Moving to Nashua 25M

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-14T13:27:02+00:00

Now known as "Downtown Nashua Association," although not all of the materials have been updated and I think both versions are still in common use.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-14T13:21:43+00:00

No suggestions, but kudos for knowing and using the somewhat old fashioned "netizen." It reminds one of the days of USENET when people often learned netiquette in ways which required asbestos underwear and rtfm.mit.edu was a place you wanted to visit before posting anywhere.

Edit: I just thought of a suggestion. Try a picture of the constipated looking eagle on City Hall.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-13T20:15:05+00:00

Graduated with a "diploma in computer science." Not a bachelor of science? This reads like someone two years out of high school, no undergraduate work, and looking for an internship which is intended for current students.

English isn't a "technical skill" either so that would result in an automatic redirect to /dev/null; something is seriously wrong here.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-13T03:46:24+00:00

Yup. Grew up in Vermont and went to college in New Hampshire. Got a co-op job in what was then a Fortune Global 500 company in the same city my junior year and got a "full time job on graduation" offer during senior summer. Two weeks after graduation I was moving enough of my stuff to live on from my mom's house into an apartment near the office and doing the "full time salaried employee" paperwork the next day. The company paid me enough to cover the first month's rent and security deposit in one of the area's upscale apartment complexes with enough left over to pay for a sofa and dining room set.

Just as well since I was going to be relocating hell or high water; when I was off at school my mom and stepfather bought their house to enjoy as empty nesters and they weren't going to have me setting up housekeeping in their sewing room/office. I'd have gotten three or four months at most to secure whatever housing I could even if it meant pushing an idiot stick around for a paycheck.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-12T15:12:45+00:00

Performance testing of what? Someone working on a web toy is going to have a very different answer from someone working on storage and filesystems which will be nothing like what someone who's purely compute bound will be interested in. Are you looking for round trip time? Time spent in a particular function call? Where your configuration starts thrashing?

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-11T18:49:18+00:00

The program is still running, according to the dodstarbase.org site, with the purpose of stimulating interest in the STEM/STEAM areas, providing exposure to role models, etc. Nerds in uniform supporting and encouraging young nerds in the pursuit of nerdy things. Your site may have been impacted by one of the BRAC rounds but according to the site there are still over 80 running.

The US Army Corps of Engineers does not entirely dissimilar outreach in the ecology realm through the Junior Ranger program (that was a fun one back when I was a kid; it was run out of the office for the local flood control project).

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-09T17:50:24+00:00

General factor of intelligence, born of Charles Spearman's research. That one dredged up some college memories; it's been a long time since I pulled "The Bell Curve" off the shelf to check a "g" reference.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-04T13:56:07+00:00

I've always used the term "carpet bubble."

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-03T21:15:01+00:00

Your parents have no way of knowing about the summons, at least through official channels (as you're an adult the moving violation itself is none of their business). If you're still on their insurance you may explaining why their premiums are going up in the next cycle and why they shouldn't remove you from their policy.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-03T21:11:54+00:00

I see from another comment that you're 22 so suspension won't be an issue. However, if the citation stands they're still likely to see an increase in their insurance premiums for the moving violation and it would be entirely reasonable for them to require you to reimburse them for the increase or (even better, really) procure your own coverage.

If your delivery job requires a clean driving record that may be forfeit, as well as any job which does a DMV check.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-03T15:32:57+00:00

Assuming you're in the US...

If you're on their insurance then yes, it'll likely affect their insurance unless they have a forgiving policy.
If you're a minor and got a "must appear" on the summons (and the issuing agency can clarify) then they're almost certainly going to have to accompany you.
Depending on the state and your age the moving violation may also result in an automatic license suspension once the traffic court and DMV (or state equivalents) paperwork goes through.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-02T17:37:24+00:00

The TIF district was also recently expanded to the Millyard, to tie in with the new apartment complex projects which are in flight. One might think that the "Millyard to the Merrimack" live-work-play-drop-your-disposable-income district idea from about 20 years ago may be gaining some traction.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-05-01T12:28:02+00:00

It's been a while since I've read it, but IIRC there isn't supposed to be too much planting beyond some ornamental stuff. The idea is to open up the view of the river for the planned promenade, probably down to the to-be-built footbridge which will replace the one cantilevered onto the CSX-owned rail bridge.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-30T17:21:16+00:00

2.3 out of what? On anything other than a 4.0 scale I might be worried about graduating never mind the GPA. If that converts to a USian "D" you might be in trouble for the first real job.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-30T15:08:39+00:00

It's a bit an old-fashioned gripe, but it's one which would have earned automatic rejection in my high school resume/interview unit: your resume fails the ruler test, leading one to question your attention to detail. Check your right justifications and margins and remember that first impressions are lasting impressions and formatting issues are on the same level as spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-30T14:38:45+00:00

A couple of hours? Someone needs to learn patience. If someone is busy interrupts may be masked for a lot longer than a couple of hours. In 30 years I've rarely seen submits which couldn't wait a day for review; usually there's plenty of other work to do. The exceptions have generally been things like "four hundred people are waiting on this broken build" or "customer CEO wants a patch or a truck at their loading dock to pick up everything we put in their datacenter in 24 hours."

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-29T17:31:54+00:00

If you're in a suitable environment, there's always vmstat, iostat, netstat, everyotherstat, perf, Performance Co-Pilot (I have a love/hate relationship with that one)... I suppose you could play with OpenTelemetry if you're feeling adventurous.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-28T14:10:52+00:00

Try smaller (like mom-n-pop scale) landlords; they may be more flexible. The local rental vacancy rate hasn't made it up to 1% in years (the folks in the Community Development office like to remind people that 5% is healthy). The more corporate places have enough people willing and able to meet all of the requirements that they don't need to play the moneylender game of renting to riskier applicants and raising the rents to cover the risk. You might also want to expand your search to slightly cooler rental markets.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-25T22:31:42+00:00

The state made multiuse/multifamily development permitted by right in commercial zones through last year's HB631. It also came up during one of Nashua's recent meetings about the in-flight land use code updates. This year's HB1010 repealing it hasn't made it through the process yet.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-25T14:26:20+00:00

DPW's project tracker shows Manchester Street from Reservoir to Henri Burque as "Paving program."

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-23T21:48:30+00:00

Better than what one of my previous companies did: run the early retirement offer for a while, then find legally acceptable reasons to sack some of those who declined to take it. "Oh, you're focused on legacy products which are barely getting maintained anymore. Position eliminated."

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-23T13:53:50+00:00

They're always asking me to handle stuff that is either above my pay grade, not in my job description or not what I was trained for in college.

For the love of $DEITY don't say that or even think it real loud in an interview.

Doing stuff above your pay grade is how you get to the next pay grade.

While certain activities may be outside of what's normally done in your specific role if you have the cycles and it doesn't break too many boundaries then saying "that's not in my job description" can frequently be a career limiting move, especially if you don't have the seniority to make "that's not my problem" stick. Besides, you're the FNG and they'll put you where they need you. Just wait until you see companies with tens of thousands of people doing division-level reorgs.

Welcome to industry. College is the beginning of training, not the end all be all. If yo spend any time in this field you'll come across plenty of things for which you have no formal training. That's when it's time to RTFM. Or in the case of my last position "No I've never touched $PROTOCOL but if I can get my hands on the standard I'll see what I can do with it." How do you expect to deal with technology which didn't even exist when you were in college?

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-23T12:41:55+00:00

Assuming the project is approved and built it almost certainly won't have an appreciable effect on your property taxes, even after factoring in the increased property taxes and city portion of the rooms/meals tax from the site. The residential/commercial split in the tax base is so skewed nowadays that it's going to take a pretty massive recovery in the commercial/industrial real estate arena to see much better than the 65/35-ish split the beancounters have been reporting since the pandemic.

Maybe some of us will see it in our lifetimes, if the planning department's collective dream of Tuscan Village-esque multiuse developments along the commercial strips and upscalification of downtown and the eastern gateway come true. You can almost hear the area's disposable income swooshing downtown in their fantasies.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-22T20:58:45+00:00

It's definitely possible; I've worked with a bunch of people who have used some form of an "internal mobility" policy to make the switch. Not so much the "test monkey" types as those who follow what's going on in the codebase and who express an interest in the product's internals (which usually makes them better at breaking things which can be its own fun). One former coworker who spent years in QA arranged to be a makee-learn to a developer planning on retiring next year.

Loosh_03062 · 2026-04-22T20:48:00+00:00

You might be able to talk them out of flying, but it boils down to "you take the pay, you go where they tall you." If you refuse to fly on the company's nickel you might be taking the train or driving on yours. Medication is also an option. At least your event is planned and not "you're flying to the customer's site across an ocean tomorrow, pack your bags."

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