browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis
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browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis
It depends on the tech worker. Not all tech workers are in those roles. It'd be interesting to see the distribution of all tech salaries. Entry level marketing, support, qa, and sales are all in tech, too.
https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73d...
I wonder how popular Glassdoor is outside of tech. And there's always the uncertainty about how accurate it is.
The calculator says: "One limitation of the calculator is that the income range that defines each income tier does not vary across regions or cities within the U.S. If you live in a relatively expensive area, such as New York City, it is possible that the calculator places you in a higher income tier than it might if a cost of living adjustment had been made. Conversely, if you live in an inexpensive part of the country, the calculator may place you in a lower income tier than it otherwise might."
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis
There is widespread, often reasonable disagreement about what middle class means, either in terms of salary or total assets. Or cultural practice.
It's true, people do under-acknowledge other industries - law, finance, medicine.
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Tech-isn-t-biggest-S-...
Average SF health-related salary in 2014 - 67k.
"The industry employs 20 percent of the city’s workers, with nearly 122,000 jobs. The average annual wage across all jobs in the sector — from pharmacists to surgeons to genetic counselors — was $67,410."
When does health stop and tech being? Often it's a fuzzy line.
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
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browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: A Long Game
What if prop 13 didn't apply to investment property? How would the situation be different? Your parents and whoever could get the main benefit, and new buyers would still brunt the main cost, but at least people who want houses could possibly get them instead of investors and other people parking cash and/or literally and technically collecting rent.
Sorry to link to a pay-walled article, this headline tells the story:
"Investors With Cash Edging Out First Time Home Buyers"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-with-cash-edging-out-f...
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Scientists can’t agree whether salt is killing us
I wonder to what extent this can be explained by varying individual responses to salt. Maybe none- definitely possible. The recent study showing blood sugar response varied widely amongst individuals to the same foods, I wonder if scientists will arrive at that conclusion for salt.
http://www.weizmann-usa.org/media/2015/11/19/blood-sugar-lev...
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
TokBox | San Francisco / Sydney | iOS Engineers, Big Data Engineers, Automation Test Engineers, Software Test Engineers, BizDev Manager - Onsite SF | JavaScript Engineer - Onsite Sydney
TokBox does embedded communications powered by WebRTC. We make it easy for customers to embed real-time video into their websites and mobile applications. We sell a platform to developers and enterprises, and have great clients from individual developers just starting a project to massive companies in tech, entertainment, education, and other industries. The product is great but the people are better. It's an awesome group of 70 or so people- nice, smart, skilled. We are laid back and have a sense of humor. Good salary, good culture, and great benefits!
We've hired a ton last year but a have few openings left. Looking for developers in iOS, test, big data, and a business development manager for San Francisco. We're looking for a JavaScript engineer in Sydney (where our JavaScript SDK team is based).
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browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Facebook is closing Parse
Too bad. I admire them for giving people a year and giving some helpful tools. I'm glad Parse's winding down is less painful than "We're gone in 1 month, good luck, bye!".
Another data point for the "Is PaaS dead?" conversation.
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Improved commenting with Markdown
Is this why GitHub unicorned for a bit yesterday? I'm looking forward to the engineering blog post talking about what went wrong and how they fixed it.
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: What is Something You Recommend (and why)?
Read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. It's about a psychiatrist's experience in Auschwitz, and helps with identifying purpose and finding meaning in life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
https://archive.org/details/MansSearchForMeaning_201507
http://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/0...
Try to be 1% better and whatever you're focusing on improving. It's manageable. It's realistic. It adds up.
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: What are the best startups to work for in 2016?
Great insight on the following thread :)
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Is it the Wealth Gap that's bad or the Empathy Gap that comes with it?
Some studies showing effects of higher wealth on people below. Not perfect, and e.g. the simple correlation between unethical and law breaking is naive, but it's some data.
tl;dr: "Abtract: Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed."
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.short
One weird thing- these and some other studies I have read support poorer people have more empathy/make more eye contact in conversation and pay more attention to conversation partners/etc. Why then does that group seem on the whole to have more antagonism towards wealthier people (than vice versa)?
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: A Push to Make Harvard Free Also Questions the Role of Race in Admissions
"S tier schools would become comparably less desirable."
I meant A tier schools.
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: A Push to Make Harvard Free Also Questions the Role of Race in Admissions
Students who got into S schools would have even more reason to go to them over A tier schools. All students would have even more reason to apply to S tier schools. A tier schools, who depend more on tuition dollars and would need to charge or find other sources of funding (likely without much success- governments have been cutting funding for decades, they're all already tapping private sources as much as they can). S tier schools would become comparably less desirable. This loop would continue (other than schools who try not to charge but depend on tuition dollars falling into the A range).
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: A Push to Make Harvard Free Also Questions the Role of Race in Admissions
"And if Harvard abolishes tuition for undergrads, Mr. Nader said, “It will ricochet across the Ivy League.”
And similar top schools, especially private schools in and outside of the Ivy League. My first question would be what impact would this have on schools that actually depend on tuition to pay for things, those that aren't Harvard/Princeton/etc that don't have as huge endowments per student? Would the gap between the quality of the average student widen further between the very very top schools and the other top schools, further entrenching the status quo?
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: David Bowie Has Died
Doesn't this quotation strongly apply to software engineers? I find engineers have more trouble applying the same logic to software engineering, while applying it to artists, especially musicians, without much reflection.
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)
TokBox | San Francisco / Sydney | iOS Engineers, Automation Test Engineers, BizDev Managers - Onsite SF | JavaScript Engineers - Onsite Sydney
TokBox does embedded communications powered by WebRTC. We make it easy for customers to embed real-time video into their websites and applications. We sell a platform to developers and enterprises, and have great clients from individual developers just starting a project to massive companies in tech, entertainment, education, and other industries. The product is great and the people are even better. It's an awesome group of 80 or so people- nice, smart, skilled, with a strong engineering culture. We are laid back and have a sense of humor. Good salary, good culture, and great benefits! Many new faces in 2015 and hoping for more in 2016. In San Francisco, we're looking for developers in iOS, test, and a business development manager. We're looking for a JavaScript engineer in Sydney (where our JavaScript SDK team is based).
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browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
TokBox | San Francisco / Sydney | iOS Engineers, Test Engineers, Technical Sales, BizDev Manager - Onsite SF | JavaScript Engineer - Onsite Sydney
TokBox does embedded communications powered by WebRTC. We make it easy for customers to embed real-time video into their websites and applications. We sell a platform to developers and enterprises, and have great clients from individual developers just starting a project to massive companies in tech, entertainment, education, and other industries. The product is great but the people are better. It's an awesome group of 70 or so people- nice, smart, skilled. We are laid back and have a sense of humor. Good salary, good culture, and great benefits!
We've hired a ton but a have few openings left. Looking for developers in iOS, test, someone who is technical but is also good at sales (a sales engineer), and a business development manager for San Francisco. We're looking for a JavaScript engineer in Sydney (where our JavaScript SDK team is based).
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browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans
It would be interesting to see this broken down by gender. My hunch is it's hitting men harder, but I'm curious if that's reflected in the data.
browseatwork | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
San Francisco mostly/ London/Spain/Sydney | TokBox | iOS Engineers, Test Engineers, Technical Sales, BizDev Manager and Sales Rep | 98% Onsite, remote for the right fit
TokBox does embedded communications powered by WebRTC. We make it easy for customers to embed real-time video into their websites and applications. We are a PaaS company, and have great clients from individual developers to massive players in tech, entertainment, education, and many other industries. The product is great but the people make this place where I work. It's an awesome group of 70 or so people- nice, smart, skilled. We are laid back and have a sense of humor. Good salary, flexible, and great benefits!
We've hired a ton but a few openings left. Looking for developers in iOS, test engineers, someone who is technical but is also good at sales (a sales engineer), and more people to help bizdev- a manager and a sales rep.
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It's worth excluding the lab techs, genetic counselors, admins, etc., from the medical field if you're going to exclude the non-engineers from the tech field. It makes for a more apples to apples comparison.