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I don’t think it’s high housing prices cause high engineer salaries. By that logic all jobs in SF/Seattle should be high paying but that isn’t the case.

I see two ways it could be working:

1. High engineering salaries cause high housing prices

2. High engineering employer demand causes high housing prices (more employees in the same area and stagnant housing supply)

For 2, the high housing prices probably do push up salaries to an extent but the real cause is demand for engineers

apestion LeetCode but You Can Force People to Code in Light Mode

Also there is an issue where string comparison doesn't seem to work.

Unfortunately the site is unplayable currently. But it has a lot of potential, it's similar to binarysearch.io which all my friends loved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22164212

apestion Financial innovations brought by technology

Flash loans couldn’t exist in the traditional system

apestion Currency Rates API

I see Zendesk listed as one of the businesses that uses this. Does anyone have an idea why Zendesk would need an exchange rate API?

apestion California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

They’re actually talking about Amazon’s delivery service partner program. It’s where Amazon helps people setup independently owned delivery businesses. https://logistics.amazon.com/

apestion Quora User Data Compromised

Symantec's system does suck but there's actually a way to use it with Google Authenticator:

https://www.cyrozap.com/2014/09/29/reversing-the-symantec-vi...

apestion Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding

I recently used Julia in my numerical analysis course and it worked well for the most part. We couldn't use it for some of the larger projects because it wasn't as optimized as MATLAB for certain matrix operations. However, it was great most of the time and better than using MATLAB on the university computers.