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Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by rayiner »

c-slice wrote: post #18

For some reason, the map seems to be categorizing technology jobs as green (Healthcare, Education, and Government). Look at SF, and it's almost completely green.

Not necessarily. Here is a list of the largest employers in the Bay area: http://sfced.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/LargestEmployers.... The top 5 are healthcare, education, or government.

Given that most of Silicon Valley's employment is not in SF, it's quite likely that the tech jobs in the city are overshadowed by the massive number of education, government, and healthcare jobs.

That's also why Manhattan is mostly green.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by bostonpete »

placeybordeaux wrote: post #8
bullgod66 wrote: post #6

It's so sad that most jobs are not interesting. The only thing that is actually interesting is theoretical math, and there are no jobs in industry that require that - all of the interesting jobs are in academia, and the competition is too intense except for the very top. What a cruel world we live in.

Is this satire?

It's what we used to call "trolls". HN is blessedly free of them. This user will be hell-banned, but there's nothing to keep them from creating another account and doing it again.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by selimthegrim »

lotharbot wrote: post #20
bullgod66 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is intellectually interesting about just copying and pasting code from a library? I think we can all agree that it is significantly (orders of magnitude) less interesting than solving abstract math problems.

obligatory: https://xkcd.com/793/

You laugh, but (and I don't remember who's the original author of this quote) "I'd die for the simplicity that is on the other side of complexity"

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

placeybordeaux wrote: post #8
bullgod66 wrote: post #6

It's so sad that most jobs are not interesting. The only thing that is actually interesting is theoretical math, and there are no jobs in industry that require that - all of the interesting jobs are in academia, and the competition is too intense except for the very top. What a cruel world we live in.

Is this satire?

nah! The troll is getting hungry.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by tricolon »

dimino wrote: post #7

That's kind of odd, that Mass. isn't included. I wonder what happened there.

The Census Bureau is rather vague about that:

> All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have joined the LED Partnership, although the LEHD program is not yet producing public-use statistics for Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

http://lehd.ces.census.gov/

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by TillE »

tricolon wrote: post #26
dimino wrote: post #7

That's kind of odd, that Mass. isn't included. I wonder what happened there.

The Census Bureau is rather vague about that: > All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have joined the LED Partnership, although the LEHD program is not yet producing public-use statistics for Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands. http://lehd.ces.census.gov/

> (Massachusetts has not submitted data to the Census Bureau as of this date)

Presumably not some legal restriction, then. They simply haven't provided the data.

http://lehd.ces.census.gov/research/

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by edc117 »

bullgod66 wrote: post #19
selimthegrim wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh so why don't you write some of those libraries? Do you think the ivory tower is the only place people conceptualize unmet needs (Hint: it isn't)

If you wrote a new library, what would you put in it? What is the point of writing a new library that contains functions that already exist in other libraries? I'm not saying industry doesn't conceptualize unmet needs. I'm only saying that it's intellectually uninteresting.

So what useful things/libraries/whatever have you created? I'm rather curious what you find interesting enough to work on.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by falcolas »

waterside81 wrote: post #12
mariojv wrote: post #2

Looks like the map is broken right now. Is anyone else having problems viewing it?

Can't see it either. The CSS & JS it loads from Amazon's CloudFront isn't resolving properly.

Broken for me as well, but not cloud front; instead I get this in the console:

    ReferenceError: L is not defined jobs.html:38:12
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