American Fiber is a corperate venture and doing work in the large cities can be expensive (especially New York) so maybe that has something to do with it.
These commute times are not your own making they are based on your salary, your priorities in housing (neighborhood, safety, price), and your work location.
There are plenty of times when it is too expensive to live near work.
There are plenty of times when housing near work is low income or unsafe.
That actually seems like a reasonable difference considering that outside of cities biking is only a hobby (and sometimes quite a dangerous one depending on infrastructure). And in America many commuters drive for over 20 minutes.
I would think that since you are living in the country if you take a night course (or something equivalent) you could probably learn a lot quicker than someone living outside the country.
I use my University library similarly, I only wish the public libraries were so accommodating, here you have to reserve meeting rooms and those are only available to you twice a month (for like 2 hour periods).
Thankfully the University offers Alumni access to libraries, internet, and computer facilities.
I switched from electric to safety razor and found it easy to use, you can use gel or cream that you already use or try to go fancy with the brushes and poraso in a bowl.
The main thing is that you don't apply pressure you just let the razors weight and sharpness of the blade do the work. Only nicks I have ever gotten is when I messed up my hand placement due to lack of attention when flipping the razor and the corner of the blade got me.
I don't know how long the multiple blade razors take but if I have a weeks growth of hair it takes me 3 times going over to have a smooth shave (once with the grain, once across the grain, and once against the grain) though I usually forgo the against the grain and the shave is pretty good.
Overall time it takes is 10-15 minutes including filling the sink with warm-hot water, lather, shaving, and cleanup.
Usually smoke detectors are a 1 in each room (and 1 in the main hallway) thing nowadays.
And as for the hunt for the low battery it is a problem (though usually only one week a year if you install the same smoke detector in all rooms at the same time. And it is hard to find because it emits a high chirp every 30-60 seconds but that chirp echoes throughout the house and is hard to pinpoint (especially if you do have 1 in each room).
But I agree loud and sensitive better than the alternative and you can avoid accidental set offs by not having one located near the kitchen stove, though most of the time bad smoke detector locations are in apartments where you wouldn't have a choice to move them anyway.
From my experience people that have been out of school that long and don't have a good GPA usually take a few graduate courses through the non-degree program, then get a recommendation from the professors when they apply to grad school. It probably will vary from school to school. Grades alone however usually grad school will want over a 3.0 GPA and 2-3 recommendations from professors.
You shouldn't necessarily be compiling ruby on your server anyways you should be using a package (rpm, deb) to install it. Especially if you are losing $500k because you decided to compile ruby on your production server.
I think they work off of current robots.txt so if you purchase a domain name update the robots.txt to not allow archive.org they delete the entire history.
It kind of sucks as a user/reader but I can see where people come from.
I at least hope if people have useful content they keep it up and if not hopefully that content exists in a permissive license: http://diveintohtml5.info/
We'll probably see many more people want to disconnect for periods of time in the future on a more frequent basis as users grow older.
I was able to delete my google+ profile without deleting the associated gmail address, but I think they have some small text thing to never show the google+ set up thing again.
Really curious not trying to be snarky, I have some projects I'd like to put on that domain for fun but $40 or more dollars isn't worth it.