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As a gamer, my issue is that the same graphics cards are much more expensive than just a couple of months ago, if you even find them.

I live in Japan, and last year I bought a GTX 1060 (6GB) for around 32000 Yen (a little under $300). This past weekend I was browsing around some computer shops and I found one shop with the same card I bought less than 12 months ago for 55000 Yen (~$510). They also had a GTX 1070 Ti for 77000 Yen (~$710), which is significantly above MSRP.

Every other shop I visited were sold out of everything above the GTX 1050. Those cards haven't had their prices affected by much during the last few months. There's also no AMD cards in sight besides the super low-end cards.

As someone who worked in Manhattan and San Francisco and currently lives in Japan, San Francisco wages for tech workers are definitely the highest and most competitive that I've seen. You can argue that the cost of living offsets the higher wages, but that's not what Basecamp or its employees need to deal with.

I think what you're referring to was a South Korean actress and her ex-husband filmmaker being abducted back in the '70s. There's a book titled A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power about this story, pretty fascinating.

I thought it was a troll, but this account posted this a day ago: "About to turn 60, been a daily hardcore drug user for most of my life". So it seems like they're pretty used to this lifestyle.

When I moved to the Bay Area (Berkeley), I had to take the bus to work, and I hated it because it was so unreliable. The AC Transit bus was never on time. A bus was supposed to arrive at my stop at around 8:15 AM, but instead it arrived anywhere between 8:00 AM and 8:30 AM. It also was supposed to pass once every 30 minutes but oftentimes I waited a full hour before another bus came. The last straw came when AC Transit went on strike in August 2010 - that's when I decided to buy a car.

When I had to commute into San Francisco from Berkeley a few years later, I took BART into the city, and didn't fare much better. While the trains were on time more often than not, there were way too many delays when we were en route. Since the underwater tunnel between Oakland and SF is a choke point - just two tracks - whenever there's a delay in there and you were behind it, it would take at least an extra 15 minutes to get us moving again. The BART strike from 2013 was also pretty bad for commuters.

I lived in New York and have been to Osaka, Japan many times, and I don't mind public transportation at all in those cities - they cover a lot more ground than the Bay Area, have plenty of trains and buses and aren't too affected by delays when it happens.

I started to feel like this when I got to my 30s, especially when moving to San Francisco, where these issues you mention are much more pervasive than other places I used to live.

There were two things that helped me clear my head a bit - going to the gym and focusing on my well-being (a.k.a. actually going to a gym 3-4 times a week) and learning something outside of computers (in my case, learning the Japanese language). I think just focusing for a bit on something more than computers can help you take a step back and gain some of that lost energy back, at least it did for me.

I recently started taking L-Theanine and caffeine (mostly via coffee, but I occasionally use caffeine powder). It seems to give me some solid focus for a few hours, but to be honest I'm not sure if it's a placebo effect.

Seems like it's only free if you have Kindle Unlimited.

While it's fine to not upgrade, especially if you already have a stable setup, not giving Windows 8 a chance based on YouTube reviews seems to be a bit unfair. Most conversations I've had with Windows users who I've spoken to that haven't moved to Windows 8 can be summed up like this:

  Me: Do you plan to upgrade to Windows 8?
  Them: No way. Windows 8 is horrible!
  Me: Oh, so when did you use it?
  Them: Not yet... I read a lot of people bitching about it online, though.

Some of my Facebook friends actually went to Facebook to mention that Twitter was down. I wonder what would happen if both Twitter and Facebook were down simultaneously...

Rebooting my iPhone stopped the errors, and is currently downloading the update.

I've spent a good chunk of the past ten years using almost every moment reading up and learning about all things tech. This year, I decided to hold back on the tech stuff and started to read up and learn a foreign language instead (Japanese). It's been extremely refreshing to be able to do something completely new for a change. And it's had a bonus side-effect for me that I really didn't anticipate: it's actually helped me to do more quality work during the week because of these two-day sabbaticals. My mind works so much better on Monday mornings.

Thanks! I was able to use cDu6ytmRASJDgAgC.

This blog post is from nearly two years ago. Today's news (although related to the file editing functionality) is the fact that you can now fork and send a pull request of an edited file directly on GitHub: https://github.com/blog/844-forking-with-the-edit-button. This has already been posted in HN earlier today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486904)

Has working with this type of schedule made any sort of negative impact on your social life? I'm kinda settling into a similar routine with my work hours slowly creeping up, and I'm afraid that some relationships might suffer in the long haul.

If you're spending energy to really have to refrain yourself from telling your boss to fuck off, you should really try focusing that energy on looking for a better place to work at.

I remember getting this email when I bought a CD from them in 2007. I loved it, and thought the exact same thing as the author: "I'll do business with them again."

Four years have passed and I haven't bought a single thing from the company since then. I've just gotten what I needed elsewhere, either due to price or convenience. The email is nice, but it didn't really do much to make me always want to go to them first.

I actually prefer USPS when I get some stuff (smaller items, like CDs) shipped to my apartment - They can actually use the mailbox instead of leaving it outside of my door, where it can easily be swiped by someone else. For larger items, I just have them shipped to the office.

I'd say good pay allows you to live your life comfortably, regardless of geographic location.

I'm sure there are plenty of Linode users that don't know about this feature, or even long-time users that never bothered to read up about it.

I bought one last year, and I love it, although admittedly I don't do a whole lot with it - I use it mostly for remote SSH tunneling and as a file server with an external 1 TB drive. For these sorts of tasks where few resources are needed, these plugs are great, especially with their super-low power consumption.

About a week before my contract for my job in New York City was up, I decided to take the plunge and try my hand in landing some work in the Bay Area. In less than a week, I had been contacted by four companies here, and was offered a position by one of them, which I accepted. I asked them to give me three weeks to be able to move - This meant selling whatever I couldn't afford to move, flying out here to find an apartment and preparing to start a totally new life by myself. They had no problem with that, and let me know that if I needed more time, that I could let them know.

I'd say you should start approaching companies about a solid month before you're going to move here. That should give you enough time to find a good fit, enough time for your new employer to prepare for you, and enough time to for you to begin preparing for the long move. Best of luck!

I think it's just as important in a startup to know how to be able to control the deluge of ideas of things that you're able to build. Many times I've seen smaller teams just go overboard testing out and implementing all their ideas that really doesn't add a whole lot of value to whatever they're building.

http://twitter.com/ezmobius/status/14927274062

If it was Ezra, then this is the official explanation.

Granted, it can be a crap shoot, as the author of this article pointed out on his site. But I suppose this need has diminished a bit recently, with so much information - both work and non-work related - about people and companies available out there now. As soon as my current employers showed interest in me, I went through the Internet to grab any piece of information about the company I could find. I wasn't going to move 2500+ miles away without getting a good idea what I was getting myself into. The company had been recently well-funded, seemed stable and was heading in a good direction that interested me. Three months in, it seems I was correct.

I asked one of the higher-ups this same question after being hired, and they said that they scouted my blog, Twitter and Github accounts, among others, and with what they heard over the phone, they felt I was a really good fit in their company. Had I not taken the time to build my online persona, I doubt I would've had been hired. This doesn't just apply to job-hunting in remote locations, but nowadays it should be a big part of it.

Old post from September 12, 2009. I'd like to read more about it, but there doesn't seem to be much recent information about these new features.

I disagree with this, since I was able to land a job in cities hundreds of miles away not once, but twice. I was able to land a job in New York City while living in Puerto Rico. I do admit, however, this was partially due to some plain ol' luck - One of the startup's co-founders was actually travelling to Puerto Rico on vacation, so I was able to meet him personally and have an impromptu interview at the San Juan airport.

Two years later, I got laid off due to economic factors. This led to getting a job in the Bay Area. I had multiple phone interviews and a short programming test before getting the job, but I didn't have to fly over to California once.

The author does raise some good points, though. While I obviously don't have any proof, I have always suspected that some job offers were passed over me due to my location at the time, especially while in Puerto Rico (two prospective employers strongly suggested that I get a visa to work in the U.S. - ignoring the fact that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, making me a U.S. citizen). So while I would say it's a bit more difficult to go job-hunting in remote locations, it's definitely not impossible.

I wonder if this is truly a widespread issue. I've been using Karmic daily since the beta was released a few weeks ago, upgrading its packages to the official release, and I haven't encountered any issues yet. Has anyone here had any of the problems described in the article?

The only reason I use checks is to pay my rent. I live in the second floor of a two-story house, where the landlord lives downstairs. He doesn't own any other property, so I'm his only tenant, and he has no electronic methods of receiving money, just cash or checks. Paying with checks is more convenient and secure for me, since walking around New York City with more than $1000 in cash is really not a wise thing to do.

I'm sure my case can't be the only situation where checks are more useful, or the only method of payment.

Try telling that to the bus driver who almost ran me over this morning when he was trying to beat a red light.