zeamaize

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by zeamaize 9y ago
The emacs tutorial: ”Just type shit. Seriously. It’s a text editor. It works like you think it should. No autistic screeching required to enable edit mode to actually, you know, edit fucking text in a fucking text editor.” Do you know t
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by zeamaize 9y ago
Yeah, even just <> would be better.
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by zeamaize 9y ago
> I chose the lozenge as the command character because a) it appears in almost every font, b) it’s barely used in ordinary typesetting, c) it’s not used in any programming language that I know of, and d) its shape and color allow it to s
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by zeamaize 9y ago
Except St Louis isn't coming back.
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by zeamaize 9y ago
That's a conservative straw man. Skyscrapers have much more impact and no one notices.
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by zeamaize 9y ago
I wouldn't describe lending club and prosper as junk loans. I have money invested there because I feel it's a better social use than gambling on the stock market. I see good solid 5% returns. Most of the loans are repaid quickly
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by zeamaize 9y ago
I wouldn't. Most workplaces automate the first few passes because of how much resume spam they get hit with. Now I'd have a hard time imagining a good workplace rejecting him if an actual human saw his resume.
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by zeamaize 9y ago
Can you offer proof of said credentials? I've heard of him. That's his credential. His work speaks for itself. Have I heard of you? A top school isn't a guarantee of success, but it's a credential that might mean some
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by zeamaize 9y ago
At a certain point you get to the post friendship stage of life. :-/
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by zeamaize 9y ago
> They usually do not care about the benefits of open source and sustainability anyway. What market does? Do you have any evidence such a market exists?
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by zeamaize 9y ago
But Fukushima was a minor incident...
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by zeamaize 9y ago
«manufactured marketing based need» This reeks of paternalism and fascism. You claim you know what people actually want despite their own claims to the contrary? So what, you'll tell people when they "don't really want"
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by zeamaize 9y ago
Ralph Nader is crazy and wrong.
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by zeamaize 9y ago
Try living in Miami for a while.
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by zeamaize 9y ago
I switch off wifi on my phone and laptops to conserve power.
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by zeamaize 10y ago
Crippling socialized medical costs as the obesity rate skyrockets. :-/
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by zeamaize 10y ago
Well if you truly don't understand math, please transfer 20% of your wealth to me. I mean, from your perspective it's the same amount of wealth, right?
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by zeamaize 10y ago
The notion that the only expression which can be artistic are those which are without value or purpose is bullshit.
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by zeamaize 10y ago
Where did you go? My country is run by an insane toddler with a trust fund. The U.K. looks pretty good.
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by zeamaize 10y ago
I tend to do my recruiting two ways: 1) From people I know well who make a solid recommendation. 2) At major tech conferences. Hiring is a very risky and high stakes proposition. A new hire easily costs us a million or more if it doesn&#x2
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by zeamaize 10y ago
Sorry. I try not to give too much info. You wouldn't guess it if I gave you 20 questions is my bet. When I got the offer for an interview the wife and I almost passed entirely on the opportunity (I didn't apply for it they recru
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by zeamaize 10y ago
I'm used to calling metro areas by their major airport callsign, then again I fly 2-3 times a month, minimum.
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by zeamaize 10y ago
We loved Houston and since going back to visit the area has only improved. Neither of us had ventured south of the Mason-Dixon before moving there.
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by zeamaize 10y ago
The promotions are the reason to job hop, aren't they? That's always why I moved in SFO. Wisdom I always received was every 2-3 years it's time to move out and up. It's served me well. I think now I'm "caree
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by zeamaize 10y ago
I did, in fact I've vastly improved my salary by leaving the Bay Area. I can tell you my team just hired a bunch of new engineers and we mad offers 10% above Bay Area offers very much on purpose.
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by zeamaize 10y ago
I've lived in Miami, Chicago, London, DC, Boston (briefly), and Houston. I'm now somewhere else entirely, and while I don't want to say, I'll just say you'd find it surprising, because I certainly did. We like it,
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by zeamaize 10y ago
I'm in a "senior" position now. But I'm not talking numbers on the internet. Right now I'm head of R&D. I can tell you starting engineers on my team make about 10% more than their Bay Area counterparts. That&#
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by zeamaize 10y ago
I'm now living in a much smaller city, and the salaries here are even higher. Good tech companies know they have to make nationally competitive offers.
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by zeamaize 10y ago
I don't work for a distributed company. I'm in R&D these days and head up the main science section of my company. I used my network to find jobs, applied for every opportunity and stayed on the ball. Earlier in my career I&#
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by zeamaize 10y ago
Just about everywhere else I've lived is culturally richer, DC, Chicago, Miami, London, Houston, all had better cultural and art scenes. I'm big in theater, ballet, and art. San Francisco is way too expensive for artists to live i

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