geogra4

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by geogra4 14y ago
> Why Tech? I guess I've always enjoyed being around technology. I've been using computers as long as I've been around. As a kid in the mid 90s my brother and I used to install Debian on old powerpcs we had lying around the house for fu
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Ask HN: Where do I fit as a non-programmer in the tech world?
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Detroit Makes Pitch for Ousted Yahoo Employees(pcworld.com)
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by geogra4 15y ago
Good for them to be opening an office Downtown.
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by geogra4 15y ago
Absolutely. I work currently doing QA as a large portion of my position (even though my title is GIS Analyst). I write multiple testing scripts for our company's software tool that are immensely helpful and time-saving. No one else on our t
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by geogra4 15y ago
I guess it makes sense when only large businesses are the ones to own these automobiles. It puts individual ownership out of reach.
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by geogra4 15y ago
I wonder if you could do software testing / documentation remotely? Admittedly I know nothing of how one could find work doing that.
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by geogra4 15y ago
A million dollar bond from the state seems kind of excessive
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by geogra4 15y ago
It's a complex question, but I think the main reason was just for child-rearing space. Crime wasn't an issue when the first suburbs exploded in the 50s. With fewer people having children I think that's less of an issue.
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by geogra4 15y ago
Cars can be programmed to avoid traffic jams.
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by geogra4 15y ago
I've heard a lot of good things about Louisville and enjoyed when I visited. It's a wonderful small city. Old Louisville is quite charming. I would imagine it would be hard to find a critical mass of tech talent there, however.
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by geogra4 15y ago
I guess we could call this "Big Iron", eh?
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by geogra4 15y ago
Detroit was the Silicon Valley of the first few decades of the 20th century. What would be interesting would be to study why Detroit failed. My thoughts are that, as companies became larger, they calcify and innovation ceases. Graham mentio
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by geogra4 15y ago
It would be nice to have an absolute scale so one could compare adjacent areas in different counties.
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by geogra4 15y ago
Why not? I would hope for some sort of certification program.
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US Jobs Gap Between Young and Old Is Widest Ever(cnbc.com)
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by geogra4 15y ago
Which state are you in? Even the cheapest state schools here in PA are closer to 4k/semester. http://www.sru.edu/financeandadministrativeaffairs/studentac...
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by geogra4 15y ago
Right on. Merit is much more than SAT scores and GPA. It is, in fact, whatever the school wants it to be.
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by geogra4 15y ago
If that's the case why aren't Miami or San Diego big tech startup hotspots?
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by geogra4 15y ago
Why don't you believe our spending is sustainable? The USA is nowhere near default. Rates on US Treasury bills are extremely low, as they're actually seen as an incredibly safe investment compared to both other countries and stocks in gener
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by geogra4 15y ago
(preface: I'm an American speaking from an American POV, not sure where you're located so this may not be 100% relevant if you're aussie or swedish or canadian or something) I think that everyone in a society as wealthy as our own deserves
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The Most Selfish Generation in History(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by geogra4 15y ago|1 comments
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by geogra4 15y ago
Some people don't have problems lifting up those who never had the advantages that they had. It's a collective action problem that takes a whole society to fix.
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by geogra4 15y ago
Ideally we'd have an entire content ecosystem that was MPAA/RIAA free. Movies with cc licensed audio sold for 5-10 a pop through hulu or some other type of streaming service. This could be sent to people's set top boxes directly, bypassing
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by geogra4 15y ago
I think a site that would have a huge catalog of exclusivly non-RIAA music with a great recommedation system and streaming radio would be a real winner. I know i'd use it.
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by geogra4 15y ago
I left the engineering track after 2 years, although I still work in tech in a roundabout way. I am a GIS Analyst who also does various software testing and scripting tasks when required. We're a small shop that makes a GIS Tool for Windows
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by geogra4 15y ago
Turing's story is especially heartbreaking. Imagine what another 30-40 years of Alan Turing's genius would have done for computation.
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by geogra4 15y ago
I don't know about Ballmer, but is Gates a republican? According to [0] he donates more to D than to R, although not by a great margin [0] http://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/
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by geogra4 15y ago
The century of self http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM It's just fantastic and very eye opening. Thanks for reminding me of it.
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by geogra4 15y ago
>I think the xers and yers will remain conflicted generations. Conflicted with each other? Or internal conflict?

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