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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> Normally landlords are so loathe to reduce rents What's the reasoning here? I've tried to talk landlords down by less than a month's rent when taken over the course of a typical year lease, been told to shove off, only t
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
I’d say smaller than that. Working in Pittsburgh there are plenty of folks netting Bay Area comp packages (180K+ base salaries, 100K+ stock grants, big bonuses, etc). I don’t think the point of opening a Midwest office is cheaper engineers,
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
In PA the 2016 presidential elections went Trump by roughly 1% of the pop (~50K votes). That is roughly the number of employees Amazon was floating during their HQ2 search. Some minor demographic shifts could easily account for a 50K swing.
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
I think the point is that in NYC, you don’t have to be over an hour from the hot spots if you aren’t making lots of money. It is totally possible to live in Manhattan on 30 grand a year (hell, I’ve done it). To do so in San Francisco or the
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> But the drivers in Minneapolis are straight up entitled, aggressive, and dangerous in high foot traffic areas. I’ve had a similar experience since moving to Pittsburgh, I see drivers lose it and freak out at pedestrians in high foot tr
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
NYC outlaws rights on red unless otherwise posted and it makes life as a pedestrian so much better.
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> because its transport connections are so poor. In what sense? I used to work in LIC and it was pretty easy to get to. Lots of lines go though Queensboro Plaza.
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
LIC has some amazing parks. Stop by Socrates Sculpture Park sometime — really cool art installations, great waterfront views of Manhattan, across the street from a cool museum (Noguchi of the coffee table fame), and you are quick walk down
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> or chooses to leave game dev and go get a job writing CRUD apps somewhere There are tons of gigs I can see game dev credentials working well with beyond just CRUD (and there is nothing wrong with CRUD). AR/VR (Apple, Facebook, Goo
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
U.S. Steel is such a horrible company. Their coke plant in Clairton, PA (the setting of Deer Hunter if you haven't seen it, great movie...) continues to pump out pollution in violation of governmental environmental standards, including
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> Apart from the state/city taxes That’s a pretty big difference though! I suppose with NYC you don’t have the cost of owning and operating a car, though.
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> FAANG in bay area pays 200-300 for senior total comp FAANG pays 200-300 total comp for new grads, these days. My new grad friends who land at Facebook and Google are getting 140-160 base salary, 70 or 80 in bonus, and around 80 to 10
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
95K a year for a starting professorship... or 3.5X that in total comp in industry. Not a terribly difficult choice!
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> But what this “native” Bay Area kid won’t do is start blaming the guy from North Carolina or Wisconsin or Boston—basically every other person in the bar—for propelling the rents into the sky and inadvertently forcing the “locals” to fl
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
Well, given that Autodesk shifted Maya ownership to their life support division and fired most of the Maya R&D team, this isn’t too surprising. Good news for SideFX I suppose!
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> By default, Blender now uses the left mouse button for selection. This is probably the biggest feature in 2.8! The super non-standard select behavior was a (probably unfairly, but still real) turn off to people trying Blender for the f
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
I recall reading somewhere that two days before shipping the game was crashing in release mode builds, so the binary that shipped was in debug! Apparently a big part of the performance increase in BG2 came from fixing this bug.
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> On the one hand, I suspect this type of crime is more the realm of opportunists rather than hard-core criminals who would exact revenge. Eh, somewhere in between. Back when I lived in Oakland (where there was/is a serious package
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
Yea but transit in the Bay shuts down hella early. Getting to Park Slope at 2am from Manhattan is significantly easier (and safer) than Millbrae (or Oakland or wherever) from San Francisco.
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
Hell, I managed Manhattan for three years on <30K during grad school with money leftover to take trips here and there and party a bit on the weekends. I wasn’t living like a king, but it’s 100% doable. Get a roommate in Washington height
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
I read it as they are using a molecular dynamics package to define a function (potential energy of the protein structure) and are using gradient descent to (slowly) reach stable extrema (static configurations of the protein).
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
Rad, I'll have to dig into the source for this! Does PhysX mainly implement PBD like all the papers from Mueller they publish?
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> And let’s be honest “5 years of Python” at a Google is a different story from “5 years of Python” at an Infosys. I don't think I've ever seen an ad from Google that spells out years of experience in any given technology. Thei
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> Not sure if that's still true, but at the time it seems Fortran was a more restrictive language which permitted stronger optimization. There is no aliasing in Fortran. In C (and using compiler extensions in C++) you manually use r
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
Tons of linear algebra and optimization code is still actively developed in Fortran. The most accurate solver I've found for small quadratic programs is a Fortran code maintained by a grumpy German math professor.
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
Trains don't get you and your overseas goods across oceans (yet).
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How to Crush an Outlaw Biker Club: Seize Its … Logo?(nytimes.com)
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> I grew up in NYC. I spent high school and college in Manhattan. This is the worst I have seen it. What up, Astoria native (then Stuyvesant then Columbia) checking in. The current level of (visible) homelessness in NYC is nothing comp
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
Or Ultima!
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by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> But the actual Bay Area is boring. There is lots of fun stuff in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco. I always have a blast going to shows, openings, etc in Oakland and Berkeley.

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