tjridesbikes

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by tjridesbikes 1mo ago
I bought a Clara Color when Amazon decided that my Kindle Keyboard was no longer worthy of receiving ebooks that I purchased. I've loved it so far. I love that was even able to load my jailbroken epub library to the Kobo. I paid for th
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by tjridesbikes 1y ago
This is AWESOME! I'm doing some volunteer work to make a map of cycling routes in my city, and using OSM data to annotate features. Having a SQLite db of all the Way tags would make my work a lot easier! Thanks!
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by tjridesbikes 2y ago
What are you on about? My wife and I live in a total of 1000 square feet in a Boston triple-decker and get along totally fine. We have a basement for storage and a parking space for our car. Somehow, we're both able to work from home w
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by tjridesbikes 2y ago
This is so sad. I got an incredible CS education at Northeastern. I’m very successful in my career, and for someone who didn’t know how to program before college, I found that the CS curriculum pioneered by Felleisen prepared me far better
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by tjridesbikes 2y ago
I've taken an honest look at USDS, but I decided I couldn't afford to work for them, even though I would love to. I live in one of the most expensive cities in the US, and salaries + total comp form USDS are far lower than what I&
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by tjridesbikes 4y ago
They definitely exist. I’m a fairly compensated developer at a biotech non-profit. We only have tens of thousands of users of the product I work on, but the value my changes and features make is impactful because researchers are using our p
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by tjridesbikes 4y ago
Anecdata, but I've been on methylphenidate (Concerta) since age 7, and holy cow has it impacted my life in an insanely positive way. 21 years later, I'm still on Concerta, but excelling in my career, spending meaningful time with
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by tjridesbikes 5y ago
Almost literally me. Before I graduated, I applied for a job, got offered $80k, negotiated up to $90k, and have seen significant increases in salary since then. I’m being paid area-average salary for interesting work, great work-life balanc
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by tjridesbikes 5y ago
Welp, you just listed pretty much all of my most-watched creators...
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by tjridesbikes 7y ago
My employer has been putting a lot of time into COVID-19 research and tools. It's great to see that work recognized here! We've all been working very hard to make tools and data related to this pandemic available to the public and
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by tjridesbikes 7y ago
After I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I went and bought myself a ‘71 Honda CB350, almost the exact bike Pirsig rode in his book. I found that fixing this motorcycle, taking it apart, fixing internal component, figuring out
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by tjridesbikes 7y ago
We specifically moved to a part of Boston with lots of trees. All the benefits of public transit, nightlife, and resources, but as I look out my home-office window right now, I see a big tree, a dog park, and very small forest of trees rig
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by tjridesbikes 8y ago
This is the exact reason I don't commute by car. I live in Jamaica Plain and work in Kendall Square. Driving takes 45 minutes to go 4 miles. Taking the T takes 40 minutes. I ride my bike and my commute is 17 minutes each way, no matter
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by tjridesbikes 9y ago
No limits here. In the US with 4-5 weeks (depending on length of employment) of vacation per year. We have people who say "see ya" at the end of November and we don't see them again until mid-January.
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by tjridesbikes 9y ago
Speak for yourself. Spaces in macOS is one of the best window management features I've encountered. Of course, it's been common in Linux window managers, but since I use a Mac for work, its a godsend that spaces and multiple deskt
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by tjridesbikes 9y ago
I think I could help answer this. The cost of computation has gone down so much that its just a fraction of the price for your whole genome sequencing. The cost comes from preparation, reagents, and storage. Illumina sells their own reagent
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by tjridesbikes 9y ago
Sounds interesting, but I'm pretty sure we need to keep out ActiveMQ instance in local machines because of medical data. We're also pretty tied to GCS...
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by tjridesbikes 9y ago
I used to use SelfControl, but once I figured out how it blocks sites, it stopped being as useful. Don't fall victim to your inner Software Engineer and try to figure out how it works!