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Local here: Its not cash only anymore. ATM service is coming back up to a lot of the island. Banks are opening and things are looking up. Life is somewhat ge

Local here: Its not cash only anymore. ATM service is coming back up to a lot of the island. Banks are opening and things are looking up. Life is somewhat getting back to normal. The big issue is that people are now realizing that they are out of jobs. Its why Im moving to Atlanta this month. Things are bound to get interesting once the poor run out of money. Btw, going to use this space (and please excuse me) to let the community know that Im available for hire. Please email me at pryelluw@gmail.com for more details or tweet at me @pryelluw You can find a link to my resume on my profile. Willing to relocate whithin the continental US.

jnbiche 9y ago
Yes, use this opportunity to make contacts. But I'd recommend you add a sentence or two to let HN employers know your professional background and skills. I see from your profile that you do Python, Django, and JavaScript, anything else? Your impressive blog discusses functional programming a lot. Only willing to consider Atlanta, or other cities in Southeast? (Raleigh-Durham is another big regional employer of programmers, and hires lots of Python folks) Also, I'm guessing things are only looking up in San Juan, right? The outlying areas still have no clean drinking water, food, or medicine from what I'm seeing.
- pryelluw 9y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. Ive updated my bio and included a link to my most recent resume. I have no issues with relocating within the US (as long as its not Alaska). I live near San Juan (about 3o mins out and things sure are better than in other areas. But people are still currently in a state of shock and havent realized the implications of the catastrophe. My dad lives where the eye entered and it looks lime a set for the walking dead tv show.
  - unlmtd1 9y ago
    Why only the US?
    - djKianoosh 9y ago
      It's much easier? Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English (a lot more do than people assume) then it's relatively easy.
      - verelo 9y ago
        As long as they know English? That seems like an absurd requirement, surely it’s by birth?
        khedoros1 9y ago
        For citizenship, yes. They're saying that not knowing English makes it harder to work in the US: - Puerto Ricans are US citizens - So as long as they know English then [working in the U.S. is] relatively easy.
        djKianoosh 9y ago
        thanks for clarifying I think verelo must have missed the word "so"
        verelo 9y ago
        I don’t think I did, where would you put it? Seems by the downvotes I offended someone, I don’t really know where but keen to correct it if that is the case!
        dmd 9y ago
        What the comment says: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English ... it's relatively easy" What you think the comment says: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens as long as they know English"
        veidr 9y ago
        What djKianoosh means is that you missed reading the word "so", leading you to read the comment as: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens as long as they know English..." ...instead of: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English..."
- djKianoosh 9y ago
  My wife is from PR and most of her family lives theoughout the island. It's not actually "better" in San Juan, because people are desperate for water/gas in many neighborhoods. I can only tell you that there are some pretty horrible things going on in parts of San Juan. In the mountain towns they still dont have any comms and no water or gas. In the north west the lines for gas/water are miles long. Lots of people are leaving. It will be really interesting to see how the long term effects play out, even if only 25% of the population moves to NY, Chicago, DC, Orlando, Philly, etc.
  - pryelluw 9y ago
    Well, better is a relative term. I see things generally improving. Doesnt mean that bad things are not happening.
  - bobthepanda 9y ago
    PR is no stranger to mass exodus (the previous waves to New York are evidence of this). In fact the pre-hurricane problems largely stem from the results of the past exoduses. Solving the problem requires repealing all the laws that yoke PR to mainland companies without providing any of the actual benefits, but that would require the current Congress to want to give PR something like statehood, if not statehood itself.
    - memracom 9y ago
      If they cannot justify statehood then annex it to Florida.
      - drxzcl 9y ago
        No republican is going to add a few million safely Democratic votes to Florida. Unfortunately that’s the kind of world we live in.
        jcadam 9y ago
        Solution: Divide Florida into two states (North and South). Give Puerto Rico to South Florida. Puerto Rico has much more in common (culturally) with South Florida anyway. North Florida is heavily republican, South Florida is heavily democrat. Status Quo is maintained.
yincrash 9y ago
How is the progress on power coming back to the island? Is it still dependent on diesel? The cell networks work?
- pryelluw 9y ago
  Yes to diesel and cell networks are only up in san juan are and barely working elsewhere. We lost a lot of fiber optic.
cptskippy 9y ago
Good luck! I just skimmed over your resume and I don't think you'll have any problem finding opportunity in Atlanta.
- pryelluw 9y ago
  Thank you for the kind words.
rietta 9y ago
We have a good meetup culture in Atlanta. Lookup the Atlanta Ruby users group when you get settled. Lots of tech startups to work with.
- caseysoftware 9y ago
  Tons of Meetups and conferences in Atlanta - https://twitter.com/ATL_TechEvents https://twitter.com/ATL_TechEvents
  - pryelluw 9y ago
    Thanks! Defintely checking those out.
- pryelluw 9y ago
  Thank you for the info. Will look it up.
mistermann 9y ago
If you don't mind, I'd love to hear a HNer-calibre opinion of how well the recovery has been handled. My understanding is that there are plenty of supplies sitting in port that can't get out to people, any opinions on what "should" have been done, both before and after the event, to improve the efficiency of the recovery in the days immediately after? Would helicopters airlifting those supplies out to people have been practical, or some other approach?
- pryelluw 9y ago
  The are two main issues we should consider first: 1. Hurricane Irma had impacted the island about a week before. Debilitating or destroying some lf the infrastructure. 2. The goverment wad already working 24/7 to recover from Hurricane Irma. This had been a perfect storm of sorts. The area was recovering from a hurricane, the economic environment was weak, and people's outlook was less than stellar. Combine all of this with a catastrophic event and you get what we have: an overworked government with scarce resources, an infrastructure that was in need of updating and repair, and a general sense of hopelessness from the population. The federal government is helping a lot but this is an unprecedented event that piles up on the work they were doing on Houston and Florida. Couñd they do more? I dont know if they have the resources. You just cant expect one entity to handle multiple incidents plus being at war on the middle east (and possibly NK). There is little to do in efficiency. You can surely bring in logistics experts (like the military did), but you cant bring in enough human resources in a timely manner. Airlifting sounds practical but Im not sure if it would have helped when the ports authority was just overworked and understaffed. This was just the perfect storm. It destroyed my beautiful country. That's life. Its why we gotta live in the moment and stop to smell the flowers from time to time.
  - mistermann 9y ago
    The general consensus on the parts of the internet that I frequent is that this is Trump's fault, do you more or less agree? It seems to me there should be a skeleton of resilient roads spanning the land for disaster relief distribution, but maybe that's a naive opinion.
yuhong 9y ago
I wonder how much cash is being withdrawn per day.

jnbiche 9y ago

Yes, use this opportunity to make contacts. But I'd recommend you add a sentence or two to let HN employers know your professional background and skills. I see from your profile that you do Python, Django, and JavaScript, anything else? Your impressive blog discusses functional programming a lot. Only willing to consider Atlanta, or other cities in Southeast? (Raleigh-Durham is another big regional employer of programmers, and hires lots of Python folks) Also, I'm guessing things are only looking up in San Juan, right? The outlying areas still have no clean drinking water, food, or medicine from what I'm seeing.

pryelluw 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Ive updated my bio and included a link to my most recent resume. I have no issues with relocating within the US (as long as its not Alaska). I live near San Juan (about 3o mins out and things sure are better than in other areas. But people are still currently in a state of shock and havent realized the implications of the catastrophe. My dad lives where the eye entered and it looks lime a set for the walking dead tv show.
- unlmtd1 9y ago
  Why only the US?
  - djKianoosh 9y ago
    It's much easier? Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English (a lot more do than people assume) then it's relatively easy.
    - verelo 9y ago
      As long as they know English? That seems like an absurd requirement, surely it’s by birth?
      - khedoros1 9y ago
        For citizenship, yes. They're saying that not knowing English makes it harder to work in the US: - Puerto Ricans are US citizens - So as long as they know English then [working in the U.S. is] relatively easy.
        djKianoosh 9y ago
        thanks for clarifying I think verelo must have missed the word "so"
        verelo 9y ago
        I don’t think I did, where would you put it? Seems by the downvotes I offended someone, I don’t really know where but keen to correct it if that is the case!
        dmd 9y ago
        What the comment says: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English ... it's relatively easy" What you think the comment says: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens as long as they know English"
        veidr 9y ago
        What djKianoosh means is that you missed reading the word "so", leading you to read the comment as: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens as long as they know English..." ...instead of: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English..."
djKianoosh 9y ago
My wife is from PR and most of her family lives theoughout the island. It's not actually "better" in San Juan, because people are desperate for water/gas in many neighborhoods. I can only tell you that there are some pretty horrible things going on in parts of San Juan. In the mountain towns they still dont have any comms and no water or gas. In the north west the lines for gas/water are miles long. Lots of people are leaving. It will be really interesting to see how the long term effects play out, even if only 25% of the population moves to NY, Chicago, DC, Orlando, Philly, etc.
- pryelluw 9y ago
  Well, better is a relative term. I see things generally improving. Doesnt mean that bad things are not happening.
- bobthepanda 9y ago
  PR is no stranger to mass exodus (the previous waves to New York are evidence of this). In fact the pre-hurricane problems largely stem from the results of the past exoduses. Solving the problem requires repealing all the laws that yoke PR to mainland companies without providing any of the actual benefits, but that would require the current Congress to want to give PR something like statehood, if not statehood itself.
  - memracom 9y ago
    If they cannot justify statehood then annex it to Florida.
    - drxzcl 9y ago
      No republican is going to add a few million safely Democratic votes to Florida. Unfortunately that’s the kind of world we live in.
      - jcadam 9y ago
        Solution: Divide Florida into two states (North and South). Give Puerto Rico to South Florida. Puerto Rico has much more in common (culturally) with South Florida anyway. North Florida is heavily republican, South Florida is heavily democrat. Status Quo is maintained.

yincrash 9y ago

How is the progress on power coming back to the island? Is it still dependent on diesel? The cell networks work?

pryelluw 9y ago
Yes to diesel and cell networks are only up in san juan are and barely working elsewhere. We lost a lot of fiber optic.

cptskippy 9y ago

Good luck! I just skimmed over your resume and I don't think you'll have any problem finding opportunity in Atlanta.

pryelluw 9y ago
Thank you for the kind words.

rietta 9y ago

We have a good meetup culture in Atlanta. Lookup the Atlanta Ruby users group when you get settled. Lots of tech startups to work with.

caseysoftware 9y ago
Tons of Meetups and conferences in Atlanta - https://twitter.com/ATL_TechEvents https://twitter.com/ATL_TechEvents
- pryelluw 9y ago
  Thanks! Defintely checking those out.
pryelluw 9y ago
Thank you for the info. Will look it up.

mistermann 9y ago

If you don't mind, I'd love to hear a HNer-calibre opinion of how well the recovery has been handled. My understanding is that there are plenty of supplies sitting in port that can't get out to people, any opinions on what "should" have been done, both before and after the event, to improve the efficiency of the recovery in the days immediately after? Would helicopters airlifting those supplies out to people have been practical, or some other approach?

pryelluw 9y ago
The are two main issues we should consider first: 1. Hurricane Irma had impacted the island about a week before. Debilitating or destroying some lf the infrastructure. 2. The goverment wad already working 24/7 to recover from Hurricane Irma. This had been a perfect storm of sorts. The area was recovering from a hurricane, the economic environment was weak, and people's outlook was less than stellar. Combine all of this with a catastrophic event and you get what we have: an overworked government with scarce resources, an infrastructure that was in need of updating and repair, and a general sense of hopelessness from the population. The federal government is helping a lot but this is an unprecedented event that piles up on the work they were doing on Houston and Florida. Couñd they do more? I dont know if they have the resources. You just cant expect one entity to handle multiple incidents plus being at war on the middle east (and possibly NK). There is little to do in efficiency. You can surely bring in logistics experts (like the military did), but you cant bring in enough human resources in a timely manner. Airlifting sounds practical but Im not sure if it would have helped when the ports authority was just overworked and understaffed. This was just the perfect storm. It destroyed my beautiful country. That's life. Its why we gotta live in the moment and stop to smell the flowers from time to time.
- mistermann 9y ago
  The general consensus on the parts of the internet that I frequent is that this is Trump's fault, do you more or less agree? It seems to me there should be a skeleton of resilient roads spanning the land for disaster relief distribution, but maybe that's a naive opinion.

yuhong 9y ago

I wonder how much cash is being withdrawn per day.