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by up_and_up 7y ago
USA, MI, peri-urban
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by up_and_up 7y ago
Thanks! Yeah we feel lucky to have local groups and resources to make this happen. Granted we have also worked hard to get there!
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by up_and_up 7y ago
My wife was from a very competitive school district which forced overachievement and I got beat up by bullies in a small town school. Besides the personal anecdotes, 1. we felt like time was passing too quickly and wanted to have them aroun
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by up_and_up 7y ago
We have homeschool friends who felt the same and tried to get involved with the public school system. They are very civic minded etc. They found the red tape crushing for their kid, who is a bit of genius, plus he was getting beat up etc. O
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by up_and_up 7y ago
My wife are secular homeschoolers and have homeschooled our 3 kids: 10,8,5 for 5 years. We use outschool regularly, its a great platform to introduce random topics. I would invest in it honestly. AMA I guess
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by up_and_up 7y ago
I applied a few weeks ago and heard nothing. Can I send a resume directly to you?
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by up_and_up 7y ago
I have solid experience in all those items and I am interested can you shoot me an email: prgrmr75@gmail.com
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by up_and_up 7y ago
You might need to prune and/or curate your slack channels better. For major projects/initiatives we use a new ephemeral slack channel for the duration of the project. All chat comms about the project are stored there. The project
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by up_and_up 7y ago
> I think a distributed team,where individual members of the team are geographically distributed, is designed to fail. Sure you could accomplish some goals but the inertia is working against you. Such teams will be always outperformed by
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by up_and_up 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Michigan Portfolio: http://www.featlabs.com Experienced Sr. DevOps and Fullstack Engineer with 10 years experience. Great communicator. Excellent knowledge and experience across a number of domains:
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by up_and_up 8y ago
I have had some fear of flying. Read up on the science of turbulence and how robust these planes are. I occasionally still get waves of fear esp when they are descending fast with turbulence. But after really studying what turbulence is and
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by up_and_up 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Michigan Expert Fullstack Ruby on Rails/Nodejs Developer with 10 years experience. MVPs, Large legacy projects, Emergency fixes. Great communicator. Excellent knowledge and experience across a number of dom
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by up_and_up 9y ago
Follow the money? On one side, I believe Doctors get paid more by performing a C-section. [1] On the other, it may involve less risk, which reduces the likelihood of malpractice lawsuits? [2] 1 - https://scholar.princeton.edu&#x2
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by up_and_up 9y ago
I would say work remotely for a company in an expensive place but live in a cheap small town. This has worked out very well for me and my family. All the companies I have worked for were remote-first etc so I never felt like a second class
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Mars surface 'more uninhabitable' than thought: study(phys.org)
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by up_and_up 9y ago
> Trust me I would gladly program in anything other than corporate Java if given a chance. You need a side gig or to get involved with an open-source project. Get exposure outside of work then get yourself a more exciting job.
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by up_and_up 9y ago
So, I have 3 kids, 8,6, and 3. > I commute every day 1 hour in each direction. I know some people are stuck in this situation but I would really recommend finding something closer or getting a fully remote job. I have had a 100% remote j
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by up_and_up 9y ago
> I hesitate to say "downvote if they don't have salary info" Upvoting the listings that include salary will provide enough positive reinforcement as those float to the top IMO.
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by up_and_up 9y ago
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by up_and_up 9y ago
> But somehow the problem persists, it's unbelievable. Before you get too high and mighty there.... Not long ago (1996) here in the USA, they were still removing all the outhouses that had been positioned directly over fresh-water s
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by up_and_up 10y ago
> So your go-to solution should be to buy used. Unless you are talking about mountaineering gear like anything climbing related: ropes, cams etc. How in the heck can you trust that used gear will work 100%? I would rather spend more $$ t
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by up_and_up 10y ago
Explosion of Walmarts killed a ton of competition, including my dads' sporting goods business.
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by up_and_up 10y ago
> by skipping class I didn't know the final was rescheduled! Made a similar mistake. I showed up to an Astronomy final... 2 hours late by mistake! Prof hands me the test and says you have 20 mins to finish. Somehow I scored an A. Pu
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by up_and_up 10y ago
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by up_and_up 10y ago
It depends, likely she would work part-time and we could continue homeschooling. But if she wanted to go FT, then yeah we would need to send the kids to school/daycare.
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by up_and_up 10y ago
I have one. Her choice though as we homeschool 3 kids.
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by up_and_up 10y ago
> If there is as much money to be made as Instacart's valuation implies, then it's just a matter of time until the big chains, at least, start offering their own online shopping. They already do. We sometimes use personal shopp
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by up_and_up 10y ago
A year before an exit prob means they only vested like 25% percent of their options. At that stage they were prob pretty expensive options and highly diluted. Options are not much good if they are not vested and priced too high.
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by up_and_up 10y ago
How many of that older generation had 6,7,8,9,10+ kids. There were certainly "things a going on."
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by up_and_up 10y ago
> They brushed me off saying it's just not possible or they don't look after their kids. Fuck that noise. Hands-down the best programmers I have worked with have had multiple kids. I am talking about darth vader level chops, th

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