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Rings true to me. I am a third gen Texan and am planning my escape to Oregon or Colorado.

Background checks don't call your old boss. How would they even know who that is?

I worked in construction prior to tech and yes, the General Contractor or Foreman may not know the latest in framing or concrete technology, or even be good at specific tasks like …

I don't think that's correct. Access to the fiber links or colocation in a facility is not only ridiculously expensive you have to know the right people (the cartel) to get it done…

Degrees are as useless a metric as bootcamps in my experience. I've done so many interviews in which a 4.0 CS grad can't sort a list that a degree from even 'elite' institutions do…

People have said Apple can buy companies like NSO for less than they probably spend on SEIMs in a year. But as soon as they do that there will be another startup doing the same thi…

They all do that. I've been in Offensive Security for 10+ years with several spent at FAANGS, and not only do they all have large security teams doing internal testing, they hire m…

Pittsburgh! Cool working class people and the personal accessories are usually the local sports teams.

I live in Austin and I hate it here. I vote in every local and statewide race but it seems like it's getting worse. I'm pretty close to selling my house and moving to Colorado but …

I work for a YC company called Coinbase and it is absolutely terrible here because of the C level execs. They are terrible at their jobs and from the inside, the org seems to be fa…