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by bkjelden 11y ago
This is surprising to me. I would guess that close to 50% of my friends and acquaintances are in the top 5%, and the overwhelming majority are 70-75% percentile or higher. I guess that just goes to show you how skewed from the averages the
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by bkjelden 11y ago
You're not the only one who isn't a huge fan of dense environments. I like the idea of the walkability people desire, but I highly value the privacy of a detached single family home and a decent sized fenced-in yard. The thing abo
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I think it's simply that most American cities are relatively young, and a good portion of the growth occurred after cars became abundant. Older cities aren't as car-centric, because cars didn't exist when they were built.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Say someone is renting out a room on AirBNB, and they also have some dropcams monitoring the perimeter of their house. Someone rents the room, and runs this script, disabling the cameras. During the stay, the property is burglarized, and th
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by bkjelden 11y ago
There are 20 metro areas in the US with a population over 3 million people. What would it take to get the big players in tech, say, the 10 biggest companies by market cap or # of people employed, to open up satellite offices in all (or even
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by bkjelden 11y ago
If you're running Windows 10 I would suggest checking out the Office "mobile" apps in the Windows Store. They remind me of the clean simplicity of google doc's webapps quite a bit.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
That's very believable. When I was there, every single morning I would see flatbed trucks hauling mangled cars down the road - presumably the cars were wrecked in a DUI accident the night before.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Sounds like the owner or the bank are just trying to generate some PR buzz and rip off someone not from the area with more money than sense. It's a few acres of prairie with some buildings that need to be torn down. I'm not up to
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Microsoft could've bought 6.5 Nokias for $45 billion
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by bkjelden 11y ago
What do you think you've learned from living/working in so many different cities? I love hearing advice and insight from people who've lived in a lot of different US cities. What similarities they've noticed, what differ
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I'd never raise kids here either. I overheard two coworkers talking a few months ago - one parent saying that she didn't want to send her kids to PALY because she didn't think so much homework and stress was necessary - and r
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by bkjelden 11y ago
The problem with apps when I left WP wasn't necessarily #1-50, it was #51-500. They had most of the top 50 (with a couple glaring holes, but those didn't impact me personally). The problem was that "apps" have become the
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Yea, I grew up in SD and I wouldn't really consider the corn palace indicative of life there. But it's still a unique building and worth seeing if you're driving across the country and generally interested in those kinds of t
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Thanks. It's been a rough few weeks and it helps to hear that I'm not the only one who feels this way.
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> Many people choose to live in the Midwest because they like having more personal space I've been in the bay area for about a year now and this hits on what has been by far the hardest part of the transition for me, and what will e
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Paul Graham is a great follow and his signal to noise ratio is much higher than pmarca. Also, Graham's tweets about his kids are adorable. Sam Altman is a good follow too.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
The problem with a release that breaks backwards compatibility is that no one would use it. Very few new projects are written in C++. It's the old products with 1M+ LOC codebases that most C++ devs live in.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Anecdotally, I have a hard time buying the stat that homes today are only 31% more efficient than they were in 1970. I lived in a fairly large, brand new home for a couple years, and my energy bills were way lower than my friends who live
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by bkjelden 11y ago
How is this different from the days of Windows desktop software? Microsoft could copy any popular desktop apps (and in some cases, they did). But it didn't stop companies from becoming wildly successful building desktop software.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
The fatal flaw of any process - scrum, kanban, waterfall, etc, is when engineering teams try to use them as a replacement for communication rather than as a communication aide.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
good point - they are facing a similar problem. in some ways, android has it worse, because they have to deal with hardware vendors and carriers
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I feel like there should be a case study in every MBA program in the country using Microsoft as an example of what happens when you let a partner control the 'last mile' of your user experience - and consequently, your brand. For
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by bkjelden 11y ago
How does one go about finding tech jobs in the MSP area? I have always been really interested, but never found any actual companies and jobs that I felt would represent a good career move.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Yea, there are 2 year and 4 year RN programs. RN = registered nurse. To be an RN you have to pass nursing boards, and then you are registered to practice nursing in the state(s) you work in. There are two year and four year programs to ge
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Aren't the greater fool theory and 'cheap' the same idea, just from different reference points? Both assume I can buy an asset for less than I can sell it for.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
A little imposter syndrome keeps you hungry. A lot of imposter syndrome is paralyzing. I had a very similar experience to you during my first performance review at Microsoft. Thought I was just scraping by, ended up getting a promotion.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Lately I've been becoming more mindful of how much my mental state and cognitive ability can vary depending on my mood, surroundings, etc. I work in an individual, windowless office that can get quite warm. One thing I've learned
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I always joke that time zones and character encodings more or less guarantee programmers will always be able to find jobs.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Agreed that rust and go need better IDEs, but I have also seen a lot of c++ code that IDEs are unable to do much with because of the language's complexity and ambiguity. VS is easily confused by typedefs and forward declarations, in my
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I made the opposite move about a year ago, and I think you have it right. Traffic is awful

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