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by larrymyers 5y ago
We love our 2 year old Tern GSD. It is such an amazing cargo bike. Carries both our kids, then sub out the seats for a crate and it’ll do a Costco trip with ease. I see a ton of them in Chicago, and everybody is usually smiling as they peda
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by larrymyers 5y ago
If you have the desire to understand the individual components of running infrastructure for docker containers I'd suggest the full hashicorp stack. Running nomad, vault, consul together isn't difficult, and will get you a better
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by larrymyers 5y ago
Couldn’t make it through the article. I’m not sure how to discuss the pandemic with people who won’t acknowledge that a vaccine that prevents death and serious disease is a good thing when over 700,000 people have died in the US alone.
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by larrymyers 5y ago
That sucks if that’s your reality. It means you’ve never had a manager that protects their team and sets them up for success. If my teams are struggling it’s my fault in the eyes of external stakeholders and I own that. If my direct reports
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by larrymyers 5y ago
I think this article gets close, but glosses over one of the major issues in software dev hiring: the filtering process is all wrong. Front line recruiters tend to be non-technical, and can't pattern match for good candidates outside o
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by larrymyers 5y ago
A lot of people probably won't be able to go back in office full time until the fall. Remember that the whole child care situation is still not great. Summer camps may be operating at partial capacity, or not open at all. Parents didn
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by larrymyers 5y ago
For what we expect of schools they are underfunded. Schools provide before and after care outside of normal hours, they provide all 3 meals to many students. Counseling, social services, health care ... it's not just teachers in the c
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by larrymyers 5y ago
I tried out both snowpack and esbuild recently, and while the approach of using es modules was neat, these tools are still wildly immature compared to webpack. Need to handle non-js assets in your bundle? Need to integrate into both node a
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by larrymyers 6y ago
There's a way to approach this topic with a bit more nuance: It's okay to treat your job as a job. Save your passion for your personal interests. If you're passionate about programming that's awesome, but use it for code
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by larrymyers 6y ago
I really want to use Apple Maps full time on my iPhone, just because of how much clutter Google Maps has accumulated on the screen. If anything tells me Google is losing the ability to innovate it's the newly added pill buttons for pre
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by larrymyers 6y ago
It's interesting that the OP on reddit is describing normal company politics. It exists at every company I've ever worked at, and will exist anywhere there is money, power, and status at stake in the decision making process. My su
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by larrymyers 7y ago
I second the suggestion for time shifting. I'm in the same boat with young kids, and I've started waking up 2 hours before they do. It allows me to get much of my daily work out of the way before our house wakes up. If you can fi
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by larrymyers 7y ago
I actually did some AOLserver / tcl development in 2007. MapQuest was still running off of it for the core site before the big java rewrite. To think that if AOL had open sourced it before Apache got popular the early internet history
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by larrymyers 7y ago
In the US public schools also commonly only the only way a large portion of school aged children get breakfast and lunch. Without schools providing breakfast and lunch many kids will not get enough nutritional meals a day. When the Chicago
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by larrymyers 7y ago
If it's public transportation and run by a local government and the transit data isn't publicly available, then it's likely matter of civic engagement and using your power as a voter to make it happen.
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by larrymyers 7y ago
As long as a public transportation organization can expose their data as GTFS, then most transit applications should be able to provide routing. https://developers.google.com/transit This is what the CTA and Metra do in Chi
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by larrymyers 7y ago
I have young children and waking up at 5am every morning is a life saver for me. By the time I finish the bedtime routine at night I'm usually too drained to do much that's productive, but by waking up at least 90 minutes before t
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by larrymyers 7y ago
This is one of those interesting paradoxes that I haven't figured out yet. Owning the legacy software that runs the business tends to provide job security at your current job, but can hinder your professional growth at both your curren
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by larrymyers 8y ago
This is hands down my favorite change as I've gotten older. I just don't worry about so many things that I used to, and find that it's easier to focus on a few things that really matter to me. Granted I have far more responsi
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by larrymyers 8y ago
I'm a huge fan of protected bike lanes. Chicago has a few of them, and they are far less stressful to ride on compared to just basic striping on the road. By far the biggest issue I have with striped bike lanes is trying guess when an
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by larrymyers 8y ago
That sounds like a rough commute, I sympathize. What I'm hearing is that Sydney needs to be funneling more of the toll revenue into the transit budget so that trains and buses would be a real option for you. As a resident of Chicago, I
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by larrymyers 8y ago
REI Ruckpack 28 ( https://www.rei.com/product/118790/rei-co-op-ruckpack-28-pac... ) I bike commute with it every time, sometimes with a laptop, and it is wonderful. I really enjoy that it sits on my back comfortably
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by larrymyers 9y ago
I'm not sure what city you live in, but in Chicago there are plenty of community gardens, cultural centers with workshops, and lots and lots of open park space to play with drones. I see plenty of medium and large dogs running with the
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by larrymyers 9y ago
The US does have open mapping data: https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html While useful for taking the US Census, the TIGER data isn't really suitable for most navigation tasks. At best it
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by larrymyers 9y ago
What about football coaches? Div I football programs are big business, bringing in tens of millions of dollars a year: http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/ Most of the these football programs finance all spor
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by larrymyers 9y ago
The Chicago Architecture Foundation does a nice guided tour of the pedway: https://www.architecture.org/experience-caf/tours/detail/chi... I've done it before and it's a great way to see Chicago in
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by larrymyers 9y ago
The one giant wart that makes this whole project depressingly not futuristic: 9000+ parking spaces. The amount of unproductive space devoted to the storage of cars is just mind boggling. Not much has changed in how people get to work. Singl
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by larrymyers 11y ago
Sounds like a startup I used to work for here in Chicago: https://www.retrofitme.com/howitworks While expensive, the combination of tech and actual trained wellness experts was very successful and getting people to adopt he
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by larrymyers 11y ago
Did Google effectively just take their own stab at WML and WAP? I remember using a flip phone around 2002 with that awesome technology to view sports scores.
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by larrymyers 11y ago
It's especially difficult with how non-existent the possibility of "professional but part-time" is. I know my wife would love to begin putting her engineering degree back to use 15-20 hours a week, but the only real option is

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