petsormeat

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by petsormeat 4y ago
I'm wholly capable of climbing stairs, but this idiotic design fad is why I wait for the elevator at the Apple Store.
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by petsormeat 4y ago
I was launched about 20' by an abruptly opened car door. The paramedics thanked me for wearing a helmet; they only had to deliver me to the ER for seven stitches caused by that "lip."
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by petsormeat 5y ago
> These are people with many employment options. No, they aren't. The post mentions the lack of prospects many of them have due to visa issues, as well as bias against their gender, age, or race. Want to reduce the power of problem
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by petsormeat 5y ago
...while some sales bro seated next to you "to break down silos" is clanging a gong and seeking high-fives, and every 90 minutes you're obliged to trudge into a conference room to discuss yet other math problems that can&#x27
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by petsormeat 5y ago
I'm not a parent, yet have never made even 90% of what my male peers were paid.
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by petsormeat 5y ago
The "Abbatars" could've been plants, animals, or fantasy creatures. It disappoints me all that tech was used to put them in "youngface" instead.
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by petsormeat 5y ago
1966 as well. I can still recall the Tom Lehrer bits about stuff like adverbs, and the go-go eco-groove about "-tion." Truly educational television.
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by petsormeat 5y ago
Or your age: https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/older-job-seekers-on-linkedin...
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by petsormeat 5y ago
+1 on the use of "stroad." Too much of urban Arizona is ruined by these constructions.
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by petsormeat 5y ago
Patti Smith's memoir "Just Kids" has terrific detail about daily life in the Chelsea Hotel in the 1960s-70s.
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by petsormeat 5y ago
Not asking what the promotion path of my first dev job would be. As it turns out, there wasn't one: I was hired to be a code monkey, and a year and three "annual" performance reviews later, I was still a code monkey, with no
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by petsormeat 6y ago
Unsuck-it for quick translations: http://unsuck-it.com/
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by petsormeat 6y ago
Same racket for anybody over 40, much less 50. I pay $750/month in premiums just for bronze-level coverage on my middle-aged self.
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by petsormeat 6y ago
+1. Everybody's setting up balloon drops and loud publicity stunts for these "let's get girls to code!" initiatives. Nobody's calling serious attention to the lack of female tech leads, directors, and VPs, because t
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by petsormeat 6y ago
This. As a minimalist related to borderline hoarders, I dread gift-giving occasions. When I give what I would want, it's considered stingy and sparse.
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by petsormeat 6y ago
As is Sonoma County, today.
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by petsormeat 6y ago
Yeah, I feel like any strenuous backcountry hike I take in the western U.S. will have me encounter at least one Scandinavian by its end.
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The Economic Threat: Contentedness(strongtowns.org)
3 points by petsormeat 7y ago|0 comments
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by petsormeat 7y ago
The most surreal of these developments that I've visited is the Town Square of Copperopolis, California.[1] It's not visually unappealing, but is a rather odd addendum to a historic 19th c. town which apparently won't suffice
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How New York Is Zoning Out the Human-Scale City(nybooks.com)
4 points by petsormeat 7y ago|0 comments
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by petsormeat 7y ago
I miss the Quake City airport shuttle drivers at SFO. They were usually over-educated liberal arts graduates, sufficiently "alternative" in their grooming to thwart their hiring in ordinary jobs (even S.F. employers used to be upt
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by petsormeat 7y ago
>At the same time I noticed that the majority of engineering managers, product owners and agile coaches in our company are women. Some of these women were programmers at some point in their career. Many women get nudged/pushed into
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What the Attention Economy Does to Workers–and How It Drives America Insane(psmag.com)
2 points by petsormeat 7y ago|0 comments
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by petsormeat 7y ago
I am close to this point, in my early 50s. I'm still housed, and my home life is okay, which is a damn miracle, since I have been unable to rejoin the supposedly "hot" SF Bay Area tech industry. I can get interviews if I whac
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by petsormeat 8y ago
Same here; I'm woman, and over 50. I use a landscape snapshot from an enjoyable daytrip for my profile photo. Is this, like removing graduation dates from a resume, an undesired tell?
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Uber and Lyft are not as popular in rural America as they are in cities(vox.com)
1 points by petsormeat 8y ago|0 comments
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by petsormeat 8y ago
Not mentioned is whether sprawl has increased the distance between home and workplace, beyond acceptable cycling limits.
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If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t Be Yours(propublica.org)
10 points by petsormeat 8y ago|1 comments
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by petsormeat 8y ago
I'll confess to admiring the greatly reduced mess of the first pod system I encountered, which was in an SF startup. Not only were developers given fewer reasons to leave the office, but the non-men on staff weren't stuck with mai
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by petsormeat 8y ago
My experience (in SF/Oakland for 30+ years) is the same. Trouble is, I've grown so accustomed to it that I probably project the same Bay Area snotty hostility when I visit other places.

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