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by tjr225 7y ago
I am certainly very lucky, but you are correct. I suppose a better word would be grateful, rather than lucky.
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by tjr225 7y ago
> I imagine you would get $3k since there are 3 of you. * facepalm * I'll edit to clarify.
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by tjr225 7y ago
That also seemed like a comically paltry move. I still have to make my payments, after all! In addition my wife and I have spent the last couple of years with two incomes wiping away our student debt on high incomes in Seattle - so the only
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by tjr225 7y ago
Am I way out of band or does that seem like a comically small amount of money for the average American? I live in an extremely low COL area and live well within my current means. Assuming my work dries up and I don't have any savings,
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by tjr225 7y ago
I realize this is probably your point - but the statement is even WORSE with context!
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by tjr225 7y ago
Eh, the trend now is for steel bikes that can ride anywhere with braze ons for accessories. It’ll just take a while for it to catch on.
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by tjr225 7y ago
A company with an open and communicative culture can be more productive remotely than located in prem. I also believe an on prem company that has a communicative and open culture can be more productive than a remote company. However, you ca
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by tjr225 7y ago
I think it can be much more productive if done properly. The problem is most likely of our established companies are only equipped- culturally- to do things the old way. I’ve never grown more or learned more from other people than in the la
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by tjr225 7y ago
You have got to be kidding me. Melting precious, finite fossil fuels to spend time going to your job because you need time away from your family? How can you sincerely sit here and type this? I’ll take the downvotes- this is absurdity.
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by tjr225 7y ago
I’m not sure what you mean- it’s probably one of the smallest pickups I have seen in the US in my 30 years on this planet.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Hah - that's a really good way of putting it. I'm gonna write this down somewhere in case I'm ever interviewing for an eng manager role :)
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by tjr225 7y ago
> What caught me completely off-guard when I went to rent from the Depot was needing my insurance paperwork. Okay, that's out in my car's glovebox halfway across the parking lot, kindly serve another customer while I hike out t
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by tjr225 7y ago
Interesting! I work fully remote now but in my last gig I took full advantage of a 2 day/week from WFH policy and LOVED it. I agree 100%. I am a very social person so I liked hanging out with my friends/colleagues at the office bu
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by tjr225 7y ago
Group transparency and face to face pair time is critical. Your new hires need to be able to feel comfortable asking stupid questions in Slack channels full of smart people.
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by tjr225 7y ago
You absolutely do. The communication styles and social rewards of going to an office are different drastically. This is why I feel grateful to have spent the last year or so working for a remote first company- to provide myself the time to
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by tjr225 7y ago
> Also, Home Depot rents trucks/vans for $30 for 75 minutes; U-Haul is better if you need them for the whole day. I had a good friend argue that this was too inconvenient. My response was that I believe the amount of effort put int
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by tjr225 7y ago
I wish these engineers would simply have some empathy for those of us working support. Our intention is _never_ to aggravate you. We make mistakes, we miss words and sentences. Support is fast and hard and to put it lightly often looked dow
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by tjr225 7y ago
I realize how bad it is here, but I'm not really sure what you're suggesting? Throw up my hands and give up? Move to the Netherlands???
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by tjr225 7y ago
There are tons of cities near my family. Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids. It's not a dichotomy.
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by tjr225 7y ago
I don't live in Ann Arbor. This probably speaks to the number of bikeable college towns, though.
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by tjr225 7y ago
> Environmentally speaking though, I'm not sure it would be great to have huge numbers of people moving to all of the most beautiful spots on earth I think you'd find the opposite to be true. People would live closer to their f
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by tjr225 7y ago
> biking is uncomfortable and dangerous I live in a college town in Michigan and work for a company in San Francisco. I don't find biking to be uncomfortable here whatsoever. In fact there are maybe a half dozen to a dozen coffee sh
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by tjr225 7y ago
I'll give this an upvote as someone with a resume/CV that would resemble a job hopper. I am skeptical of people like this(even though I myself could be construed as a job hopper) in interviews. However in some cases its just hustl
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by tjr225 7y ago
I also think about travel/tourism and social media in this way.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Nobody needs to work on a Pentium II- though I think we could probably find a lot of applications for really old CPUs. The main issue is how much power they consume. My 2013 MacBook Pro retina started having weird, annoying keyboard issues.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Because they can't afford to live in SF- which is largely constrained by physical barriers to growth. I do agree anti building regulations are bad and somewhat at fault but it's not an apples to apples comparison by any means. Ric
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by tjr225 7y ago
You really don't get what's at play, my dude. It's cheaper in Houston because people don't want to live in Houston- at least not nearly to the same degree.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Giving people public access to healthcare, education, and food gives them more choices in life- not less.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Either that or a more progressive stance on socialist policies that provide basics to everyone. At least with socialist style policies there isn't the possibility of those spending their UBI on junk food or wine our whatever, but I rea
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by tjr225 7y ago
Interestingly I heard this from colleagues at another retail company where I was doing sysadminy stuff and was quite happy.

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