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> The bathrooms At my first job they were so crunched for space my desk in the open office was about ten feet from the entrance to the men’s bathroom. I got to quickly know everyon…

The old lady who runs our neighborhood Polish grocery store would smack me upside the head if I tried to order Pączkis!

And this is at a company that supposedly prioritizes constant feedback, we even have multiple mandatory training sessions per year on providing fast feedback. Go figure...

I wish I had that kind of insight into my ‘performance’ pre-review! I’m at a FAANG right now and given my interactions with my manager alone, I figured I was bombing performance-wi…

Because I liked the people in my department doing research in my niche! Unfortunately federal funding in the US disappeared almost overnight for my slice of CS, so I'm currently op…

> But I wonder why? Publicity for Space Jam 2?

Our apartment building in Manhattan had one of these, it was super fun to fill! We also had a garbage chute... guess which one was more likely to get clogged when it was 98 degrees…

Possibly Native Americans/First Peoples, Pacific Islanders, or individuals who self-identify by ethnicity rather than race on these types of reports.

> Claiming residence in SF or NYC during the hiring process, then starting working somewhere else... It would be a bit of a cat and mouse game. Companies can trace where you are wo…

I'm as much Stop Building Ugly Condos as the next resident in my reviv(ing) corner of the rust belt... but honestly, with the exception of maybe one photo, none of these are horrib…

Depends on the state and the public/private designation of the university. There is also the (mostly unanswered in the courts) question of whether private university graduate stude…

I used to be in the "Triangle Linux Users Group" in the early 2000s -- it seems they are still active! https://trilug.org Back when running Linux on the desktop was a full time job…

Shell’s new US-based plant [1] is expected to pump half a million cars worth of CO2 exhaust into the air a year. I haven’t seen any data suggesting that plastics production reduces…

> The cost of landfill is really low, so it wouldn’t make any difference if it were added to the cost of plastic. The cost isn’t just disposal, it’s also production. Plastic produc…

> There were exactly zero write-ups of this in the local papers. A few miles across the border it’s been all over the Pittsburgh news —- the mayor here has even been tweeting about…

Compensation from stock grants is significantly more volatile than base salary or bonus targets, but otherwise I don’t see a major difference.

Facebook also has a FAIR office in addition to Oculus in Pittsburgh.

> Where do all the young urban types come from? Not from downtown. Queens or the Upper West Side!

Pixar in a Box was so cool! It's a shame Disney pulled funding for the program :(

This might have been true a few years ago, but even in my middle of the road rust belt city you can get a huge variety of beers now. There are entire breweries dedicated to sours a…

> If you mean the metropolitan metro area, than SF is a nightmare without a car. Really depends where in the bay you are -- there are definitely areas outside of San Francisco you …

Did the MPM simulator get used in practice for Frozen? I talked to a few sim TDs (or whatever the equivalent Disney title is) and they said it was too slow at the start for practic…

So in my last job my desk was positioned about 6 feet from the men’s restroom, which didn’t have a door but instead one of those twisty airport paths to block line of sight. Needle…

Ugh in my current open office the team next to me has entered a machismo fueled arms race for who can find the loudest clacky keyboard possible... even with the biggest and baddest…

The countryside can have some bad environmental problems too (expansion of fracking in the rural Midwest of America, etc).