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hnmcQIOoQUDv

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About hnmcQIOoQUDv

Throwaway account. NYC resident. Developer since 1979.

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    Comment #18406935

    Bearsville, Woodstock, Saugerties. The Rondout in Kingston has a certain charm but may be impacted by flooding. Downside is you need a car or take one of the Peter Pan buses. Could…

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    Comment #18406412

    I'd hope they negotiate a ferry (maybe NY Waterway) from Hoboken, PATH is fairly crowded already and that Christopher St stop is a one–exit nightmare.

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    Comment #18406384

    IBM did this, and cunningly bought land in the weird area where Connecticut cuts into Westchester County, NY. This let them put the HQ near exec homes but routinely threaten to mov…

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    Comment #18406351

    I tried commuting from Poughkeepsie (well, that odd stop one stop south) during the dotcom 90s and it nearly killed me. The train was fine, but that final 30 minutes on the subway …

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    Comment #18406184

    I don't know what the precise internal process is but have been told by multiple former coworkers, now at Google, that any time I've applied for a role and gotten they've been aske…

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    Comment #18406168

    A manager who fired me from a previous job before he was at Google (well, he now disputes that I was fired, just that my role was eliminated) bragged to a now–fellow Googler that h…

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    Comment #18403695

    St John's Terminal really isn't the same neighborhood as Chelsea Market. It's little over a mile to the south.

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    Comment #18403662

    And forget even applying if you've ever had a negative relationship with a coworker who now works for Google…you'll get greylisted and ghosted midway during the interview process.

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    Comment #17976664

    I have kept copies of code and email from every job since the 1980s. Some of it is now hopelessly unusable since codepoints have drifted (I mean, the raw data is still there but th…

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    Comment #17976596

    Why should Google continue to refer traffic to these sites for free without compensation?

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    Comment #17976585

    She's not going to win, but Cuomo is going to lose reelection. He's so thoroughly fucked up the subway he's lost NYC.