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I think you'll find that's not exactly true. Many comedians are excellent at improv, that also makes them really good at keeping up the act in front of everyone around them.

An associate of mine has been doing this for the past 10 years and he makes a pretty good living doing it. He's done everything from pretending to be a manager of a restaurant to pretending to be a business partner of a desktop support company looking to close more deals. Most of the time he doesn't even say anything. The business owners will put him in an office, place a whole bunch of fake degrees from American schools on the wall and they sign because there is a silver haired white man who fits the stereotypical Western CEO mold.

It's not anything new, it's just that more people have caught on and jumped into the game.

So he's as good a politician as advertised.

I would need a concrete example but I'm not buying your assertion. Some of the most flexible people I know are all developers, irrespective of age. If you told me that older developers were more likely to ask questions and seek evidence before making a change I'd believe that. I find that most people confuse easy adaptation to change with pliability due to lack of experience.

> When you have a very fluid workflow youth is very attractive.

i.e. you don't bother to spend an hour to plan a project. I don't think anyone wants to work at those kinds of places, young or old.

> A major pension plan serving 100,000 retirees needs their 100 billion dollars in assets to be managed responsibly, can a 24 year old Stanford grad manage that?

Judging by the NYC pension fund, I could manage 100 billion better.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/nyregion/wall-street-fe...

I would be less worried about that and more worried about cost. I know of two different startups that aren't profitable but would be if they hadn't put their entire platform on amazon services. One of those startups was lucky enough to be acquired but it's going to take them many unprofitable years to migrate away.

You may find it selfish but I don't see why they shouldn't go to verify that the money their spending is being used appropriately.

If I could give you a high five or a hug over the internet I'd do just that. I stopped going to hack-a-thons all together because at some point (I can't pinpoint the exact time) they turned into show-and-tell for existing startups. I participated in a Real Estate Tech hackathon and the top three finishers came in with ready made products, spent all of their time networking and did zero coding. They then pitched their products which were highly polished while the rest of us sat around looking like people who had coded up some things for fun and a little competition.

Hack-a-thons need to change so that the objective isn't clear until you walk in so people have to create something on the spot.

I think it is exactly the fact that they are using Symfony components. Symfony and a lot of other PHP frameworks went head first into the non-sensical enterprise Java abstraction and IoC hell from 10-15 years ago that current Java developers are running as fast as they can from. That overhead comes at a cost.

Yes, which is always why I always cringe when I see how many people in their 20s and 30s believe that home ownership is a bad idea. The willingness to rent for life in order to live a high density, urban lifestyle is going to come back to haunt them when they get older. It's good for me as a landlord but I hope people my age start rethinking their position on home ownership.

I totally agree, but it's not going to be the kind of quick money making endeavor that attracts people from finance.

My experience was vastly different and that's the problem. These aren't guidelines they are laws and you're at the mercy of whoever is investigating you. I'd rather not give too many details but one of the companies I worked for was fined a large amount of money after a security breach that was the fault of the hospital and not our application.

I worked in medical tech for a few years, there are a few reasons people aren't going to flood into that sector.

1.) Regulation, HIPAA is a massive pain to deal with, the rules nebulous and require significant process that is expensive and time consuming.

2.) Violations of HIPAA lead to fines and even lawsuits from the office of civil rights. It used to be that Business Associates could hide behind the medical institutions to avoid this but with the Omnibus rules you'll face massive fines that will easily bankrupt any startup.

3.) The entire healthcare sector is extremely risk averse, slow moving and you cannot work around them you have to work with them which means you're going to move slowly too.

4.) You will HAVE to integrate with dozens of other ancient applications that medical institutions use, some of which have no documentation or publicly available source code. I hope you like searching through hundreds of pages of outdated HL7 and X12 documentation to figure out how a specific vendor screwed up their implementation.

5.) Large medtech companies regularly snuff out competition through lobbying and leveraging existing relationships in the medical community. So you've got a killer new medical app that will change the world? Big deal, your competition has three doctors who are leaders in their field(and conveniently board members). They will tell all of their buddies at the next American Cardiology Conference that your app is garbage. I hope you've got some big names associated with your startup and you can pay them handsomely.

6.) The medical field is a data hell. Some of it unstructured and non-sensical, much of it is structured but has no validation. That field you are getting from a third party API for albumin levels which was documented as g/dL, was actually entered in mg/L from the years 06/2004-12/2008, mg/dL from 09/2003-05/2004 and the proper documented g/dL for all other dates. Why was it that way? No one knows. You have to keep track of things like that for one field in one database for a single department in a medical institution with a few dozen departments that don't cooperate. Worst of all, it WILL change on you without you knowing.

I apologize if you thought I was being rude, if it's all for fun and exercise that's cool. If it's more hipsterism then not so much.

As long as they aren't engineering interns, my sister cleared 30K in a summer in SV during her internship. I was floored because I felt lucky to even get an internship 10 years ago.

So you believe that it is more energy efficient for a ton of compost to be moved by humans than by a single truck making one trip? What about all of the oil it takes to generate the food to feed the humans who move the compost? I don't have time to do the math at the moment but I hope someone else does. That sounds dubious at best.

Yeah, I looked into that and last I checked it is prohibitively expensive. If this is a viable alternative I can see two great uses.

1.) Whole house UPS 2.) A way to take advantage of significantly lower night time electric rates.

Why is living off the grid the main objective here? I live in a suburban area that occasionally has power outages. Right now I'm considering the purchase of whole house generator but if I could have a battery instead I'd do it.

You should be upvoted way more. I also worked in healthcare IT for three years and security was basically an exercise in checking boxes to claim HIPAA compliance. So long as everyone could avoid fines or being sued by the office of civil rights we were considered secure.

Why throw good money after bad? It's not like people are going to start suddenly using windows phone, that ship already sailed.

Maybe I'm too cynical but laws get drafted with this congress and getting them past the house never happens.

Nothing, but don't expect congress to do anything about this.

My first web dev job was at a company in that situation. Trust me when I say that would never happen. By the time a company reaches the position myspace is in they usually have a penny pinching CEO that sees engineering as an expense. The entire codebase is usually put in maintenance mode until there is a drop in ad revenue. That's when the board and CEO create a panic project to refresh the site or introduce a new gimmick to fight the decline. That usually happens once a year or so.

Little thought is given to efficiency or refactoring because the decision makers don't care about that. Everything eventually becomes about quick quarterly "wins" so that executive management can earn their bonuses. In practice this means if you can't plan, complete and show the project directly increased revenue or decreased expenses for that quarter it won't become a priority.

That is the wonderful shortsighted world of a one product company in decline :-)

Sure, but look at it this way. If an artist who has 100K followers removes their music from music sharing services and decides to sell MP3 versions of their album directly for $2. That is 200K. 22 cents a month is obscene.

At one point in the past enforcing these minor offenses served a legitimate purpose. NYC was leading the nation in violent crime and the city was in deep disrepair. Times Square, an international icon, was so filled with trash dangerous that people avoided it for fear of being mugged or killed. Movie theaters weren't safe places because drug deals would occur which sometimes lead to increased crime.

This is the NYC in which these minor offenses needed to be enforced strictly. There are a number of theories regarding the decrease in crime but I'm pretty certain no one can argue that the drastic measures were necessary. Fast forward to 2014 NYC is basically disney world for adult tourists. There definitely needs to be a review of how we police the city because the tactics currently in place are from 25 years ago. Hopefully the data from this slowdown will provide the evidence necessary to create change.

NBC and a few other companies have been doing this for a very long time for many positions. They get away with it by using third party agencies and there isn't any recourse for the employee.

Better integration would work by allowing users to save routes on google maps. Those same routes would show in your list of saved routes on the google maps app, possibly with a cached offline version of the route on your cellphone.

I actually tried that, it's kind of hacky and is not well integrated with google maps or android. Also, if your phone is off or the screen is locked for a few minutes it doesn't work.