bherms

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by bherms 13y ago
Makes no mention of the hours he worked being actually tied to his death. Sensationalism and baiting much?
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by bherms 13y ago
Yeah, seems low. Avg software eng in the bay area last year was $125k (according to 7x7). I make that as a jr rails dev with about 2 (real) yrs experience, though I've been doing front-end (seriously) and rails (leisurely) for about
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by bherms 13y ago
Not a big fan... The movement of all "navigation" to the right feels unnatural and my eyes keep trying to shift focus to the right (away from the content). Poorly done, IMO, for these usability issues.
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Bleacher Report Cofounder Raises $6.5mil for Womens Publishing(businessinsider.com)
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by bherms 13y ago
Only in this community would a bunch of strangers give a shit that another stranger got bored at his job and is trying something new...
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by bherms 13y ago
But before/after you've experienced it, you should know how far it was, otherwise all you know is subjective, with no actual way to gauge it. "That felt really damn far" is kinda worthless unless you can say, "Wow,
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by bherms 13y ago
However, when building an infographic, the information is meant to be displayed in a useful and interesting way. Shouldn't be a puzzle to be deciphered.
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by bherms 13y ago
Give me an actual number. I have no clue what the scale really is other than visually or by diving the x since by current time elapsed
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by bherms 13y ago
You need to create two gears, a big one and a small one, then place the small one directly in the center of the big one. You can then attach a chain around a gear. Took me forever.
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by bherms 13y ago
Exactly... People who are being ignored usually have reason to be. If you're too dim to realize I'm just busy, then I probably don't want to be texting you anyway. If you're in a situation where I might be ignoring you
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by bherms 13y ago
I love them: Why? Because if I don't reply to someone, it's because I'm either too busy or intentionally ignoring them and if it's the latter, I WANT them to know they're being ignored.
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by bherms 13y ago
It was a great perk. Essentially nobody really made full use of it (the full $500/mo per employee), but it was always great to have the ability to do so... Sometimes you'd just be out with friends for a big brunch and realize, &
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by bherms 13y ago
My last job offered each employee two "Sunday fundays" a month... Basically we could pick up to two Sundays each month to go have fun on the company's dime, up to $250 (each sunday). You couldn't buy any goods with it,
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by bherms 13y ago
This is pretty awesome... I hope to see more tech companies try to connect with younger audiences and help foster growing interests in the engineering fields. Pair this with the quickly changing education landscape and we could see some bi
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by bherms 13y ago
Granfaloonism, as per Vonnegut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon edit: this is in re to the first paragraph on unnecessary connection
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by bherms 13y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty excited to see how it turns out. I hope everything remains peaceful and nobody gets hurt.
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by bherms 13y ago
I wouldn't go that far yet... Signing an online petition is about the least you could possibly do, aside from nothing. If we want real change, we need major protests, people to flood Congress with calls & letters, and more. That
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by bherms 13y ago
Yeah, was just oversight on my part at the time... Luckily figured out what was wrong and went another route instead of keeping things in dropbox.
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by bherms 13y ago
Wasn't complaining at all... Just pointing out the mistake I made.
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by bherms 13y ago
I had this happen in the past too and found it to be the result of two issues: 1) Using dropbox to house a very large git repo with massive changes and tons of branches... Every time I switched branches, the hundreds of files would change
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by bherms 13y ago
But removing the ability to kill oneself by installing a net removes the possibility. If you're going to kill yourself, you don't try to do it via a means that has no chance of success. With a net installed, all the chance of su
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by bherms 13y ago
But this effectively removes the chance that it'll kill you. Getting to the GG Bridge is not a simple thing to do... If you're going to kill yourself, the impulse is there, sure, but you had to go pretty far out of your way to do
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by bherms 13y ago
It's not really our job to protect everyone from themselves though and adding a net not only would hurt the aesthetic of the bridge, but serve as a constant, dreary reminder of death. In addition, adding a net is simply a small measur
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by bherms 13y ago
Defeatism gets us nowhere, though.
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by bherms 13y ago
Very true, just speaking from first-hand experience. I'm trying to pay off all my (astronomical) student loan debt as fast as possible, so I'm putting around $1800/mo into loans alone. Factor in my biggest hobby is seeing l
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by bherms 13y ago
See seph's comment. I took that from a heatmap I saw not too long ago on avg 1br prices in each neighborhood. I'll link if I locate it again.
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by bherms 13y ago
but my experience has been that there is a large group of people from very similar backgrounds (20-something from Stanford/MIT/CMU in the tech industry) That's why I said "not so much as 10-20 years ago". It seem
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by bherms 13y ago
Avg 1br prices are up to over $2500 now. Granted depending on area and quality, you can get down to $1600, but a majority are mid to high $2ks.
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by bherms 13y ago
Yes. Taxes are pretty high, so making $100k w/ benefits, you take home roughly $63k/yr. Then factor in rent and utilities: 1br ($2500+/mo), 2br w/ roomie ($1800+/mo), 3br w/roomies ($1500/mo). So let&#x
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by bherms 13y ago
Very happy he enjoyed the city! Next time he's in town, I'll be sure I'm following his twitter to remain informed. I'd love to buy him a drink. While there is a lot of crappiness in the city, it really is a melting pot

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