brianvan5155

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by brianvan5155 10y ago
did the Fifth Avenue address play any role in the winding down of this business
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
So, in essence, just suck it up. The funny thing is that JavaScript development isn't a goal. It's never the goal. Complex toolsets sometimes assist in the achievement of goals... but you can't say "JavaScript overload i
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
It's not wrong
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
Learning in other industries is offered in institutional settings as part of the profession. Learning in the dev world consists of aimlessly screwing around with an undocumented, unsupported, glitchy web/server stack for many many hour
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
This reads like it's from the original posted article
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
It is the ventilation building for the Holland Tunnel on the New York side; it's located directly above the tunnel, near the Manhattan portal. It's not accessible directly via the street. It sits out on a long pier in the river, w
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
True and frightening. There isn't a particularly good reason why a modern middle manager has that much power over their direct reports.
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
These factors indeed would stress people out. Put poor compensation and poor quality-of-living on this list as well, since we now live in a race-to-the-bottom global labor marketplace, and companies are aiming for absolute low payroll cost
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
Are you talking about married couples taking different bedrooms in one apartment? Or single individuals (not living as couples) taking different bedrooms in one apartment? Yes, we do a lot of roommate shares here in the US; I lived in about
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
That IS for a single apartment I'm married & the thought of doing a "house share" with other married couples seems very cramped up & a recipe for disputes. This is aside the fact that it's absurd that dual-workin
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
The average sales price of a home in my county is $2,000,000 The lowest county average sales price within a commuting hour of my workplace is probably $700,000, to live somewhere fairly isolated and dead. It would only be "that easy&qu
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
My comment didn't speak to the pre-WWII era, but going back to the nineteenth century, the U.S. has always had a robust workforce more-often-than-not offering opportunity for upward mobility for those motivated enough to take on the wo
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
I really don't see 70+ year old people working staff jobs for 50 hours a week with brutal commutes and skimpy PTO benefits, as is now the average for people holding a single role for less than 5 years. I can see labor ages skewing upwa
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
I'm a supporter of a large transportation advocacy group that strongly believes in this shift in terminology. I believe in it personally, too. Anyone who spends some time observing the news in New York - a city with a fairly low (relat
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
"City Workers Repair Earthquake Fault" give em a bonus this year
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
Tumblr's founder is strongly involved in the product decisions there. Prior to the Yahoo! acquisition... there were still a ton of head-scratchers in product, marketing, and operations over there. Staffing rumors indicated the young fo
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by brianvan5155 10y ago
It's creating new peaks at previously non-peak times. We don't know precisely what effect that will have on the grid utility business, or what effect that will have on overall grid supply price rates. One could argue that grid pow
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by brianvan5155 14y ago
Part of the struggle is to make sure that one subculture of businessmen in SV isn't allowed to position themselves as entirely representing the interactive media industry. There is already more than them out there... a lot more. But they ar
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by brianvan5155 14y ago
I'm oversimplifying and muddying things by referring to funding, so let's bring this back to what it's supposed to be about: I believe, from what I know, that this is a company with strong fundamentals. (You can inquire more if you are inte
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by brianvan5155 14y ago
I'm a web producer and developer. I'm an early commenter from Slashdot, Ars Technica, and Gawker. I've been using online communities for 22 years, longer than some people around here have been alive. I've read quite a few threads on HN and
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The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care(juliefredrickson.tumblr.com)
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