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The emacs tutorial: ”Just type shit. Seriously. It’s a text editor. It works like you think it should. No autistic screeching required to enable edit mode to actually, you know, edit fucking text in a fucking text editor.”

Do you know the command to quit vim?

CTRL-Z

sudo killall vim

sudo apt uninstall vim

Yeah, even just <> would be better.

> I chose the lozenge as the command character because a) it appears in almost every font, b) it’s barely used in ordinary typesetting, c) it’s not used in any programming language that I know of, and d) its shape and color allow it to stand out easily in code without being distracting.

> If you’re using DrRacket, you can use the Insert Command Char button at the top of the editing window to — you guessed it — insert the command character.

> If you’re using a different editor, here’s how you type it:

> Mac: Option + Shift + V > Windows: holding down Alt, type 9674 on the num pad > GNU/Linux, BSD: Type Ctrl + Shift + U, then 25CA, then Enter

> For more information on entering arbitrary Unicode glyphs, see Wikipedia.

Jesus Christ that's a terrible design.

Except St Louis isn't coming back.

That's a conservative straw man. Skyscrapers have much more impact and no one notices.

I wouldn't describe lending club and prosper as junk loans.

I have money invested there because I feel it's a better social use than gambling on the stock market. I see good solid 5% returns. Most of the loans are repaid quickly.

I wouldn't. Most workplaces automate the first few passes because of how much resume spam they get hit with.

Now I'd have a hard time imagining a good workplace rejecting him if an actual human saw his resume.

Can you offer proof of said credentials? I've heard of him. That's his credential. His work speaks for itself.

Have I heard of you?

A top school isn't a guarantee of success, but it's a credential that might mean something more than simply your ow personal self opinion.

At a certain point you get to the post friendship stage of life. :-/

> They usually do not care about the benefits of open source and sustainability anyway.

What market does? Do you have any evidence such a market exists?

But Fukushima was a minor incident...

«manufactured marketing based need»

This reeks of paternalism and fascism. You claim you know what people actually want despite their own claims to the contrary?

So what, you'll tell people when they "don't really want" what they say they want?

Ralph Nader is crazy and wrong.

Try living in Miami for a while.

I switch off wifi on my phone and laptops to conserve power.

Crippling socialized medical costs as the obesity rate skyrockets. :-/

Well if you truly don't understand math, please transfer 20% of your wealth to me. I mean, from your perspective it's the same amount of wealth, right?

The notion that the only expression which can be artistic are those which are without value or purpose is bullshit.

Where did you go?

My country is run by an insane toddler with a trust fund. The U.K. looks pretty good.

I tend to do my recruiting two ways:

1) From people I know well who make a solid recommendation.

2) At major tech conferences.

Hiring is a very risky and high stakes proposition. A new hire easily costs us a million or more if it doesn't work out. We are very cautious, and I take our hiring process very seriously.

Junior positions we typically recruit from Univerisities in the region with top CS and ECE programs since they are less likely to be skeptics of fly over country.

Sorry. I try not to give too much info.

You wouldn't guess it if I gave you 20 questions is my bet. When I got the offer for an interview the wife and I almost passed entirely on the opportunity (I didn't apply for it they recruited me) because we thought "We don't want to live there" and I had a solid offer in Seattle and Portland, where we thought we wanted to move.

I flew out anyway as a courtesy to the VP who reached out to me because we had a long history and he told me I needed to come see what they had to offer.

Flew my wife out the next day, she was super skeptical "I'm not going to like it!" (She is also in tech). She fell in love. We bought her dream house a month later. Still in our honeymoon period with this new city, but we have never been in love with a city like this before.

I'm used to calling metro areas by their major airport callsign, then again I fly 2-3 times a month, minimum.

We loved Houston and since going back to visit the area has only improved. Neither of us had ventured south of the Mason-Dixon before moving there.

The promotions are the reason to job hop, aren't they?

That's always why I moved in SFO. Wisdom I always received was every 2-3 years it's time to move out and up. It's served me well. I think now I'm "career" as we like where we live and I want to build something in my division.

And yes, we easily offer that. Why is this a surprise? Our costs are lower and our clients are largely the same as they would be in the Bay Area. Our major markets are national and international. We don't discount our enterprise level systems and new tech for having been developed in fly over country, and we have a MUCH lower cost of doing business. Physical plant is CHEAP here as are our taxes. This results in more capital available for HR, and we consider human capital our single most important investment.

Our entire strategy is built on innovation and we do that by hiring the top talent we can. That means offering top tier compensations.

I did, in fact I've vastly improved my salary by leaving the Bay Area.

I can tell you my team just hired a bunch of new engineers and we mad offers 10% above Bay Area offers very much on purpose.

I've lived in Miami, Chicago, London, DC, Boston (briefly), and Houston.

I'm now somewhere else entirely, and while I don't want to say, I'll just say you'd find it surprising, because I certainly did. We like it, though, and there is a strong science-based economy with big growth in cloud and data, low crime, a highly educated population, and an amazing metro area.

I'm in a "senior" position now. But I'm not talking numbers on the internet.

Right now I'm head of R&D.

I can tell you starting engineers on my team make about 10% more than their Bay Area counterparts. That's a deliberate decision backed by our Board.

I'm now living in a much smaller city, and the salaries here are even higher.

Good tech companies know they have to make nationally competitive offers.

I don't work for a distributed company. I'm in R&D these days and head up the main science section of my company. I used my network to find jobs, applied for every opportunity and stayed on the ball.

Earlier in my career I'd send 150+ applications. The last move I only looked at three positions and got offers from all three.

Just about everywhere else I've lived is culturally richer, DC, Chicago, Miami, London, Houston, all had better cultural and art scenes.

I'm big in theater, ballet, and art. San Francisco is way too expensive for artists to live in anymore and the art scene there is very limited, inorganic, and a bit stale. Further the distance to San Francisco means it's a chore (and a drive) to get there from the South Bay where all the jobs are.

Now I can take public transit to cultural institutions, and walk to a lot too. We have organic arts districts with real artists in residency, regular gallery showings and art walks, and some amazing local musicians.

You might get that in Oakland these days, but even Oakland is getting prohibitively expensive.