jeffasinger

Biking to work is the number one thing I miss now that I work from home. I highly recommend it to everyone.

I didn't used to bike to work this time of year, because the path I'd use is covered in snow, but even in upstate New York, riding in March and November is surprisingly enjoyable with the right gear.

When I have other ways to contact someone, I feel like leaving a voicemail is slightly inconsiderate, as it is the mode of asynchronous communication that requires the most effort from the receiver.

It's much easier for them to see that they have a missed call from me, or see a text message to see what the call was about, or to read a quick email rather than listen to a voicemail.

I'm not 100% sure, but in the US, this is relatively rare, as it's required in most situations to be paid at least 2 times per month.

I think all but 5 states have laws dictating pay frequency, and in most cases they require at least two times a month pay frequency.

The most popular pay schedules tend to be 24, 26, and 52 times per year.

EDIT: This was supposed to be a reply to redblacktree. State law examples: - http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_paydays.htm - http://labor.ny.gov/legal/counsel/pdf/frequency-of-pay-frequ...

I think you may have misread, improving service along the NYC-Buffalo route, which is part of the route to Chicago, would speed up the trip to Chicago. Shaving off 3 hours, means that someone could get on a train in New York at 6PM, and arrive in Chicago at 9AM, which while for most people isn't competitive with flying, it is a reasonable and comfortable way to make the trip.

I think Amtrak could see the most success by building out to support the cash cow that is the Northeast corridor. That would mean improving service on the Northeast corridor, to improve speeds for Acela, and adding additional higher speed service to connecting cities.

Two good targets for this would be Upstate NY, where you could reduce travel time to Buffalo from 8 hours to 5 hours, and make travel to Chicago and Toronto much less painful. Improving the Philadelphia -- Pittsburgh route would also make a lot of sense too.

Not all shopping has to be done with a SUV in a large parking lot. Retail does not require parking if there is a large population within walking/easy public transit access.

I'll give my neighborhood as an example. I live in a small city, outside of the most urban part, where most buildings are houses on 1/10 of acre lots. Population density is about 10,000 per square mile. Pretty much everyone has a car, however most local businesses don't have any off street parking. The side streets tend to have free parking (there's always enough), and the main streets tend to have metered parking. Plenty of people come here from the suburbs to shop, because there are unique, local stores you're not going to find at a mall, and there's plenty of good places to eat and drink.

The businesses don't have to provide nearly as much parking, because they have several thousand potential customers within a short walk.

If he's looking for a more of an actual first principles approach to linear algebra, I could not recommend starting with Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler enough.

It starts from a few basics which most people would be comfortable with post calculus, and builds up to the most important theorems in linear algebra. It's probably not the book for you if you are actually interested in linear algebra algorithms.

For one, it has a $2,500 deductible.

It is also only active during a Lyft ride.

The problem with the tech job market right now isn't typically:

"I'm a hiring manager and I get so many responses from good people that I don't know which to choose"

It's more like:

"I'm a hiring manager and I can't find any people who are interested in our position".

This is more of a solution to the second problem.

I agree.

Some monitoring is needed, if spinning up additional workers doesn't help (the bottleneck isn't CPU), then profile one of your workers, and find out what the bottleneck is, and fix it. Is one job spending lots of time waiting on a DB query? Add an index.

I suppose queues aren't really the problem so much as using a queue to decouple your systems so you don't have to think about the slow parts. If you decouple things, you still need monitoring.

At my old company, as the lease at our slightly too small and horribly boring office park was set to renew, moving was floated.

Everyone in the office was immediately for it. However, the CEO and a few other key employees were thinking further out in the southeastern suburbs, and everyone else assumed that meant into the city, centrally located, with cheaper rents.

We ended up staying in the office park that no one really liked.

I work remotely, for a company located about 1.5 hours drive away, though am expected to come into the office twice a month on my own dime.

I make essentially a market rate salary.

The company I work for is in this space.

Before talking to them, I hadn't really thought much about it. I was absolutely blown away by how much room there is for a better product.

Another similar option is to use django's inspectdb, which will get you all the model's for a django app, which means adding the admin (a simple CRUD interface) is only a few lines of code away.

Yes, but Public Universities tend to be much cheaper than the other options.

The University I attended charges $6,000 per year in tuition, plus about another $1,000 in fees. Of course, you'd have to pay housing and food costs on top of that, which if you live on campus, ends up being about $10,000 a year, or less if you live off campus.

I'd guess part of it is that it's easier to use homogenous hosts, and chop them up evenly.

I'd just have someone else do it for me. There are many "enterprise" level hosting companies that can help you with that.

I believe that rackspace has a pretty program around compliance.

I'll throw out what my roommate and I did too. We did essentially the same thing, but it plays music from rdio, or whatever songs you have on an iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.

It's up at http://letsparty.fm. Not quite finished, but definitely usable for our purposes.

I believe your parent was referring to the Plank Length when he said the physical world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

Of course, that's being super pedantic, because 10^31 is practically infinite, or at least more than you'll have time to try in your lifetime.

The ODFI usually places a daily limit based on the anticipated types of transactions, how risky your business is, how well they "know" you, and a variety of other things.

All of that depends on the bank, and is somewhat negotiable. We had much better luck talking to a local bank where we were able to get a meeting with the head of the business banking division.

When I've seen problems before, it's usually due to a lack of mutual respect. Either you have the business people thinking of the programmers as relatively useless nerds who can't do anything right on their own, or you have the programmers thinking that the business people basically sit around and do nothing.

I've never seen any real problems if both sides realize and understand that what the other side is doing is important and not easy.

Amazon does do digital downloads of games.

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Downloads/

Lowe's and Applebees

Most of the SUNY (New York State) schools charge about $8k per year in tuition and fees. On top of that, they would need living expenses of about $10k per year to live near campus.

Unfortunately, without working more than 20 hours/ week, a college student isn't going to be able to come up with that $18k per year on their own, but they could get more than half way there, which doesn't leave a ton of support the parents would actually have to provide.

As far as routes, Russia doesn't have the best access to the ocean. He'd definitely have to pass through waters claimed by nations not friendly towards him. The 3 best options are:

Vladivostok, which is very close to Japan, and would be nearly impossible to not go through either South Korean or Japanese waters. Neither of which are friendly to him.

Sevastopol, Which requires going through the Turkey, and then either through the straights of Gibraltar or Egypt.

St Petersburg, Which requires passing through Denmark.

If I were in his shoes, I'd probably try to charter a Jet coming out of Vladivostok. If that wasn't possible, I think I'd choose the Sevastopol/Gibraltar route by sea.

I've always thought about doing this in an area within commuting distance of a city with a good job market, to help bootstrap itself. There are some smaller cities on the east coast that have some large sized areas with very cheap properties.

I've interviewed people for a junior position recently. I gave the FizzBuzz test, verbatim from Wikipedia. Only about 10% were able to do it on a whiteboard, without help.

I've had potential landlords spontaneously offer me a discount only because I was white, well-dressed and mentioned a 9 to 5 job. That certainly isn't fair.

Would you please get in touch with me? My contact info is in my profile.

I have a relative who has some similarities, though it's very unlikely that it's the same.

Banks have this. In fact, the FDIC requires it.

It's harder to cover up fraudulent trading if you're not there.