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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 h…

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 …

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 lig…

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 experi…

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 eli…

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 t…

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.…

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 char…

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 fro…

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> 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 h…

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 yo…

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 alo…

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 i…

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 8…

> "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 co…

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 spa…

+1 travel as the crow flies from Oakland to Mountain View in a fraction of the time. Pagether

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 potenti…

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 …

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 ev…

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.

“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 artist…

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 …