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timmaahon Improving air conditioner efficiency could reduce worldwide temps

Most RV's use this combo for the fridge. They don't seem to explode but there does seem to be a number of fires.

timmaahon Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Range for IPO

Just you. Some smaller towns farmer's markets are amazing.

timmaahon Why public lands must remain in public hands

huh? Are we all not citizens of the United States?

timmaahon Vanlife, the Bohemian Social Media Movement

> King and Smith, who are thirty-two and thirty-one, respectively

My wife and I have lived in an RV for the last 5 years. We have met some amazingly strong single full-timers out on the road. It has got to be tough when something happens and you don't know another soul for hundreds of miles.

timmaahon Programmers are most likely to work from home

> you will eventually lose at office politics

Yup. We are small enough that we all report directly to the CEO. Though anywhere I've worked remotely or not it is always me looking out for me. Never had a manager help with that.

timmaahon Programmers are most likely to work from home

I'm the only one at our small company that works remotely. I miss so much of what is going on decision wise.

Any talk of new clients, potential new business, larger future projects are all communicated to me once they are mostly already hashed out. This keeps me from playing a bigger part in the company and thus the work they throw my way is more on the grunt/boring side.

I love working remotely though and I'm not working in the tiny open office they have. I would be interested in seeing what the dynamic is like with a full remote team.

timmaahon Comcast Enters Wireless Business With $45-a-Month Service

What is the catch on their "unlimited" marketing speak?

Also.. how are the towers going to handle this new "price war"? I've found them already overloaded in a number of places around the U.S.

timmaahon Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more

I made a web app that does the same thing for campgrounds: http://reserve.wanderinglabs.com/

Fairly simple and it people seem to find it really useful.

timmaahon The story of Heady Topper, Americas most loved craft beer

Spending the winter in south south Florida. The Jai Alai is good. Better than any of the other Florida IPA's I have come across.

timmaahon FetLife Announcement

Do you think their lawyers and staff want to get paid in BTC?

timmaahon LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year

We don't have plenty of mobile bandwidth though. 56% increase resulted in 50% degradation of speed. What happens next year to speeds with continued growth in usage?

timmaahon LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year

I've noticed it big time in the northeast. I live on the road and work via a Verizon connection. Over the last 6 months over 7 or 8 locations I get a full Verizon signal (with a booster) and very low speeds compared to a year ago. And speeds increasing at off peak times (it's fast in the middle of the night) point to overloaded towers.

I know people love to hate on cell companies but it must be hell to try and keep up with demand that changes so rapidly.

timmaahon Not One New York Police Officer Has a Body Camera

And not all patrol officers are on duty at the same time.

I wonder how much current equipment is checked out daily and shared?

timmaahon Why Billings, Montana, Is the Best Town of 2016 [video]

Any area of rural america that I have observed as doing ok/well for themselves seems to have a strong outdoor recreation/beautiful scenery in or right near town. Mountains; bodies of water; national parks.. I think these areas are going to keep growing but plenty of other towns that don't have much of this draw are dead/dying.

timmaahon Why Billings, Montana, Is the Best Town of 2016 [video]

I concur. I guess I mean "adventure sports crowd" in terms of kids of baby boomers who grew up with the opportunity to hike, mountain bike, ski, etc.. often.

timmaahon Why Billings, Montana, Is the Best Town of 2016 [video]

I'm not sure about the not having to worry about money portion, but I agree with the rest. It seems to be the 90's adventure sports crowd "settling" down and enjoying family life.

timmaahon How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)

Come join in the slack chat of a bunch of younger like minded folks: http://wanderslack.com/

timmaahon How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)

Without stealth (normal looking van) and a full time job you are looking at a ton of stress trying to do it without living at an RV park.

I know a couple that commuted from Half Moon Bay. Another couple also lives just south in a tight tight RV park.

timmaahon Ask HN: Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?

> I found that I ended up "settling down" in a location and then not going out to experience it as much as I might have liked.

I have made it a point to do the opposite of this. When I lived in a house I would think nothing of just "chilling" after work.. most days. Now I'm somewhere new and different. And tell myself "when will I ever get back to this place?, better go explore it while you can".

timmaahon Ask HN: Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?

Get a remote job and take the leap.. What else is holding you back?

timmaahon Ask HN: Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?

I've done it for 4 years now.. and love it.. for the most part.

We (my wife and I) do it in an RV around the US and I know that a backpack lifestyle would not be for us. We have enough of a "normal" lifestyle with our own bed, a full kitchen, 9-5 hours.. that it works extremely well for us.

There are plenty of downsides. I miss having a large workspace to do hands on (non computer based) projects. Friends are harder to have. Weather sometimes is a pain. Connectivity. (Camped out at Starbucks at the moment since the Airstream in the parking lot was too hot today).

My wife does a blog: http://watsonswander.com

timmaahon Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

I've been doing this for the last few years but with my brain as the planning tool.

It only hit mid 60's today on the Maine coast.

timmaahon A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing

Yes.. There are forests of the bristlecones. Most are hundreds and thousands of years old. The one that guy felled just happened to be the oldest of the group.

timmaahon Millennials and the Working Class Are Leaving America's Expensive Cities

Regulations won't prohibit them?

Rural are possible but cities aren't cool with people setting up shop in uninspected old factories or lofts.

timmaahon Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends in the Boondocks

https://www.google.com/search?q=nashville+metro+population

timmaahon Wmail – Desktop client for Gmail and Google Inbox

I've been using Kiwi for a while now. I enjoy my email separate from my browsing. And it keeps work and personal email accounts close. I can't forget to open one and not the other.. etc.

Kiwi looks to be about the same as Wmail but without the Google Inbox. (and it is a pay product)

http://kiwiforgmail.com/

timmaahon The Rise of Renting in the U.S

My job is mid web developer salary range. Currently on my second job since we went nomadic. This job was remote from the start though I am the only remote person at this company.

Internet is all cellular connections. Verizon unlimited plan with AT&T on our phones as backup. We use a powered booster with an antenna on the roof. Interstate 40 is ~12 miles away from our current location, so the tower we are on was built to serve the highway.

timmaahon The Rise of Renting in the U.S

My wife was into it 100%.

We sold the big expensive house and moved into a 25' Airstream almost 4 years ago. I felt like I wasn't getting ahead. A bit stuck. I know she did as well. A bit different from the grandparent we still work a normal 40 hour week with normal (remote) jobs but have kind of checked out of the normal american dream.

http://i.imgur.com/FQfQIlu.jpg That little dot in the middle is where we are spending this week. Middle of the Mojave Desert about 10 miles from any human.