The vast majority of people will never go through a kitchen renovation. There's still an entire industry around it.
Yeah, and honestly, its a bargain. Keeping a fairly large place squeaky clean (not just kind of clean, but ACTUALLY nicely clean) is a lot of work. My place is a little larger than the example, at 2000~ sqft, but between the kitchen (especially the kitchen appliances like the grill, cooktop and oven), the floor (there's, well, 2000 sqft of it on 2 floors plus the stairs), the bathroom, the entrance, the shelves, the furniture, etc, along the fact that I'm getting old, it would easily take me 5-8 hours a week to keep everything looking good.
If we use the bottom bound of that, so about 20-25 hours a week, that comes up to thousands of dollar of my time AND its boring as hell. I'll happily pay 500+/week if I have to.
I actually haven't pulled the trigger on a cleaning service yet (and my place looks it), but I will probably soon. It's just a no-brainer. I can easily get more money. I don't have an easy way to make more time.
Yeah. While there's been a fair amount of reports about this, the news were already going crazy when there was only like 2~ known reports, and only minutes after those reports popped up.
Its like, calm down people. At the end of the day, these devices sell dozens of millions of units. There's going to be issues.
Now, if its something like the Pixel 2 XL screen, the Nexus 6P battery, and the exploding Galaxy Notes...its warranted, but it doesn't happen to all devices @.@ (of course, all 3 mentioned above are pretty big flagship devices, so its a bit of an issue).
Apple has its share of issue too (the perf throttling when battery goes poof), though they seem a little better at addressing them. Too bad I refuse to buy Apple out of principle. Are windows phones still a thing?
No they can't. There's a lot of other factors involved, some of which are personal. That's my whole point.
And why isn't this "hostile work environment" a problem for all the places that do have open salaries, like every government and union shop in the world
It is. The professors at the public college I went to were ALWAYS bitching about this. I also worked in the IT department of a manufacturing company and watched the shop workers cheer and applaud as they signed the dismantlement of their union, partly because of this.
The reality is that almost everyone thinks they deserve more than the next person. No one will ever admit they're second rate even if they are. With hidden salaries, there's just 2 people "fighting" with each other. The company to pay as little as possible, the employee trying to get everything they can.
When everyone knows, then everyone starts looking at each other. "Well, I'm better than THIS person. The 10 people I play pingpong with during lunch TOTALLY agree". It's already bad enough that this happens with titles. To properly gauge why I make a certain amount of money, everyone comparing themselves to me need to know not only my salary, but everything I've done, all my contributions, all of the deals I might have made (eg: special vacations or waving certain benefits I can legally wave). There's also plenty of other things that can affect compensation that are simply no one's business (maybe someone has some health issues that reduce productivity and they made a deal to work smaller days and don't want the world to know).
It's fine that HR and maybe my manager knows this. The rest of the company simply doesn't need to. Right right now that asymmetry is often used to discriminate against minorities, so people want to get rid of it. It won't always be that way (heck, right now in a lot of companies the other way around is happening). You don't want that shit public.
Sure, some type of organizations do, and some have to, and they make it work. Doesn't mean it's optimal.
Usually Google suffer from poor marketing, and this is part of the issue here. Android Wear, however, is a major part -technical- issues.
I got 2 android wear watches so far. The first was the LG one from launch. It was slow as hell and very buggy at the beginning.
I eventually got a Moto 360 second gen. It was better, but also buggy. Connectivity issues, weird glitches, random battery drains. The stupid flat tire meant none of the watch faces looked good, too.
It got worse though: when they updated to Android Wear 2, a lot of options changed or were hard to find. Worse, now when I get a new phone, because of the requirement to reset the watch to pair, it becomes semi-incompatible with the current version of the phone software. That makes pairing incredibly difficult. If you try enough times it eventually works. Or you can just download an APK of an old version on a sketchy website and have it work for sure (wtf?)
If they could just get the software to work reliably and consistently, they'd have a chance.
The part that really worries me is the reliance on unqualified developers. This was very much the case during the dotcom bubble. There was so much investment money floating around, it didn't matter if 5, 10, 30% of your software developers were barely useful. Know html tags? You're hired!
It's not quite this bad now, but we still have a huge influx of people who can barely copy paste from stack overflow to make things "work" (until they don't). They rely on the few experienced devs in the team to clean after them, or worse are just happy with half baked things that barely work.
When the next big market adjustment happens, all these people at the bottom will end up competing for the few junior roles left and wondering how they're going to fuel their 100k+/year lifestyles.
Yup, if you have someone with a decent background (CS, self taught seriously, or from an adequate bootcamp) who actually want to learn, it's pretty easy to turn even the most junior dev into a fairly productive member of the team pretty quickly.
Right now, a non-trivial amount (I almost want to say the majority) of new devs just quote whatever latest blog article they found interesting (we're in a world where someone, somewhere, wrong an article about any position about anything) and get pissy if you don't do everything they say.
Those aren't worth training.
And if that was the only thing happening, sure. We're in an industry right now where in some cities, someone with 3 months of reading books and doing a few projects goes out and cry a river if you don't over them 110k+/year. That's not "not paying them what they're worth", its them being full of themselves.
I've seen people who can't even build a simple app on their own do the job hopping dance.
The "Geez, wonder why" part is a little silly. It's not like people don't hire junior devs or that there's not enough open positions. It's the actual reality that there's a million entry level devs, including a lot of very, very low level ones (you can thank universities that cut corner, and crappy bootcamps, on top of the "self taughts" who really aren't, for that) flooring the market.
You can only train so many people at a time. The majority of people we hire at my company are entry level and co-ops. In a single cohort, we can easily have 25% of our software engineers be entry level of some sort. And we keep doing it. Still, we get an absolutely insane amount of applications (hundreds per day, and we only have 250~ engineers). We need these folks to gain some experience (or hire more senior engineers laterally) before we can take more in. That takes a while, when the ratio of applicant junior to senior can literally be 1000:1.
What makes matters a lot worse when it comes to supply and demand, is that "being close to work" has a pretty high value to you when you have everything else.
I don't live in California, but I do live in one of the other big tech centers. Same deal, housing prices out of control.
Which isn't too surprising: when talking to most of my teammates, a good chunk of them don't want kids (so more disposable income), want to live by the subway (no car payments), and put an extremely high value to short commute (many live a block from the office).
When you're making 150, 200, or 300k a year on your own, and your significant other may also be in tech and make the same amount, who cares if 50% of your income is going to housing (especially if you bought). Quickly enough, half the money you're putting in is going to you anyway (equity), and a tiny fraction of your income is more than enough for food, utilities, insurance, and saving for retirement.
That means anyone NOT in that situation is completely hosed, obviously. That's the problem.
> single family housing permits
What does that mean exactly? Only single family houses? because if we were in a housing shortage, I'd expect the target to be multi family buildings and condos, by design. Kind of hard to improve density by building bungalows.
I found out a while ago that even on Nexus devices (which Google mostly controlled), if there was a change to certain drivers, whatever carrier your sim card was registered to could still block the update by not approving it.
That's some next level bullshit there. If the phone wasn't that popular (eg: Nexus), then it could take forever to get an update. I love Android, and despise Apple, but they're such a joke in that regard.
Agreed. I mean, those people trying to limit NN do have a point: in some scenario, it can hurt customer choice. Like, if i wanted to pay for an internet package that only allowed Netflix and nothing else, but was drastically cheaper...why not?
But that only really works if I can choose one of 20 providers, all with various price points, packages and features, all competing against each other. When there's 1-3? That can only go wrong.
So NN is really not the first choice. It's the last resort.