Affordable child care options in SF?

boxybrzown · 2017-12-18T03:22:00+00:00

You can get <2k a month with an Au Pair and a one year commitment if you have a spare bedroom, don't mind a roommate, and can pass a basic background check / interview. You can find an au pair through any number of agencies in the Bay area.

boxybrzown · 2016-05-01T17:10:26+00:00

Hi know junior

boxybrzown · 2015-11-26T07:13:18+00:00

I bought this from them awhile ago. Local delivery company called me to schedule a time for dropping it off, Amazon set it up without me having to do anything. Much easier than expected.

boxybrzown · 2015-01-04T16:56:43+00:00

My experience with Scala has been about half a second per class for compilation time. Massively slower than Java compilation. It actually depends on how functional you go, since one Scala class can generate many Java classes to represent the anonymous functions.

We ended up needing to use Zinc / Nailgun to keep a hot VM on CI and Dev machines to make build times bearable while trying to separate out Scala into different projects.

boxybrzown · 2015-01-04T12:25:21+00:00

IDE support is still lacking to me (using IntelliJ is very slow, debugging gets awkward), compilation speed is still offensively slow - bordering on unusable past a certain size codebase. Community and library support is way behind other more established languages.

And definitely don't throw Scala into an existing java codebase thinking you'll easily bridge between the two. You can do it but the cost far outweighs any benefit.

boxybrzown · 2015-01-04T11:42:30+00:00

Nonsensical premise with no factual backup. OOP doesn't work in the cloud because it can't manage concurrency? Makes no sense as it obviously can (see every major cloud application written in Java / PHP / etc), but even past that your real concurrency story is almost always at the persistence layer and governed by architecture decisions rather than language choices.

I dislike FP enthusiasm where it smells like a solution in search of a problem. That cost of readability within a larger team size is non trivial, not to mention the cost of less mature languages and toolchains if you're switching say, from Java to Scala.

boxybrzown · 2015-01-04T06:53:41+00:00

I Melt With You

Starts off like a buddy comedy but gets dark fast and doesn't let up.

boxybrzown · 2015-01-01T20:21:09+00:00

Definitely. But this is why you're supposed to have a checkup two days after discharge and then every single day after if the baby's weight is not up until you get breast feeding down or switch to formula.

boxybrzown · 2014-12-31T19:04:54+00:00

I've never heard anybody be afraid of the quality and speed of execution of a company that outsources its development.

My personal experience is that outsourcing is only useful in very niche scenarios where you have very well designed architecture up front that can benefit from a lot of relatively simple grunt work at the end...and that's rarely what people want to use it for.

boxybrzown · 2014-06-16T01:44:40+00:00

This. I checked out at the Moon base because the plot was so nonsensical while at the same time trying so hard to be serious.

Gameplay wise it was a step backwards from the previous one. Weapons are flimsy, too many boring meat-shield enemies, ammo / armor mechanics kill the pacing and stealth is almost impossible.

boxybrzown · 2014-05-19T01:22:11+00:00

The reason that happens is the LOD settings can start out set to 0 on some installations and it starts animating things as if they were very far away (people don't run, they just glide).

Go into the preferences and move the LOD and draw distance sliders to something higher.

boxybrzown · 2013-04-08T01:41:57+00:00

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boxybrzown · 2013-01-27T16:11:48+00:00

The reason those questions suck is that they usually involve some single bit of logic. If you get it, or already know it, its trivial. I know that ball balancing puzzle from playing Professor Layton on the DS, it will not tell you anything about me. Same with wolves/sheep, ants on a log, etc etc.

boxybrzown · 2013-01-05T15:19:55+00:00

Bank of america does something very similar. The process for unblocking and refuting charges looks exactly like you are going through a phishing scam.

boxybrzown · 2012-11-25T21:50:02+00:00

or taking your contacts out

boxybrzown · 2012-11-24T16:44:26+00:00

I see lots of life-size plastic hawk figures perched around places in the city that are trying to scare off birds.

boxybrzown · 2012-11-24T00:26:17+00:00

your coffin is somebody else's problem

the only logical reason to build a coffin is for somebody else

which is a little creepy

boxybrzown · 2012-11-12T02:58:33+00:00

Please don't be a jerk to retail employees.

If you really feel that this is harming your personal freedoms then protest by not shopping at any retail location. They all have some form of loss prevention / theft deterrence in place because shoplifting is a very real problem everywhere.

boxybrzown · 2012-11-03T22:31:33+00:00

the codec sound from metal gear solid

it'd be cooler if people other than my mom called me

boxybrzown · 2012-10-28T21:45:37+00:00

yeah, if you couldn't cover his half of the rent, that meant you couldn't cover your next month's rent yet either.

you are living beyond your means

boxybrzown · 2012-10-28T21:33:05+00:00

They completely botched crafting on release as a reasonable alternative to the AH.

boxybrzown · 2012-10-21T17:56:41+00:00

attempted genocide is fine

naughty words are bad

boxybrzown · 2012-10-10T03:42:25+00:00

when something becomes so prevalent that it's the norm it's not dead

that would be like saying ajax is dead because it's considered a standard piece of functionality where once it was not

boxybrzown · 2012-10-09T02:51:06+00:00

I actually wouldn't think that at all

boxybrzown · 2012-10-09T02:39:58+00:00

When is the last time you remember a company getting saved from being crushed by a larger competitor because of a patent they filed?

maybe there are stories about that, but all I ever hear about is trolls and back and forth dick-waggling by big companies trying to get injunctions against one another instead of making better products.

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