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by jdlyga 8y ago
My facebook feed has really become stale in the past few years. It used to be a good way to see what your friends are up to, and see pictures. But now it's ads, news stories, posts from my old university, bad memes, and that's a
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by jdlyga 8y ago
It's a pretty simple incremental upgrade. But AirPods are the best headphones on the market if you have an iPhone.
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by jdlyga 8y ago
Facebook launched when I was in college, and we were taught to treat it as a way of sharing pictures with your friends. We never got any training on what to share, what not to share, how permanent an online presence is, or anything since w
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by jdlyga 8y ago
Most Chinese people I know already have a clear understanding of how creepy and weird Shen Yun is, and view it in the same light as Scientology. But that message hasn't gotten out to everyone else yet. It's not a beautiful chine
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by jdlyga 8y ago
Barcelona has really good urban planning ideas that I wish New York would take a look at. It feels like we're a decade behind them.
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by jdlyga 8y ago
I have an iPad for reading. It works better with PDFs than Kindles since it's larger, and the pencil is great for highlighting and taking notes.
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The entire reason why I switched to Firefox in 2003 was because of its superior user interface (tabbed browsing) and performance. Likewise, the reason I switched to Chrome in 2011 was because of performance, syncing, and auto-updating. Fo
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by jdlyga 8y ago
Pushing everyone towards programming isn't what we should be doing. Sure, I get a ton of satisfaction from building software, regardless if anyone uses it. But people have different goals and drives in life, and there's no probl
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by jdlyga 8y ago
I've seen a big dropoff in everyday people using Emacs in the past 10 years. For terminal text editors, people seem to be ok with learning enough about Vim to be semi-productive.
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Rent control causes urban blight
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by jdlyga 8y ago
The trick is to not fall into the trap of spending all the money you're making. Make a budget of how much you spend on rent, bills, and fun things, and don't bump it up each time you get a raise or a new job. Eventually, you&#x2
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by jdlyga 8y ago
Manhattan definitely has this problem. It's a pedestrian city where most people walk and take the subway everywhere. Meanwhile, there's a ton of cars everywhere, mostly Ubers and people driving through to get to New Jersey, that
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by jdlyga 8y ago
Culture is very important. I used to work for a series of startups in open office environments where you're working on Jira tickets close to 100% of your day. Now, I'm working for a large company with bigger and more private des
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by jdlyga 8y ago
Designing without color is textbook if you've taken a course in it.
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We don't need so many increasingly massive AAA games. All the best games we remember from the 90s were made by much smaller teams than work on big budget games today.
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by jdlyga 8y ago
I love audiobooks. I can do other things while I hear words. No worrying about being distracted, because being distracted is part of it.
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by jdlyga 8y ago
From what I know about history, the middle class in America has been having problems with debt since at least the early 1800s.
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by jdlyga 8y ago
Lots of crashes in Hell's Kitchen. That area is full of people going out to bars and restaurants, tiny sidewalks, and lots of impatient drivers trying to get through Manhattan to New Jersey.
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by jdlyga 8y ago
4chan was the best. It was meme culture before meme culture. In fact, I believe that's where the modern usage of the word comes from (ytmnd used "fad" for the same concept). I spent so much time on there 15 years ago when
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windows servers usually have gui's
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by jdlyga 8y ago
I have Jabra Move bluetooth headphones. They're really good, but have slight bluetooth issues. I have to constantly delete and re-pair them. But I have it working with iOS, Windows, Linux, etc.
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by jdlyga 8y ago
Most people living in Manhattan are already doing this. It's really not that bad. You just treat the outside as part of your living room. I go on walks all the time, and hang out in coffee shops a lot.
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I hear the west coast is like that. I work out of New York, and it feels a lot more egalitarian with a variety of different types of jobs.
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I work 8 hours per day, study for an hour, work out for 30 minutes to an hour, and spend the rest with my wife or doing whatever.
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www.steam.com. They've been holding out for almost a decade trying to get money from Valve.
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by jdlyga 8y ago
My now wife went through so much trouble with her H1-B, even though she graduated with a Master's from a United States university and was working in the United States. Yet she got stuck in the lottery system. Don't we want high
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by jdlyga 8y ago
I've worked at various programming jobs for startups and large companies for 10 years in New York, and I've never had to work more than 40 hours per week.
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I don't know what's driving people to work in the gaming industry. If you worked on simulation software, for example, you could still do graphics programming, have a phenomenally better working environment, reasonable hours, and
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I moved from the long island suburbs to New York City, and it's very interesting taking the subway to work instead of driving. It really feels like the subway people and the drivers are living in two separate countries. It's a t
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Sounds interesting, it's like an oil change.

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