johnvanommen

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by johnvanommen 8y ago
He's managed to keep a high profile for a loooong time. I remember reading an article about him in 1983, about a game he made for the Commodore 64. The article spent more time talking about Lanier than talking about the game. This seem
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by johnvanommen 8y ago
My number one complaint about University Courses. We didn't spend a single minute doing what most of my job consists of: reading someone elses code and trying to decipher what the heck they were trying to do.
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I've definitely thought about this. I live in San Diego, where the cost of living is very very high. If I relocated to somewhere cheaper, I could probably work for 40% less than what I need to make in SD. But it's unnerving to be
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by johnvanommen 8y ago
This is right on the money. I think the 'trick' to getting a satisfying remote position is to use WFH as a bargaining chip. For instance, I was living in Seattle and I wanted to live in Portland, where it's more affordable. W
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by johnvanommen 8y ago
I've been working from home for twelve years now. I didn't set out to WFH, I stumbled into it. Here's what worked for me, it might work for you: I was contacted by a recruiter. They wanted to hire me, but the job was 5000km a
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
How so? These are unregulated securities aren't they? It would be no different than me selling you Monopoly money. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't see what law was broken. Not defending this, just saying this is
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
Is this TMobile USA? I worked in engineering when they were still Voicestream Wireless. We were acquired by Deutsche Telekom and rebranded as TMobile. We had virtually no interaction with the European "T-Mobile."
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
Yahoo could've owned the entire dating scene. Yahoo Personals was HUGE long before Match / OKC / Tinder / etc.
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IIRC, that was an acquisition. I interviewed there, they were a block away from Real Network in Seattle, and mostly consisted of alumni from there. In 2004, Real Network was A Big Deal.
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
Google built a better mousetrap. This is a nice article, but the truth is that Yahoo is to Google as Myspace is to Facebook.
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
I've worked for a couple of companies that have IPO'd. One thing I've noticed is that the people who are investing in the companies want the companies to be a specific size. For instance, let's say you have a company tha
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
Read this: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-policy-to-pay-unfairly...
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
GM is very VERY focused on the bottom line. The Chevy Bolt doesn't have a big margin. It's likely that they'd rather sell Escalades and pickup trucks. Because they have a fat margin.
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
Costco is an interesting case. Their profit is based on membership fees. That's why they're so fixated on customer service and happy employees. For instance, Wal Mart makes more money if you shop their frequently. They have a vest
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
Guilty as charged lol
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
A friend of mine was sick of her job and planning to quit. She's a journalist with a college degree. Her plan was to get a job at Starbucks until she could figure out what to do next. As I see it, this is the LAST thing you should do i
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
Agreed. Right now there's basically an arms race going on in this field.
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
LA Times published an article that indicates that these warehouse jobs are replacing retail jobs, and they pay better. Even better, the warehouses are revitalizing parts of the country that have been blighted for decades. For instance, I us
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
That was my experience too. When I was a teenager and attending college, I invested hundreds of hours learning how to make video games, on top of years I'd invested during high school. My teachers strongly discouraged me. It took me ab
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
I quit my job in Bellevue WA and moved to Oregon City Oregon. Here's some things it has going for it: 5) It has a train station that connects it to every city from Los Angeles to Portland to Seattle via Amtrak 4) Portland's train
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
That's a good point. I grew up poor as fuck, and there's a huge set of rules which incentivize poverty. For instance, if the family makes more than a certain amount, you lose health care. So you wind up in a situation where you&#x
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
Both my wife and I WFH and I think I'm more productive now that she's working from home. When she used to work in an office and I worked from home, it was easy to get distracted when she wasn't around. But now that she's
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by johnvanommen 9y ago
Millennials didn't kill TGIF; OK Cupid did. TGIF's heyday was in the 80s, when people actually met in bars: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-t-g-i-fri... It's hard to imagine a wor