MoBattah

Can be anything less than $5.

$200k for a household is not high income by any measure. That sentence explains your entire perspective in your comment.

E-Class = Poor people

If you consider these cars expensive, that’s your problem.

Can easily get more comfort in a budget car by adding packages.

Driven Benz, BMW, Porsche, Audi, Tesla, Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc.

No way in hell is a C-Class Benz worth it's price. Tesla drives way better and is much more fun.

I think it's about TCO, status, reliability and maybe fun-factor.

Nobody buys an Audi or Benz for 'fun-factor'. Especially not when they get AMG or i versions.

Thank you. What you describe is exactly what I've noticed after delving into the car world via rentals.

If you're buying a sedan -- Toyota/Honda/Kia.

If you own a BMW/Audi/Benz, you're not wealthy and you're just signalling to other non-wealthy individuals. It's interesting because most of the BMW/Audi/Benz look terrible and are way cheaper than most expect yet still a terrible, arrogant waste of capital.

Only a few brands don't match this. Tesla and Range Rover. The former for obvious reasons. The latter because no comparable high-end SUV exists.

If you bought a Ford/Chevy, you're asking for reliability issues.

Really? Data?

How did you find out about this website?

How would this change if the women were set on being childfree?

Digital nomad - are you AirBnBing around various countries or are you staying in coliving/coworking communities?

I ask because I'm interested in doing that soon.

pay wall

Right - a certain segment of the population is incredibly valuable for exactly this service.

I include myself in your description - love seeing relevant ads. There's a sweet spot there between those with high disposable incomes, high open mindedness and high affinity for novelty.

This population is by far the most attractive consumer for advertisers.

I like this quote:

"I see that there are many young people here; as an old man, a little advice... Life can set us a lot of snares, a lot of bumps, we can fail a thousand times, in life, in love, in the social struggle, but if we search for it we'll have the strength to get up again and start over. The most beautiful thing about the day is that it dawns. There is always a dawn after the night has passed. Don't forget it, kids. The only losers are the ones who stop fighting."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica

Email in my bio if you'd like a penpal.

Read your comments and saw this wasn't the first on this theme.

Depending on your status, do you have anything against asking guys/gals to grab lunch?

Sounds weird but honestly, I ask out plenty of girls all the time not to date them but to see if they'd be an interesting friend.

EDIT: I see you're also 21 like myself. Ever tried going to meet ups? Maybe not tech-oriented meetups but hiking, kayaking, boating, etc.

This is just plain stupidity.

Sometimes I feel like the whole world is ruined by ignorant people in power. As for the Internet, it is exclusively being ruined by ignorant actors in positions of state power. All the while, armies of good people make the Internet better every day.

Engineers agree with your sentiment. People managers, I'm not so sure they've come to the same conclusion.

"not wasting away in offices" - Yep.

Every day I come into an office feels like a waste compared to a day I work from home.

A waste of my life to be more specific.

Requiring tech workers to be physically located next to each other during the hours of 9 AM to 5 PM, five days a week for years is archaic and a slap in the face of what we've done as an industry.

Perhaps data from large HR departments would be useful. Although that would limit it to people who stay at the same company.

Brings another question, is it possible to find out which two companies in the world have the most overlap between employees? To clarify, two companies which a majority of knowledge workers jump between.

If you were to study this for corporate standardized careers, how would you go about getting data?

I can't think of a reliable, detailed, readily available source of info like that. Maybe LinkedIn for profiles that explicitly state education years (HS and B.S. to estimate age) and then somehow filter through and classify job titles?

Several issues not including users who state themselves "Founder", "CEO", for MLM schemes. Maybe you could cut the population down to users who have had software titles.

How was it?

What about WGU?

....from the Federal Reserve...?

"because they screwed the pooch with that in the 1980s and still have the same COBOL patches running today."

What?

As the other commentter pointed out, it's a term from Wall Street.

What sort of salary range does a SWE or SRE earn in NYC with respect to the type of person you mention?

I've never encountered a SWE who was 10x more effective than the SWE next to him. Perhaps I'm inexperienced.

I've never been, I am ignorant.

Alternative - Tech cities with moderate cost of living or suburbs of the majors. So..Texas Triangle (Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio), Research Triangle Park (Raleigh-Durham), Chicago.

I don't understand this strategy.

Isn't NYC in the top 10 most expensive places to live? If you're a small company, wouldn't you want to downsize expenses and not pay for excessive salaries, commercial rent, taxes, etc?

Do you ever have issues with (US) candidates not wanting to live in the NYC area?

I had sent an email to my team last week about the book. I'll pass this on, thank you.

"Well all games used to come as a CD in a box, simply because it wasn't viable to download them from the internet."

Was this not the reason software was distributed in CDs? I can understand MSFT/Apple using that packaging for customer experience.

I suspect he gave this book review assignment to an intern that majored in something besides CS, business or Econ.

I was under the impression the Gates Notes were written by him, wrong?