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by jowiar 8y ago
I 100% agree with you. Over the course of my career, I've taken plenty of time, on the clock, to do such. Not necessarily with any particular direction of my managers, but just understanding that "My job is to solve problem X. Doi
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by jowiar 8y ago
NYC is nowhere in the mess that DC is in. Mostly, because Manhattan, at least, is well-shaped to be navigated efficiently by rail. Because of height restrictions, DC has a relatively sprawled, 2-dimensional core, which means many common rou
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by jowiar 8y ago
Re: 3/5. We already have ways to turn corporate money into community services. They're called taxes. I'd much rather we as as a community take Amazon's money and build our own schools rather than have Amazon build an Ama
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by jowiar 8y ago
When someone does the denegrating you mention (and folks do), they go on my “I’ll never work with them” list. I’ve had folks do it in an interview and it’s an immediate no-hire. JS is a tool, just like on the any other. It has some big plus
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by jowiar 8y ago
Hundreds is a stretch. When you get down to the hundredth-largest city you’re at Des Moines, population 217k. At that point, if the company were to say “zero our taxes or we leave”, the city would do as told. How small can a city be and hav
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by jowiar 8y ago
Taking the slider to the other extreme, you end up with company towns everywhere, and there are a whole lot of burned out husks of civilization that are memories to that. Until we truly solve remote, there will be some concentration. And th
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by jowiar 8y ago
One of the great parts of being in NYC is having friends who aren’t “in tech”. Tech is an industry here, and there’s a massive network where you’re not tying yourself to one company though your move, but it doesn’t define the culture of the
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by jowiar 8y ago
Yep — I’m a Manhattanite as well. It’s telling that when you intersect pedestrian-friendly with transit accessibility you end up with a list of the most expensive places to live in the US, even when the housing stock is mostly shit.
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by jowiar 8y ago
The one thing that this seems to miss, and for me what defines the "character" of a neighborhood as "walkable" or not, is how much of the space between buildings is for people vs. for cars. So many of the photos here hav
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by jowiar 8y ago
Yeah -- I bought some puts at 5 expiring in January for a nickel apiece in August... It was pretty obvious there was nothing there and would drop like a stone -- the question was when the market would wake up. I honestly don't understa
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by jowiar 8y ago
The mid-Atlantic is pretty good about nature not killing you. I grew up in suburban Philly — the only wildlife really to worry about were deer (and deer ticks). Every few years there would be a bear sighting, or a tree branch falling on som
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by jowiar 8y ago
If you have a million bucks in assets, I don't care if you're 75. Our country has been ruined by boomers running the country into debt by way of cutting their taxes -- taxes that millennials will eventually have to pay. I have no
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by jowiar 8y ago
Cities need to fund themselves through real estate rather than income taxes. Tax “the person who could live in a place” rather than “the person who does live in a place”. For actual residents, it’s a wash, but it severely penalizes the inve
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by jowiar 8y ago
Yeah — there were a few wars, revolutions, and such in Spain in the 20th century.
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by jowiar 8y ago
There's (at least one) order of magnitude difference in popularity between the two. I don't think the average American could name the Sagrada Familia from a picture of it, for instance. For me, when I travel, sometimes I don'
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by jowiar 8y ago
Construction of the building started 130 years ago, but it's not done yet (and won't be done for the better part of a decade).
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by jowiar 8y ago
Recent search history is accessible in the UI when you click on the search box. Assuming someone could see "what FB looks like from your perspective", they'd be able to access the last dozen-or-so searches.
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by jowiar 8y ago
The search box in the UI is populated with your last dozen-or-so searches. You can access that data about yourself, so presumably if someone has the ability to "view as" you, they can see it.
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by jowiar 8y ago
Execution is not just technical. Sales, marketing, fundraising, recruiting, hiring, design/product, media, strategy, etc...
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by jowiar 8y ago
For those who like flocking, Robert Hodgin's Eyeo talk is my favorite set of flocking demos: https://vimeo.com/103537259
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by jowiar 8y ago
I think the main argument here is that Gmail+Chrome lets you use a hardware second factor for login.
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by jowiar 8y ago
I’m primarily an engineer, though I have worn the data scientist hat in the past. There’s a bunch of data engineering/plumbing work that’s necessary in any data science organization, as well as data visualization for things that are be
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by jowiar 8y ago
Still brand new to this, but have pretty much hit the tipping point from "unsure if enough work" to "too much work" immediately. If the goal is to be on your own, one thing that is incredibly useful is to build a network
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by jowiar 8y ago
It’s a bit more meta than what this guide covers, but I wish something was said about treating writing code as fundamentally a writing process. Most documents like this focus on “what readable code is”, and not “how do I achieve that produc
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by jowiar 8y ago
The problem is that “right size” is a tradeoff. A phone is a thing you hold, a thing you read, and a thing you carry around with you.
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by jowiar 8y ago
We had a (mostly) working house, then money happened to it, driven by legislation which let the VCs and their friends avoid the liability that prevented others from doing the same before. What we needed was tools to make it easier for peopl
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by jowiar 8y ago
There's some irony in posting this here, given this is a user-generated site and all, but I'd love to see all the safe-harbor provisions be seriously rethought. It would wreck the tech industry, but save the internet by decentrali
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by jowiar 8y ago
Re #2: Ugh. This sort of thing is a selector for plenty that is negative about the tech industry — selects for young single men without a family. Frankly, I want to go home at night and do anything but code. Music, art, explore the city, ha
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by jowiar 8y ago
Salary after rent is not necessarily an optimal metric. It works when looking at things like vacations and national products, but when you’re looking at local spend, that rent gets passed through everything that requires local land and labo
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by jowiar 8y ago
For me it’s hit or miss. The Mona Lisa was underwhelming in person, and I saw it on a day when there were few crowds. Guernica, the Sistine Chapel (if you avoid the cattle prods), Garden of Earthly Delights (and plenty of the Goya/Vela

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