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by rdouble 13y ago
In LA personal directions are still useful because google and/or apple maps will give you a choice of some obvious routes that will all be clogged with traffic. It really is like "The Californians" on SNL. http://w
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by rdouble 13y ago
Good point. Although my friends from St. Paul with Irish backgrounds are significantly more outgoing and have much larger social circles.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Even Scandinavian Americans act like this. It's not politeness it's a culturally ingrained pathological aversion to interacting with strangers.
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by rdouble 13y ago
They've stolen $300 worth of stuff from my checked baggage and don't provide any means to get it back. There are dozens of similar stories. Not quite sinister, but beyond annoying and stupid.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Likewise if you are American you get more immigration points with a degree, should you ever want to move to Australia.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The difference was that there weren't better jobs for those people back then, and there was a real world war back then and we were kinda obviously the good guys. People with the skills to do the data mining needed at this scale already have
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by rdouble 13y ago
I can't find where I thought read that, so I'm probably wrong.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The latest Sedgewick is better than Cormen for self study. Especially if the goal is to get through a tech interview.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I've never been able to figure the gumment/gubmint guys out. Are they making fun of rednecks? Or are they assuming the role of some sort of redneck freedom fighter? Do rednecks even say "gumment?"
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by rdouble 13y ago
Even in California, the defense sector employs tons of engineers, especially in San Diego. In states like Arizona, Raytheon and SAIC are the only places an engineer can get a job.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I like South Beach in Miami as the beach is actually really great for just chilling, there are a lot of attractive people there, the hotels are nice, you can get pretty good food easily, there are usually inexpensive deals, etc. Waikiki is
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by rdouble 13y ago
You have to file taxes for 5-10 years even if you renounce your citizenship.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Day One does this. It's a journal app, but it has the same features as Vesper, but with sync, a desktop app, and a calendar view of your posts. In my eyes it also has a very similar interface.
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by rdouble 13y ago
https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/surveillance-mo...
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by rdouble 13y ago
Toshi ruined it for everyone.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Canada, according to Privacy International.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Personally, I found it did go as far as I thought it would, in NYC. It might even seem like a bargain if you're coming from Australia. You finally get to live large, banking the same sums as an apprentice electrician from Perth.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's a valid observation, but does anyone have nice offices? My parents are medical professionals, their offices were terrible. My sister runs a government org in Australia, has horrible office. One of my old bosses was the head of a depart
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's particular to the New York startup scene. There is a lot of money sloshing around and startups have a different hiring strategy than in Silicon Valley. It's quick to hire, quick to fire. I've had six figure offers without even going th
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by rdouble 13y ago
TL;DR Rap Genius pays $150,000 + $10K signing bonus, dude feels kinda weird about it.
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by rdouble 13y ago
How would a Queenslander even be able to judge the intelligence of others?
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by rdouble 13y ago
This is terrible advice. Don't send anything other than a neutral message to your immediate supervisor informing them of your 2 week notice.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The term 'Fundamentalism' refers to a specific American religious movement that took off around 1920. It has it's roots in a series of essays called "The Fundamentals" which were published in 1909-1910. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun
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by rdouble 13y ago
Costco is like what Makro is in the Netherlands.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Such a bike lane would be loud and unpleasant, but if separated from the road it would be similar in loudness and unpleasantness to the Williamsburg, Queensboro and Manhattan bridge bike lanes, which are widely used. That said, it would lik
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by rdouble 13y ago
companies can pay to influence the content of articles and the type of coverage. Like every other publication in the USA? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by rdouble 13y ago
'The City' is just a local nickname which has been forever memorialized by the most popular t-shirt in the Bay, the old Golden State Warriors logo. http://c-product.images.dreamsretail.com/46-40/46-40526-Y.jp... It's just anecdotal, but I
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by rdouble 13y ago
Do you think San Francisco would be more built up if all the other people in California who wanted to live there got a vote? Nobody in California outside of San Francisco really thinks or cares much about The City, so nothing would be dif
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by rdouble 13y ago
Relatively cheap housing can be found if you live in bad, uncool and/or inconvenient neighborhoods. I just looked at a number of < $1500 apartments in Oakland (1200+ sq feet). In-law apartments in the outer Sunset and outer Richmond can
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by rdouble 13y ago
$20/m is too high. There was another posting recently where a guy co-located his RPi (or Beaglebone?) for less than $20 total over a period of 18 months.

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