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It doesn't surprise me at all. Being in tech usually means starting earlier than medicine, finance or law and if you're poor you likely had less opportunities to own or use computers. Access might be provided through school or libraries but you won't generally have access to installing programming languages or anything.

While it didn't surprise me I'd still like more surveys and insight to exactly how hard it is for the lower class to join the tech and start up booms.

I was "lucky" in that my parents were so terrible with money that every year around tax time assuming we weren't homeless they'd head into Rent-A-Center and rent a computer for the house. If it weren't for that I never would have been exposed to start ups and programming. I didn't go to a real school, opting instead for some community college because the fear of debt and failure were too real, but the years of hustling, jail breaking peoples iPhones, designing sites for other local hustlers, and reading /. and digg meant I'd been exposed enough to the web that I had good js experience. Lucky twice because JS wasn't nearly as enterprise-y when I started wanting to work at start ups.

Absolutely, it causes feelings of shame to bubble up from childhood that I didn't expect to feel again as an adult.

I'd like that survey. The lower class is completely unrepresented in tech. It's been one of the weirdest and hardest things for me to handle personally.

I have eaten most of those but I was tempted to pretend I haven't.

My point was a major simplification of how American assimilation happens or I think ideally it should happen. Cultural heritage is important and mixing cultures together is the best version of America in my opinion.

I'm saying that American culture is a tapestry of it's subcultures and it's subcultures are sourced far and wide. The idea isn't to go with direct and hard assimilation the way people talk about French assimilation as was mentioned at other points in this thread where immigrants adopt French mannerisms but that American immigrants adopt some American mannerisms while bringing their own that other Americans adopt. I used really simple and identifiable culture parts like food.

The issue I take with this is that American assimilation is a two way street. Every culture puts in and takes out. Tacos, sausages, pizza, sushi, these are American foods as much as they are Mexican, German, Japanese, or Italian. Some of them more American than their source in ways. It's not about forcing White Angle-Saxon culture. It's about forging American culture and identity.

Google says there are currently 2.9 billion internet users, if 1% of them pay you 1 dollar you'd gross 29.1 million dollars, 0.1%, moving the decimals even at just 0.001% could gross you a cool 29 grand. That's really not a bad deal.

Healthy food is more expensive both in time required for prep and materials. That is why affluent people seemingly buy healthier food. When you grow up poor, or live poor you don't have as much time or mental energy to properly diet.

This guy did work though, he did some parts out of your preferred order but by and large he did all of the required effort.

It wasn't dumb luck or short cuts, it was smartly planned strategy. It was Agile if you want to get cute with it.

At least it's a nonprofit?

Are they coding while in prison? Or is this some form of post parole type deal?

Is there any job at any company in any industry where "putting in your 8 hours" pushes you to the top?

There are anecdotes about amazing contractors who can work 8 hours a week showing up pointing out problems and offering smart solutions but almost all of them can do that because at some point they were putting in 100 hours a week.

If you care about moving upward yes you will need to do more than show up for 8 hours.

My experience with Java has been frustrating, I think it has a lot to do with what you need to know to get started. If you want to play with a language, check out how to build a quick API, you need to know a lot more than Ruby, Python or NodeJS. You need to know at least a little about Maven, a little about the build process, and for me it was more than I really wanted to do.

I pushed through learning a little about the JVM to learn some Clojure but I felt like I was troubleshooting things that I frankly didn't want to learn about. The pros didn't out number the cons for me.

"We have an industry that has a history of stinginess and that does not have a good history of giving back."

That doesn't match anything I've heard or read, from what I can tell tech entrepreneurs constantly give back, or at the least consistently invest back. I'm positive this is bias, but is there another industry that creates as many investors? Either angel or future VC partners?

That's not quite the right question, because of course finance would lead in number of investors total, but I mean like created company in industry, this case tech, then invested in more companies in that industry.

Interesting...That's an oddly infectious way to build a brand. I don't mean this negatively, but it sounds parasitic in nature. If Hotel A has 10 rooms, and 2 of them are Oyo rooms, assumably with Oyo branding within, is it similar to some form of subleasing?

I don't understand this at all. AirBnB solves the quality control issue with ratings for both sides doesn't it? I've never used Uber, but Lyft doesn't let me pick which driver I get. Does Uber? If not then the last thing I'd want is an Uber for hotels. AirBnB offers filters and search so I can find exactly what I'm looking for, if OYO is the Uber for hotels is it just giving me a random hotel in a radius? Why would I want that?

It's Theranos business plan I believe.

Humans are better at recognizing satire as well, April Fools jokes have famously caused some algorithms to react poorly.

Not if Google wants to experiment with moving into Netflix's territory. Experimenting with alternatives to advertising are going to drive a lot of development in the coming quarters.

Funding artists, musicians and businesses, especially in underserved communities is absolutely the best way to reduce poverty.

The world doesn't have a jobs problem, it has a funding problem. It requires capital to accomplish most tasks of notable quality. Plus it circulates the money better.

It's often the only or best way too. The more secure a place is the easier it is to get in. People become very trusting. Carry a clipbord and look like you know where you're going and you can walk damn near anywhere.

Social Engineering is absolutely hacking. This wasn't a sophisticated example, but it's still a very real threat.

Couldn't you use like, Google Maps?

4.5) Quality drivers move to other service. 5) You use Lyft or any other competitor.

My bet is on renewable energy/sustainability, agriculture or biotech, with energy being my first choice. Sam has expressed serious concern about powering the future. His first(only?) deviations from the "No Board Seat" policy were two energy companies.

If it caused the number of inventors to grow too slowly or of a poor quality, then yeah.

I wonder what limitations exist for storing server farms in a satellite or in international waters. Or in weather balloons and UAV's...a la Project Loon and whatever Facebook did with those ever flying UAV's

As another resident of the Detroit Metro, you make the world you want to see. To say you can't ever imagine the Metro being a location for tech innovation is crazy to me.

Detroit and Ann Arbor both have decent start up support structures and they'll increase with time and energy.

Why? Is pop quiz ability important for the job? I'd rather of prepared candidates. If it's technical questions they'll still need to work through the problem because showing their process is the important part of a technical question.

Anything else the employee is just going to Google if they don't know it, or it's a personal/goal type question which again preparation is better in my opinion.

I think his point is that he values to articles and so he wishes he could pay for them as he consumes them.

I kind of wish they let you pay for them after reading. Almost like tipping.

Would you say Amazon is more Berkshire Hathaway or more Carnegie Steel, at a time intensely innovative with extreme work expectations?