souprock

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by souprock 8y ago
It is convenient that those are all in English, but that casts suspicion on them. FWIW though, I don't object to everything on that list. There are no perfect politicians, and they are always presented in the worst possible light by th
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by souprock 8y ago
No, that is the bare price. Insurance drops it more. For a recent baby, my price went from about $3500 down to about $1000 due to insurance, though we had to prepay more and we're still trying to get back some of the difference. Back w
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by souprock 8y ago
I don't recall any "horrible very bad choices". The country voted against corruption, against being like Venezuela, against being bought by China, against letting criminals have defenseless prey, and against being pointlessly
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by souprock 8y ago
It's about $2000 to $4000 for a non-hospital midwife with an assistant, toward the higher end of that range for at-home and toward the lower end for the midwife's office.
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by souprock 8y ago
We have plenty of people who could do that for typical x86 opcodes. It really does look good if somebody can do this, but we wouldn't expect it. Most of us need the processor manual. Sticking to the mnemonics and C is fine. BTW, totall
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by souprock 8y ago
C is OK. We'd love to see assembly language. Ideally you could show both, demonstrating that you can transform one into the other and have a good feel for what a compiler would do.
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by souprock 8y ago
Southeast USA including: Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), South Carolina (Greenville), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (beach east of Melbourne), Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Pennsylvania (State College) and
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by souprock 8y ago
Clearable is normally good enough where I work.
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by souprock 8y ago
Just in case your family grows like mine, get this: https://www.chevrolet.com/commercial/express-passenger-van Store extra rows of seats in your garage until you need them.
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by souprock 8y ago
It was more feasible to live without a car in the US because we didn't have that option. We weren't out of shape. We were used to long and unpredictable delays. If we needed to walk a hundred miles, we did it. Going longer distanc
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by souprock 8y ago
You do it anyway because it is best for your family. My parents did 1500 miles twice while having 3 kids. My brother did 350 miles with 2 kids. I did 1300 miles with 3 kids, and then 120 miles with 5 kids. Being willing to move means that w
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by souprock 8y ago
Spouse: quit the job; the family only needs one School: homeschool If learning how to socialize and form bonds with people is a major goal, then being uprooted is good practice.
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by souprock 8y ago
You don't control when the transit operates, where the transit goes, or what type of equipment is used. You have no ownership. You can do nothing if the line shuts down due to snow on the tracks. This is not independence. The car is fi
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by souprock 8y ago
Well, you're commuting too far, but anyway: San Mateo has a bridge, you can go via San Jose, and you can go via Marin County. Even the Bay Bridge is seldom 100% out. It has multiple lanes, unlike a typical rail line.
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by souprock 8y ago
Yep, or to put it the other way: how important being safe from other people is to them. Additionally, a lot of people have tons of anxiety around strangers, and being in a vehicle can completely get rid of that. The same can probably be sai
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by souprock 8y ago
The killer is probably waiting at the BART stop. BART has this "last mile" problem partly due to negligent police.
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by souprock 8y ago
I won't claim it is fun to move, but it hasn't been that big of a deal ever since the US highway system was built a century ago. I've done this a few times, as did my parents and siblings. The advantage is that I have never h
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by souprock 8y ago
For large-scale development, it is reasonable for a private contractor to have to build a school addition for each housing block. I've seen it in Flowermound, TX. The developer built a really nice elementary school and donated it to th
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by souprock 8y ago
That isn't right. We did hire, several times. More please! I've been posting this for ages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358038 We have well over a hundred people doing that sort of stuff. This idea of &
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by souprock 8y ago
Well, those things fit the job I posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358038 The common feature is low-level experience. Somebody should be comfortable with assembly and related things. It's true that not all
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by souprock 8y ago
Back when San Francisco had open space and people could actually build things, my grandparents got a 4-bedroom house there for $9000. They produced 8 kids. Kids were everywhere. The neighborhood was filled with kids. Kids played outside all
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by souprock 8y ago
I know a person who is happy with that choice. Unlike many, he was an actual SF native. He grew up there, and has family there. He is a highly competent software developer. He now works in Melbourne, FL. He has in fact switched jobs several
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by souprock 8y ago
Glassdoor is nonsense. Somehow, they think we pay experienced specialists roughly the going rate for flipping burgers or mopping restrooms.
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by souprock 8y ago
Things that would count: You wrote a compiler, kernel, emulator, firmware, or boot loader. You wrote a small demo, such as 4096-byte or 512-byte. Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene You have hand-optimiz
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by souprock 8y ago
With that extra detail, it appears you are seeking the sort of job I posted in the hiring thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358038 You say that "nothing on my resume shows "security"" and
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by souprock 8y ago
Wait, what? You think a 45-minute commute is good? The 1.5-hour thing is simply beyond the pale. You need to get out of the urban megacity. I've lived in several parts of the USA. My worst commute was 20 minutes by car, and my current
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by souprock 8y ago
Southeast USA including: Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), South Carolina (Greenville), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (beach east of Melbourne), Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Pennsylvania (State College) and
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by souprock 8y ago
Fine, take them with you. Can they code too?
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by souprock 8y ago
Well, there is your problem. This is the "why you might not even do a phone interview" issue. Off to the reject pile you go. Put yourself in our shoes, and see how similar the frustration is: Why are you rejecting us? We hire peop
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by souprock 8y ago
There are probably a few effective approaches. One is to get another degree. That looks like a career reset. The easiest is probably Open Source projects. You could write the sorts of things you are interested in, even if it has been done b

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