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by jogjayr 8y ago
> devoid of anything resembling culture they still look at me funny Because it's hyperbole - it's not a literally true statement. The Bay Area is culturally middling. It's no Paris or NY or even Atlanta - unless we count V
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> You mean there is a restaurant with a star? Hold the presses. How many cities of a similar size have even 1? > Art? I'll grant you this one. No great museums (maybe the Computer History museum?) or art galleries in MTV. > Mu
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"bland" != "pit". I can understand being bored by MTV (everyone likes different things) but your quality of life is not going to be poor. And for people interested in skiing, wine, and outdoor recreation on the weekends,
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You'd think that over longer distances, it might be faster than biking, but you'd be wrong. Downtown MTV to Campbell takes about 1hr 15m, which is how long it takes you to bike the same route.
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Why is MTV a "pit"? Decent-ish downtown with a Michelin starred restaurant, plenty of parks, good library, relatively bike-able, rapidly densifying and adding housing. Caltrain goes to SF, you can drive easily north to Napa or Tah
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> There's a lot of investment that goes into building community relationships and the living space itself that doesn't translate into market value. My proposed solution preserves community relationships. > So you're mak
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> Now let's look at the ration billion-user-products versus the total number of products. That'll give you the ration of employees having a huge impact That logic doesn't make any sense. No company allocates staff equally
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Google has 7 products with 1+ billion users.[1] 1. https://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-products-with-1-billion-...
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"intangible value" is the type of thing I'm less sympathetic to. People are living on the streets because they can't afford housing, because there isn't enough being built. Emotional attachments to a piece of proper
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> openly say that well seniors could just sell their homes. Nice! Great solution. Just leave, old people! Or...sell to a condo complex developer, get some cash + a unit in the new building + housing while it's being built. Win-win.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Could a VCS simply blacklist symlink files? Plus if you have developers doing crap like this (and their colleagues letting it slide in code reviews) you have problems that can't be solved by monorepo vs polyrepo. You have an engineerin
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This really does not work for all languages. Speaking from personal experience, trying to monorepo multiple JS projects managed by NPM, it's more work than that.
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Release engineering is a conservative profession. They won't thank you for upsetting all their established processes, introducing new software and systems that have to be maintained, and kept running just because you don't like ho
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> Monorepos allow you to do very bad hacks (I need this other component over there; let me just put in a Symlink. Done.). Why would you put in a symlink? You could just provide a path to the actual component and import it into your proje
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> You can always just put all your small repos into a big one. It's not quite as simple as that. You'll need to avoid rebuilding the entire repo for every change - using something like Bazel. This means your build tooling has t
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I remember being excited when I went into standard 4 because I could finally use a fountain pen. Then I went abroad for 4 years and when I came back, fountain pens were gone - history.
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An actual overachiever would do everything possible to get an A on the first try - get feedback on assignments and projects before submitting them, ask lots of questions to understand the material, pay attention in class, come to office hou
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Extra credit = extra work for the teacher. It's not fair.
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> Your skills are more important than the prestige of your school. I'd disagree slightly. All of Mark Zuckerberg's college roommates are billionaires or half-billionaires - mostly because they were his roommates. Obviously they
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Asking the teacher to set and grade extra credit work because a student didn't get the grade they wanted isn't fair to the teacher. I don't think the teacher is the one that needs to "suck it up" here ;-). The stude
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> Programmers are held in higher regard because they do the actual work, if you know what I mean. I've found that to be the case in very few of the organizations I've worked at.
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It's not a big leap from "pay extra for extra credit assignments to improve grade" to "pay extra to improve grade". I'm not suggesting that the vast majority of teachers would be tempted or give in to bribery.
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> programmers are basically 'bred' out of an assembly line like education system. Which means you find programmers with no passion or love of their craft. Every educated programmer in the country, passionate or not, goes throug
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Also deleted it in 2010. It's possible I've missed out on something without knowing but I'm happy with my life nevertheless. If you only get updates about someone from their social media, you don't really know them. They
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I would think the November 26 attacks were responsible for the spike in November and December of 2008. I didn't even think of the nuclear deal.
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Same - I have friends telling me about Blind but had never looked at it until now. Just the comments on the top posts are awful.
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Good to know. Thanks!
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2010 was the only year that the number of new applications provably didn't hit the cap - i.e. the entire quota was definitely not consumed. There were ~76k applications approved. The annual cap is 65k + 20k Masters + 5k (Singapore &
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"Never" is a strong word. Packaged water is useful when stockpiling for or responding to natural disasters (hurricanes, wildfire, tornadoes, earthquakes), emergency evacuation camps, places where safe, clean water and filters aren
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> To change job you need an entire new visa application which is not guaranteed to win the lottery. Nope - visa transfers when changing employer aren't subject to the visa cap and don't have to go through the lottery. At presen

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