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by gaelenh 2y ago
It shows me 17 bus stops, but not the 3 subway stations/lines I am equidistant from. I already went through and favorited all my stations to make it useful again, but the main screen prioritizing every bus stop over any subway stations
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by gaelenh 8y ago
I have the T-Mobile version of the LTE dumbphone (Alcatel Go Flip). It can be used as a hotspot, wifi calling, and HD voice (much clearer than previous dumbphones). KaiOS is really laggy unfortunately. I haven't used that phone in 6 mo
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by gaelenh 9y ago
Curious: I just got a series 3 last week and use it as my sole phone (hate smartphone form factor, flip phone user since forever). All I use it for is heart rate, phone, messaging, and music (very happy with it). I've had to charge my
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by gaelenh 9y ago
My parents shrewdly and pre-emptively reorganized their "estate" (feels silly calling their meager savings that) with a lawyer that specializes in this. In Central Florida, their are enough retires that many know what's at s
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by gaelenh 10y ago
I don't understand the subsidies at all. In 2015, ACA gave people waivers (no penalty!) if the minimum insurance was more than 8.05% of household income. The minimum plan for a family in NYC on the NY Healthcare Exchange is $12,500&#
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by gaelenh 10y ago
I run a bootstrapped non-profit in NYC with two employees (myself and my wife). A bronze plan for my family on the NY marketplace is about $1,200+ month with an $8k-14k deductible. I was hoping to get something through JustWorks, but sinc
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by gaelenh 10y ago
Canopy - http://canopyapps.com - NYC - ONSITE Web Developer and Android Engineer We’re seeking a full-time Web / Full Stack Developer (front + backend) and an Android Engineer to join our small, collaborative team You'
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by gaelenh 11y ago
They all successfully transitioned into industrial factory jobs, where they received living wages and benefits and weren't at all abused by the factory owners and lived happily ever after? I honestly don't know. This is where th
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by gaelenh 11y ago
I have strong doubts too. Tech luminaries and the media that feed off them seem pretty constant with their predictions, so I think for worst case scenarios (at least in terms of the families / demo I serve, not in society as a whole).
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by gaelenh 11y ago
Last week in my robotics classes, the 4th grade students built and programmed simple "self-driving" cars with LEGO EV3's. My students are mostly 1st generation immigrants in Brooklyn. Many of their families' main sourc
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by gaelenh 11y ago
Canopy - http://canopyapps.com - NYC - ONSITE Android Engineer We’re seeking a full-time Android Engineer to join our small, collaborative team and own the end-to-end development of our Android applications. You'll be respo
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by gaelenh 11y ago
Their new school seems to follow the community school model. Community schools provide classes for parents, wrap around services, dental, medical, social workers, etc. They are fairly popular in urban school districts, though their efficacy
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by gaelenh 12y ago
So much truth to this. Hang out with enough Mexican immigrants in the US and you realize the danger there is real for civilians in MX and not much of an exaggeration. Members of my wife's family have been drugged and robbed. Last month
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by gaelenh 12y ago
I use Brackets for my middle school game programming class (using Phaser). Cross platform, free, and works great for beginners out of the box. Testing out html + js is as simple as hitting a button, no extensions or server or any other ho
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by gaelenh 12y ago
The article is wrong to call it "Common Core online testing". Common Core is short for Common Core State Standards [CCSS], and thus are a standard, not curriculum or tests. Tests and curricula can be Common Core-aligned, but the
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by gaelenh 12y ago
I've volunteered almost every week for the last 6 years running free STEM programs in local schools in Brooklyn. The robotics program I started runs entirely off of volunteers, most of whom I've never met before their first day a
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by gaelenh 12y ago
That's certainly one version of what can happen. Another version is that none of the equity transfers to the new company. The acquiring company will offer you a modest boost in salary and similar new stock options. If you don't ta
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by gaelenh 12y ago
Tip to engineers new to the startup world: If the startup you work for has any success or traction, but runs out of money, you will be sold off as a team like cattle. When startups shutdown, all assets -- servers, client contracts, softwar
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by gaelenh 13y ago
I always feel like I get the most done, both in terms of what I'm paid to do and what I have to offer, on my weekly volunteer day. I slam through as much programming and meetings/conversations as possible in 5 hours, then head ou
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by gaelenh 13y ago
Short version: We had direct access to all the large news image providers and analyzed the images for topic and story identification. We used this data to dynamically generate hundreds of thousands of pages. Way too much data to cache to f
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by gaelenh 13y ago
Not running (probably). We were acquired by a competitor. Last I heard, they upgrade their image server code with the bare essential features to migrate over our clients. A lot of good software was buried in that acquisition.
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by gaelenh 13y ago
I wrote a similar image service (resize, crop, border, color analysis, format, and other fun features) a few years ago. It served about 6M image requests a day from 4 servers, plus a whole lot more from the CDN. If you're using a CDN,
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by gaelenh 13y ago
I follow a similar strategy when I'm interviewing for a job. I play it a little loose and speak freely. If they don't have the good sense to realize that questions about my resume or github code are more important than white boa
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by gaelenh 13y ago
I used to get results from the Getty Images API when I'd call it with future time ranges. Most of the photos were from the next week, but there were always a few handfuls from months and years in the future. Just a bug and bad metadata, not
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by gaelenh 13y ago
OP here. I've taught STEAM for about five years now on a completely voluntary basis at a low SES, high ELL school in Brooklyn. I went looking for a job a few months ago in NYC. When potential bosses asked me what I was looking for in a wor
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Developers Need to Teach Programming in K-12(edsurge.com)
1 points by gaelenh 13y ago|1 comments
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by gaelenh 13y ago
Last weekend I decided to move my non-profit email off of gmail. Running my own mail server always seemed silly or negligent (everyone I know who runs their own has had mail bounce back at me at least once). It took me the weekend to setup
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by gaelenh 15y ago
There was a relatively recent article in Time about the socratic method not being so great: http://ideas.time.com/2011/12/14/why-asking-questions-might-... Basically, they recreated one of Socrates' lessons. The students gave similar answ
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by gaelenh 15y ago
In NYC I would say that it's still a mixed. The comment section on gothamschools.org (great local edu news site) is full of Angry Teachers waiting in the wing to jump on editorials and commenters with vitriolic language.
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by gaelenh 15y ago
I loathe passing around links about education to anyone in the profession. The comments almost immediately go negative. The first comment on this post was calling teachers babysitters. Everyone immediately turns against each other (parents

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