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Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by nl » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 11:25 AM UTC

veidr wrote: post #135

hluska wrote: post #89

This is off topic, but in March 2016, I'll become a dad for the first time and I was wondering if some more experienced parents could answer a question for me. That article has a black board with a tally of diapers changed today. The count was up to thirty. Is that somewhat accurate/possible??? If so, holy shit, I'm investing in cloth....

Congratulations! 30 seems high but not off the chart for a young baby. My main comment, though, is that modern diaper technology is the bomb and you should definitely not go for cloth. 1. strips that change color so you can see with a glance from across the room if they need a change (if baby just wearing a diaper) 2. the wicking effect and absorbent substance in the diaper really do keep the baby's skin dry, even wh…

Also, try different brands. They fit differently, and as the baby grows the fit changes.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by dottedmag » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 11:27 AM UTC

guard-of-terra wrote: post #149

ars wrote: post #128

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Oh definitely. Especially for rentals. To be a bedroom it has to have a window, a certain size (which varies), and some places even require a closet in the room. If they find a bed in a room like that they normally start with a warning, then a visit from child protection services, or even condemning the entire house. Obviously if they don't inspect they'll never know, but rentals, and people with contact with authori…

I always wonder why child "protection" services feel the need to harrass middle class families running a little low, when they could go to ghetto and have an unlimited supply of totally ruined families to have fun with. Multi-generation alchohol and drug abuse and all that stuff available in numbers. Stop harrassing us until you solved them. Bye.

Ghetto folks can fight back. Middle class will not.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by DanBC » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 11:31 AM UTC

hluska wrote: post #89

This is off topic, but in March 2016, I'll become a dad for the first time and I was wondering if some more experienced parents could answer a question for me. That article has a black board with a tally of diapers changed today. The count was up to thirty. Is that somewhat accurate/possible??? If so, holy shit, I'm investing in cloth....

30 is high. But about 8 to 10 per day is normal.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/nappie...

> Some babies have very delicate skin and need changing as soon as they wet themselves, otherwise their skin becomes sore and red. Other babies can wait to be changed until before or after every feed.

> All babies need changing as soon as possible when they've done a poo (stool) to prevent nappy rash.

> Young babies need changing as many as 10 or 12 times a day; older babies at least six to eight times.

The UK NHS has a bunch of information about pregnancy and newborn children. You might want to find a site that you trust because you will get a lot of unsolicited advice from friends and relatives and a lot of it will be bogus.

(Congratulations, btw!)

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by amorphid » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 11:53 AM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #159

jonesb6 wrote: post #117

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I wouldn't forget that communication is deeply entwined with regional culture. I would argue that it is much easier to hire a remote worker from the same country then it is from a third world country (which are frequently known for remote work). Everything from time zones, work hours (say western European countries accustomed to ~5-7 actual work hours /day), laws, religion, etc.

Yes, one shouldn't confuse outsourcing and remote work: with remote work I mean people working in the same tools (version control, issue tracking etc) in the same time zone (+/- 1 hour), and being always available on chat/voice/video and occasional physical meetings. Most people who work in a multi storey office communicate the same way with the people on a different storey as they would with people in a different ci…

I work in an office, and everyone on my team is remote, including my boss. I might as well be working from home most of the time! But I like going into the office :)

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by fixxer » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 12:57 PM UTC

Man, I love Chicago.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by noir_lord » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 1:01 PM UTC

As someone who got into cycling a few years ago Rule V (Harden the Fuck Up) has permeated the rest of my life.

If you can do 50 miles when the hail is coming in sideways and it's dark and your on a hill in the middle of nowhere then everything else seems easier.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by noir_lord » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 1:04 PM UTC

sotojuan wrote: post #46

stevoski wrote: post #7

The more I read such articles, the more I think you'd have to be nuts to choose to live in San Francisco. And yet, clearly, plenty of people do choose to live in San Francisco.

As someone who does not want to live there either, I can see why people move there. It's simply where the most opportunities are. The idea is to move there and live uncomfortably until you network your way to an awesome, high paying job. Alternatively, the tech companies there usually do more interesting stuff than in other area. Here in NYC most are related to advertising or media—stuff not easy to get exited about.…

Absolutely this, if I didn't have my business where I am I'd probably end up moving to London, it's the last place in the world I'd want to live but the salary gap even adjusting for cost of living/commuting is huge.

I could easily live somewhere cheap and commute for a few years then build up enough to move somewhere nicer.

What irritates me the most is there is absolutely no physical reason why London has to be the place for start ups in the UK and a whole bunch of reasons why it's not a good place.

Where I live now rent and house prices are incredibly cheap (even compared to most parts of the UK), the city is rolling out excellent fibre (I have 150Mbps at home and 100Mbps at work) and transport links are excellent, it would be a good place to start a software company (I am doing) but hiring is going to be hard since it will require relocation to get the talent needed (or working entirely remote, something I'm considering).

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by varjag » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 1:07 PM UTC

ars wrote: post #127

Harkins wrote: post #101

For anyone wondering how this is possible: by violating fire code. He says he, then he and his wife, then one or both of their children were sleeping in the closet. I'm not familiar with the language of the California Building Code, but in the 2014 verison, volume 1, chapter 10 gets into the limits. The closet is not a "sleeping unit": it doesn't meet the 120 sqft minimum, doesn't have a wide enough door, and doesn't…

To be a bed room it must have a window - which also counts as one of the means of egress.

Not just any window, it has to meet size and location requirements too.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by dgoldstein0 » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 1:41 PM UTC

maherbeg wrote: post #154

mahyarm wrote: post #150

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The more interesting companies are in the bay area I find personally. In Seattle you have amazon, which has a horrible reputation, and Microsoft, which has another kind of bad reputation, but is better than amazon. In the SFBA, you have facebook, apple, google, and many many others. Also I don't find jobs / people in the state the most accurate indicator. To someone living in LA, moving to SF might as well be moving…

That's actually wrong. Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Google all have some of their largest engineering satellites in Seattle.

True. But sometimes being in a satellite office just isn't the same as being at HQ.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by cbr » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 2:17 PM UTC

ryguytilidie wrote: post #123

pmiller2 wrote: post #109

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That has its own set of trade-offs. Prepare for at least an hour commute each way by BART if you work in SOMA, for instance.

Huh? I literally live at the end of the line and my commute is 30 minutes...

Google maps thinks it's 36 minutes from Richmond station to Embarcadero station, and all the other combinations are slower. Where are you travelling between?