joshrotenberg

The System 76 Pangolin might be an option, too, if 15" isn't too big. There is a decent, recent in depth review here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/review-system76-pang...

My Russian teachers always used the old "fre[sh ch]eese" example for us English speakers.

Capital One is hiring for all kinds of roles in SF, New York, McLean and Richmond, VA, and other places as well: http://rolp.co/oZ3Nb and/or you can email me with questions at josh.rotenberg at capitalone.com

Now your employer can monitor your facial expressions to determine if you are actually working or just reading HN.

If I remember correctly this kind of loan also doesn't affect your credit since you are borrowing your own money.

Capital One | Senior Software Engineer, Clojure | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, FULLTIME

We need a senior engineer with Clojure experience to join our team and help us work on the Mobile/Web back end services that power Level Money, including adding new features, cleaning up old ones, improving performance and increasing test coverage. Qualified candidates will have some experience with Clojure or other functional programming languages, various AWS services (CloudFormation, DynamoDB, SQS, etc) and distributed systems. Experience with mobile application backend development and financial institution data are also a definite plus.

Apply online here: https://www.capitalonecareers.com/job/san-francisco/senior-s...

Feel free to contact me with any questions: josh dot rotenberg at capitalone dot com

We were in Paris on vacation a couple of weeks ago and visited Poilâne. Wow. Lots of variety in this tiny shop, and everything we tried was amazing. We ended up going back the same day for more.

I've been involved in volunteering both in schools and at local community theaters in various capacities, mainly because my kids have become involved in theatre. I've done a lot of different stuff: front of house/ushering, some fundraising, food service, and set design and building. Given that my real job has me sitting behind a screen, the thing I've loved the most is just doing something completely different, working with people (both adults and kids) of very different walks of life with different interests and goals.

The set building has probably been my favorite overall. Lots of hard, manual work, using power tools, driving the truck, sourcing various items (props and sets often fall under the same team), learning how to make something come alive from just a pile of 2x4s and plywood, and coming together with people who are also just there to help as well as people who do this for a living is really fun in addition to being fulfilling.

Take the day off. Your mental health is likely much more important than any of the work you'll do over the next day or two.

I don't have long term self employment experience. My guess is that you'll give up a lot of freedom, the ability to pick and choose the things you want to work on and who you want to work for, and you'll gain the ability to focus on one part of the business instead of the marketing/sales/bookkeeping and have a much better idea of what your finances will look like over the next 1, 2, 6, 12 months. Here are a few things off the top of my head:

1) Find a shorter term contract gig with one company. This might give you the option to try something on for a bit without making a long term commitment. If you like it, and it's a to-hire situation, you can stick around.

2) Find a remote job that still gives you the at-home time and schedule flexibility that (I'm assuming) you are accustomed to.

3) Depending on where you are and what you decide to do, keep in mind that you can always bail and go back to self employment if you think it sucks.

I won't downvote you because you are certainly entitled to your opinion, and there is no way I'm going to get into an Erlang vs Go For Writing Servers argument, but if you immediately write off Erlang/OTP because of how it looks, you are going to miss out on some pretty amazing server writing functionality.

I'm always amazed at how much open, undeveloped space one can see looking eastish when up in Tilden Park out here in the East Bay. It's fantastic.

Ask HN: Who is renting? (May 2016)

Yeah, I had to read that a few times to see if I missed something ... not that I can think of anything that would have made it a less shocking that someone would walk into a room to interview someone and ask questions like that.

Hoping for? Yeah. Expecting? Rarely.

Everything you want to know and more: http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm

(We have our own FAQ!)

BaaS-O-Matic.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/19046

That was so cool. If you feel like launching one yourself, they have a user's guide: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/falcon_9_users_guid...

And pricing information: http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities

(edit: added pricing info which might be helpful)

Sorry, to clarify I was saying that the only ferry service that does exist is from Jack London Square and then north of that all the way up in Vallejo. The entire, pretty well populated chunk of the East Bay between those two points basically has BART from Richmond, AC Transit Transbay, or their cars as an option into SF and below. That was sufficient for a while, but is less so more and more.

I ride (and complain about) BART regularly to/from SF from the Berkeley/El Cerrito area. The truth is that it's still pretty reliable, though having lived where I am now since 2004 the decline in reliability and increase in crowding clearly isn't going to stop.

One alternative is AC Transit's transbay service, which I swore by for many years. Unfortunately the increase in road traffic has that option declining as well.

There has been talk in the past about a Berkeley Marina/Albany Bulb ferry, but to my knowledge there are no current plans. I haven't ridden the ferry many times from other places, but I'd like to think that having that as an option would get a decent amount of ridership as well as possibly reduce the load on the roads and tracks.

The lack of any ferry service connecting the East Bay between Jack London Square in Oakland and Vallejo is pretty surprising. Judging from the fact that a morning commute-time BART train starting in Richmond is typically standing room only by El Cerrito Plaza (third stop on the line), I'd say the demand for alternatives is definitely there, so there must be financial/political/engineering reasons that there are no ferries from other parts of the East Bay.

They should be. It's small but effective, proving once again that size doesn't matter.

That's the latest strategy. Compete with yourself. Win-win.

A friend of mine participates, so I tried some of his pretzels/granola and they were fantastic (and I'm not just saying that because he's a friend). I haven't tried anything else yet, but I've talked to him about the service and he's had a positive experience thus far.

> - Lastly, what I'm hoping for is the "Airbnb" of food, where regular people could cook meals and sell them to neighbors on a marketplace with reviews, pictures, etc

This is already happening here: https://josephine.com/

66,000?! That's a yotta years!

No room for "Moments #FTW" unfortunately.

Wow, that all really, really sucks. Hope it's all fixed soon.

Seriously, well put.

Yeah, remember to not buy that Lamborghini as well.

And no one spells "hella" with a final h.