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What brings you to the NE?

Checked all my current and old states, no go for MA, NC, NY.

As a Northern living in the South, I've found the exact opposite. People seem to be more friendlier down here.

Let's make some more generalizations.

Totally disagree - sure some people my be motivated by status but to say that's the most of the reason? no, no, no.

I'd say more of the motivation comes from taking control of your environment and crafting something from your own ideas, thoughts, and methods then seeing a finished product in the end. Now that is motivating. Once you have a few finished goals under your belt it just seems to flow naturally. Come up with a goal, finish goal, repeat until dead.

One of my biggest goals at the moment is to ultimately help a lot of people. I couldn't care any less about what my status is. I want that feeling that I made a positive contribution with my life.

Paying attention to peoples' actions is more important than their words. I've heard it before but I never really paid attention to it until this year. I decided to take a new job based on the actions of my supervisors rather than their words.

My immediate supv gave me an acceptable review and mentioned that I was underrated. I did my work, got it done, never moving any due dates, my focus was quality - no rework, etc. I ended up getting an engineering license, PE. They put me on a special project that only the best, most competent engineers get put on. But then they passed me over for a promotion. They promoted people with less experience, less qualifications than myself. Sure, they might have deserved it, most of us probably should have gotten more recognition than we did. But for them to pass me up and then turn around and say I was underrated, that's BS. So I took a new job, their actions, and inactions, were contrary to their words. So far the new job is much better, I get along with my immediate supv much better. The biggest thing I miss is all the cool people I met at my old job.

I can definitely relate to that that, in more ways than one. One recent example was just packing for a move. The company that hired me is paying for the move and movers to basically pack everything up and ship it off to my new location. I wanted to do some of the packing myself to hasten the overall moving day and also so I know where some of my things would be. Well it turns out, just packing a simple book shelf turned out to be much more time than I expected. I had all of these different ideas floating through my head - should I donate this book? Should I toss it? Should I give it to a friend? Is this even my book, did I borrow it? Is this packed "correctly" so that the movers would bless it off to meet their standards? Would they have to repack? Did I over pack this too much? So many different ideas and decisions. When the movers came in, they just had a single, simple mission - PACK EVERYTHING AND GET IT OUT. There was no decisions to be made, it all had to move. I think this is a learning opportunity for me but I haven't figured out how to utilize it yet.

Learn to experience rejection and move on. You're going to experience it whether you like or not so it's best to figure out how to deal with it.

Why is it awkward? Just tell them you've moved on with the relationship, whatever kind it was prior.

Why are people so afraid of the truth? Why do we always tip-toe around things like this - it's not like you purposely tried to make her have negative feelings.

That may be true but weight gain/loss wise, it's the same.

This is an amazing discovery. I'm surprised it isn't more prevalent in the news. This whisker issue has been a thorn in the side of many since ROHS was implemented. The biggest impact with this I see is safer, more reliable planes. How exciting.

I have to respectively disagree with you; a business can grow with part-time investment, it just won't be growing as quick as if it were a full-time position.

Sure, it might not have worked out this time, as many startups don't, but I'm sure he learned a lot and maybe he'll give it another go sometime.

That's insane, this guy has his hands in everything. I believe he's also had his hand in solar energy (SolarCity), and was involved in PayPal.

Just reading his wiki and apparently he can even beat Russia's Putin in Judo. I usually take everyone's success with a grain of salt but this guy seems to have it all. Real Life Tony Stark?

Please don't play the kid card. So played out.

How do you know all of these things? I would like to readup.

You could use the security kensington lock feature available on many monitors to act as a "catch" so it won't fall over.

Unrelated to your post, is your username a reference to the soda "Moxie"? If so, do you actually enjoy it?

Yea I'm pretty sure with LTE that's possible. It's definitely not with 3G or below though.

But overall, I've never been happy with any smartphone. I pay $80/month for unlimited data, 350 minutes, unlimited texts.

After time, it always slows down, becomes buggy, bluetooth link cuts out, or the entire phone crashes. I don't know if it's designed to do this or it happens through the process of apps being updated and the phone becoming obsolete. This could probably be tested... if a phone was never updated, ever but that could probably lead to some security/privacy issues due to app bugs, os bugs, etc. Just seems like $80 is a lot to have this thing constantly bug up.

I'm not bashing anyone but there must be some observations made obvious.

He's lived in Chicago, the Bulls comment makes sense. Appealing to his home town.

"NOT BAD" - do you REALLY think he knew to say that or do you think someone prompted him?

There are very smart people that control his speeches, people behind the curtains, to get the maximum appeal from the audience in which he is speaking to. Everything is scripted ever so carefully. Always keep this in mind. He's trying to win you over, for your vote.

Reddit was successful prior to Digg going to version 4. They just received more users after Digg's move. I wonder how many...

But your second point on the owners letting reddit run itself is spot on. They just made sure the site worked (most of the time ;D) and basically let people govern themselves. But what really ties it in, is subreddits. If a mod on a subreddit ruins something or acts like a jerk, the people are free to setup a new subreddit, circumventing the overlord of the previous sub.

Then there's the simple UI.

And most of all, the people. The people posted interesting stories to the main subreddits. It's kind of disappointing to see the noise level increasing against the signal lately but that's where subreddits come in.

I almost see HN as the new reddit, but with a new feature, filtering out downvotes of new people. I come to HN and a few specific subreddits for intelligent conversation, then the main reddit page for OMG CATS.

I thought the same thing until I read "The goal of Amazon Studios is to work with Hollywood to turn the best projects into major feature films"

I lived in NYC for a bit so I'll tell you what I liked and what I didn't.

One of the things I liked the most was the subway and public transportation system. I didn't have a car at the time and the system was relatively cheap. The system allowed me to get back and forth to my job everyday while also enabling me to head down to Manhattan or other boroughs (I was in Queens) for fun. While it did take time, I had time to spare, but not much money so it worked.

The people. NYC has a very diverse set of people, like in many other large cities. In NYC, you can meet anyone, with a broad range of cultures, but you are in control of your own destiny. In my experience, nobody (most) talked to anyone unless they knew someone ahead of time. It was a funny feeling at first, people would be sitting directly across from each other (6 feet/2 meters) - totally ignoring each others' existence. But! If you were interested in getting to know someone you could, most people were receptive when talked to. Sure, there are a few assholes, but there's always assholes in the group. Included in this are roommates, if you manage to get a good set of roommates while there, that's awesome. If you don't, you can always move. I was lucky in this respect.

NYC has pretty much everything you could want to do, plays, movies, museums, beaches, ice skating, gyms, martial arts, the list goes on except mountain stuff, and even then it's within traveling distance. I enjoy snowboarding so that's one of my main reasons for not wanting to live there. I don't have the time to travel that much anymore, unfortunately.

NYC has a huge mount of opportunity in most industries if you're looking for a job. You just have to reach out and capture it, nobody will hand it to you (usually).

The things I didn't like...

The perception of certain areas. The Bronx, Harlem, some parts of Brooklyn and Queens have bad reputations. Some of it is true but mostly not. There are lot of things in these areas you wouldn't see elsewhere in NYC. I feel you wouldn't get an accurate portrayal of NYC if you didn't go to these areas. The key is to not go out asking for trouble by flashing money around or causing people grief (making people look stupid). Walk confidently and with purpose and you won't usually have an issue. I also wouldn't go wandering around these areas in the dark after drinking either.

Initially, I hated the in-your-face sales approaches that vendors typically use. I got used to it, again, act confidently and don't let them take your money unless you really want what they're selling.

I'm not sure how grocery stores in Norway work but NYC is nothing like I ever knew. It was tough getting to them and even then, it was often public market or corner store food. It is somewhat expensive. Wholesale stores typically have better deals, if you can find one (BJs, Costco, Sam's Club, etc).

After awhile I started missing having a front yard to play with my dogs in. I didn't have much of a yard at the apartments I lived at.

It was a very valuable experience. It helped me grow as a person and helped me learn many different things. If I had to do it over again, I would.

That's it for now; if you have any questions feel free to ask me. Good luck in your travels.

Where did you move to?

Hmm, thanks for posting that. I had the same problem. Good to know that I don't have anything malicious on my computer.

No way, I love the name. Original, quick to say (3 syllables), caters to a younger crowd.

You get it, as long as you have a legitimate story and reason people who you would actually want to work for wouldn't care or even be envious. However, if you just sat around the house, went out drinking with your buddies all the time, and lived off savings - that could look bad to most people (not all, but most).

Do you want to stay at the same company? There's always the option of moving on to something new with more opportunities. Being able to do that opens a lot of doors and one can climb the ladder quicker rather than waiting for someone to retire/leave. The reason I say this is because many companies only promote people based upon the company's need and not the individual worker's merit.

This makes sense, if you're intently focused on doing a task or completing something you wouldn't have time to really display any emotion, let alone unhappiness.

Obvious news is obvious. It's all economics.