hifromLA

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by hifromLA 3y ago
Yeah but they’re actually making progress. The project has plenty to criticize but it’s way more of a punching bag than it needs to be. The hard part is land acquisition, lawsuits, grade separations, etc. once you have that tracks are a pie
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by hifromLA 3y ago
Truly dystopian… it’s like trying to use more venom as an antidote for a snake bite.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
Where do you live? I just checked my last bill and it was 0.18 (LA). That does sound insane.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
These days? I can’t remember a time in tech that didn’t have that culture.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
As a lifelong Californian I’ve seen homelessness expand from “expected” places like skid row into suburbs in (north) Orange County. I’ve long felt that California was a harbinger for the rest of the nation and if they wanted they could choo
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by hifromLA 3y ago
This was not my experience. Our agent walked us through the assumptions under which buying a home would make financial sense (e.g. years in home, projected rate of increase in home prices, etc) and he made it absolutely clear we could lose
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by hifromLA 3y ago
If I’m not mistaken Amazon basically has a reputation for customers that is intended to penalize bad actors (and conversely reward good actors).
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by hifromLA 3y ago
I do agree when we see broken outcomes (e.g. us healthcare, us public transit, etc) it’s good to go back to incentives to understand why things haven’t gotten better. When perf time comes around, everybody knows the deal. Shipping a new fea
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by hifromLA 3y ago
Even worse is copium. The older I get the less I enjoy spending time online.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
LA is not Manhattan but it’s not a generic sunbelt city either. It’s comprised of dozens of neighborhoods and cities many of which are dense by any American standard (10000+ people/sq mi). A number of neighborhoods that were previously
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by hifromLA 3y ago
Let me offer a counterpoint: I live in LA because it is home to the largest immigrant population in the US from the country where my parents were born. When I go to the grocery store, restaurants, concerts, festivals, etc. I am experiencing
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by hifromLA 3y ago
Reddit has greater than 0 value, but year over year it feels like there’s more noise and less signal.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
I’m not going to say LA is not a car disaster, but LA does have dozens of walkable neighborhoods to be fair. It wouldn’t be apples to apples to compare Woodland Hills to Capitol Hill (for example). And although community parks can be in sho
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by hifromLA 3y ago
You’d be hard pressed to find social media that doesn’t trend towards toxicity, but Reddit in particular seems to have a culture of users that want to feel superior at any cost. They’re always looking to put down others and they’re often re
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by hifromLA 3y ago
Disheartening, but not surprising. I am such a strong believer that the US needs robust transit so we can reduce car dependence and build denser housing to address the insane cost of living not just in cities that are currently HCOL, but th
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by hifromLA 3y ago
Same for me, but even more than that I can’t remember ever speaking to someone with a southern accent outside of work.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
To be frank, I’ve only seen new grads wear suits. The more experienced the dev the worse they dress (generally). One candidate showed up to an interview in flip flops and nailed it.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
Not to mention how car dependence makes it hard to densify our cities enough to build our way out of the housing crisis we have.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
How about Philadelphia? It’s walkable, vibrant, and connected to the eastern seaboard.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
Reddit is my Achilles heel for the very reason you outlined. I quit Reddit and I remember the exact day it happened. I found myself typing and deleting a reply to a comment that was overly negative on something that I was well versed in. I
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by hifromLA 3y ago
I agree with your point about car oriented suburbs, but I’m also not convinced living in cities is necessarily social particularly in America. I lived without a car for 5+ years and I didn’t find it led to spontaneous interactions. I think
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by hifromLA 3y ago
I agree with the author on choosing the right tool for the job, 100%. But I think that obj c is less and less the right tool. Just my 2 cents. With respect to the point about header files. Of course you can have an API in swift either by ha
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by hifromLA 3y ago
That’s a fair point. I can accept that he does a good job in that role.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
I’ve always felt jerry is the worst part of Seinfeld. Larry David is the brains as evidenced by CYE and the other actors outshined Jerry.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
You have to make mistakes to get better. It’s a good habit to say hey I made a mistake, here’s what I learned, here’s what I’m going to do differently. Not just for work, but life in general. No harm in mistakes as long as you learn and don
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by hifromLA 3y ago
I agree even though you’ll always get responses talking about other US cities where it’s technically possible to live without a car. I found living without a car in SF not so ideal because it ultimately means living your life in a pretty sm
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by hifromLA 3y ago
I feel like this goes beyond techno. So many critiques I see show only the most cursory understanding of the thing they’re critiquing. I’ve found a lot in life that finding the good stuff needs digging.
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by hifromLA 3y ago
I suspect monetización is the challenge. It’s similar to an image host. Everyone loves you when you don’t need to make money and you can do what’s best for the end user.
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by hifromLA 4y ago
I buy the tech theory, because all the west coast cities with major drops are tech cities. I don’t think they’ll collapse because they’re otherwise desirable, but a correction was overdue. A lot of the East coast cities with big rises espec
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by hifromLA 4y ago
Honestly that early to mid 2010 period was a great time to use VC funded services. They all pretty much ended up going south once they had to make money for real.

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