residentfoam

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by residentfoam 6y ago
This! Right to the point. I think Texas got this right. Higher property taxes are assessed every year on the current property value. This has the positive effect to keep the real estate market within reason. Home owners have no incentive t
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by residentfoam 6y ago
Yeah I looked into home prices rent/buy. True that you can find something _cheaper_ but not cheap/good enough to justify the lower salary and less tech opportunities. I came to the conclusion that Boston is just as expensive as SF
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by residentfoam 6y ago
Still, I am sure Zurich wouldn't even come close to the number of opportunities one get in SV. My LinkedIn account is always flooded by recruiters. That gives engineers leverage to seek new and better opportunities all the time. Plus n
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by residentfoam 6y ago
If I could, I'd leave tomorrow, but, besides tech, there is another unique aspect of Bay Area: the Biotech scene. My wife works in Biotech and the only other alternative for us would be the Boston area. But, after running some numbers
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by residentfoam 6y ago
The weather is also overrated. SF weather in particular is boring and sucks!
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by residentfoam 6y ago
The weather in SF is boring. Seasons are much better. I like cold winter, fall, warm spring and hot summers.
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by residentfoam 6y ago
Had terrible experience with AirBnB support. I had to reach out to them on Twitter and eventually someone got back to me! You would expect their site to have a clear link to support. Good luck with that.
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by residentfoam 6y ago
Clearly a project built for the sole purpose of getting a promotion and then move on. I wonder why would they ever even consider building this thing oO.
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by residentfoam 6y ago
fake it until you make it
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by residentfoam 6y ago
> if you have years or decades of experience you should have a large network of colleagues yes, but more often than not, those colleagues best interest is not YOU but their employee referral :) . At least in my experience, they often try
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by residentfoam 6y ago
Let's put aside Chernobyl, Fukushima and all the safety/economic/environment implications those incidents have had. What about the nuclear waste ? How/where are we gonna store it ? And for how long is gonna be safe, befo
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by residentfoam 6y ago
It is also Google.
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by residentfoam 6y ago
Looking forward to a Google Container
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by residentfoam 6y ago
If I were the US authorities, I'd start asking/demanding Google to stop SSO across Search/GMail/Browser. Just because I am a GMail user does not automatically mean that you can trace all my web search. In addition, I&#x2
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by residentfoam 6y ago
Where was the antitrust in all these years ? I think it is a little too late now. Companies like Google have grown to the size where it is now impossible to stop them from being a monopoly. I don't think there is anything, anyone in th
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by residentfoam 6y ago
I stand with Apple! I deleted my FB account years ago, never used Instagram. Unfortunately I am forced to use WhatsUp because of my family :( . I think it is time to put a stop at this selling user data business. Selling user data and ads
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by residentfoam 7y ago
I have also recently switched to DuckDuckGo and so far I am happy with it.
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by residentfoam 7y ago
In a professional context (and not only), one would think that this should be the normal expected good practice. But unfortunately, that is not the case. It is so surprising (well not really) to see how, in most cases, developers put so lit
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by residentfoam 7y ago
I used ORMs JPA/Hibernate in several projects/teams and the outcome is always the same: things always get messy and overcomplicated, few reasons : - they push developers to design super-normalized db schemas that look beautiful on
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by residentfoam 7y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. As society, we seem to be ok with millennials fresh out of college making hundreds of thousands of $$$ a year for a bunch Javascript that allows people to share pictures of their butt with their friends BUT
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by residentfoam 7y ago
I find myself browsing Netflix but not finding anything interesting. Old movies and low-quality content. I am deleting the subscription.
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by residentfoam 7y ago
> is a truck load of cash it is relative, for normal people it is indeed a ton of cash, but you have to compare that to the size of FB. In that respect, $5B is not that much.
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by residentfoam 7y ago
$5B is peanuts for FB, just Mark personal wealth is ~$74B, he could pay the fine himself. The should have fined FB on some % of their total revenue, like GRDP. I'd say 15/20% at least.
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by residentfoam 7y ago
So you are saying that children "have a massive impact on climate change" ? I don't have any statistics that can either confirm or dispute that assertion. But I will gladly ban SUV and Cruise s in favor of whatever climate im
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by residentfoam 7y ago
The way I see it is that you don't bring child into the world to "increase" your own personal happiness. They are (at least in my personal case) the result of my own happiness. And yes they require a lot of work, but all the
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by residentfoam 7y ago
I have been lucky enough to be able to work and live in several countries around the world. One thing in common I noticed in all these places is that guys and girls don't have time and don't want to commit to a stable long relatio
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by residentfoam 7y ago
I look only at the negative reviews. You can trust them to highlight the weak points of a product. So I know at least what would be the "worst" case scenario and if that works for me I buy it.
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by residentfoam 7y ago
OKRs could drive some value BUT in my experience they are hard to maintain and update. Most companies keep their OKRs in huge spreadsheets, some even have dedicated people to maintain that insanity. Teams then work with different tools,
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by residentfoam 7y ago
after many years of MacBook Pro I recently switched to Lenovo x1 6th + Ubuntu and never looked back .
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by residentfoam 7y ago
> people smoked in public EVERYWHERE There are people smoking in Italy as there are everywhere. They were probably smoking down the street and that's fine. But I have never seen anyone smoking in hospitals, restaurants, cafe, buse

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