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qhat posted:It's funny how the interviews you always feel you nailed you get rejected on, but the ones you think you sucked on are the ones you succeed in. when human communities make human sacrifices, they have a distinct paradoxical tendency to heighten the social status of the sacrificed, often giving them special ritual garments and special meals or treatment or stuff before they get sacrificed. In the way that the most famous human sacrifice, done in the non-sacrificial christian religion, was done (shameful crucifixion after ritual roman mockery), the garments of mockery given to the condemned were literally transformed by ritual. no modern state would give a crown of thorns to anyone executed anymore, the symbolism would be too bad
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Jul 12, 2017 02:30
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so... do people actually like it here or do they just come for the jobs?
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cis autodrag posted:so... do people actually like it here or do they just come for the jobs? weather seems nice
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cis autodrag posted:so... do people actually like it here or do they just come for the jobs? a bit of both. the bay area has a lot to offer. if you like the outdoors, there are tons of beautiful open spaces and national parks. mountains, beaches, desert, whatever environment you want is at most a couple hours drive. lots of different cultures means the food is great, and there's a huge restaurant scene, you can go to a new one every single day if you want. if you prefer sports or artistic performances, sf has everything you want, plus there's oakland and san jose too. weather is nearly always great, you can grow anything in your garden. if you like to talk about tech stuff and meet other interesting people in the industry, just go to any bar and talk to someone, chances are they work in tech. the problem is the cost of living. there are lots of cool places in the bay area but you aren't living in one of those for any reasonable amount of money. instead you're somewhere like suburban cupertino or the sunnyvale hellscape. a house starts at a million dollars and daycare costs are hosed so don't think about trying to raise a family or anything human and normal like that. so to some extent, people come here to work, then leave when their priorities change. other people are actually FROM here, so because of prop 13 they live in their family's house that their grandparents bought for $50k after ww2. the house is now worth $1.5 million but property tax is still assessed at $50k. life is just fine here for the landowning class
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cis autodrag posted:so... do people actually like it here or do they just come for the jobs? I hated the bay area. I lived in south bay and it was a garbage stripmall. San Francisco is nicer but literally every positive aspect of it is even better in Seattle. I think you're doing the right thing but get that poo poo on your resume and bounce in a couple of years.
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the south bay is a garbage stripmall because the residents want it to be that way. there's plenty of opportunity for denser development, but the people who live there and control the local governments won't allow it. they want the place just like it was in 1960, and they want to keep their multi-million dollar housing values. basically, hosed by boomers again
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Jul 12, 2017 04:54
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i have also lived in san diego and los angeles. compared to the bay area, SD was more fun and LA was more interesting, but they have their drawbacks too (in LA it's the traffic and endless sprawl, in SD it's the republicans)
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Jul 12, 2017 04:57
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i forgot probably the most important feature for lmo: the bay area is extremely friendly to gay and trans people. if you're LGBT here then you have a community and it is socially unacceptable for anyone to harass you because of your identity
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Jul 12, 2017 05:01
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the Bay Area is a shithole and I wish I could move away from here. but I also own a nice house in a nice neighborhood and have a short commute and get paid a lot. so basically I live here now and I'm voting for all of those things that make jk3000 angry. also ignore that stuff about raising a family. if you have at least one tech salary in your household you'll be fine. if you don't, welp
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the heat sucks balls and everything is brown. we drove through Tahoe on the way here and we're like "squad goal!" hopefully once we get settled and enjoy some of the positive aspects of the area ill feel better. but right now I'm definitely homesick.
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cis autodrag posted:the heat sucks balls and everything is brown. we drove through Tahoe on the way here and we're like "squad goal!" it wasn't that hot in Madison when you left? we were well over 90 in the twin cities last week
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hobbesmaster posted:it wasn't that hot in Madison when you left? we were well over 90 in the twin cities last week We had one 80 degree day but other than that it was like 72 or less consistently.
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Bay area weather is determined by how much hills and land separate you from the ocean, south bay has a lot of hilly terrain west of it so it can get pretty warm This is also the warmest its been since probably around this time last year But yeah south bay mostly sucks. It's close to work and that's it. There's a lot of variety across the bay area tho so if you hate it there you can move 10 miles to something different. For example I'm in rural san mateo county and it owns, I used to live in Berkeley for a while and that owns too but in different ways
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yeah if we'd had time to get out here before house hunting maybe we could have done better but the lovely relocation vendor had no corporate housing that would allow our dogs so we had to rent a house completely by remote. definitely gonna upgrade next year. once my wife finds a job we'll be able to afford whatever.
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also lol that there's an active grass fire right now. that is very much not a thing where I'm from.
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The Management posted:the Bay Area is a shithole and I wish I could move away from here...I live here now and I'm voting for all of those things that make jk3000 angry. lol
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JewKiller 3000 posted:i forgot probably the most important feature for lmo: the bay area is extremely friendly to gay and trans people. if you're LGBT here then you have a community and it is socially unacceptable for anyone to harass you because of your identity epic thissery, p much the whole area has long graduated from  tolerance to genuinely not caring one way or the otherthat said the non-coastal/touristy parts of rural ca can be a very different story
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lmo i suggest you do the following as soon as possible: - go to santa cruz, wander around - go to big basin, check out the trees - go to san francisco, climb up some hills for nice views, then rent a bike and ride it across the golden gate bridge to sausalito. take the ferry back if you're not impressed then you're not paying attention. the housing situation requires compromises, like i said before you moved here. you have dogs, plural, including at least one pit bull
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Progressive JPEG posted:epic thissery, p much the whole area has long graduated from
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In the bay area you can be a star wars nerd and hike in the forest moon of endor
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oh also wrt south bay sucking, despite being mostly suburb/stripmall hell its got some cool poo poo but you gotta go put some effort in finding it, e.g. i recommend going to weird stuff warehouse sometime, and madras does takeout so u can skip the wait even if its a busy time, and lick observatory on mt hamilton is a kewl drive, and original gravity in sj is probably my fav bar, and mission peak is great but can be rough on your knees going back down, and los altos has a great homebrew shop having grown up in the midwest a big difference here is how the weather is super consistent. even during the winter when it rains, the rain is super predictable (i.e. forecasts are reasonably accurate) and tends to run in short cycles (like it''ll rain for 2-3 days and then nothing for a week or three before the next couple days of rain) one thing that is annoying with a 8 million population metro area is once anything gets popular itll start to turn into kind of a mess, e.g. big basin can get pretty wacky on weekends depending on the time of year and you gotta book campsites waaay ahead of time, tho neighboring 'little basin' opened recently and its not too difficult to book yet. meanwhile any of the tier 2 parks surrounding it like butano SP, pescadero creek county park, portola redwoods SP, will be mostly empty even during peak weekends with pretty much the same stuff that big basin has also some areas will have weekend traffic thats equivalent to rush hour because everyones goin out and doin stuff unlike in the midwest lol, for example traffic along i-80 to/from tahoe in the winter is pretty notorious if you do want to get ur hike on and would like something quiet that just takes a couple hours i recommend going to russian ridge OSP and taking the trail up mindego hill. at the top on a clear day u can see all the way to monterey. also: - dont forget sunscreen cuz the sun is more intense here for whatever reason (not downwind of as much pollution? idk) - learn what the local poison oak looks like cuz its real common other various stuff in the surrounding area that isnt necessarily gonna be on any lists: - if you get pizzas from cheese board you are absolutely required to go out and sit in the median to eat it - devils canyon brewery in san carlos has an open night on fridays where a bunch of food trucks show up and everyone hangs out. at some point it had started getting too popular but i went again recently and they expanded the space and added a bunch of seating and its cool again - in addition to mt hamilton mentioned above you can also drive (or bike) up mt diablo in far east bay or mt tam in north bay and they all have great views Progressive JPEG fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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cis autodrag posted:so... do people actually like it here or do they just come for the jobs? drive to the top of Mt. Diablo on a clear day, is my advice I grew up in central CA, and it's horrible and flat and brown in all directions, and nothing grows unless you bring water from outside, and I was so anxious to live anywhere else in the world that I drove five days to Madison when invited but to me, the south bay sprawl is even worse. it's just endless miles of featureless low-rise buildings stretching out tracklessly in all directions like an effigy of the silicon valley's soul
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"what buzzwords can I write down next to your name? great, and what number can I use as a maximum for salary negotiations? now do you have any questions for me limited to ones that can be answered using the info from our careers page?"
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always give what you think you should get on a good day +10%
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I have to say that summer in Seattle right now is so loving amazing. the temp never gets above 80F and I can do whatever outdoors stuff I want in mild comfort
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qhat posted:always give what you think you should get on a good day +10% I mostly punt if I can. since I'm so junior (3yrs) I feel like thats still ok. have any yall used the Glassdoor salary estimator? is it at all close? it says I should be making 10-20% more depending on if I use my inflated job title or the one I'm probably supposed to have.
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Flat Daddy posted:I mostly punt if I can. since I'm so junior (3yrs) I feel like thats still ok. yes i've found glassdoor to be accurate unless you're applying to a huge name company with many different studios/teams all with different specialised roles.
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Janitor Prime posted:I have to say that summer in Seattle right now is so loving amazing. the temp never gets above 80F and I can do whatever outdoors stuff I want in mild comfort no seattle is awful go away we're full
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vancouver is fun too in the summer but we're also full so you can gently caress right off m8
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FamDav posted:no seattle is awful go away we're full yeah it's awful. if the earthquakes and volcanos don't get you sea level rise will!
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qirex posted:both word and latex are bad but at least people who use word usually have the excuse that it's the default, latex is "I went out of my way to make an ugly document nobody can read because using a mouse is terrifying" i like having source control and a makefile for my resume also other turbo-nerds will recognize the computer modern font, it's like a secret handshake for greybeards. 
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i like having source control and a makefile for my resume I remember that one of my professors at university would actively mark down coursework to 0 if he picked up the report had been written in MSWord lol
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hobbesmaster posted:yeah it's awful. if the earthquakes and volcanos don't get you sea level rise will! http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one right up there with that rolling stone article about how miami is doomed
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since my spouse will have to give up her job we're going to get a legal agreement set up (a cohabitation agreement, which is like a pre-nup but for common law marriages) these are some drat big figgies, like they're a little scary
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FMguru posted:love this article somewhere in the pentagon i'm certain there's a plan drawn up for when the Cascadia big one hits, and i'm morbidly curious as to just how many aircraft carriers it calls for parking off the coast to run helicopters off of
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:somewhere in the pentagon i'm certain there's a plan drawn up for when the Cascadia big one hits, and i'm morbidly curious as to just how many aircraft carriers it calls for parking off the coast to run helicopters off of no more than 11
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:somewhere in the pentagon i'm certain there's a plan drawn up for when the Cascadia big one hits, and i'm morbidly curious as to just how many aircraft carriers it calls for parking off the coast to run helicopters off of helicopters for what?
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FamDav posted:no seattle is awful go away we're full it's definitely awful if you're not white
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KidDynamite posted:it's definitely awful if you're not white You're thinking of Portland, speaking as a minority Seattle is fine
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