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How exactly does "SF: dirty, and full of angry people with extremist positions who've never had to reflect on their own opinions." add anything to this conversation? This is just t…

Sure. In the meantime, please leave the bay area since you hate it so much. If you're not from here, please don't visit, you'll be happier.

Please, please spread this message to all of your friends. Maybe they would all leave and I could have my beautiful city back again, without hearing the word "bro" every 3 seconds.…

I definitely worry about this, I've had this phone number for almost 20 years now.

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Google voice has been all but deprecated at this point. The form for buying credits has been broken for a year, and calls calls to my google voice number no longer get forwarded to…

The problem with co-working spaces is that there are too many techies there. Sometimes they're fascinating and you want to engage with them, which destroys concentration (in a semi…

2038? Does this have to do with Epoch time ending somehow?

So essentially the republicans are trying to force (telephone pole) rent control onto cities ? Commies.

I recently began a new position at a company which has had a bit of turbulence in the past year. While getting up to speed someone said, "We had this other guy a while back who was…

Glassdoor does provide the ability to review the interview process itself which somewhat fits the bill.

Considering Israel is increasingly succeeding in making it illegal for Americans to protest them, I would answer your question with, "A minute ago?"

You just described what it's like to work for all global arms contractors, not to mention Palantir. Cash Rules Everything Around Me -- Wu-Tang.

With my logging setup right now (ELK + Fluentd) org-wide we have ~120 dashboards, and the overall setup costs us about $750 per month in resources. This would be a 700% increase fo…

This is also one of my complaints about Duolingo to be honest, in that they only give you information about the lessons you're doing if you navigate to a specific page before start…

I'm about to receive an offer at a mature US start-up. HR is using my remoteness as an excuse to make me a contractor instead of an FTE. We initially discussed a $150k salary as an…

> A muslim shot up a gay night club, we don’t ban Islam or mosques or deplatform Muslims from the internet for holding similarly antisemitic views. To suggest such an action would …

Location: Istanbul (US Citizen / Digital nomad) Remote: Only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Systems/Cloud Engineering (DevOps, buzzword of the day), Chef, Puppet, SaltStack,…

Interesting choice of garments actually. Wearing a hoodie in America, especially if you're a young black male, gets you instantly profiled as a criminal. Whether or not the law say…

Hrm, thinking through this more, one of those guys from IT, Ryan, a big-hearted (literally) lumberjack of a guy died of congestive heart failure. Then our CEO died on his bicycle a…

Absolutely, in America we tend to assume everybody is out to rob / harm everybody else and are always on guard. Especially if you're young, just having your hands in your pockets w…

This reminds me somewhat of a non-profit retail store in San Francisco where I volunteered to pay off a pile of parking tickets. The store itself sold local artisanal housewares to…

> Mr. Halligan, how was Napster back in those days? Like, do you have a blog about that time period? I was the "only" sysadmin when I was at Napster (We had 2 people in desktop sup…

The real answer: I try to primarily type with my keyboard set to Turkish, which means autocorrect always changes this to the native spelling.