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leekh··on Mortgage Rates Hit 5.78%, Highest Level Since 2008
Yeah, but look at the case-shiller or the house price to avg incomes[1]

Back in the 80's homes were 4-5x the avg income

2002 5-6x

Now 8-9x

I rather buy something on 12% that's 4x my income than what my option is today.

[1] https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

leekh··on Mortgage Rates Hit 5.78%, Highest Level Since 2008
What's going to give first? Interest rates? House Prices?

I was on the market to buy a place. First time home owner jitters, but interest rates started to rise fast. Buying power dropped so much that I'm dropped out. At these rates, I really need the price to drop by 20%-ish. I'm sitting on cash and it feels like shit. I wonder how other people feel.

leekh··on Ask HN: Are you ok?
I'm okay. Just got surgery on my eyes to correct my strabismus. I'm taking a week off of work.

I taking my last OMSCS class, but the pressure is on to pass. Overall, life is okay. Could be worse but I'm fine.

leekh··on Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?
I give fewer shits.
leekh··on Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
Dude, you okay?
leekh··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I'm on working on my masters with gaTech's OMSCS. Taking a summer class atm, and will finish in the fall. Going to start on a new job search and maybe TA a class too.
leekh··on Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
What you suggest sounds like the model minority myth.
leekh··on Ask HN: How did you like your job in 2017?
7/10 One job sucked and found a new one. New gig is okay. I think my expectations for work has decreased.
leekh··on How MIT OpenCourseWare transformed a learner's life
Now that I think about it, both. But when I posted, more specifically to technical issues. e.g. When a concept was really foreign what did you do.
leekh··on How MIT OpenCourseWare transformed a learner's life
Totally awesome! I just have one question.

When you got blocked or felt like you hit a wall, what did you do?

leekh··on Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?
Damn this is just like mine.

Good luck!

leekh··on LinkedIn clone built using React.js
A react clone of a Ember app...
leekh··on Ask HN: What do you regret in life?
Quitting jobs.

I've quitted jobs without letting my employer that I was unhappy or disgruntled. In retrospect I should have let them know before I jumped ship; mainly because the grass is rarely greener on the other side and some of them could have changed.

leekh··on Ask HN: Learning to code, without a computer?
I had to teach CS in Africa with very few resources e.g. electricity and working pc's.

The best thing I found http://csunplugged.org/

leekh··on What to Do When Your Colleague Creates Spaghetti Code
Having a standards guide or a robo-linters should remove a large chunk of it. Deferring to a document is much easier then arguing.
leekh··on America’s $18T economy in perspective – comparing state GDPs to countries
> evidence of the world-class productivity of American workers.

This was repeated a couple of times. I think we get the point.

leekh··on How Startup Options and Ownership Work
As an engineer I ask for more cash so I can use options. I usually get it.

What about the non-techinical employee? I generally feel marketing, sales, etc are screwed in startups. How can a someone making < 75k actually use their options?

leekh··on Vue.js, an alternative to Angular and React
I keep seeing comparisons between Angular & React VS insert latest, but leaving out Ember. Are React and Angular solving different problems then Ember?
leekh··on Ask HN: How much job hopping is acceptable?
This just happened to me. 3 weeks in I realized the code base needs to be re-written because there was way too much technical debt. I should have quit then, but I decided to give it try. 6 months later, I hand in my two weeks notice.
leekh··on Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
Why cut these services?!

Is Florida going to add more police, social workers, ER doctors and etc deal with the consequences?

leekh··on Merging vs. Rebasing
rebase for lyfe! Just don't force push on master.
leekh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Hey, I applied a while back but never heard back.
leekh··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2016)
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Okay

Technologies: Python(pandas, matplotlib), R(ggplot2, any Wickham package) Ruby(Rails), Postgres, Ember.js, D3.js, React.js

Github: https://github.com/quinnlee

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quinnl

Email: leekeunhwi@gmail.com

My main focus for the last few years has been data visualization. But right now, I'm looking for a engineering focus team that cares about the craft.

leekh··on Ask HN: Which Developer Boot Camps Are Most Respected?
Cool thanks! I'm thinking about applying.
leekh··on Ask HN: Which Developer Boot Camps Are Most Respected?
Random question, what is your opinion about the GT's remote masters?
leekh··on The price of failure: Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could leave with $137m
maybe she'll run for president in a few years.
leekh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
There are multiple postings for `Cloudera`, could you consolidate?
leekh··on Show HN: Intro to Machine Learning in Interactive D3.js Visualizations
Do you have a gh repo? I really am interested in the story telling and ML aspects of the post.
leekh··on Show HN: Intro to Machine Learning in Interactive D3.js Visualizations
This is great, I can't find the source though.
leekh··on Ask HN: Is this interview style common?
I just walk away. It sucks and reflects poorly on them. I would say it's more common then people assume. But this is not really a reflection on you.
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