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Thrown under the bus? Asians have by far the highest household income of all racial groups in the US[1]. Where's the beef?

Is it fair to be born into a racial group thats 50% or 25% less likely to earn a degree?[2] Perhaps taking a person's circumstances into consideration, while narrowly and individually unfair, is actually fairer in a broader sense. That goes for race, socio-economic status, and whatever else impairs your opportunities.

It's just disappointing to see the victimization being thrown around here, especially in contrast to the groups being vilified. The sad truth is that a sense of empathy and being able to see the bigger picture will get you a lot farther in life than the words on your diploma.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...

I mean you're half right here, but who do you really think in American society is doing that much better than Asians? Hispanics? African Americans? Women? The poor? The middle class for that matter?

The reality is that rich, white men have been entrenched in power since long before American society was a thing. You might consider whether retreating into tribalism and picking a fight over affirmative action is eroding or entrenching that advantage by dividing the consensus to change it.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/28/17031460/affirmative-action-as...

I'm pretty shocked by the lack of empathy here.

Do any of these people railing against affirmative action really think that Native/African/Hispanic Americans should be locked in a self-reinforcing cycle of declining educational and economic outcomes?

Maybe going to your second choice school is an ok tradeoff for trying to raise and entire segment of society from relative poverty and discrimination.

* Am Asian, got rejected by Stanford and Harvard

Lot of concepts here.

1) 0% may feel like a threshold, but it's not that quantitatively different from the sub 2% interest rate environment we've been living in for many years from a wealth generation standpoint.

2) Should you stop saving? If you mean should you be generating more cash that you spend, the answer is that's probably a good idea unless you have a pressing cash need now. If by saving you mean putting your money in a Savings Account, then yeah there are probably better uses of your capital since most pay effectively 0% interest.

3) So where should you put it? This depends a lot on your tolerance for risk, and your forecast for how quickly you might need the cash. If you need it soon and/or have a low appetite for risk, then go for safer, less volatile assets like treasuries or CDs. If you have a bit of time and risk tolerance, stocks have pulled back considerably so buying in at depressed prices and waiting for the recovery might be a good idea. Real estate is probably similar depending on where you live. If you really want to swing for the fences, go ahead and start a business, although ultimately there are a million factors that will determine your success before the interest rate environment will.

4) Should you take out debt to buy even more assets than you could with my own cash? Maybe, this all depends on your risk tolerance. If your investment decisions are good, you will reap even more returns. But if they are are bad, you will have to pay back the debt after incurring losses. So it just pushes your outcomes towards the extremes. You probably should not do this solely because interest rates are low.

A final note-- your approach to wealth generation shouldn't change based on interest rates. I think your upbringing is mostly correct, if you work diligently and spend less than you make, you will be on a road to building wealth.

The question is what to invest your free cash flow in, and the answer is almost always: all of these options. Diversifying is the best way to minimize unsystemic investment risk.

The question is then: how do you allocate your capital between risky and safe assets? That depends on the interest rates, your near to medium term cash requirements, your risk tolerance, and your age. That said, a rule of thumb is to do (100 - age)% in riskier investments, and your age% in safer investments.

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I think it's possible for both of these to be true if you back off of the extreme positions.

1) Great developers are seldom looking for new jobs, but 2) There are a ton of inefficiencies in hiring that making finding great developers possible if you think outside the box.

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I have 5+ years experience building web applications in Ruby and Javascript.

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- Do you want to do some really fancy stuff? I've focused on that lately using React and Redux, builing complex apps that live inside the browser with lightweight servers that serve JSON.

- Do you want to do some really really fancy real time stuff? I've also worked on apps that use websockets to deliver realtime two way communications in conjunction with React to do magic.

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If you think you might want to do any of these (fancy) things, I can lead or augment your development efforts with an approach that prioritizes clear communication and quality code. I've been working for 3+ years remotely with both startups and larger organizations, and am happy to talk with you about your project.

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I have 5+ years experience building web applications in Ruby and Javascript.

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- Do you want to do some really fancy stuff? I've focused on that lately using React and Redux, builing complex apps that live inside the browser with lightweight servers that serve JSON.

- Do you want to do some really really fancy real time stuff? I've also worked on apps that use websockets to deliver realtime two way communications in conjunction with React to do magic.

- Do you use a database? I have 6+ years of experience working with Postgresql, and am not too shabby with MySql either.

If you think you might want to do any of these (fancy) things, I can lead or augment your development efforts with an approach that prioritizes clear communication and quality code. I've been working for 3+ years remotely with both startups and larger organizations, and am happy to talk with you about your project.

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I think they are having a bit of math fun

Best part

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Full stack developer with 5 years of experience in JavaScript and Ruby

Hi! I have a long history with Ruby and Rails but for the past two years my projects have focused on JS, and specifically on the bleeding edge of React. That said, there have been a breadth of projects in React, from very real time socket powered apps, to CMS apps that benefit from increased interactivity, to native-like graphics and geometry apps.

I have some availability at the moment and am happy to talk to you about your project. Even if we don't end up having a business transaction, I'm happy to chat and talk about the technology behind your business and what works and what might work better.

I also have a background in finance and accounting, so if you have an app that deals with money, I think I can add extra value there.

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That may meet your priorities and maybe even the band's but it most definitely does not meet Ticketmaster's in a world where they can offload all the tickets in 15 minutes and charge the maximum palatable fees with basically no variable costs.

And Ticketmaster is in control of this process, so...

Ticketmaster is actually a fairly unusual market in that it discriminates based on speed, which is pretty unusual in our market economy where things are usually discriminated based on price. As long as this structural difference exists there will always be an incentive to arbitrage the market, whether those arbitrageurs are one person or a thousand, bots or Turks or employees. Everyone seems to get morally outraged about this, but I've yet to see anyone suggest an alternative system that solves the underlying issue of incentives. Most bans and limits are ineffective because they are at odds with the incentives of Ticketmaster. Do you make secondary markets illegal? What if someone can't go? Just balancing the incentives is a tricky issue to say nothing of finding the optimal balance of fair.

Is it really that hard to forecast the amount of power residential PV generates? I'm pretty sure you could build a model that is pretty good just based on weather data, but failing that why not just put a single small PV panel on each (plant, substation, power pole... choose your level of granularity) and have it report back the amount of solar energy in that location? That should get you a very good idea of the amount of power coming in.

I agree that fragmentation is a problem, but don't understand why the solution to that problem should be smaller, fragmented libraries instead of larger, complete frameworks. Isn't that the same problem described in combining all the tools with small market/mind share? In my experience, far more problems arise from the interaction of separately authored modules versus the interaction of modules designed to work together. Not to mention that there will be far more blogs and SO posts about a larger framework.

or just the empty recognizable outline of a card (the rectangle with the rounded corners) with no fields. then on first keystroke populate the fields, etc.

perfect timing. thanks!

Link would probably help https://www.hackerschool.com/

She's very lucky to have you.

Have you heard of Hacker School in NY? Not only is it free, I think they offer $5k grants for female programmers who need living expenses. Generally the candidates for Hacker School and DBC/Flatiron don't overlap much, but if she's a programmer who's just moving to a new language, it might be worth looking in to.

I wonder how the "choose your own api key" policy is going to work in practice... given that people don't usually make very secure passwords and that the example is "Real estate website" you're going to get some pretty easy to guess api keys.

The title is linkbait, to be sure, but I think that in focusing on the hyperbolic linkbaiting, you miss the ultimate point of the article, which to me is to describe a growing cultural shift in relationships, which is having major social and economic repercussions.

I would guess on a micro level the best thing you can do is recycle, reducing the amount of refuse that ends up in landfills and often times out at sea. A lot of it from coastal areas ends up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and it's not like storing it on land is awesome either.

The problem really is that even decently sized macro action can be largely negated by economic freeriders. Unless some body like the UN or US sets out to enforce universal cooperation with agreements on pollution, or fishing, whole states that don't follow the regulations will continue to take advantage. Witness the failed Kyoto Protocol, which had 191/192 nations in agreement, but the very worst polluters (read: the US) who refused to be party to it.

It's really really sad, and no less ironic, that in the midst of this government shutdown, particularly with the zealotry from the tea party about the evils of government, that a problem which so obviously needs addressing, and should naturally and probably only can be solved by governments, goes unaddressed like this. Surely we must all be able to agree on this. What is government for at all, if not to harness our collective will to solve problems that economics deem impossible to solve by individuals?

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I love this. To me it's coming full circle. As someone who felt like they graduated to programming from Excel, I often get peeved by people who use Excel like Paint with numbers. How many times have you seen someone doing calculations by hand and entering them into rows, making pretty spreadsheet pictures with colored cells, or completely ignoring the most simple functions like SUM (much less SUMIF).

Now here they have ratcheted up the complexity several degrees... and why? to paint a picture. Cue the Lion King.

not worth quite as much as 14 hours ago hah

If you think of kids as investments, which is a very apt analogy from the perspective of these universities, the question is whether you should try to build a VC portfolio (aiming to get a few ultra-successes) or a mutual fund (aiming to get consistent growth from the majority of them).

It would be interesting to see if there are any admissions departments on record with statements that map to those philosophies, and any data that shows how those schools endowments fare over time.

This query completely ignores the human issue, which is significant and deserves consideration. But it would be interesting to know.

Another one: even though businesses have POS systems, they all calculate the total bill on a handheld solar calculator. Why???

Disclaimer: I just graduated last week. I think the stated goal of the program is to make you a well positioned beginner. So you're right in saying that there's no way for DBC to offer the depth or span of knowledge that a 4 year CS degree offers, but that's not its goal. I think the program is designed to teach you how to learn about programming, and give you a huge jumpstart in doing it. Consequently, nobody there is religious about any one topic. Yes, we all learn Ruby, Rails and Javascript, but what we really take away is not the knowledge of how to do things in Rails, but the ability to learn programming concepts, now and in the future.

As for learning on your own, I would respectfully submit that learning often happens in groups. At DBC there was a lot of solo time, but there was a lot of pair/group time, where we continued learning from each other. Group time is arguably more valuable since it not only affords the opportunity to learn form what you're doing, but also what everyone else is doing, to say nothing of the meta-skills gained from working on software in a team. I personally gained a lot being immersed in an environment where 40 other people were learning with me versus trying to do it on my own.

You're right: I think most people used jQuery for ajax. That said, if Marty McFly went back and destroyed jQuery one day, I'm sure it would only take about 5 extra minutes for anyone to implement XMLHttpRequest instead. We all had to figure out how jQuery ajax calls worked, we could figure out XMLHttpRequest as well.

Finally, thank you for keeping an open mind despite your skepticism. So many seem to use any skepticism to completely dismiss the concept. There are also many on here who support it, but it's a pretty open pace so I'd suggest you go check it out for yourself during the Fall cohort if you're curious.