jeffFrom18F

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by jeffFrom18F 6y ago
The advertised battery life appeals to me, if it does indeed work as advertised. I have a 3-year-old Oryx Pro, which I probably over-indexed on performance on. Everything about it is great with the exception of the battery life which is usu
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
Probably being wildly naive here, but wouldn't it be better if there were an open-source solution for this sort of thing that could be used by both parties?
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
It really comes down to the money. I don't want to live in the Bay Area, I find almost nothing I like about it--with one exception: 2-5x what you are going to make in most other cities for work that is often easier. Almost any city in
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
Somewhat related: The Youtube algorithm also recently lead me to this Japanese musician I wasn't familiar with: (Ryo Fukui - A letter from slowboat) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVV_z1lBNLo Sounds like it would go r
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
If SO was just about maintaining the community and running a useful Q&A site then it would be very strange that Sara Chipps still has a job right now. I can only guess it's because there is something else going on with SO the busin
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
I hope Stripe and similar companies that are mostly SF-based plan on more expansion to San Jose. There is an article practically every day in the Mercury News about some new office or residential site that is coming soon.
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
They can't move their HQ at this point for reasons others have mentioned. It does seem like they are taking a balanced strategy, however. I remember a story a few months ago about how their latest team is all-remote. They might have be
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
> decent public transportation Nope
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
For me, it's the somewhat selfish but defensible idea that open source is a good way to get experience with technologies that I don't get to use in my day job. I get some amount of pride in seeing my name in release notes etc but
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
I realize a university is not going to pay in-line with a FAANG company, but I am surprised somewhere like Columbia which is definitely not hurting for money doesn't pay at least a little bit more than this, like 110-130.
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
I have noticed that LinkedIn added a lot of addiction-forming "hooks" in the last year (maybe a little longer?), similar to other social networks. The most prominent among these that "liking" will repost to your connecti
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
I was going to make a reference to "Hardcore Visual Basic" but you beat me to it. Fantastic book, it's hard to find a tech book that is that useful and fun at the same time. My first job started out with mostly Visual Basic 6
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
Lunch/beer are certainly above nat'l average, but they do not cost that much in the bay area. It's mostly the housing (Childcare also up there).
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
I've had a lot of similar thoughts. If VCs here want to tell their startups they have to be here, that's one thing, but I don't see why some of the tech mega-corps don't open more offices with a few hundred positions in
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
This is why I'm looking with anticipation at the plans to develop downtown San Jose. Nothing is "sacred" there, so you avoid all these discussions and get on with building.
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
Hard to say what the peak is? I arrived here in 2015 and things seem overheated, but prices have just continued to climb. The tax changes seem like they should have dampened things but they haven't too much.
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
The last two bullet points resonated with me. Every now and then I have some free time I try to answer some questions. You can actually learn new things by doing this, even if it's just by observing the "weird" way someone tr
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by jeffFrom18F 7y ago
I've enjoyed the keyboard on my System76 laptop. Granted that's a special case since they're not for everyone (Linux-focused). I've found most laptop keyboards at least adequate, the MacBook that I'm forced to use f
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
> Coming to the bay to live far from SF? What's the point? 1. Most of the BigCos are in the south bay and riding a bus an hour+ gets old after a while. 2. I'm guessing you don't have kids?
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
It's too bad the author started the article with that line.. I almost stopped reading right there. "Smart" people move here because it's relatively easy to get hired at a job that pays six figures even for the relatively
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
Maybe a little off topic, but I find it funny how big a deal people make about going to tech conferences. I never got it. For context, I'm 37. I watch conference topics on topics I find interesting but they're often just mildly in
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
I've been using Linux in some form for about 20 years (starting with Slackware), and use it as my default at home for the last few years now. I also just mostly run stock Ubuntu these days. I had some issues running a "headless&qu
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
Google Inbox? I'm a paying user of corporate Gmail/GSuite and this is a pending disaster for me. They keep asserting that the "new improved" Gmail offers all the needed functionality but it simply does not.
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
I used Excel for several years, mostly doing development work for financial services companies. I now work at a small/medium-size tech company that uses Google Sheets. Sheets is fine for most of the things we need to do, but our needs
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
Overall it's a sprawly mess (like most of the rest of the area), but there are a few cool hidden gems, like Alum Rock park or the rose garden. Good museums for kids.
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
Sorry.. my mistake I meant to write The Fifth Season. I probably won't read the rest of the trilogy. I've edited my original post.
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
Best: My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah Disappointments: The Fifth Season - NK Jemisin - gimmicky nonsense. I realize I'm in the minority. Autonomous - Annalee Newitz - This guy falls in
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
Some I haven't seen mentioned yet: The Monk of Mokha - Dave Eggers; This seems to have been mostly under the radar but it was immensely entertaining and gives a look inside Yemen that is hard to come by. Probably my favorite book of th
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by jeffFrom18F 8y ago
I'd say far from perfectly feasible. I looked at the prospect of commuting from South Bay into San Francisco. In isolation a "Baby Bullet" sounds feasible, (45-60 mins), but there are only so many of those, and they of course