brooklyn_ashey

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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
So of the 7.4% of users who pushed more than 10 times in the last year, how many are bootcamp students? (after you remove the big,open source projects like all the big companies have up there) I just think these students should know this.
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
forgot to mention that whatever you agree to in the lease re:first and last months' rent will bind you. And you have to agree if you want a place to live.
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Yeah, they can charge literally whatever they want- and it keeps rising. You are right about first and last month rent. But there is no point in trying to have that law work for you, because the LL will just take you to court and you will h
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
and consider too, that when offered a 2 year lease, a tenant is apt to take it under these circumstances, so they know they have a place to live that won't be taken from them. (as the landlord can decide to not offer a lease again, esp
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I have no problem with anyone down-voting my comment. I would really welcome some substantive critique. I'm offering my perspective of what is going on in NYC in order that it might help someone who is going through something similar,
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I know. It is a wholly unreported outrage. I'm still trying to figure out if there is any worth to writing an article about it, at least to just 'raise awareness' for whatever that's worth these days, in the face of many
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
The problem is much deeper than Airbnb. As a 27 year NYer, I appreciate the shake-up caused by Airbnb. Landlords of market rate apartments can charge whatever they want for a security deposit, so we now get landlords asking 6 months to a ye
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Actually, they have stopped offering tenants money to move out unless they get a crop of tenants who know their rights and have some kind of leverage to enforce them (these are usually more affluent tenants who hung onto stabilized lease wh
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Not sure... The Beach Boys seemed squeaky clean at the beginning of their recording career. By the time Smile and Pet Sounds came out, I think people knew about their drug taking (great albums!!!) but many who know their early work have nev
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I thought we were talking places where people can work/live. Detroit came to mind: affordable housing, a few jobs- not many. But then I remembered: oh yeah! They have a giant trash incinerator blowing poison air on the whole Metro Area
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Agree with you completely. He was also grabbing from Paris fashion with respect to the imported "cakewalk"- so there were serious echoes in his music of ragtime from that point on. (I wonder if he heard Tom Wiggins at any point to
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Gosh. I didn't expect anyone here to be this unable to imagine/relate that many of our circumstances are not in our control. I know how hard it is to hear that innocent, strong, intelligent, accomplished people could be suffering,
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
It's a kids' movie. But the point was humility before the art. Always in training. Shoot, Mr. m practiced teaching better by tending tiny metaphorical bonsai trees and catching flies with chopsticks, so he was not above being a st
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Well, washing cars turned out to be the point for The Karate Kid... and humility before technique. I agree that few employers will be like Mr.Miyagi though ;
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
It is difficult to believe that the person who knows how to sling slang like "chops" (technical command and facility in a given domain)is the same person who is only just hearing of HackerRank through an employer's request. A
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Yes! yes! It's been over twenty years since I read this and it still calls to me. Thank you for reminding me how beautiful and true that passage is. His rhythm in this part is like a swing. Dream-like. Another lovely spot in the book w
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Thank you for saying this. Our support structures are an embarassment. The hoops they make the homeless jump through for basic Medicaid are a crime as well. So of course no savings! But we both know there are people who would have that mom
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
And it sure is difficult for folks to save when they are working their butts off to pay crazy rent/mortgage and sky high medical/dental so they can stay healthy to work...plus college and grad school loans that got them the low pa
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Not really in actual, regular, uninterrupted practice. There are so many problems with the US healthcare system at every level of it when you have excellent health insurance, especially in terms of regular maintenence medication for somethi
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
There areno jobs in these areas in middle America. And sometimes the water and air is poison where there is affordable housing anyway in these places. We need social programs that actually help and that actually are accessible. Some of the
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I'll never forget reading Speak Memory. (!) The opening sentences or somewhere near the opening ones concerned Nabokov's meditation on death and birth and how alike they are. He talked about how strange it
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
No, you just need great documentation of your accomplishments and an excellent lawyer who knows how to handle the process. $$ It helps if you have done original work, and if a well known/internationally famous person in your field (or
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Wow, then I sure do know a lot of Nobel winners. (joke) They hand these out to professional musicians all the time. They are fantastic musicians, each one of these 0-oners. But we also have fantastic musicians here in the US. We are wall-to
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Actually, software engineering isn't a completely different animal from music-ing. It's the most similar animal I can think of. Its pedagogy is behind music's pedagogy by two, maybe three hundred years. (for obvious reasons)
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Some great point in OP's critique. But CS isn't music theory. Music theory is not really known well by most musicians who are excellent players. Theory is for theorists. I'm not saying that most musicians know zero theory-- t
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Thank you. I looked into "clear", one of the airport known traveler ID systems. (I'm assuming there are others) It's pretty cool/concerning. Takes ~ 8 min to load a traveler into its system. Thanks for reminding me
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I was just reading about a company trying to make self-sovereign identity including actual certs (like degrees and such) an accessible and widely applicable/acceptable technology using Ethereum blockchain. I thought it showed some real
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Yes, and also -- where do the really creative types land? Do we get rid of art? (we are doing a great job at that these days) If our public education systems serve mainly to train "workers" or increasingly "soldiers", we
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Excellent condensation of the issues. Great ideals to work toward. Just moving in this direction would be helpful in any industry. If we implemented your codebase ideas in education... well, you know we'd have great education.
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Good for you! I mean that. But your experience isn't everyone's experience. Mine isn't either. I said so. For one, men have much easier time losing weight. I'm not a man. I offered my singular experience to give support

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