bowlich

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by bowlich 3y ago
Suburbs can be, see suburbs built pre-WWII which typically had a train line connecting them to the nearby city industrial center which was used for daily commuting of workers who walked or biked to the station.
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by bowlich 4y ago
Based off the market rate for chanterelles my harvest this year would have cost several thousand dollars had I merely bought them from the grocer.
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by bowlich 6y ago
Conversely if you do attempt to do a deeper dive into the design and architecture choices my experience has been you end up getting push back and overruled -- because people are busy and don't want to miss a deadline with code that &qu
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by bowlich 6y ago
I've been doing remote work for... 8-9 years or so now. I'd say there are far _less_ phone calls as a remote employee than in office because there is an expectation in my remote employment that work is conducted asynchronously so
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by bowlich 6y ago
No? I guess my anecdotal experience with owning laptops from the early 2000s to today. An early 2000s laptop I expected to last between 18-24 months before it was shot. I don't think anyone made it through my college on the same laptop
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by bowlich 6y ago
I'm amazed that we consider same day, and not sub-second to be an improvement in an electronic system these days.
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by bowlich 6y ago
Yes. Pretty much a club house, pub, community center whose membership consisted of veterans. The suburb was built within a decade of the end of WWII and during the Korean war. So it was a safe bet that most households had a member who was a
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by bowlich 6y ago
Pockets of commerce is the thing that is totally gone from suburbia. I went back to the Cleveland suburbs for a grandparent's funeral several years back and I could definitely see how in the 1950s the structure of the suburb would&#x27
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by bowlich 6y ago
As someone who does PHP back-end work every day --- the lack of enums is probably my #1 complaint with PHP as a language these days and I probably find myself wishing I had access to them at least once a week.
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by bowlich 6y ago
I switched to ft work from home years ago. Where is my home office (I guess people are calling them "home labs" these days) going to be has probably always been my top concern since my first apartment and long before I started wor
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by bowlich 6y ago
Might I ask what line of work you're in that 100mb+ would be a limiting factor? I ask because I've been doing remote work web development for 9 years now on a 10mb DSL line, and honestly haven't really seen much any need to g
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by bowlich 6y ago
Just because there's no public facing service sitting on a domain doesn't mean that domain isn't in use. I have a domain whose only public facing service is just some picture I took. Am I using that domain? Yes, sure. It host
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by bowlich 6y ago
This was my experience. I'm seven years into remote working and I spent the first half absolutely fighting to force myself into a 9-5. I did all the habits that everyone typically recommends here. Separate office, machines. Get dressed
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by bowlich 6y ago
I know several employers who hire remote, and it isn't a Bay Area thing -- they won't employ anyone in the state of the CA, for the same reasons they won't employ international employees -- they see CA legislation as too oner
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by bowlich 6y ago
Why enforce the second factor authentication? The main reason that I wouldn’t want to be using an email address is because I want the account to be disposable. Just make it that if I don’t have a second factor for recovery, there is no reco
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by bowlich 6y ago
Except when management finally wises up and realizes the product has no future... neither do you. Much better to look around and find the product/project that is actually going to spawn revenue for the company and get on that team. Whe
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by bowlich 6y ago
Skunk traps and cat food. If cat's get into my traps, they just get dumped at the pound. Their owners can go pick up their little invasive darlings there. But they usually don't get near my yard due to the hounds guarding the chi
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by bowlich 6y ago
Nope. Already worked from home. Didn't really go out in public much before the pandemic, other than a biweekly grocery run. I can make a better meal, spiced to my particular tastes better than any restaurant. I have enough books, movie
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by bowlich 7y ago
I collect role-playing campaign settings for this very reason. I love just reading through long geographies of made up worlds. Pouring over the maps. Imagining the geopolitical landscapes or how the alternative histories or technologies mig
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by bowlich 7y ago
When I've seen a U.S. company "hire" an engineer outside of the country, they tend to end up having to do it as a contractor instead of as a FT Employee. When I see "Remote: Only US," there's a high chance they
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by bowlich 7y ago
> WhatsApp employee would have leaked it on HN already Employees don't need to be aware of the backdoor if they aren't the one's listening. At least, I assume Whatsapp is already compromised by some state actor and Faceboo
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by bowlich 7y ago
I've started noticing people call a game "AA" lately to distinguish a big-budget independently produced game from big-budget titles coming from traditional publishers. Not sure if that one will take off or not...
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by bowlich 7y ago
One item that is often overlooked that I wished more remote team mates would do: Get a business line for your internet connection or better yet, get a second line and use it only for work so you can segment your network activities between h
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by bowlich 7y ago
I know a of relatives who only buy hardbacks -- even if all they're reading is one-read genre stuff. Myself, I tend to buy paperback, read and then donate. If the book was good and I want to keep it for my personal collection. I track
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by bowlich 7y ago
$170 million, at the maximum penalty only covers around 4,000 violations. I seriously doubt that Youtube violated this rule only a mere 4,000 times.
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by bowlich 7y ago
It, depends. I worked for a company at one point where there was two teams. One team was maintaining the company's main product which was consistently making positive returns to the company year after year. The second team was working
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by bowlich 7y ago
I'm in the Southwest and $6 from any Mom & Pop Mexican cafe will net you a carnita burrito the size of your head and take two days to eat. Maybe the Lobster rolls are bigger?
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by bowlich 7y ago
A fresh graduate also isn't going to be able to walk out with a PE until they've held some kind of industry role. I would think that this is a good indicator that a fresh graduate isn't supposed to be ready-to-go but ready to
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by bowlich 7y ago
I've almost never done a house rental through an agent. Seems to me like almost the entire market that I've seen has been for rent directly by an owner.
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by bowlich 8y ago
Have I been under a rock? I keep reading about AMP on HN, but I have yet (professionally or personally) actually come across AMP in the wild unless I intentionally went looking for it -- or am I consuming AMP and not even realizing it?

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