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MMWC doesn't have its own fiber but does have access to KINBER's PennREN fiber network, a little-known gem in the commonwealth that happens to run down Fifth Ave and a few other main roads in the city. We're working on rolling out access to it. As we're a donations- and grant-funded non-profit, our rollout will be slower than a commercial operation.

Pittsburgh has a lot of fiber running through it, but most of it is commercial backbone fiber. One data center that I know of had 12 ISPs peering with it, and that was in 2009. Only Verizon FiOS has executed a residential rollout in the city, and you can read more about folks opinions on that in /r/pittsburgh.

I've passed this thread to the MMWC executive team for them to add more detail!

Arcadia.io is a privately-owned healthcare analytics company founded in 2002 and based in the Boston, Massachusetts area with offices in Burlington, Massachusetts; Rockford, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with dozens of remote employees nationwide.

Phrased succinctly, we use patient records to help doctors tell patients how they can be healthier and how they can get better when they're sick by enabling those doctors to see a patient's record with every doctor they see.

We have a variety of positions available:

* Senior Software Engineer * Software Engineer, Systems Generalist * Software Engineer, Backend Web Development * Software Engineer - Data Warehouse * Software Engineer in Data Pipeline Integration * and more

The main technologies we use are Ruby (on Rails), Scala (Spark, Scalatra web services), Groovy (Gradle and some other in-house stuff + Apache NiFi), and we even have some Rust (CLI app on Windows and Linux!), Python, and JavaScript apps. We're very much about using the right tool for the job, even if that means spending some time learning that tool. We're _really_ big on automation: we're in the middle of scaling our tech to grow our capacity by an order of magnitude within the next two years.

Our [careers link][1] is the best place to read more and apply. Feel free to ask questions via PM, too. I'm based out of Pittsburgh and I'm a hiring manager for some of the positions.

[1]: https://careers-arcadia-io.icims.com/jobs

We did some really cool stuff, for sure.

Videos will probably be out in a few weeks and announced there.

http://www.metamesh.org <- the org http://www.metamesh.tech <- the tech & store http://www.pittmesh.net <- the network

The pictures of the laptop are exactly the same device I have sitting in my lap right now. The NexDock of course has no computer inside it: it's a keyboard, touchpad, SD reader, USB hub, and display.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/farscape/images/b/bd/Har...

My one beef with it is that it effectively defeats my terminal emulator's scroll bar. Need to scroll back the output? Nope. You have to use less or more profusely.

    brew install Caskroom/cask/aerial

I'm not saying that it's not a problem where it happens, but I guess I have the fortune/privilege of observing it so rarely despite living in an suburban borough that is 29.25% White, 66.51% African American according to the 2010 census. I admit that I don't patronize its lone business district very often.

In the city, though, I don't have incidents in my memory that I can cite as evidence that racism is "huge" in Pittsburgh. Big incidents are in the minds of many, e.g. Jordan Miles incident (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jordan+miles) and to my knowledge and memory, are the exception, not the rule. Then again, I spend most of my time in the East End, which is pretty segregated.

I do concede the lack of diversity in Pittsburgh's tech scene though. The only quantification I have of it is C&S's meetup attendance, which is approximately 10% people of color on average (women = 20%). The number of PoC attending have been slowly but steadily increasing but the number of women fluctuates. We're working on encouraging both demographics to attend!

"We currently fly to 54 nonstop destinations on 13 carriers via 171 daily flights, and we will continue adding new routes."

http://flypittsburgh.com/welcome-to-the-next-chapter

PIT's "AirMall" was a fantastic concept. I grew about an hour north of the airport and we'd go shopping at the airport frequently. 9/11 basically killed it and much of the expansion of the airport. The 2008 Recession didn't help, either. AirMall business did eventually bounce back to pre-2001 levels in the last few years. I'll bet that if the gov't ever relaxed the security theater of the TSA, the mall could be booming again.

Code & Supply (http://codeandsupply.co) is growing very quickly. It is just more than two years old and has nearly 2,200 members of its Meetup group. It holds 6-10 meetups per month, ranging from language talks to toolkits, WiFi, mental health, design, career management, and more.

C&S is hosting Abstractions (http://abstractions.io), probably the largest ever software conference in Pittsburgh. It's in August and will likely sell out of its 1,500 tickets at the current rate (40% sold as of this writing). We've got big names speaking, like Stallman, Zeldman, Sandi Metz, Scott Hanselman, Mike Montiero, Raffi Krikorian, Mitchell Hashimoto, Joe Armstrong, Larry Wall, Allison Randal, Aaron Patterson, Jono Bacon, Kelsey Hightower, and lots more. The full lineup will be announced in May.

Disclosure: I am an organizer of both.

There are lots of other meetups that are big, too. PGH Python just merged into C&S. The PGH FP meetup is growing quickly, too. Pittsburgh hosted Midwest UX last year and Pittsburgh Web Design Day is a pretty big event.

TL;DR the Pittsburgh software community is booming.

https://www.innovationworks.org/Portals/1/documents/Pittsbur...

Off the top of my head, Duolingo, 4moms, Treatspace, Wombat Security, Redzone Robotics got big $$$. That doc has more that I'm less knowledgeable of.

Exits:

Vivísimo acquired by IBM 2012 (I was a part of this one) M*Modal acquired by One Equity Partners 2012 Carnegie Learning acquired by Apollo Group 2012 BlackLocus acquired by The Home Depot 2012 The ExOne Company IPO 2013 BodyMedia acquired by Jawbone 2013 Mobile Technologies acquired by Facebook 2013 BPL Global acquired by Qualitrol 2013 Shoefitr acquired by Amazon 2015 Giftcards.com acquired by Blackhawk (I think 2013) LightSide Labs acquired by Turnitin 2014 Powered Analytics acquired by Target 2014 Millennium Pharmacy Systems acquired by PharMerica 2014 RedPath Integrated Pathology acquired by PDI 2014 Aesynt acquired by Omnicell 2015 iGate acquired by Capgemini 2015 Blue Belt Technologies acquired by Smith & Nephew 2015 Ottomatika acquired by Delphi 2015

I find it to be largely opportunistic at this point. A correction of sorts, as the real estate was underpriced significantly in areas that 10 years ago were very rough. Middle class and upper middle class business owners saw opportunity to open storefronts in an area that may have been a little risky, but the caution turned out to be unnecessary. Those areas are booming now.

> I visit Pittsburgh at least once every other month, and most people I meet there, unfortunately, are pretty racist.

I'd be very interested to hear where in the city you are encountering this. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm not saying it happens rarely. I know it's not really in the touristy areas, at least AFAIK.

What's brutal to me? North Dakota. Montana. Maine. Vermont and New Hampshire. Northern New York and its Buffalo area.

https://radiant-player.github.io/radiant-player-mac/

    brew install Caskroom/cask/radiant-player