jupiterjaz

I'm a junior dev with just 1 year of experience and this was my immediate instinct.

Location: Portland, Oregon

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML, CSS, jQuery, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Git, AJAX, TDD, SQL Databases, Object Oriented Design, JavaScript, Agile Methodologies, Pair Programming, PHP, Drupal

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0g65v97k35q4r7h/CoreyNorrisResume....

Email: coreypnorris@gmail.com

I'm currently on the last few weeks of a six month web developer internship at a startup in Portland. I'm looking for another internship or a junior developer position.

That and unwilling to accept immigration.

I just finished Marvel Comics: the untold story by Sean Howe. One thing I was really surprised to learn was that Stan Lee was in his 40's and had already been a comicbook editor for 20 years before he co-created all the famous Marvel heroes like Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and The Hulk.

So much of this would go away if the city would just loosen its building and zoning regulations.

Honestly if autonomous cars can reduce even 10% of accidents caused by drunk driving and other human errors then they will have payed their way and more.

Sometimes I feel like "do what you love" is a kind of psychic barrier-to-entry for certain fields. People say "you really have to love this field in order to be successful at it". Which implies that just being hardworking, disciplined, and determined to improve aren't enough. You have to love practicing the craft more than food, sleep, sex, or any other hobby or recreation imaginable. You have to feel like you were born to do it and when you aren't that's all you can think about. That the idea of a perfect day is 16 hours at the task with as little time as possible left over for anything else like food or sleep.

That's what comes to my mind when people tell me "make sure you love this stuff before you try to become a professional. You wont succeed otherwise."

I blame NIMBYs. Landowners in rich cities stop anything that might bring down the value of their property, especially additional housing.

Disrupt all the nimby's who lobby against building additional housing. Landowners hate new housing because it drives down the value of their assets. If anyone's truly despicable in this culture it's the landowners who refuse to let more housing come into the market.

"Cutting everyone a check for $1,000 a month, which most people in that room would consider too little to live on, would cost almost $3 trillion."

...What? I work a low skill service sector job and I only make $850 per month after all the taxes and deductions are taken out and I do fine as far as shelter and food are concerned. $1000 a month is plenty if it's after taxes and deductions.

Why does this topic keep creeping up here? Are people really that interested in this stuff?

Well some kinds of education will. Keep in mind that tutoring or face-to-face job training is a kind of education as well. I don't think the price of that will decrease and become as abundant as air. As high paying jobs become more difficult to get, it might get so expensive that only the wealthy can afford it.

Often those jobs require a physical address.

Here in downtown Reno they're 9am-5pm Mon-Thur and 10-5 on Sunday. That's basically post office style hours (ie when everyone's at work or in school) with the added bonus of being closed Friday and Saturday. That's pretty awful.

http://www.washoecounty.us/library/libraries.html

Local library business hours are terrible.

This guy gets it. Liberalizing zoning rules and restrictions would go a long way to alleviating this problem. For some reason liberals are against liberalization in this day and age.

My feeling is that if most of the rich world's education systems weren't run by inefficient, corrupt, and overly subsidized government bureaucracies then this whole income inequality issue wouldn't be a problem. Of course some places do better than others, mainly Scandinavian countries, but I think the income inequality problem is mostly an education/job training problem in disguise.

Cynicism aside that was a pretty entertaining read.

betterment.com their you're done.

The ironic thing it that deregulating zoning laws is something that conservatives commonly argue for. Well maybe not conservatives but libertarians do.

Here's an idea. Allow people to build more buildings in San Francisco.

This assumes that everything is just fine and dandy in the brick and mortar college world. It isn't.

"Trying to get answers before fully considering the problem." "Being uncomfortable with not knowing."

These two things seem totally at odds to me and it's something I struggle with constantly. How do you ever know if you've considered the problem enough? If you come to a problem you cant solve and go to someone for help there's always a chance that person will ridicule you and put you down, destroying your motivation, because you didn't "fully consider the problem" in his eyes.

Once a month or once a quarter I think.

I don't know what you're reading. That article had plenty on the large welfare states.

If you can afford it then do it. Those social lessons you are learning are no doubt invaluable. The issue is that for a lot of people it's just not affordable. And it's getting less so every year. If you're well-to-do and have the money then have fun and enjoy yourself.

Education is necessary. Schooling may not be.

Peoples definition of poverty changes over time.

Well duh. With 4x the population of the US why wouldn't Chinese sales overtake the US's?

The Satanic Trinity-- healthcare, housing, and tuition. 3 markets that are subject to massive government intervention and subsidization. Just saying.