mejarc

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by mejarc 2y ago
One aspect of the 2020 COVID lockdown I found distressing was the complete shutdown of my usual spin classes. Most of us regulars were on a first-name basis, but did not meet outside the gym: it sufficed to see each other at class. This cas
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by mejarc 2y ago
The worst, most bad-faith case I've seen of "advertising" an H1B job was of the job posting printed out, taped to the back of an interior office door, and covered by the recruiter's hanging overcoat.
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by mejarc 2y ago
Location: Oakland, CA, USA (San Francisco Bay Area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: to Prescott, AZ (my hometown) Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Express, MySQL, MongoDB. Adequate in C/C++ Résumé/CV: http:&#x2F
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by mejarc 3y ago
Yes. Here in the western U.S., some public lands near populated areas close during the summer, because of extreme fire danger. Having larger crowds camping in the woods raises the danger for everyone, even with the supervision of the forest
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by mejarc 3y ago
My courthouse wedding over 20 years ago cost $75, had no showers, no attendants, no reception, and was memorialized only by a snapshot taken by one of the affable court clerks. I've never regretted it. The only way my spouse and I pull
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by mejarc 3y ago
Loved his metaphors of the extravagant promises of beginner dance workshops. I had similar realizations when involved in Argentine tango in the late Nineties. There's similarity to the coding bootcamp phenomenon--the workshops generate
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by mejarc 4y ago
I was invited to answer one of these, at a company with truly the most hateful manager I've ever had. Oh, was I ever ready to offer my jaundiced, embittered opinion...until the survey required I log in with my company email address. Ye
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by mejarc 5y ago
Gawd, that Volkswagen aroma. I'm sure there's a German word for it.
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by mejarc 5y ago
"[Jackie Opel] joined forces with the Troubadours, the house band of the Clyde B Jones funeral parlour." There's potential for at least one more newspaper feature, or streaming series, with this backstory.
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by mejarc 7y ago
I doubt any company, especially in SV, takes a PR hit from age discrimination, which seems to be widely accepted and barely punished. Google just wants to swat away the plaintiffs like annoying gnats.
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by mejarc 7y ago
Location: US Pacific time zone Remote: Yes. Required. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTML/CSS, JS, Grunt/Gulp, React, Rails, Sec. 508/WCAG, design systems Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/mejarc Email: mejarc
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by mejarc 7y ago
The setting: a mandatory, in-person all-hands meeting at a medium-sized enterprise software company in SV. The time: a few weeks before the winter holidays, mid-2000s. What we expected: to hear about our company's IPO or beneficial acq
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by mejarc 7y ago
So much of this account resonates with my experience as a UX ("X!" Must be technical!) developer in the Bay Area. I love this line particularly: "A film of pseudoscience sticks to everything we touch."
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by mejarc 8y ago
Until 1940 or so, the United States was relatively friendly to non-car transport--just look at the older sections of most towns and cities.
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by mejarc 9y ago
I love this project, but I detest control-top garments—if you branch into stockings or hold-ups, I promise to invest in some!
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by mejarc 9y ago
I noticed this when I visited Boston for the first time, after several years of living in SF. I was walking down a street--and I was delighted to keep walking, unmolested by oblivious motorists zooming out of driveways and garages. Too bad
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by mejarc 9y ago
Would like to hear more about any software safety course, beta or not.
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Beware These Nine Design Elements Your Front-End Developers Hate(lullabot.com)
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by mejarc 12y ago
There's a moving photo essay in _Harper's_ magazine this month about a sanctuary for wolf-dog hybrids. A lot of animals end up discarded because they're expected to be "doggy."
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by mejarc 12y ago
I don't see an obvious way to access the non-book content. The "Read|Watch..." navigation only goes to /about.
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by mejarc 12y ago
Yes, absolutely. Maybe if ads were less obtrusive (not animated, didn't strobe, didn't take up > 5% of the screen on mobile) I'd keep them enabled.
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by mejarc 13y ago
I'd lov this arrangement if it were the reverse of how I've seen it implemented. The meeting/private rooms should be in the center, away from the scarce windows, and the more frequently used common space should have the privi
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by mejarc 13y ago
In my seventeen years living in Oakland, I've grown exasperated with the Sixties-leftover, anti-cop rhetoric that has left us with a disproportionately small police force. We voted in a measure to hire more officers, but lose some ever
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by mejarc 13y ago
You can fork the repo to make your own.
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by mejarc 13y ago
One thing I liked about my time as "dog-collar labor" is that all my co-workers had interesting non-work pursuits, and there was no penalty for leaving work behind to engage in them. None of us mistook our stints as cashiers, food servers,
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by mejarc 14y ago
Having literally bruised my fingers trying to appease a visual designer who wanted browser rendering to look exactly like Photoshop (for instance, the CSS-drawn gradients didn't meet her approval, so we had to lard the interface with backgr
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by mejarc 14y ago
So that's why my rent here in the SF Bay Area is decreasing! (Not). I admit it was kind of nice after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and the dot-com bust in 2001 to have some breathing room. Alarms about hordes leaving California have t