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I live in the core of a city and love it, but all the damn jobs I get offered are an hour away in the suburbs.

It's gotten better. It used to be Me: Restaurant Google: Restaurant Supply Store Meat Wholesale Warehouse Place Where a Taco Cart Occasionally Parks Former Location of a Restaurant…

Hilariously your replies would be great bot replies to start comment thread fights.

I regularly have recruiters coming to me with jobs in the Bay Area. I tell them that my salary requirement is double for up there versus Los Angeles. A few of the big players will …

They're all in D3.js and available on GitHub.

I've seen plenty of "coders" with 15+ years experience maintaining and changing other peoples code that couldn't write code from scratch to save their lives. You see it mostly from…

I applied for an analytics position that unexpectedly had me take a Python coding test like this (I know a bit of PHP and Java but no Python) and I was able to google everything I …

New York also almost had a skyscraper blow over because no one bothered to calculate what the wind hitting it diagonally would do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center

I see no way of controlling privacy in a decentralized system. It'd be like trying to delete all the emails you've sent to other people or stop someone from forwarding an email. On…

My tactic is always to pretend to be an assistant doing it for my boss so I have no authority to do anything but cancel/downgrade etc.

The grocery stores I go to have price tags on everything.

https://www.quora.com/Do-slow-drivers-cause-more-accidents-t...

The cars would creep along at 5mph every time there's a pedestrian on the sidewalk then, obstructing traffic and causing accidents.

It's actually more dangerous as it forces other cars to change lanes to get around you.

That's easy. The ad network that serves you ads on YouTube also serves ads on Facebook. They have a profile of you that connects your facebook and google accounts.

Not just online activity. Bank/credit card transactions. Utility/tax information. Postal information. Subscriptions to anything. DMV records. A detailed profile of you is for sale …

They buy the info from massive data brokers, who buy data from other large and small data brokers, who buy the data from app makers, services, etc. User123@gmail.com expressed inte…

IP address, or if you have any shared accounts you could have a cookie identifying you as the same user. Ads also target connections of people who're interested in a product so you…

In Tucson AZ it was a constant problem that freight trains would either blow through town at full speed or crawl through level crossings blocking traffic rather than obeying speed …

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Gotta love using trendy non-ACID databases for financial transactions and suddenly rediscovering why ACID databases were invented.

"Well, obviously, you needed to press CTRL+Q+F4 between steps 2 and 3, it's so obvious we don't even need to put it in the instructions."

Oh god I can feel them doing it now.

Main use of HSR is going to be getting to and from peripheral cities. Fresno to SF and Bakersfield to LA in under an hour would be HUGE. That's going to get used more than the full…