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"Rent control or not, the law of supply and demand still applies... or about whether rent control works. It doesn't work."

Without rent control, I'm pretty sure that a LOT more people would be pushed out of San Francisco. It seems to me that places like San Francisco, New York, and a few other places are not typical of what other areas experience. I know it's fashionable amongst the libertarian set to blame problems on regulation, but there is much more going on here than simple rent control.

The TextBlade looks pretty cool. Looks like it would take a lot of training to get proficient at as well. The MS keyboard is very nice looking and would work for casual typing. It might be a better buy than the cheapie keyboard that the Surface Pro comes with, which is one sucky keyboard.

This is definitely concerning. I used to wash my car and truck about every week or two when they were new. Today, I haven't washed them in over two years. During the last "big" storm in the bay area, I was hoping to go outside and wash my truck during the rain. I was down with the flu and couldn't do it, but didn't miss much. I don't think I could've washed the truck, unlike many years ago when I actually washed my car during a rainstorm. The other day, I rinsed off some bird crap from the side of my truck, it was a huge mess but I used the leftovers from a plastic bottled water. Just trying to conserve water. I feel sorry for Uber/Lyft drivers who have to keep their cars clean.

I grew up with Sutro Tower as part of the SF skyline so I don't really hate it. As the title states, I don't appreciate it as much as the rest of SF's landmarks because it's so different from everything else such as Coit Tower, the Transamerica pyramid, or even the Golden Gate Bridge. It looks ugly compared to modern structures like the new bay bridge. Compared to the rest of SF's landmarks, Sutro Tower doesn't seem to fit in.

I have 4 chromebooks, the original pilot program, 1st Gen Samsung, Acer c720, and the Pixel. Totally love the pixel, pilot book and Acer, hate the 1st gen. AdmiralAsshat's criticisms are valid about the pixel but it works well for me since it has a lot more memory than the other chromebooks. Crouton linux makes even the smaller chromebooks quite useable for most situations. Sometimes I have a hard time deciding which chromebook to use. Mostly it's come down to the Acer for travel, and the Pixel for home. The Pixel has poor battery life compared to the other chromebooks though, but glad to hear that's been taken care of.

I would love to be a fly on the wall to see how this discussion is taking place at Google. This is especially relevant now that Google is hosting a Women Techmakers event for International Women's Day.

You don't even have to say anything to incur the wrath of the misogynists and trogolodytes. Recently: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/curt-schil...

I'm glad that she made a big deal out of it. The more attention that's brought to these situations, the more likely more people will stand up against this type of behavior.

Since I discovered yc, I've really enjoyed all of the articles, advice, and debates that came from them. The more I learn about their history and culture, the more impressed I get. Jessica Livingston's post has increased my appreciation for yc even more as I realize how much they've done for founders and vcs. Excellent article!

Awesome response by the father. I don't really understand why some of this hate gets handed out, especially since these guys didn't know the girl.

What???

They've missed the essential ingredient of good food. You have to add some love to it before it can become great food!

The Aliens series of sci-fi films is my favorite of all time. Even though I watched the first two on tv, they were still amazing, and I have the 5 DVD set. I enjoyed them all, even though one or two of them weren't as popular. The story lines and arcs were pretty original and well thought out. Just an awesome series.

Great conversation. Reminds me of some outsourced techs that I've talked to.

LOL, I've always wondered why TCL didn't become more popular since it has a lot of advantages, on paper. The one thing that really turned me off of it was the way it looked, really butt ugly.

Just my friends who are engineering managers. They manage teams here and overseas in China and India. Their views are, overall, the engineers from overseas are of lower quality than the engineers here. But they cost less especially overseas, they can hire 2-3 times as many engineers as over here.

Just curious, is there a larger pool of good engineers in India than available locally? If there is, that sounds like an opportunity to fulfill the promise of the H1B program. From what I understand, the body shops that import most of the H1B workers don't source the high quality employees that employers are demanding here.

"willing to work for pay Z"

Is 'Z' a low number compared to the average employee? If that is, maybe that's the problem?

LOL, anytime I ask about linux availability, nobody has anything to say about LINUX.

So, would you have to go to India to find good engineers? And if you do, what is the interview process like?

"A lot of H1B discussions on HN focus on fraud and avoid talking about legitimate talented foreigners"

Not just on HN, but the discussions on H1B are similar everywhere. And just in case you don't understand the controversy, a lot of people believe that the H1B program is being misused and abused, to the detriment of employees here. If you don't agree with that, you should make your case instead of whining about the arguments.

The links you cite don't point to any specific post, and I couldn't go through all of them to figure out which ones you consider bigoted. But if there are bigoted and hateful posts (which are wrong and I don't condone) I would disagree with you that most people here hate on immigrant labor.

I wonder how that affects pg's views on allowing more H1B workers. (http://www.paulgraham.com/95.html)

The H1B program doesn't really help or address the need by startups for qualified employees.

"To completely stereotype"

I wouldn't characterize that as a stereotype as much as a data point. It's very good info and insight, thanks for that.

Nice move by MS for developers. Too bad you can't use the SDK on other platforms for development, OS X and linux.

According to his website: "All data is from h1bdata.info" (http://h1bdata.info/)

I looked at the website briefly, but wasn't sure how he was able to aggregate all of the data.

Great name! GPL too.

"The world’s forensics experts, governments and three-letter acronym agencies are using similar tools already, so why not?"

I'm not sure I understand that reasoning, but whatever.

I had no idea that "MS-centric" meant your site is hosted on Windows. Thank you for clarifying that.

IOW, WTF ???

Maybe I've conflated your response with others here who seem to have a huge dislike for Android and an obvious bias against anything Google. If that's not you then I apologize for the misunderstanding. I can understand being realistic about a platform and providing criticism, but a lot of the comments here can truly be characterized as hate.

"I used to do everything in google's ecosystem "

How does that work if you're using Windows phone?

"Microsoft has been forced to get it, their stuff works great on all platforms"

I can't get IE, VS, or much else from MS to work on linux. Until then, MS isn't really working on all platforms.

This. Strange to see so much hate on Google. I've never seen that anywhere else.

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Why would stack overflow focus on MS when MS has their own forums and developer resources? I have to admit, I don't look for MS things on stack, but everything else I have questions about I'll look there. In fact, most searches for MS related questions are found on sites other than stack.

Well, for what it's worth, your posts are quite reasonable and balanced. And I think your observations are accurate, I've noticed the same things.