vailprogrammer

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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
More than half the population of CO was born outside of the state. I would be surprised if it was still a top 5 state for educational attainment when looking only at those born and raised in the state.
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
> higher altitudes within the US have fewer environmental contaminants Living in Denver, I routinely see headlines (and see with my own eyes) about how terrible the air quality is here, at certain times of the year at least. Wonder if t
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
As someone with autoimmune issues who rarely checks HN but is very interested in your work, do you have a newsletter I could sign up for or an email address I could reach out to to receive updates on your work?
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
I'm curious, what is your approach to some of the most common distractions in society? Namely TV (youtube?), movies, video games, and social media. Personally I have completely removed TV, social media, and video games. I only watch
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
As an American with an EU passport, thanks for the idea. I had been leaning towards moving/retiring to Grenoble, France for the engineering university nestled in the Alps, but I will look further afield.
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
> towns of that type had to be mostly independent in terms of income for money inflow....small factories, mining, farming and ranching, etc. > I'd say that this movement of people who can afford it just another side effect of so
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
Good point. I guess you could say that its the contents of skyscrapers that are harmful to wildlife: humans. Lots of traffic (whether car, bicycle, foot, alpine touring skiing, etc) causes the wildlife herds to be pushed further away from
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
Sorry but that is false. Please name even 1 hotel in Vail that is 10+ stories. The tallest that I can think of is 5, maybe 6 stories. edit: having been a ski bum in Vail, I can't say that I've visited every resort in CO. But ac
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
Not sure what you mean.
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
I agree with this sentiment in cities, however, I believe that this approach in the mountains would result in skyscrapers being built in areas of natural beauty, and be harmful to all of the wildlife that live there. The Eagle (Vail) Valle
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by vailprogrammer 5y ago
Lived in Vail for 4 years. I wouldn't say that they are exaggerating...
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
You're trying to say that both of your parents being college educated didn't provide you with any kind of advantage over someone born into poverty with uneducated parents? "Classist prejudice" is false?? Wealthier peopl
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
I like it. How would the bank make its money? The standard exploitative practices of other banks, just with smaller fees ($5 overdraft fee instead of $37?, or lower interest rate spreads?) or just charge $50 a year, and do away with those
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
You don't think that you are lucky to have been born into an upper middle class family, without any serious psychological issues? Someone born with mental problems is automatically an immoral, bad person? > Somehow other cultures te
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
> media like these focus exclusively on this negative minority and exaggerate the negativity of the status quo. Can you expand on 'this negative minority' ? Because I think there are a lot more poor people than 'upper mid
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, maybe its some SF NIMBYers? Anyways, your second sentence brings me an interesting idea. What if someone built a website with links to easily email local representatives (kind of like the Craigsli
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
"Honey, those people are lazy, so they deserve to be poor!" Dear lord. Go work in some shitty jobs full of poor people, and count how many work hard versus how many are lazy. Those 1%ers would be shocked at what they saw. But o
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
> sob stories about people who spent half their lives pursuing 3 uneconomical degrees, had 3 more kids than they could afford, in cities with some of the highest costs of living in the world, and now complain that they're living pay
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
Is everyone just supposed to be as smart as us programmers? Is it peoples' own fault if they're stupid? Do they deserve no sympathy or humanity? Right now I make $13/hr in an expensive city. I'm working to find a soft
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
Where can I email you? If you're open to helping others, that is. No email listed in your profile
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
2) I just realized that while I don't have much in the way of side projects that go along with my hospitality work, I am in a ski town and have skied over 500 days in the last 4 years.... I have probably 15+ side projects or side proj
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
1) Understood, and will do. How do you suggest I frame the 4 year gap in tech work though? "I decided that after 17 years of school, I wanted to take some time off to ski. That year off turned into 4 but now I'm back" ? 2)
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
Thanks for the reply! I’ve worked at several different restaurants here, but I’ll see about kind of merging all of that under just 1 restaurant on my resume. I also started and ran a service business for 3 months last summer, should I keep
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Best Places to network my way into the software industry?
4 points by vailprogrammer 8y ago|5 comments
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by vailprogrammer 8y ago
Hey man, where did you do most of your skiing? Also I would love to chat with you about how you went from ski bum to professional programmer (I'm assuming) but you don't have an email in your bio. Cheers