jimminy

45 minutes a week commute? Are you primarily working from home?

Thats less than 10 minutes a day, which seems extraordinarily low, even for South Western VA traffic which is signicantly better than traffic in NoVA.

You're using a mismatched understanding of experienced and professional.

Shmidt wasn't a professional CEO, he was a software engineer who worked his way up the ladder and then took his experience as CEO to another company.

Tejada's experience seems to be all related to corporate management, and thus is a professional CEO.

It's still valid using less, though we could pedantically argue senantics.

Lines of code is often used as a term of expense, or expressing a form of cost associated with technical debt. In that context, saying, "500 Lines or Less", is similar to "$50 or less".

I had this same experience about a year ago.

After going through several screens, I was asked to take an entry-level ops position, in a completely different metro at a lower pay, while I was applying for a senior applications role.

My primary reason for applying was the location and type of role, so I declined. But I've never felt so disrespected by a companies hiring practices like that.

He also says they invested in 21 companies in the 2004 batch. Which means that 7 other companies returned negligible results.

Average investment per company was about $5mm.

So we can end up with:

$5mm * 115 = $575mm $5mm * 82 = $410mm $5mm * 68 = $340mm $5mm * 30 = $150mm $5mm * 21 = $105mm Total: $1.58B, about $1.5B after losses.

So that comes out toabout a 27% return, using the same math as you, before costs and management fees.

The market is complete crap. I'm back for what was supposed to be temporary, plan was to go to Dallas, but I have attachments here so don't want to go.

I've spent 8 months looking for a technical position. The only interviews I've managed to get are in Roanoke/Blacksburg, VA. Every interview I've had (not many because the market is dry), either drastically undercuts my experience (one company tried to write down my experience below the length of my last job) or otherwise offers a very meager salary, 30-50% lower than even the cost of living adjusted figure from my last job where I was living SoMa.

Also due to infrastructure, and partially the company who marked down my experience because they don't consider remote experience, I'm no longer interested in remote positions.

Since you know of it, if you're ever around and would like to grab a pint feel frre to send me an email at james@jimminy.me

That's one of them, though the food after 10 is a little more iffy. Sometimes there's pizza and bread from the bakery brought over for the pub's patrons.

I'm there fairly frequently.

The Asylum serves regular bar food til about 11 I think. Still later than what I was seeing in SF.

Lewisburg, it means getting fast food or going to a tavern, but the choices are more than I had in the peninsula.

Morgantown also has late hours in my experience, though you might have to walk to High St.

The fact that everything closed so early blew me away, when I moved there. Compared to the middle of nowhere WV it made zero sense. Even the grocery stores closed by midnight in SF.

In WV, you can find food at most places until 12-1am 7 days a week. And the major local grocery is a Walmart, which is open 24 hours.

Last Easter I had no clue nothing would be open, and didn't prepare for that. So I just had some crap picked up at a gas station to hold me over until the next day. It's a really bizarre situation compared to most other metros, but even compared to a bunch of small towns.

Apple is already operating a private hedge fund to deal with their excess capital.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital

What I find most funny about it is that HFS actually provides the closest model framework for a heirarchial distributed FS, where pretty much no other does (btrfs does have some benefits as well.)

Like the author, I worked on a distributed cloud FS, but hierarchy was a core goal. The abstracted reference system of HFS that split meta-data from the data resources is a huge boon to handling various common issues, from rights management to doing "fast" full-tree cloning over a distributed store and several other neat tricks like persistence. The biggest issue with distributed heirarchial file-systems is probably how to handle the full-tree cloning, in a way that isn't crippling, slow, or causes an enforced depth and file limits.

Vastly different levels of capitalization. Bezo's is a multi-billionaire, while Carmack was only a multi-millionaire.

Bezo's has more money to invest in failures and iteration than Carmack did. Also as far as intelligence goes I think they're pretty close, or Bezos would come out ahead, specifically when taking account of deep breadth of knowledge.

Prepending cd for directory names would be kind of bad for me.

I tend to create local scripts to initialize project environments using their root directory name. So the automatic prepending would make the action ambiguous as a command.

Not you, as I'm in South Eastern WV, but have applied to a few companies in Blacksburg, VA(1hr) and Charlotte, NC(4.5hr). I don't even mind showing up every day, to any in Blacksburg, or relocating to a midpoint near Winston-Salem, where I can still make it back in 2-3 hours if I need to.

I've literally dropped a quarter of my previous salary during negotiations, well aware of CoL differences, and had them come back at one-third to one-half as what they were thinking. But it's definitely hard to find any places that would offer remote, or even telecommutd options at a reaonable salary.

Sadly the job market is heavily centralized, from my recent experience. I can get offers in SF, Seattle, or NY, but I'm personally attached to the Mid-Atlantic for personal reasons, and it's been months of hell.

Now I don't discuss previous salaries, as I'm sure that has torpedoed several offers. That just leads down a road that is an inverse of the Impostor Syndrome, where they think you're overqualified for the position, and you can tell from the responses and further question. I am seriously wondering about the culture of the game, that it can be so seriously lacking of it's shining feature: distributed collaborative work.

I'm in my mid-20's now, and I got it at first, though I didn't use it. Thr point a few years ago was it was a "secure" and "private" place to share with your friends, thanks to the ephemeral nature.

But over the last 18 months they've pushed towards a more broad social graph and more public nature and I just don't understand it. It's Instagram with some time-limit's.

I had to have mine removed at 17 for orthodontic purposes. I used to pride myself on never having headaches like my peers, but after having my wisdom teeth removed I've been having headaches every few weeks for the last decade. Have no clue what happened but I'm assuming that the contact released tension in my jaw, after removal my teeth no longer have any contact in the relaxed state.

Actually had this happen the other day on Facebook.

Unfollowed a friend due to some strain on the relationship, and just needed to avoid them temporarily and didn't want to see anything from them. They shared some of my content, which placed them in my notifications.

Notifications can only be marked read, not deleted, so it was somewhat stressful. it's a very minor use-case, but there is no remedy but to get other interactions to force the notification out of sight.

There used to be a decent standard with (x)HTML 4.1, and the commonly followed process of designing with progressive-enhancement.

HTML 5 added the semantic tags, which are great, but there is less clear decisions for deciding section/article/div that the prior selection of just using div. There are other cases where it has introduced more confusion into the process where the semantics aren't straightforward to determine.

And progressive-enhancement is pretty much forgotten anymore. All the Javascript frameworks and pushing to work on the cutting edge of what's available, have forced a huge portion of effort to be spent on graceful-degradation instead. And working at the edge means that everyone is already working off any adopted standard, and just shimming everything to do what they want.

The front-end development out there is just kind of dumb at the moment in those regards.

We used them in the office in conference rooms to make presentations easier via Airplay. There is a qualifier that we were a startup, though.

That assumes that the command-line only has to function on words and letters. There is nothing preventing embedded command icons, command directories (like folders on mobile OS's), and context aware sub-command selections.

There is also the ability to tie commands/sub-commands to voice recognition as mentioned above.

The published MSRP is an issue, but generally books are available at wholesale for 40% off. So there is still a decent margin to start from, rent and staffing quickly eat into that cut. It's all about sales volume. Most mainstream hardcovers are around $16-35; after markup would be about $6.40-$14/copy in gross profit.

I used to work at an independent bookstore that had a niche for local and regional(WV/Appalachia) authors and stories. This worked great as we were in a tourist area, so the influx of new customers was readily available.

For local customers we offered custom orders, to address issues with limited supply. Though it would be cheaper to go to Amazon, a large portion of the community are artists and craftsmen so they liked to encourage the local economy.

I think it would be better to set it some degree below the ceiling, not outside of livability for the high-cost locations, but such that it doesn't overly distort the low-average cost locations.

Then it is the individuals choice of paying a portion of the cost for living in a high-cost location, or choosing to live in a lower-cost location and pocketing extra money. This reduction is associated with increased employee flexibility pertaining to their choice of lifestyle. It also might encourage a redistribution of individuals out of the high-cost locations. That would have some benefit (if this was industry standard) to the public in those locations as it could reduce market-demand for housing through redistribution of demand among the broader market.

I've seen this issue for several apps (Spotify, Amazon Video, etc.), and I always just shrug it off. You can use both with an AppleTV, but the application has to be installed on a secondary device like an iPhone and then streamed via Airplay. Both of the explicitly mentioned applications work great, with that one exception of not having a native application on the device.

I'm well aware, and didn't say a thing of removing their branding. I just pointed out what the grandparent was referring too.

It is a choice to focus more on the form of the content than on the content itself. They could still target intellectuals without having to throw in pointless analogy and other bloated verbiage. It just feels like it's faux-intellectual.

The writing is not horrible, and certainly doesn't suffer from being convoluted or unnecessary at the larger scales. But the fashion it is written has an air of self-import, that can be off-putting.

Everything that is said could be said just as well and more succinctly in a more prosaic manner.

AFAICT: It looks like it might possibly that VATLER was working as a valet provider for the locations, instead of a general valet provider to the end-customer. Luxe has no specific valet locations, but is more widely available. Not quite sure if that is enough to side-step the permitting process, but it looks like it's a possibility.

  [0]> This permit is required for any valet parking
  operator who performs parking services at a restaurant
  or any place that regularly uses valet services.

[0]: http://businessportal.sfgov.org/node/2979

Not what you were asking for, but there has been something similar for compressed tracks[0].

Take the uncompressed track compare it to the compressed track, and then generating a track that is composed of the portions removed by the compression algorithm.

[0]: http://theghostinthemp3.com/

I have a feeling they probably do.

I hadn't updated in a week or two, just out of laziness to not check for updates everyday. So it's possible I had missed more than one update that caused the issue.