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It was always worthless Options that could never be sold. One company's options I worked for 6 years, was worth about 4K after taxes, fully vested. Our typical bonuses were 1-2%. A 10% bonus was considered very high.

> "hope to make 400k"

Even with 10-20 years of experience in the bay area at small, medium, large size software companies, I've never ever made anything close to that amount.

after logging in with facebook, there is a in-game sign-in if you don't want to use the facebook login. Due to ALTs we can't really allow non-fb signups.

If you enjoy the more political aspects to space strategy games and the inter-alliance diplomacy derived gameplay, you might want to give my game a try: https://www.clicktaz.com

Depends on where. Location, can increase your salary by 50% or more and increase your cost of living by 200% to 600% or more.

Seems quite comprehensive, perhaps more than any web developer needs to know, but a good resource nonetheless.

For FE, I'm glad DOM manipulation is in there somewhere. These days with modern frameworks becoming a big thing an all, I feel DOM manipulation as a skill is falling by the wayside.

As a consumer, at this point (unless they can make it fly), I'd rather have them add reliability and reduce the total cost of ownership.

Chicago may be blue, but it has relatively few regulation for housing compared with cities here. And the cost of labor is lower there than cities in CA.

What's crazy is, even with the insanely high rents, they would still need to go much higher in order to make high-rise construction profitable. I think we really need to start looking at what exactly is driving all those costs in these blue states. Other cities in the US are able to build high rise for much less rent: Chicago, Columbus, Houston, etc.

It would be interesting to see, in a chart, all the costs that go into housing construction and compare them all city to city. I suspect the answer has a lot to do with Regulation and the local labor cost (now a self perpetuating problem).

That's a neat little game. So creative, simple and intuitive to play. Best of all I didn't have to read any tutorials to get started.

By the way, if you're interested in making your own tile based RPG game, I'm developing some tutorials to help you learn how: https://codeorc.com/learn-web-development-by-programming-a-r...

employees don't have enough bargaining power to push wages up, so FAANGS only need to pay a 50% premium for wages, relative to other parts of the country. The decision makers who decide where people work would rather have the convenience of not getting on an airplane than saving 50% on Labor cost.

I don't see how this is a good investment for them. Keeping it empty means, they're loosing 1.3% + the cost of maintenance, HOA, and insurance (1.6% total) every year. And since we're towards the top of the 12 year micro bubble, the long term appreciation won't be significantly more than inflation.

As we speak, Austin is following in CA's footsteps. The very same ones kicked out of CA, are now voting NIMBY in Austin as well.

You have to remember, the % increase in housing inventory was already extroadinarily low. So if that tiny number doubles, it's not as big of a change as you might imagine.

This is an excellent point, and is the Primary reason why we have this housing crisis.

Things like zoning and regulation can theoretically be fixed, if voters wisen up. But the longer this goes on, the more middle class residents will leave the bay area for good. Once the entire middle class is gone, we'll have no hope of ever building cost effective housing (other than automation) because there won't be anymore cost effective labor left to build it with. We're already seeing pretty large inflation on a local level for services: like eating out and plumbing, etc.

There's pretty decent demand right now in some areas, but it depends on where you're located. Here in the bay area, there's good demand in SF and palo alto, but very few jobs in the east bay and lots of talent. But, it's all relative. You should compare it to your options available. In the mean time keep learning and developing your skills, read as much you possibly can about web development and learn the latest skills as well the backbone of all web development: HTML, CSS, AJAX, javascript and jQuery. Dont forget jQuery. Not many jobs may ask for it, but it's used everywhere and you will need to know something about it. If you like, go ahead and check out my site I'm developing for aspiring web developers such as yourself: It's filled to the brim with examples to learn from (you can play with the code without any setup), taking you step by step so you don't get lost: https://codeorc.com

The advantage of learning some of the newer technologies like Vue and React are that they haven't been around for too long. So, if you get 3 years of experience with that, you can be considered relatively senior. Just something to think about if you're totally new.

several of my VR friends who have VR headsets don't seem to use them very much, often going for months without using it. I would guess that means the current experience is underwhelming. there's still a lot of work to be done here.

You're right. Here in the exurbs where there's 6 lane highways and one way is completely clogged, I can see miles and miles of empty space where housing could've been built, had the zoning commission any common sense at all. It's just, employee's choices are very limited and you don't get to choose which companies are highering. Employees can say they want to leave the bay area/high COL areas all they want, doesn't mean employers have to do it.

There is a vast amount of regulation at play now. On techcrunch I read an article that said developers now have to use super computers to analyze all the regulations, in order to plan constructions now, all due to over-regulation.

much of the defense spending is hidden in other areas: like Dept of energy, dept of veteran affairs, homeland security, etc. So it's a lot bigger than it looks.

I find it hard to believe that skin products actually change your skin quality. My wife has been applying all kinds of creams and products to her face half an hour or more every day for decades. We're the same age and our skin quality is pretty comparable.

Now, she does look a lot better when she's wearing makeup, that stuff really works when it comes to hiding minor imperfections especially from a distance.

despite all the advertising, it may surprise you to learn that it's actually quite rare for people to buy expensive clothes. i looked it up one time. i think it said less than 1% of the jeans sold in the US cost more than 50$

I hope all these mostly useless malls get replaced with things are that more needed: libraries, decent grocery stores, farm co-ops/local farming, and especially housing. At the end of the day, humans need shelter more than they need stuff to put in their shelters.

It's not their problem because way too many people want to work for those companies.

I suspect when someone asks you to tell what they really think of them, the word really should come with an asterik.

somehow this post reminds me of Joel's post on Fire and Motion. Joel wrote about the fact that Microsoft would come out with more and more APIs to slow down developers in the industry from developing more apps on the windows platform. He compared this to the military tactic of Fire and motion: to advance on your target by firing bullets.

This is extremely concerning:

>> “I disagree with the statement that these funds are protected by SIPC,” Stephen Harbeck, president and chief executive officer of SIPC

As a result, I will not be signing up for Robinhood, that's for sure. I get the sense, It's not the place to park your money, if you're just trying to save up without investing.

For a new site, this sure has a lot of content. Seems like there's a lot to read there.

It is refreshing to see that not every start up is successful.

Ultimately, I think, most software startups all fail because of 2 reasons: 1. built something no one wanted OR 2. the people that wanted it couldnt be reached in a cost effective manner. (distribution cost > LTV)

all other problems can typically be overcome.

It's impressive that they have so much bargaining power to do so. With so many people lining up to work at google, i would imagine people would be more fearful of their jobs.

It's great to see a car manufacturer taking their environmental responsibilities so seriously, especially since it's in their own interest.

but, i hope electric cars will be more reliable than tesla has been. Tesla's reliability is now 3rd from the bottom, although i know there are a lot of reasons for this: (lots of new tech etc).