mikereedell

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by mikereedell 3y ago
It's not rich people who are gambling. It's folks who, like when marijuana was legalized, now have an easy/legal outlet to gamble on sports they were already watching without having to deal with a booky and the risks that en
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by mikereedell 3y ago
In some states it is. The total price for registering a car in Colorado takes the weight of the vehicle into account (along with the price and the age). I remember having a minor panic when registering my car at the DMV and hearing the per
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by mikereedell 3y ago
Spending a Saturday putting soft-close hinges on every cabinet door in my house was one of the best quality-of-life investments ever.
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by mikereedell 3y ago
So people driving new Ford vehicles won't be able to get weather/emergency information in the Rockies/Sierra's (and others I'm sure) along with the vast stretches of I-70/80 (and likely more) that don't ha
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by mikereedell 4y ago
Not the parent commenter, but I was on disability as a SWE following abdominal surgery since I couldn't drive to work and working remotely wasn't allowed by my employer at the time (2006). So despite my job having me in a chair al
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by mikereedell 5y ago
Colorado School of Mines is fairly selective (11K applicants for 1400 slots). DU (University of Denver) is a bit less selective. Both are private schools.
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by mikereedell 6y ago
With the exception that if you break the lease, you now owe those "free" months back.
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by mikereedell 6y ago
I had the experience of getting an all access pass to an NHRA event at Bandimere in Colorado a few years back. I stood behind the start line, about 15 yards for most of the event. Being that close to a top fuel drag car at launch was a se
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by mikereedell 6y ago
or, as with my experience in licensing IBM stuff, the charged per CPU.
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by mikereedell 8y ago
And you can get burnout from exercising too much. Had this happen when I was training for some ultra-distance stuff before I had the proper training framework.
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by mikereedell 8y ago
From a strictly money perspective, you get the pay bump from the promotion, then another pay bump from changing jobs.
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by mikereedell 10y ago
Similar thing happened to me with a much shorter move: central NJ to Philadelphia suburbs. Once I started using an address local to my job search I had no issues getting interviews. Before that was rough and the distance was only 100 mile
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by mikereedell 10y ago
They have a DVD center in Pheonixville, just west of Philadelphia.
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by mikereedell 10y ago
My team, and most of the teams in my division, are full-time Comcast employees. Our PM and QA orgs, however, is full of contractors.
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by mikereedell 10y ago
Reminds me of when I lived in southeast PA by Kennett Square, a town with a lot of mushroom farms. I was curious as to why they were in that area. Turns out you need hay and horse urine to grow mushrooms. That area has a lot of hay farms
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by mikereedell 10y ago
I grew up by one of these in NJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yards_Creek_Generating_Station I remember parking at the lower reservoir and hiking to the upper one and being amazed at how big the water pipe is.
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by mikereedell 10y ago
Losing her chip is major red-flag. I've raced 3 full IM's, 13 half-IM's, and a bunch of sprints/olympics/etc. and have never lost a chip and know very few people who have. Losing a chip while not losing the strap
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by mikereedell 12y ago
In CO, buying MMJ still requires a medical card. If you go to a medical/recreational dispensary without a medical card you can only purchase recreational MJ, which tends to be sativas or hybrids while medical tends to be indicas and i
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by mikereedell 13y ago
In philly, and yes, the degree has paid off.
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by mikereedell 13y ago
Stevens Tech I assume. I'm an '02 grad in CS.
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by mikereedell 14y ago
4 marathons here. Three were Ironman marathons and one just-a-marathon (Philly 2007, 3:48). I followed a similar program for the standalone as I did for the Ironman marathons: one hard run (hills, tempo, fartlek, etc), one long run, and 2-3
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by mikereedell 14y ago
Or the the rising wages in China means that building a fully automated line isn't as cost-prohibitive as it was in the past. And with states/cities throwing tax incentives at companies it doesn't matter where the automated line is so long a
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by mikereedell 15y ago
It's generally asked at the end of the interview.
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by mikereedell 15y ago
While we don't ask FizzBuzz in particular we have a question my manager asks: If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, how tall would it be (very rough ballpark figure)? Our success rate is surprisingly low.