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Since oil is making the front page here, if you're interested in the history of American oil industry, "The History of the Standard Oil Company" by Ida Tarbell is a fantastic read.…

I was looking over pictures of this place last night actually. There's a national park there too which looks other worldly. Then of course I looked at flights and it's about 40hrs …

They're probably the largest hospital provider in the country. Looking at their wiki it says there's 152 hospitals and 1400 outpatient facilities. Plus all the other VA responsibil…

Now how are the bankers supposed to get any work done.

This guy is still active on reddit too. If you look at the user profile. He's made a few posts over the years I guess on this. Also apparently he was a male model in case any of yo…

When I used to work on turbo generators, the kind you find at power plants I saw carnage of what happens when those blow up. The retaining rings on the ends, typically a few thousa…

You're right, I should have been more clear. I wasn't applying for junior positions anymore but most of the technique is what I did the last time I applied for jobs when I was look…

Thanks for the kind words. For cover letters, I think I'm using template more loosely and probably should have provided examples. The template part is for describing myself, howeve…

I completely agree. It's incredibly frustrating to stop working on any side projects and stop learning any framework/library stuff to focus exclusively on algorithmic questions for…

I mentioned I track everything and try to apply in a small timeline to bunch interviews together. Most places want 2-3 phone interviews before anything else which at most meant lea…

Hey thanks for the kind words. I wasn't sure how receptive people would be to this when I originally wrote it out but I'm glad some people enjoyed it. Hopefully it helps a few peop…

You can't 'retire' in the sense that you receive a pension with less than 20 years. Which means you were at least an E5 (you had to mess up a lot to retire as an E5). You are certa…

Copart is a good site for buying wrecked cars in various conditions. Otherwise try calling your local junk yards. http://www.copart.com/us/search?q=tesla

No problem. I added a footer in the article stating it's satire.

It's a satire article not completely reflective of my own life but more of a mix of people I know. (I'm the author)

Author here. I'm actually from Milwaukee WI and currently living in KC. This was taking parts of people's lives I know and have met and throwing on a huge pile of satire.

That was my life for a while doing field service in the power generation industry. Fall through spring are busy with work because power plants make most of their money in the summe…

They hijacked the way you open files now and from what I can see reading through release notes and commits there's no way of opening a file permanently without double clicking. Wit…

Location: Atlanta, GA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JavaScript (ES6), MVC, jQuery, Node.js, PHP, Laravel, AWS, HTML / CSS, MongoDB, SQLite3 Resume/CV: [ http:/…