jeffFrom18F

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

The advertised battery life appeals to me, if it does indeed work as advertised. I have a 3-year-old Oryx Pro, which I probably over-indexed on performance on. Everything about it is great with the exception of the battery life which is usually < 1 hour (surfing the net or programming, nothing crazy). I would have gone with a different offering if I had known this.

jeffFrom18F

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Probably being wildly naive here, but wouldn't it be better if there were an open-source solution for this sort of thing that could be used by both parties?

jeffFrom18F

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

It really comes down to the money.

I don't want to live in the Bay Area, I find almost nothing I like about it--with one exception: 2-5x what you are going to make in most other cities for work that is often easier.

Almost any city in the Northeast and large parts of the Midwest have better transportation and housing.

jeffFrom18F

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Somewhat related: The Youtube algorithm also recently lead me to this Japanese musician I wasn't familiar with: (Ryo Fukui - A letter from slowboat) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVV_z1lBNLo

Sounds like it would go really well with winter.

jeffFrom18F

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

If SO was just about maintaining the community and running a useful Q&A site then it would be very strange that Sara Chipps still has a job right now.

I can only guess it's because there is something else going on with SO the business and she is executing exactly according to plan.

jeffFrom18F

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

I hope Stripe and similar companies that are mostly SF-based plan on more expansion to San Jose. There is an article practically every day in the Mercury News about some new office or residential site that is coming soon.

jeffFrom18F

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

They can't move their HQ at this point for reasons others have mentioned.

It does seem like they are taking a balanced strategy, however. I remember a story a few months ago about how their latest team is all-remote. They might have better incentives to open more offices in lower-cost locales after going public (see Uber's new Dallas plans for example).

jeffFrom18F

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

> decent public transportation

Nope

jeffFrom18F

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

For me, it's the somewhat selfish but defensible idea that open source is a good way to get experience with technologies that I don't get to use in my day job. I get some amount of pride in seeing my name in release notes etc but that is about it, I don't do Twitter, don't have followers, and am not high-profile in any way.

jeffFrom18F

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

I realize a university is not going to pay in-line with a FAANG company, but I am surprised somewhere like Columbia which is definitely not hurting for money doesn't pay at least a little bit more than this, like 110-130.

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