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by jmspring 8y ago
Hmm. I am paying more than I should for fiber through a rural coop, but I have fiber. It’s been way more stable than any broadband (including a local line of site WiFi) and my prior abode in the Bay Area.
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by jmspring 8y ago
Good to see YC expand. I’m curious, though, if innovation ramps up in the startup space in both China and India, will there be a decrease in demand for immigration to the states? My own experience across the visa spectrum is some want to m
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by jmspring 8y ago
They marked an end, but on the other end, the enablement of the tweaked out and mentally unstable with catch and release policies also marked an end. The city is in a spiral of it's own creation - lax policies and pretty lax enforcemen
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by jmspring 8y ago
Sorry, but things aren't that simple in Santa Cruz. The reality is more complicated. Currently, there is an SF/Seattle style camp that has sprung up on the entrance into town. The current city council is made up of a majority th
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by jmspring 8y ago
Support as a cost center...it's an interesting thing. My first computer related job while in college was support for a variety of Borland products. There were a few of us interns that ended up doing the work of senior support enginee
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by jmspring 8y ago
I've used it a fair amount of the last few years. It worked quite well and found some good deals -- as others mentioned -- when it was last minute only. Stayed on place in Carmel at a price that I had never seen for that particular p
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by jmspring 8y ago
Given the abuses mentioned, even in WA, if there was legitimate documentation of things like “be in by 7am”, HR would have worked with the situation - shitty manager or not.
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by jmspring 8y ago
Drive Sonora pass sometime and look "south". So much dead forest. That isn't particularly natural.
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by jmspring 8y ago
Sadly a lot of our forest eco-systems, especially in CA are at risk. Drought, poor forest management, bark beattle, over forestation, etc. Were forestry practices 100+ years ago good, not really - a lot of these ancient trees spawned eco-
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by jmspring 8y ago
How about FB just allows a simple click of "ignore everything about me and provide phsyical proof that such is happening".
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by jmspring 8y ago
I have Global Entry -- which gives precheck, but still get to the airport early. There have been times -- SeaTac is notable for this -- where the Precheck line is longer/slower than the regular line.
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by jmspring 8y ago
Given the need to get to an airport early for security/etc, time of flight, time to get bags/transport/etc upon landing -- unless it is a business trip that is a day or two long, driving between the Bay Area and LA area isn&#
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by jmspring 8y ago
There used to be a time when there was an unwritten contract between employer and employee - growth options, learning, leave packages, etc - in return for long term tenure at the company. That has basically gone the way of the dodo in most
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by jmspring 8y ago
PG&E diverted funds for maintenance to their parent corp in the form of profits/bonuses/etc. This was going on for a very long time. PG&E has been ramping up monitoring and maintenance (tree trimming/removal/etc
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by jmspring 8y ago
From the late Utah Phillips -- "Little Kids are assholes, but they are their own assholes, and you have to respect that."
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by jmspring 8y ago
I read through more of it after my comment. The real issue / culprit was the creative ways to get people into homes that could not afford them realistically - be it ARMs or X-year fixed loans.
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by jmspring 8y ago
From the article: - A mortgage is a bet on the value of a specific home - It’s a bet on local real-estate prices - A mortgage is a bet on interest rates, but it’s an esoteric one All three make massive assumptions (read the article). For m
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by jmspring 8y ago
I have no problem with anthropologists and those in the liberal arts employed when there are skills they have that help a company. Bubble-1, many humanities students were hired around working with content. That wasn't a bad thing. As
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by jmspring 8y ago
Recall the early FB stories where Zuckerberg was pretty gung-ho about eaves dropping (and the company as a whole did) on people's private info. Said behavior has probably been moderated due to legal and financial ramifications, but I
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by jmspring 8y ago
I suspect you are right. Your comment reminds me when Google and others were paying people to review sites on a contract basis for matching content to category. This was many moons ago before basically "mechanical turk" took off
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by jmspring 8y ago
Having a bunch of likely millenial aged individuals with limited life experience based in Menlo Park to have a say in discourse that crosses so many boundaries? What could possibly go wrong?
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by jmspring 8y ago
Yes
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by jmspring 8y ago
Maybe they can use some of that money to add multiple email account support.
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by jmspring 8y ago
Count me in the "don't care" department -- the company needs to do business to survive and thrive. I like that things are going well for the company at the moment. Some of these people complaining about it are likely the sam
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by jmspring 8y ago
Friends and I, for years, used to go to Vegas for thanksgiving -- late 90s until mid 2000s. The change in travel patterns and when people flew was interesting. The reason for vegas - multiple people from different areas that mostly had dir
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by jmspring 8y ago
Sadly groups I belong to have settled on FB as the community forum. It’s a lowest denominator thing.
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by jmspring 8y ago
An incredible read and an interesting view of things at the time. I've been traveling to parts of Death Valley (which were former BLM land) for over two decades and know people who have been going to the same areas for four or five dec
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by jmspring 8y ago
If this is the division I am part of, there are definitely remote friendly roles available. The nature of the role will impact travel. My current role balance is about 25% travel, 30-50% coding, the remainder mentoring, design, etc.
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by jmspring 8y ago
If this happens, I see older engineers targeted by IBM as they have done over the for "cost savings" as part of the acquisition.
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by jmspring 8y ago
As someone who has spent time at Microsoft, Ballmer did good for the company post-gates for awhile, but hit a plateau. He continued too long and thus brought in the stalled time that some refer to as the Ballmeriam era. And have qualms ab

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