JAFTEM

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by JAFTEM 8y ago
Also have bad internet in LA. I grew up in North Dakota though, and back there my family is getting 1 gigabit internet for $100/mo from Midcontinent. Absolutely bizarre and ridiculous that North Dakota, a state that has far less develo
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by JAFTEM 8y ago
IME growing up on the poverty line and now working as a dev and living comfortably, I get serious guilt trips whenever I spend money I don't need to spend.
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
GeoCities in the early 2000's is where I first created and built something with a computer and the Internet and the experience started the journey towards becoming a software developer. I still remember using a hit counter to track how
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
I've completely cut out sugar too and it's intriguing how the body responds. I once accidentally sipped my partner's coffee (filled with sugar) thinking it was mine and I actually gagged.
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
Poach said junior devs from the Bay Area to LA or in general? Sort of confused with your second statement. The crazy thing is that every one of my CS major friends I graduated with at USC moved up the coast to the Bay Area or Seattle, or
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
I understand the appeal of Seattle and the Bay Area, but it sometimes boggles my mind that larger tech companies don't build in cities where there are a large number of new grads looking for jobs. [0] LA county produces the most CS gra
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
My Nexus 6p is the same. At exactly 15% battery if I open specific apps I immediately get notified that my battery is 0% and my phone turns off. This only started within the last 6 or so months.
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
It's not a matter of what's possible but rather a matter of who has control and access to that data. Do you want a decentralized platform or Apple to protect your records. Fwiw I'm not advocating one way or the other.
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
My gut tells me the job market is worst for junior devs in SoCal. Junior level openings aren't growing nearly as fast as the number of students trying to break into the workforce. A total of 0 of my friends at USC who were CS grads sta
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
They would have a monopoly on LA universities since the LA area is experiencing a serious brain drain of talent to the Bay Area, Seattle, and NYC. https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/24/is-southern-california..
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
They would also have a monopoly on CS grads in the LA area ([0] among the highest number of grads in the country) which is experiencing a serious brain drain of talent to the Bay Area, NYC, and Seattle. [0] https://www.ocregister
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
I mentioned the Valley, and having a West LA airport I don't find silly at all if it cuts LAX traffic in half, contingent on OP's idea of public transportation into and out of West LA relieving the 405 and the 10. OP's idea i
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
I like that idea. The links between each could double as public transportation for all, just include connections with existing metro stations. It would encourage the city to build around each of those nodes: put one in West LA, one DTLA, an
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
I don't think it's in Facebook's interest to lose control of how they make revenue.
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
> Why would you advertise on that A small percentage of companies are actively advertising on that. The featured stories (ads) on Snapchat almost always use sexual imagery to bait you into opening them. I agree, I don't think that&#
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
I use Snapchat and my friends use it. It feels much more personal than Instagram or Facebook, which are social media platforms that extend beyond my close friends and include acquaintances. People can't comment on your story - they hav
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
Not sure why everyone's go-to after someone talks negatively about Bitcoin is "he/she doesn't get it." Exactly what is there to get?
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
>It is a phone beset by compromises, the only thing it does reliably is broadcast that you are rich enough to buy a $1000 phone. I think most of us with engineering backgrounds have a very hard time accepting that social capital is a val
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
I'm too young to know, so I'm guessing, but was this move also to get Jobs back? I think not long after he became CEO.
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
I'm not one to take advice from and I would never assume to give any on this matter. Just a short anecdote. Max Levchin [Affirm] visited my university my senior year and someone in the audience asked something similar. He told us (para
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
>I'm not sure why his motivation matters? I recognized this idea in in the last two sentences of my post. The biggest issue with this line of thinking is the diversion of scrutiny towards Bezos in the process. As another poster stat
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
Bezos is an advocate for basic income, but I question his motives. Is it because he is genuinely concerned for others and society, or does he want to avoid the pitchforks at his doorstep when Amazon gets blamed for mass unemployment? Couple
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned doing this in a physical notebook with a pen. I started doing what the author describes a long time ago to document bugs to come back to later. I soon realized it's just a good way to keep my thoughts org
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
I also find my mood is very steady and mellow instead of the constant rush and burn on a high carb diet. The lack of research is concerning. I'm refraining from staying on the diet for too long and am opting to cycle in and out of it b
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by JAFTEM 9y ago
One could instead use fats for fuel by cycling in and out of ketosis. After the body adapts, sugar and carb cravings subside.
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by JAFTEM 11y ago
Oh yeah, Montana is absolutely beautiful. When I moved to California for school I drove through and was absolutely amazed. Western ND is like eastern Montana, which is much different than western Montana. Then ND gets incredibly flat like t
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by JAFTEM 11y ago
Having grown up in North Dakota, I am deeply confused why tourists would want to visit any part of it (#5). I'm shocked it shares a list with Barcelona and Carribean islands.
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by JAFTEM 11y ago
I believe this is a pre-req to CLRS too.
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by JAFTEM 12y ago
I can't even imagine how great it would be traveling from San Jose to San Francisco in ~10-15 minutes (no stops).
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by JAFTEM 12y ago
Yeah, the idea is that you like the products enough to buy them after you graduate. Microsoft does the same thing with Visual Studio directly with many colleges.

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