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Oof - muscle memory failure....

DDG has no idea of the intent of your search based on your previous searches and unfortunately this generates abysmal results for me when searching for something like `ruby xxx`. Those terms rarely return results about the programming language. I unfortunately end up using Google in these situations, always to immediate success.

It's the economy of C players, AKA the Enterprise. There are hordes of bureaucrats spending other peoples money with reckless abandon.

I once worked at a firm not unlike Accenture - essentially management consulting - and was on a project that ended up being a frontend reskin of a Fortune 500 company website.

But at the project inception I was asked to scope the project and no one, either on our side, or the client side knew what the scope was. So I put line items in with pretty large time estimations as placeholders for the skinning their SaaS application as well as the website.

The client glazed over the Gantt chart (created in MS Project) and signed off on it.

In the end, we did design, frontend build and integration oversight on about 15 templates of their .com. This is the kind of thing any run of the mill digital agency could and would do for 50k. We charged them 2.1M.

This kind of project (now with AI/ML/Blockchain!) is Accenture and the like's bread and butter.

'Old' houses in the US are different than old houses in the UK. Old in the US usually means 1930s/40s/50s and the majority of that housing stock was poorly constructed leading to the problems that @toomuchtodo alluded to. In the few places where we truly have old houses (19th century) - the North East and central parts of some cities - they do, usually, command a premium.

It would be great if they could just make the 1GB here in KC work as promised. I can't get higher than 500Mbs and often times it slows to sub 10Mbs.

Or a honkey tonk bar

https://granolashotgun.com/ if you are into failed American urban design / doomsday prepping

K10k.net Linkedup.com

The link dumps of all the new and exciting shit people were doing with the internet.

Also worth understanding that a ventilator is not always the best option - there have been findings recently that a tactic called 'proning' is often enough to increase blood oxygen:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronav...

If you are consciously making decisions to not live a carbon heavy life, you'd naturally choose to not live in a ex/suburb.

Even if the site is not evidence of dinosaurs at the time of the KT, isn't it still a very significant find?

So is New York City

Walmart was contained to its brick and mortar footprint (no one in NYC for instance could use it). Amazon available to the entire population.

If there has ever been a monopoly, those 3 companies are it.

I wont speak for social media and search, but Amazon has a complete stranglehold on retail in the United States. People keep saying 'retail is dead', thats bullshit, Amazon has a monopolistic stranglehold on the selling of all goods. If that weren't the case, small shop brick and mortar shopping would still be a thing.

He asked a pretty specific question.

Good answer, thanks.

You bring up heath care, which is another industry also had a successful role in shaping American politics. It just seems like real estate developers / construction companies could up their game a bit to steer things towards infrastructure projects.

Why haven't the ecosystem of infrastructure companies lobbied and infiltrated government the way that defense companies have?

You can start a manual transmission car by rolling it and popping the clutch - something you can’t do in an automatic.

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers | Chicago, IL | Onsite | https://www.lesliehindman.com/ LHA is an 8 office (and growing) auction house based in Chicago. We are completely rewriting our entire auction / inventory platform from scratch and are looking for full stack and front end developers to help. There is lots of greenfield stuff that needs to be done and lots of opportunity to really improve the way the business operates.

Come work with me in our super cool office in Chicago's West Loop above a warehouse full of awesome art and antiquities.

Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Vue.js, PostgreSQL, AWS

Oh, and I'll reiterate the real estate tax issue - you can definitely get a bigger, more livable place here, but the taxes are sort of obscene. For example, you can get a nice, newish 2br / 2ba condo in your choice of neighborhoods, probably with parking for 450k. Your tax bill will be 8-9k.

And yes, please give me the Denver version of this as I'm seriously considering a move there. (Portland too please)

I'll add that while it's got a great transportation system, it's still a very car centric city.

Train transportation is directed at getting you into the loop, and not so great if you want to traverse to other parts of the city. Want to go from Pilsen to Lincoln Park? You'll probably drive. Pilsen to Wicker Park? I doubt you are going to take the bus, so you'll drive there too.

The advantage of it being flat is that you can cycle to those places, but that option doesn't work 4-5 months out of the year.

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers | Chicago, IL | Onsite | https://www.lesliehindman.com/

LHA is an 8 office (and growing) auction house based in Chicago. We are completely rewriting our entire auction / inventory platform from scratch and are looking for full stack and front end developers to help. There is lots of greenfield stuff that needs to be done and lots of opportunity to really improve the way the business operates.

Come work with me in our super cool office in Chicago's West Loop above a warehouse full of awesome art and antiquities.

Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Vue.js, PostgreSQL, AWS

I just starred Vue to make it even with React at 98,564

The do's and don'ts to this day inform my acerbic wit aspirations.

The violent part was the depressurization, not the decent.

Note that each state handles different aspects of LLC's differently. There is a reason many companies form LLC's in Nevada or Wyoming - those states have tons of legal precedence for different things pertaining to LLC's. So for example, avoiding certain types of litigation, or remaining anonymous are features of LLC's in those states.

Note, I'm not a legal person, but these are things I was told to consider when picking a state to form your LLC.

Lol. “Omg only in NYC” is the trap that has kept me there this long.

I suppose my network is pretty strong at this point, so finding work as a freelance dev has been quite nice as a result. Though my network led me to Chicago, so i shouldn’t think my ability to find work isn’t constrained to nyc only.

As a 16 year New Yorker, I'm sitting in the Fulton Market right now, considering a move to Chicago and wondering exactly this.

Is "a less intense NYC" a bad thing?

Me too! WHOAREYOU :)