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Buncha folx humble bragging and moralizing about retiring at 30 after building trivial CRUD for dubious ad tech as some apex achievement and we surely will mourn their departure into the sunset.
Better than virtue signaling and being a wage slave all your life.
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Oh, and: > I can’t think of any purchase I’ve made where I could have even found someone to hold my hand through it that wasn’t the person making the sale. May I interest you in adding 'scooter' to your toolbox of personal mobility options??? I've coached friends through the process remotely. Now that I'm trying to turn this into a business, I'd gladly pilot the process remotely. Scooters are SUPER convenient. Imagin…
For that cash I can just have a motorcycle or an e-bike. Why would I want a scooter in this case? Not dissing on scooters, I don't get it though. Bikes and motorocyles are a lot more stable at speed than scooters. OH YOU MEAN A MOPED... not a Lime Scooter. OK... we're on the same page. Yeah I'll keep rocking my FJR but I'd do a e-moped if I had rides around my house, tho for that an e-bike is more compelling. FJR odd…
I think I might keep using the word moped though, motor scooter doesn't quite do it, and scooter is too confusing.
Or maybe I could say 'gas scooter' or '125cc scooter' or something.
I recently crossed paths with the the electric moped I met in the wild, and it was beautiful and quiet.
I'm not going to get rid of my 170cc scooter anytime soon, but I would totally consider adding an electric moped to the fleet.
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Huzzah! Another aficionado of land use issues! Alain Bertaud wrote a book called "order without design". He's an urban economist, and... his book is all a city planner needs to do their job correctly. Towards the end of the book he talks about the indonesian Kampung, briefly touched upon in this interview here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-11/urban-pla... I had long wanted to visit this sort of pla…
i took a quick look at "Order Without Design" and am not digging what I've read so far. to decide whether something might be worth a read, i usually try to get a quick feel for it from the title, subtitle, author, author's affiliations, the book's recommendations, etc. in this case, it _seems_ like what I'm going to find as I cruise thru a couple articles and youtubes and possibly even the book itself as some point (…
I think it's likely enough that you might be surprised that it's worth getting the book and seeing what you think.
Of course you might not like it, but I am so starved for novelty that I will explore opportunities for that dopamine hit on principle even if they don't all pan out.
If you read it and find it novel and interesting, I would be honored if you let me know. My email is in my profile.
The author and his late wife are fascinating. Look up the 'order without design podcast', and you're bound to be entertained.
I'm already honored by the amount of due diligence you have done, so even if you don't get the book or get it and don't follow up with me, you've given me a lovely thing, kind internet stranger.
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How to make money: Offer this as a service to a business. The service (which I'm charging for, but don't yet have customers) is: 1. Paint some scooter parking lines in a reasonable spot, and add a signage explaining why the org wants to incentivize scooter usage. 2. The scooter parking would make use of existing nooks and crannys in the parking lot, so it wouldn't take away existing car parking. 3. Work with the staf…
Okay, I commented below but you mean a MOPED type scooter not a lime / bird type e-push scooter.... I literally was imagining you out in the street marking lines on the pavement for lime scooters that are the size of... well the lines in the first place and was like "this dude is off his rocker"
I may indeed be off my rocker, but at least it's for slightly more sophisticated reasons than what would be implied by my choice to be hustling lime scooters!
'i went to Canada on a scooter' has such a a different implication...
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I have a friend who works at Meta working on the Metaverse as a TPM and they just sold their house and bought one twice as large (and expensive). I've warned them it's a risky situation but they didn't agree. They remain employed but if I were in that situation I'd be pulling my hair out. On the other hand my house is 1/3 the size and I could pay the mortgage working retail if I had to. I'm worried about a bunch of f…
Absolutely! Committing to an ongoing expense based on your earning power in the peak of a cycle is crazy. The only way to justify something like that is if you're paying for (almost) all of it upfront. But even then the upside potentially is probably higher in stocks than in Bay Area real estate at this point.
Didn’t get laid off, but I am scared as hell about the economy/present situation.
Now I wish I saved 70-80% of the money instead of spending them.
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I have a friend who works at Meta working on the Metaverse as a TPM and they just sold their house and bought one twice as large (and expensive). I've warned them it's a risky situation but they didn't agree. They remain employed but if I were in that situation I'd be pulling my hair out. On the other hand my house is 1/3 the size and I could pay the mortgage working retail if I had to. I'm worried about a bunch of f…
Buying a 2M house is absurdly different than a peloton bike. Esp if you use the bike. Hell buying new cars every few years and a peloton are worlds of difference. you're not buying a new peleton every 5 years, and even if you did it'd be $10k at the outside not $30k every 5 years per car. This is like trying not to have a starbucks every day to save cash but not shopping on your mortgage to save .5%.
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For that cash I can just have a motorcycle or an e-bike. Why would I want a scooter in this case? Not dissing on scooters, I don't get it though. Bikes and motorocyles are a lot more stable at speed than scooters. OH YOU MEAN A MOPED... not a Lime Scooter. OK... we're on the same page. Yeah I'll keep rocking my FJR but I'd do a e-moped if I had rides around my house, tho for that an e-bike is more compelling. FJR odd…
Hah! I wonder how many other people have made the same mistake. There's really not a great word for this class of vehicle. I have been tempted to use the word 'moped', but got sternly corrected by the staff at sportique scooters when I was last there. I think I might keep using the word moped though, motor scooter doesn't quite do it, and scooter is too confusing. Or maybe I could say 'gas scooter' or '125cc scooter'…
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> I'm not sad to see arrogant FAANG developers get cut down to size a little and learn they're not actually God's gifts to the discipline. Where do you come to the conclusion that FAANG developers are like this? > For over a decade, it's been automatically assumed that everyone else was a failure who just "couldn't cut it" at a FAANG. Assumed by who? The amount of judgment coming from your comment is rather shocking.…
Take a look around this website, for starters.
All of this is fine. But let’s be real, part of the community resents another part and has for a while. It is part of some people’s identity to hate on FAANG engineers. And they let you know.
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you sound like a kafka system implementor. why would you hire software devs to implement kafka instead of kafka system implementors?
Outside of FAANG, roles aren't guaranteed to be this specialized. If you can't adjust and expect it to be done like they did it at your FAANG, you're going to have a tough time being productive.