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by robbyking 4y ago
It's interesting, I had the opposite experience. When I lived in SF in my 20's, I knew all of my neighbors: some I'd party with, some I'd walk my dogs with, and later, when I was older, we had a nanny share with the fami
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by robbyking 4y ago
Strawman City
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by robbyking 4y ago
The truth of the matter is the Bay Area is a great place for tech companies because of the sheer volume of engineers. The reason so many engineers live in the Bay Area (and a handful of other cities) is (and I say this from experience) it&#
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by robbyking 4y ago
The first time I heard of Shazam was on a road trip with a friend of mine who had minimal tech skills at best. I was already 10 years into my career as an engineer, and when he told me about it, I honestly didn't believe him; I was pos
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by robbyking 4y ago
This used to happen to me a lot, and after seeing a therapist for something I thought was completely unrelated it turns out I have adult ADHD.
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by robbyking 4y ago
I have a friend who was an engineer at Amazon, and it sounds like tech jobs at Amazon are a nightmare, too.
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by robbyking 4y ago
You're being downvoted, but the reality is for a lot of workers the time that's passed since the pandemic started hasn't felt like working from home, it's felt like living at work, and this is especially true for workers
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by robbyking 4y ago
I love how these small online communities have managed to survive over the years!
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by robbyking 4y ago
Thank you!
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by robbyking 4y ago
Off topic, but where did the "underwater basketweaving" meme (in the traditional sense) come from? My dad used to say that all the time in reference to what he considered frivolous academic pursuits.
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by robbyking 4y ago
When I was in my late teens I lived with an older friend who worked as a web developer at the beginning of the dot com boom. He would come home stressed from work and I'd think how can be stressed? He gets to work on a computer all da
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by robbyking 4y ago
What's funny is I didn't remember it coming bundled, but it was on the linked site so I figured I just forgot.
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by robbyking 4y ago
I'm not sure how many people will remember this, but macOS 8 came with a program called Hotline, who's main activity was "publishing and distribution of a multi-purpose client/server communication software." Most pe
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by robbyking 4y ago
It would be interesting to break this down by genre. Jazz likes to "borrow" notes to construct chords that aren't diatonic, and metal likes to add the flat II and V almost as a rule.
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by robbyking 4y ago
That's fair, but the comment I replied to said "my peers [...] have recruiters beating down their doors while I barely get emails back," and that hasn't been my experience; my teammates and I seem to to get about the sam
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by robbyking 4y ago
How many years of experience do you have? I don't have a degree but it's literally never come up, and I've been working as a software engineer for two decades.
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by robbyking 4y ago
> How many times have you had to replace a phone in the past 10 years? Twice. Me too! And I'm a mobile engineer! My partner only recently updated their iPhone 6s, and I upgrade when the need arises, not when there's something n
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by robbyking 4y ago
The woman who hit me got out of her car and said "I'm so sorry! I saw you but I just didn't stop in time!"
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by robbyking 4y ago
I've been cycling in urban environments for 20+ years, and the only time I've been hit by a car was when I was rear ended at a stop sign. There's also been a half dozen or so other times where I've heard cars come to a q
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by robbyking 5y ago
No, it's comments only.
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by robbyking 5y ago
That's a sweeping generalization for a company with over 5,000 employees.
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by robbyking 5y ago
I don't think "wokeism" has gone too far, I think accusations of it have. There are plenty of high profile sex offenders and homophobic/transphobic celebrities who continue to get work. Instead what I see is misrepresent
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by robbyking 5y ago
I didn't know about it! I primary use a corporate hosted instance GitHub (so we often opt in to new features late), and I don't follow a lot of tech news on social media.
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by robbyking 5y ago
> The latest conditions on mountain bike and hiking trails are being shared inside communities like Reddit Are you a fan of r/mtb or r/mountainbiking?
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by robbyking 5y ago
What percentage of US workers work in FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies?
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by robbyking 5y ago
On a related note, I dated a woman who was promoted to vice president of a small start up when she was in her 20's. She had to hide her title on her resume when she left because no established firm wanted to hire someone whom they assu
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by robbyking 5y ago
That version of Garamond is gorgeous! My favorite, hands down.
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by robbyking 5y ago
A few years ago I had to use my mom's laptop to order dinner or something, and I couldn't figure out why the page I was on looked so weird . I double checked another site I visit regularly, and that site looked weird , too: huge
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by robbyking 5y ago
This is amazing! I have ADHD so I often find my self taking a non-linear route to following a recipe: Step 1, Step 3, Step 4, oops! Step 2, now where was I? Is that salt or baking powder in the bowl?
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by robbyking 5y ago
> I mostly get the impression people leave because they don't want to deal with the school lottery system. In my experience that may be true for the small number of people who leave the city for Marin, Contra Costa or San Mateo coun

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