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by joeax 11y ago
"The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think" Not where I live. What to do about it? Move. Find an employer willing to let you work remotely, and find your own quiet cost-conscious piece
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by joeax 11y ago
Also a couple of my favorites: - Remote job information: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job - Liberland constitution: https://github.com/liberland/constitution
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by joeax 11y ago
> It's impossible to generalize. Agree. I worked with a manager who was kind of a dick at work, but really cool outside of work. After I left the company, he confessed he "had to play the part" so to speak. Turns out he ha
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by joeax 11y ago
I'm a software engineer that's lived through the dotcom crash and the great recession. I can tell you the dotcom crash was much more devastating for the tech community since we were at the center of it. There will always be a dema
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by joeax 11y ago
Absolutely. If I were working there when this happened I would have started looking.
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by joeax 11y ago
Agree. Luckily attitudes have shifted over the years and companies realize there's too much risk in alienating a good candidate.
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by joeax 11y ago
He softened up a bit after a year. Some people you just have to win their respect.
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by joeax 11y ago
Sometimes it has nothing to do with your performance. Budget cuts, downsizing, sudden hiring freezes, or possibly you were the last candidate but the VP is already sold on another guy. Sometimes job parameters shift, they are looking for di
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by joeax 11y ago
I was once in an interview where the interviewer was a hard ass. Asking all kids of hard questions about languages I knew, then he got deeper and asked about specifics into those languages. Then started asking about really abstract stuff li
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by joeax 11y ago
I love working remote, and wouldn't consider working any other way. That being said it's still difficult to find work at home jobs, even for software engineers. I have recruiters hitting me up on LinkedIn all the time about open p
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by joeax 11y ago
Another quick way to check divisibility by 7 is to multiply each digit by 3^x where x is the place (right to left). Good way to check divisibility in your head and useful up to 4-5 digits. As an example, consider 413: 4x9 + 1x3 + 3 = 36 + 3
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by joeax 11y ago
Nothing beats a home office. Or a Starbucks office, or working wherever you want.
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by joeax 11y ago
My 0.02. The fallacy in the shady argument is you're justifying a bigger wrong with the much smaller one. It's like saying "if she didn't want to be raped she shouldn't have worn that short skirt" (i.e. blaming
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by joeax 11y ago
New Mexico too. And Ohio soon. Luckily the dominos are falling. https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/09/this-map-details-whether-...
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by joeax 11y ago
The irony here is comedians speak the truth while politicians lie. If John Oliver, George Carlin (my favorite), et al were serious in their monologues hardly anyone would listen to them.
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by joeax 11y ago
I read somewhere there are hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits sitting in police labs nationwide. Catching rapists is not profitable.
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by joeax 11y ago
“The city of Waco is looking at paying out hundreds of millions of dollars,” says Michael White, Wilson's attorney. This is the real problem. The police operate on a blank check principle and are held to zero accountability. The taxpay
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by joeax 11y ago
It makes sense that the patent troll would skip past 1 as an integer when claiming infringement on its patents. Microsoft already patented 0s and 1s. http://www.theonion.com/article/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroe...
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by joeax 11y ago
You forgot "he reached for my gun" or in the case of Zachary Hammond, "he tried to kill me by ramming me with his car" (by pulling into a parking spot).
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by joeax 11y ago
I worked with a developer who would say "it worked on my box" that meant it was gold and he refused to investigate further. He was connected to the CEO so there was little we could do except work around his bugs or ignore complete
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by joeax 11y ago
I think it's critically important to get involved in a open source project in some way or create your own, i.e. on GitHub. My project svidget.js is up to 154 stars (at the time of this post). It not mind blowing stats, and it may be ni
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by joeax 11y ago
It's possible he wasn't prepared for the interview, and was thrown for a loop early on and failed to recover. It happens. Although that is equally as bad.
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by joeax 11y ago
My first job out of college in 1999 (getting my CS degree) was a startup. The other devs there laughed at me and told me my CS degree was worthless. I went home and seriously contemplated whether I did indeed waste my time in college. Fast
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by joeax 11y ago
Here's my concern. Let's say I forked a repo and started contributing to it. I built an app that depends on that repo. Suddenly that repo vanishes because GitHub found it some word in it offensive, and my fork and all my contribut
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by joeax 11y ago
To understand all of this, a great FB page to follow is CopBlock (disclaimer: not affiliated with them but a great news source). The way the police in America act today is borderline Orwellian, or perhaps it's already crossed that line
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by joeax 11y ago
Someone shared this too: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
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by joeax 11y ago
This is an authoritarian way of thinking. Basically, I prefer to be onsite therefore everyone should be onsite. You make the claim that the author fails to substantiate the benefits of working remote, but you also failed and just countered
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by joeax 11y ago
Not if you give the workers the option to work remote or not. Believe or not there are many workers who prefer to be onsite. This is the case in my office, the onsite people are more social and want to be close to the core of communication.
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by joeax 11y ago
> Having said that: I also saw how it was being abused. There are easy ways to ensure productivity. For example, using Skype and requiring offsite workers to be available (i.e. green status) throughout the day. If workers are not being p
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by joeax 11y ago
Wow that's awesome thanks!

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