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| 2009/10/29-11/3 [Computer/SW/Database, Industry/Jobs] UID:53480 Activity:nil |
10/28 I live in the Los Angeles area and a lot of jobs near me hire
people who are 1) Front End developer 2) ASP .NET Developer and/or
3) MS SQL DBA. Are these things common in Silicon Valley? I don't
remember seeing so much M$ requirements when I lived in the
Bay Area several years ago.
\_ tons for it and enterprise apps. more rarely for cool startups
\_ so cool companies don't use it, but lame ass companies do? |
| 2009/10/29-11/3 [Transportation/PublicTransit] UID:53481 Activity:moderate |
10/29 "BART customers shatter previous ridership records"
http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20091029.aspx
Here's the Bay Area solution to global warming: just snap a cable on
the Bay Bridge once a while. :-)
\_ what about taking a chem e class and see how stupid you sound?
\_ Not as stupid as someone who couldn't tell that OP was obviously
joking.
\_ I don't see why you think he sounds stupid. A full BART uses
significantly less than the same number of people driving into
the city.
\_ An equivalent of 249mpg to be exact.
http://www.bart.gov/news/barttv/?&cat=27&id=398 -- !PP
\_ Do they publish numbers for how much the less-than-full
trains consume? Or how it is diluted by the fact that
trains run the full length of their run regardless of how
far the passengers actually go.
\_ you're an idiot.
\_ "... during the first two full days of the bridge closure on
Wednesday and Thursday, BART estimated that riders took 163,000
extra BART trips. If they had driven vehicles for those trips, the
trips would have resulted in about 1.8 million pounds of CO2
emissions."
http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20091102.aspx |
| 2009/10/29-11/3 [Health/Women] UID:53482 Activity:nil |
10/29 The evolution of birth control:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/220089 |
| 2009/10/29-11/3 [Finance/CC, Finance/Investment] UID:53483 Activity:kinda low |
10/29 Hey troll that said that 2 CS profs should make $1M/yr...
http://www.sacbee.com/statepay
Most CS Profs make around $120K. Now it's your turn to talk about how
if you're not wasting your money on fancy dinners and investing it all,
you'd make over $1M on real estate and stock market investments.
\_ Go back and reread and apologize. 1/4 != 1
Did you get past fractions?
PS Our family income is usually less than that and our combined net
worth is $1M+.
\_ Your family income is less than $120K and your net worth is
over $1M? I'd say that's pretty atypical.
\_ No our family income is less than $1/4M. Usually. We had
two great years overall, but great in this case was 300k
And yes, my kids will be one of those lucky ones. Bastards.
\_ "Two college profeesors are either millionaires
or really bad with their money." Do you include home values and
retirement funds when calling someone a millionaire?
\_ Of course, why wouldn't you?
"... calling someone a millionaire..." heh
\_ I don't call people "millionaires" because it is a stupid
distinction.
\_ Spoken like a true Trustafarian. Ever worked an honest
day in your entire life? I am always amused when rich
people attempt to deny that they lead lives of
privilege. Be proud of your lucky sperm!
\_ I work with a woman who is married to an older
man. They make maybe $300K/year between them.
He bought his house around 1980 and it is now
paid for. It's in a marginal area, but it is worth
about $1M because of all the upgrades they have
done to it. They live a frugal lifestyle with
only a few extravagances. They just bought their
first new car ever 3 years ago after sharing
a clunker that broke down all the time for a
decade. They still only have one car (a Nissan)
between them so they have to carpool. What
cracks me up is when they talk about 'the rich
people' moving into their neighborhood as in
'the rich people who moved in next door have a
Corvette'. They have no debt, a paid for house,
and a high income. I keep telling them: "You
guys *ARE* the rich people" and they don't see
it that way. It drives me nuts.
\_ You have pretty much described my wife. We
have $100k in savings, $200k in bonds, $300k
in our retirement accounts and a $1M house that
is about halfway paid off and she still insists
on clipping coupons and taking the bus. It kind
of cracks me up.
\_ listen to your wife, and stay together.
my mother is someone who pays credit card
with another credit card. i think she is
as typical of an American as it gets, and
that's just pathetic.
\_ Yeah, I would rather have a thrifty wife
than the other kind as I am pretty thrifty
myself, but it occasionally is annoying.
\_ how is it annoying than spending like
a typical white woman?
\_ I don't understand your question.
Can you reword it please?
\_ You suck, FIE DOLLAH!
\_ I don't know about him, but for
me it's annoying when, say, my
coworker has to ask for a ride
because her husband has the car
or it's in the shop. Get a freaking
1992 Corolla to have as a second car
already. Thriftiness is good, but
there's a point where it impacts
your life unnecessarily. That's
when it turns stupid. I don't
want to be one of those old men
who rummages through trash cans and
wears the same pair of pants every
day even though he has $10M in
the bank. You can be too cheap.
\_ Maintaining two cars is
wasteful; asking for a ride
in those cases where one is
needed is simply allocating
resources more efficiently. -tom
\_ No, what it is is cheap. No
one said to buy a brand new
SUV, but with that kind of money
it's ridiculous to drive around
in an old broken down car for a
decade that you share with
your husband. It was so bad
that they were afraid to drive
far from home for fear of
breaking down. That impacted
their lifestyle in favor of
saving a few bucks. There
are a lot of things we do
that are wasteful. I'm sure
I can identify plenty of
waste in your life if given
the chance. Life is not
about allocating resources
efficiently. That's death,
which is very efficient.
\_ Life is certainly not about
collecting as much stuff as
you can, either, and it's
not about having all the
stuff you could ever need
to remain independent in
all situations. You know,
some people would rather
occasionally ask for a ride
than to have the hassle
and expense of owning a
car they don't really need.
-tom
\_ why can't you all just agree
that earth is overpopulated
and that your deaths would
all contribute to a better
well beings of everyone
else? DIE MOTHER FUCKERS!
\_ The most recent hilarity is when
we took a flight to LA and my wife
refused to take a $5 cab fare to
BART and insisted on Muni, which of
course did not arrive. So we carried
four bags, a stroller and two kids
a mile to the BART station. Stuff
like that. Of course, we are too
cheap to own a car.
\_ Sometimes it is limited to liquid assets. That is the
definition that, say, many banks use to identify high
net worth individuals. "Total assets excluding primary
residence" is another, which allows illiquid assets
but discounts your home.
\_ Yeah banks are only interested in identifying potential
customers, so they only want to know how much they can
get fees from.
\_ "millionaire" describes one's net worth, not one's annual
earned income. -- !PP
\_ Partha Banjeree doesn't show up on this list. I guess LBL is part
of DoE and not UC.
\_ psb's salary is classified information
\_ The fact that psb's salary is classified is classified. |
| 2009/10/29-11/3 [Health/Disease/General] UID:53484 Activity:nil |
10/29 "Fury Erupts Over H1N1 Shots for Prisoners"
http://www.csua.org/u/pex (http://www.sphere.com
'"If you want to get people angry," he said, "tell them someone in
prison for a very violent felony is going to get it (the vaccine)
before their grandmother in a nursing home."' |
| 2009/10/29-11/3 [Uncategorized] UID:53485 Activity:nil |
10/29 I have a couple of really old HD (2GB, 40GB, etc). What's the best
way to dispose them? BTW I can't even format them, some of them
are dead.
\_ There are some pretty awesomely strong magnets inside HDs. |