kenamarit

Agreed! I grew up outside Fort Worth, and a lot of the jokes, characters, and scenes in King of the Hill (like Silicon Valley) hit painfully close to home

KitSplit | https://kitsplit.com | New York City, NY / Brooklyn | Full time, ONSITE or REMOTE okay

Hi there I'm Ken, co-founder and CTO of KitSplit. We are looking for a full stack engineer to join our team! KitSplit is a rental marketplace for cameras and related gear like lights, lenses, and VR gear.

We're a small team, and you would be our 2nd full-time engineer. We have a good group of people working with us right now, and we are very much a part of the creative community that we serve. The bulk of our application is built in Ruby/Rails and you would have major input into how our product develops. You would be in on the ground floor of a quickly growing company. We're currently based in the Hearst Tower in Manhattan.

More details here: https://angel.co/kitsplit/jobs/156298-developer

You can contact me at [email protected].

If anyone else is interested, here's a link to someone's repost of "Why I'm a Bad Correspondent"

http://www.carlkingdom.com/neal-stephenson-why-i-am-a-bad-co...

As a video game developer in NYC (I also participated in Art Hack Day: God Mode that you mentioned above, I dug your project!), I agree with you that "art" is being conflated with "high-net-worth individuals being told what art to buy from dealers."

I also agree with everyone that there are many technologists very interested in art, and maybe even a good percentage who understand this specific art world that the article talks about and how it works. The problem, however, is that the ones who are most likely to understand and perhaps even appreciate this art world are also the least likely to have any money--they are more akin to fellow "starving artists" running around Bushwick.

Though most programmers I know say they aren't in it for the money, and mostly I think this is true, in the Art-Tech intersection specifically there are many who can hack who don't actually make that much money from it.

Hey thanks! I will definitely redo the website now that I have some time! I'll get to work on a hi-res trailer too.

More info + trailer here!

www.voyagerthegame.com

Yes! I used to live in Bernal Heights in San Francisco and commute to SOMA everyday, and this is how my commute options broke down, time and money-wise:

Bike to BART, BART to Powell - 30 min, $1.75

Bike straight to work - 30 min, free

Bus to BART, BART to Powell - 30 minutes, $3.50 (I think?)

Bus to work - 45-60 minutes, $1.75

Bum a ride to work - 30-45 minutes, free

AND biking adds many non-quantifiable benefits, as the OP states. It's the best way to clear your mind, other than maybe a long walk or hike.

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"They expect to be listened to when they have an idea, even when they’re the youngest person in the room."

Speaking as a gen-y-er, I completely agree with this sentiment. From my experience working in offices, there are always two conflicting thoughts I consider when speaking up, however:

1. The established politics of the office and who you are "allowed" to speak to and what you're allowed to say, and

2. The reality of the actual task/goal you are trying to accomplish.

Even if your ideas are good and beneficial to the work at hand, sometimes #1 is more important than #2. If this is true then I will quit as soon as I am able.

It's generally true that I consider my elders peers, not authority figures, as the article states. This does not mean I don't have a lot to learn from them! In fact, I want to learn, teach me, guide me!

However, like anyone and everyone you run into in life, an elder in the workplace has to earn my trust and respect, they need to prove to me that they are worth learning from. Just because you are older than me does not mean your ideas are worth listening to. Sometimes having a higher rank does correlate to being someone worth listening to. Just as often I have found this to be not true.

For me: I played a little bit of jazz band in college, and every single semester 30% of the band was made up of engineer students (my comp sci friends were comp sci students/jazz band members).

Miles was one of my first loves in high school. RE this article, he praises some of my favorites, and slams some of my favorites, so the upvote is because I never knew his take on these songs and players, so it's very enlightening!

Definitely, great idea. I'll add some sort of email sign up widget to the website, thanks!

Thanks, and the woolbuddy.com dude is amazing! Saw him and his giant needlefelted creatures at the Maker Faire a couple years ago.

I actually use a Galaxy Nexus myself, but I decided to switch from Corona SDK (cross platform) to objective-C and cocos2d! I guess ideally I intend for it to be played on the iPad, but I definitely want to port to Android when I'm done!

Same here! I'm about 6 months in and working alone, but inexperienced on the biz end. It turns out that my simple project is way more work than I realized up front. Definitely more than the last ruby on rails web app I built, and that was moderately complex. Luckily with experience in code, art, animation, and music, I can avoid major costs up front.

But the black art of game design is a little new to me (other than from playing and observing other games), and really it is the trickiest part, it's the glue that binds everything together. This could end up a lifelong obsession, and one could easily spend a lifetime tinkering to master it.

I have a similar tactic for combatting the crazy amount of work: more vegetables and long walks. I think it works...

First, I have to agree, tipping is a bizarre system/cultural norm, and I am very curious about how, historically, this came to be...

From my perspective, I spent a year working as a barista and bartender part-time when I first moved to New York, and I would estimate that 80% of those who work as a waiter, barista or bartender do it to support themselves as they pursue whatever it is they do (the usual suspects: acting, art, music, writing, school etc.). This is what kids do to get by--they're not committed in any way to the place they work.

At my coffee shop (not at restaurants or bars) I got paid minimum wage plus tips, which at the time was something like $8 + on average $4 to $8 an hour. I can't say I agreed or disagreed with the system at the time, or that I even thought about it, but from my experience the lure of tips greatly outweighed any set amount of (low) salary I would have received. For example, I've gotten a couple $100 tips from Wall St. ballers, or one time $40 from a man just for pouring a cup of coffee! If you work at any number of restaurants, the odds are much higher that on any given night, you will win the tip lottery. And the more a man drinks, the more he will open his heart (and wallet) to the young, struggling artist behind the bar.

For the waiter/bartender/barista, I would guess that the average wage comes out to about the same as a respectable working wage for the skills involved (maybe $15-$20/hr). If you work at a Michelin rated restaurant, you would have to get a much much higher starting salary to compensate for a lack of tips, at least in NYC.

I liked the play-by-play refutation of the comic, he really researched the whole thing (so I didn't have to). I learned some new things!

I enjoyed the tone of the comic, however, even if it was inaccurate or disputable or at times just plain wrong. For me, Edison is one of those figures, like Christopher Columbus, or George Washington, that you learn about every single year growing up, since kindergarten, and whose myth is so grand and ubiquitous that every teacher I had from elementary school up until junior year physics said the exact same thing about him. Tesla was just another of a dozen names in the textbook.

So in a way I understand the sentiment. You grow up being told that this is guy, Edison, is the most awesome inventor in the history of America. And because of that I always felt a certain distrust about his accomplishments (even if I'm wrong), because so much of what my teachers taught me growing up turned out to be wrong.

Here's a parallel situation at the high school level.

At Stuyvesant High School here in NYC admissions is 100% test base, meaning the only criteria for acceptance is your test score. Here's a quote about their acceptance policy (from an article called "Paper Tigers" in NY Mag last year):

"Entrance to Stuyvesant, one of the most competitive public high schools in the country, is determined solely by performance on a test: The top 3.7 percent of all New York City students who take the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test hoping to go to Stuyvesant are accepted. There are no set-asides for the underprivileged or, conversely, for alumni or other privileged groups. There is no formula to encourage “diversity” or any nebulous concept of “well-­roundedness” or “character.” Here we have something like pure meritocracy. This is what it looks like: Asian-­Americans, who make up 12.6 percent of New York City, make up 72 percent of the high school."

Not sure if this article ever made Hacker News, but it's worth reading if you have a chance. It's long-winded, but being Asian-American myself there's a sort of poetic-truth to it:

http://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/

There must be. I just got back from a trip to Paris and I went with a friend to visit the catacombs (a Parisian who had never been), and she told me that in high school (or lycee or whatever they call it in France) that her and her brother would go to underground parties where they'd have to enter through sewers. Seems like knowledge of getting underground is widespread if you know who to ask and where to look.

Thanks for the link!