mrexroad

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by mrexroad 13y ago
agree x10. tragically, it took losing one of my children to realize that the extra hours and time management i put into balancing parenting w/ startup-life should have just been put into spending more time w/ my kids. i'm cur
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by mrexroad 13y ago
good article on cost and performance benefits of cross-trained public safety workers in sunnyvale: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/01/local/la-me-sunnyval...
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by mrexroad 13y ago
i live in sunnyvale, a few miles from where this occurred. i first want to say that our 'police' are honestly the nicest and most caring of all departments i've dealt with. i've interacted w/ them a dozen or so time
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by mrexroad 13y ago
i was hoping that my rsi pain was either bad ergonomics or just mental, then last week i got the results from a 2nd MRI of my wrist: - torn TFCC - positive variance of distal ulna as well as an intraosseous cyst it's going to suck to g
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by mrexroad 13y ago
i rewired our how last year, and just last week i finally flipped on the breaker for the master bedroom (was too lazy to move the dresser to wire a receptacle for all that time). for 16 months, no laptops, phone chargers, etc. just kindles
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by mrexroad 13y ago
what do you think the nsa has really been up to all this time?
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by mrexroad 13y ago
work: Kinesis Advantage home: IBM Model M (from my first computer) the kinesis advantage has been a huge improvement for my wrists and elbows. the large space between where my hands are positioned has probably been the greatest factor.
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by mrexroad 13y ago
if for nothing else, learning at a young age to play (and function) as part of a team is extremely important; moreover, even if you suck at the sport, it's an important life lesson to find a way to best contribute to the team's su
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by mrexroad 13y ago
bride money you say? sounds like an even more dangerous adventure.
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by mrexroad 13y ago
herman miller embody. after using the aeron, steelcase leap, and humanscale freedom i finally tried the embody. fell in love instantly. employers paid for previous chairs (they were in the office), but i paid for the embody. best decision e
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by mrexroad 13y ago
my daughter died unexpectedly just over a year ago. i don't like to talk about this but feel i need to say something in support of the "gift comment": my wife and i often talk of her life and death as a gift to us and as her
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by mrexroad 13y ago
i lost my daughter 1 year, 3 months, 29 days, 13hrs ago. i understand what he's saying. to frame it in a slightly different way: there's a gift of understanding that has the potential to be far more powerful than the pain/gri
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by mrexroad 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation#Enemy_of_the_...
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by mrexroad 13y ago
i didn't know that g'kar (andreas katsulas) and zach (tim choate) had passed away. thanks for posting. g'kar and londo's story lines were nothing short of fantastic.
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by mrexroad 13y ago
ahem, acid burn.
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by mrexroad 13y ago
interesting. i assume you're referring to legislation at a state level? got any links? i haven't read much about that era, but from what i have, it sounds like things were awesomely crazy back then w/ PIs tapping for clients, corporations t
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by mrexroad 14y ago
your comment about commutes times resonates w/ me. while i agree w/ the OP, once my oldest hit kindergarten things got a lot tougher. back when i was working at startups, i found it easy feed/bathe/read to/tuck in my kids every, still did
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by mrexroad 14y ago
tl;dr: if you're committed+supported, it's doable on a single sw engineering salary in the bay area (can't say same for other fields). there will be bumps, but if you're both committed/open/honest then you'll find ways around all of them. s
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by mrexroad 14y ago
whiteboarding perfect syntax, delving into absurd language minutia and "gotchas", f'ing around w/ brain teasers while an interviewer introduces behavioral stressors (sighs, ticks, etc.) to see how i problem solve "under pressure" ...is all
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by mrexroad 16y ago
workflowy ftw.