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This describes a lot of people with young kids pretty accurately

Seriously laughed out loud when the ending brings it back to the junior engineer and the engineering processes. Well done!

AOE2 (Age of Empires 2) is _still_ going strong some twenty years later. Active reddit, youtube, and twitch communities. Still releasing new civ expansions on Steam. I think it's s…

Same! Another industry they could play monopoly with

GPS spoofing is a big part of the Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies”. Funny that in a movie it seemed totally fake, something invented for the plot, and yet here I see it’s a real th…

Nothing is particularly “bad”. I’ve used them in python a number of times. I’m more just commenting that it’s a strange / interesting code based worth sight seeing. It was written …

I will never forget what I found when hacking the internals of Handsontable many years ago... JavaScript For loops with - :label (eg go to) - continue - break It was definitely an …

My cynical answer is that engineers often work with “yes”/“no” about feasibility. Leaders usually keep the conversation above that level and think in terms of which problem needs s…

> What full stack means in the market is front end with a little back end So much this. I believe in full stack development skills, that someone can have them, but I don’t believe …

> alternative computing reality This such the perfect description. I was working on a Django feature last year that had to work on all DBs and testing the oracle stuff was like ent…

This is important. I agree that taxing / mandating one house per person / family is probably the only way to reign in rent seeking.

You may argue that the solution either way is to build more, but I think its important to take problems on at their source. The debate about supply and demand just seems to be the …

Your analogy is logically sound, but it doesnt match what I've seen in reality. I think the extra factor is that rich people seem to attract more rich people. That is the number th…

Not the OP, but I would think he's describing: You can't out build rich people. There may be a supply of ten houses and a demand of ten people who need houses. However, that doesn'…

My argument would be that the demand is created by where the jobs are. What has changed "recently" is that jobs are being more concentrated post invention of the internet. The inte…

People are going to accuse me of "got mine", but I have none! What I'm saying is to consider that wanting cheaper housing today is throwing away a lot of natural beauty, vistas, an…

The problem with "just build more" is that eventually you run out of space the same as now, only you get to do it with a worse quality of light / space / light / traffic / noise / …

"How I won The Lottery" (joke tech talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

I've learned that the housing crisis is really just a wealth inequality crisis. Basically every city in America now thinks it has a housing crisis. Big. Small. Cheap. Expensive. Se…

> Everywhere else, the best policy is to increase supply. As long as homes are scarce, only those with deep pockets will be able to afford them. I've changed my mind on this: I thi…

> Our society isn’t designed for average to poor people to be healthy. The truth. Capitalism isn't about needs and wants but miseries you can tolerate. Unfortunately a bunch of peo…

Our app models directed graphs in Postgres with a closure table (the transitive edges between nodes). The advantages are that it's just sql, has good performance, and we can query …