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541.
by rdouble 13y ago
San Francisco is Disneyland for rich people. Isn't the same complaint levied against Manhattan?
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by rdouble 13y ago
John McPhee's book "La Place de la Concorde Suisse" is excellent if you are interested in the militia system of Switzerland. http://www.amazon.com/Place-Concorde-Suisse-John-McPhee/dp/0...
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by rdouble 13y ago
The hills in SF are made of rock.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Where parts of San Francisco are jammed with houses, every nook occupied, not unlike parts of Manhattan or Boston, there are large swaths of the Valley with nothing but parking lots. San Francisco is not unique in this regard. Every urban
545.
by rdouble 13y ago
When I was 14, my friends and I used to blow up snowbanks in the backyard with these all the time. However, we were not doing it in the name of science. We were doing it because we were pre "Jackass" skater dickheads. I believe we found the
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by rdouble 13y ago
UES is cheaper than Brooklyn now. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044357090457754...
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by rdouble 13y ago
A friend of mine who lived in China from 2004-2007 said the off limits places were due to crime, and that foreigners were not allowed because they were likely to be targeted.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The best algorithms book for the self taught developer is the latest version of Sedgewick. http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/
549.
by rdouble 13y ago
All that info is on Bloomberg.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I think it was just a personal investment. However, if we're talking VC investment in food service, both Philz and Blue Bottle raised $20M from VC funds over the past 12 months.
551.
by rdouble 13y ago
Might as well go see a VC about opening a Pizza shop, it makes about as much sense. Rich Miner, head of Google Ventures, financed Cambridge One. http://www.cambridge1.us/about.html
552.
by rdouble 13y ago
Didn't pg say a while back that the video was the most important part?
553.
by rdouble 13y ago
Back when SFPD was short staffed there used to be a billboard advertising $91,000 starting salary for new recruits.
554.
by rdouble 13y ago
This suggests that there may be a cohort effect that makes the Baby Boom generation more vulnerable to middle-age suicide Seems simple enough... They don't have enough money for retirement and their kids hate them.
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by rdouble 13y ago
America is special, because it was founded by people who wanted to be free, not founded by some warlords who wanted to rule over others America was founded by people who wanted to be free, including the freedom to rule over the others the
556.
by rdouble 13y ago
It sounds like a drano bomb: http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp
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by rdouble 13y ago
Have you ever seen the AP Computer Science materials? They have always been garbage.
558.
by rdouble 13y ago
An issue with small midwestern towns is that there is not usually temporary housing available, unless it's a college town.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I had permanent redeye and frequent allergic reactions when I was using Acuvue Oasys lenses. Some were pretty bad; I couldn't wear my lenses for weeks at a time and had to get $130/oz eyedrops to get rid of the irritation. After switching t
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by rdouble 13y ago
Is there a program or summer institute like Hacker School but more graphics programming and interaction design oriented?
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by rdouble 13y ago
Ask your mom or sister what they think.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Pretty much only creeps refer to women as females.
563.
by rdouble 13y ago
In a housing boom do construction people start making their own construction companies instead of working for others? Yeah, see the rise of the rich tradesperson in Australia for an example.
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by rdouble 13y ago
C++ isn't a terrible medium for experimentation. Games and every "creative coding" interactive projector art type project are done in C++.
565.
by rdouble 13y ago
You don't really need caching if your back end is fast enough. It's just that the current trend is to use slow architectures with caching, because it's usually cheaper and faster to get version 1 out the door.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Yes, but it's different than in say, SF Bay or Portland where you don't have to say you "successfully avoided" them. You have to go out of your way to find the bros. That said, bros in Chicago are probably in about the same concentration as
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by rdouble 13y ago
I use Uber all the time. Regardless of marketing slogan, most people in SF use it like they would a car service or taxi. It's not like the private cars are Bentleys, although that might be a cool option.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Outside of Silicon Valley anything that has to do with a computer has always been called IT.
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by rdouble 13y ago
In his defense, he only does it 3 times a week.
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by rdouble 13y ago
What about Chicago? Or it's an invitation to work at some startup with shitty cargo-cult culture that'll fire you at 4 months with no severance if you don't go to the strip club with the other brogrammers. Chicago is ok but be aware tha

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