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Also have bad internet in LA. I grew up in North Dakota though, and back there my family is getting 1 gigabit internet for $100/mo from Midcontinent.

Absolutely bizarre and ridiculous that North Dakota, a state that has far less developed infrastructure than either coast, has better internet than Los Angeles.

IME growing up on the poverty line and now working as a dev and living comfortably, I get serious guilt trips whenever I spend money I don't need to spend.

GeoCities in the early 2000's is where I first created and built something with a computer and the Internet and the experience started the journey towards becoming a software developer. I still remember using a hit counter to track how many people visited my cartoon fan-site (I was 10, 11 years old) and getting excited over 20 visitors.

I've completely cut out sugar too and it's intriguing how the body responds. I once accidentally sipped my partner's coffee (filled with sugar) thinking it was mine and I actually gagged.

Poach said junior devs from the Bay Area to LA or in general? Sort of confused with your second statement. The crazy thing is that every one of my CS major friends I graduated with at USC moved up the coast to the Bay Area or Seattle, or to the east coast in NYC.

I understand the appeal of Seattle and the Bay Area, but it sometimes boggles my mind that larger tech companies don't build in cities where there are a large number of new grads looking for jobs. [0] LA county produces the most CS grads in the country, [1] and most of them are moving out of the area and up the coast for lack of junior SWE openings in SoCal. Any of the Big N could have a monopoly on talent coming out of USC, UCLA, Cal Tech, UCI, UCSB, UCSD, Harvey Mudd, Cal Poly, etc.

[0] https://datausa.io/profile/cip/110701/#counties_most_degrees

[1] https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/24/is-southern-california...

My Nexus 6p is the same. At exactly 15% battery if I open specific apps I immediately get notified that my battery is 0% and my phone turns off. This only started within the last 6 or so months.

It's not a matter of what's possible but rather a matter of who has control and access to that data. Do you want a decentralized platform or Apple to protect your records. Fwiw I'm not advocating one way or the other.

My gut tells me the job market is worst for junior devs in SoCal. Junior level openings aren't growing nearly as fast as the number of students trying to break into the workforce. A total of 0 of my friends at USC who were CS grads stayed in LA.

They would have a monopoly on LA universities since the LA area is experiencing a serious brain drain of talent to the Bay Area, Seattle, and NYC.

https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/24/is-southern-california...

They would also have a monopoly on CS grads in the LA area ([0] among the highest number of grads in the country) which is experiencing a serious brain drain of talent to the Bay Area, NYC, and Seattle.

[0] https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/24/is-southern-california...

I mentioned the Valley, and having a West LA airport I don't find silly at all if it cuts LAX traffic in half, contingent on OP's idea of public transportation into and out of West LA relieving the 405 and the 10. OP's idea isn't to increase air traffic, it's to disperse it.

Metro lines cute

Yes, that is also what OP was addressing. Faster lines between these theoretical airports, because metro is slow. These would double as public transportation for commuters. I'd love a straight shot with no stops from LAX to West LA to DTLA.

I like that idea. The links between each could double as public transportation for all, just include connections with existing metro stations. It would encourage the city to build around each of those nodes: put one in West LA, one DTLA, and one in the Valley, improve the one in Inglewood. The 405 from LAX to West LA and the 10 from West LA to DTLA are among two of the worst stretches in the country.

Though, people in for eg. West LA would have fits over the idea of airplanes flying over their sacred lands.

I don't think it's in Facebook's interest to lose control of how they make revenue.

Why would you advertise on that

A small percentage of companies are actively advertising on that. The featured stories (ads) on Snapchat almost always use sexual imagery to bait you into opening them. I agree, I don't think that's a sustainable model and it honestly shows how desperate Snap is to make revenue to allow these sort of ads.

I use Snapchat and my friends use it. It feels much more personal than Instagram or Facebook, which are social media platforms that extend beyond my close friends and include acquaintances. People can't comment on your story - they have to message you if they want to say something, and group chats in particular keep me using Snap.

I will say that their Android app is more or less garbage and should be an embarrassment to the company. It doesn't function right, it's slow and clunky, and it's infuriating to use and I've moved to IG more and more as its gotten worse. I know Snap is addressing that issue by rebuilding the app, but they have only started caring recently.

Not sure why everyone's go-to after someone talks negatively about Bitcoin is "he/she doesn't get it." Exactly what is there to get?

It is a phone beset by compromises, the only thing it does reliably is broadcast that you are rich enough to buy a $1000 phone.

I think most of us with engineering backgrounds have a very hard time accepting that social capital is a valid reason to buy a device. It may just not be valid for me personally.

I'm too young to know, so I'm guessing, but was this move also to get Jobs back? I think not long after he became CEO.

I'm not one to take advice from and I would never assume to give any on this matter. Just a short anecdote.

Max Levchin [Affirm] visited my university my senior year and someone in the audience asked something similar. He told us (paraphrasing) "if you keep holding off building a startup, it will never happen, and if you hold off until you have a stable job and income, it's definitely not going to happen."

I'm not sure why his motivation matters?

I recognized this idea in in the last two sentences of my post. The biggest issue with this line of thinking is the diversion of scrutiny towards Bezos in the process. As another poster stated, Bezos is a beneficiary of basic income via Amazon. As an aside, we know why Zuckerberg is more focused on free Internet drones over Africa than basic income.

Bezos is an advocate for basic income, but I question his motives. Is it because he is genuinely concerned for others and society, or does he want to avoid the pitchforks at his doorstep when Amazon gets blamed for mass unemployment? Coupled with the fact that he's the richest man on earth, it's very apparent he will have a target on his back if he doesn't already.

Maybe his motives don't matter. Maybe we just need to focus on getting basic income as jobs are wiped away by Big N.

Surprised no one has mentioned doing this in a physical notebook with a pen. I started doing what the author describes a long time ago to document bugs to come back to later. I soon realized it's just a good way to keep my thoughts organized and be more productive. I tried doing something similar with a text editor but grew tired switching screens or tabs. A notebook is also a bit more accessible than a laptop when you leave your desk. During lunch I can read through my notes.

I also find my mood is very steady and mellow instead of the constant rush and burn on a high carb diet.

The lack of research is concerning. I'm refraining from staying on the diet for too long and am opting to cycle in and out of it by re-introducing carbs periodically.

One could instead use fats for fuel by cycling in and out of ketosis. After the body adapts, sugar and carb cravings subside.

Oh yeah, Montana is absolutely beautiful. When I moved to California for school I drove through and was absolutely amazed. Western ND is like eastern Montana, which is much different than western Montana. Then ND gets incredibly flat like the picture in the article as you go east. Most people from Montana really don't like eastern Montana.

Having grown up in North Dakota, I am deeply confused why tourists would want to visit any part of it (#5). I'm shocked it shares a list with Barcelona and Carribean islands.

I believe this is a pre-req to CLRS too.

I can't even imagine how great it would be traveling from San Jose to San Francisco in ~10-15 minutes (no stops).

Yeah, the idea is that you like the products enough to buy them after you graduate. Microsoft does the same thing with Visual Studio directly with many colleges.