The key in SoCal is to minimize the commute. I have known people (including myself) who will move across town if taking another job, only to avoid traffic. Conversely, I will not take a job if I know the commute will kill me. At the end of the day you just have to consider how much your time is worth, not to mention your sanity. $10k, $20k year? I don't think so. Having lived here for 10+ years, I know the do's and dont's of commuting in LA.
DO:
minimize the commute
learn the surface streets
pay attention when driving (you know who you are. then again maybe you don't)
support your local music scene
DONT:
take the 405, anytime
take the 10 west in the AM
get mad if the freeway is jammed at midnight, it just happens
live on the east side and commute to the west side
live in Orange County and work in LA
live in LA and work in Orange County
It's not for everyone, but I love it here.
the Hauppauge PVR-250 that the guy uses is well supported under mythtv...but he did want "off the shelf" and mythtv is pretty far from OTS (approaching...RSN)
the classes in which I learned the most about programming was not so much writing my own code, but "here's a pile of code, it does this. expand it to do this and this and this other thing"
very very good learning experience, because you then learn the value of comments as well as extending a program.
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The key in SoCal is to minimize the commute. I have known people (including myself) who will move across town if taking another job, only to avoid traffic. Conversely, I will not take a job if I know the commute will kill me. At the end of the day you just have to consider how much your time is worth, not to mention your sanity. $10k, $20k year? I don't think so. Having lived here for 10+ years, I know the do's and dont's of commuting in LA. DO: minimize the commute learn the surface streets pay attention when driving (you know who you are. then again maybe you don't) support your local music scene DONT: take the 405, anytime take the 10 west in the AM get mad if the freeway is jammed at midnight, it just happens live on the east side and commute to the west side live in Orange County and work in LA live in LA and work in Orange County It's not for everyone, but I love it here.
OK OK. I enjoyed Crownies while I was there, send some of that! picky bastards. I notice you shmucks sure do like our Budweiser!
I'd say you owe us at least a couple slabs of VBs!
That is a hell of a lot of bake sales!
see the Sun Fortress project http://fortress.sunsource.net/ for a language with built-in parallelism...It's a beginning, anyway.
What I'd like to see is a similar story, but interview the trench workers. I'd probably find that more interesting...
you're assuming zap2it will offer their service for free, indefinitely
those meaty meals sure are tasty, but those plants dont run nearly as fast.
mmm a spaceburger
the Hauppauge PVR-250 that the guy uses is well supported under mythtv...but he did want "off the shelf" and mythtv is pretty far from OTS (approaching...RSN)
the classes in which I learned the most about programming was not so much writing my own code, but "here's a pile of code, it does this. expand it to do this and this and this other thing"
very very good learning experience, because you then learn the value of comments as well as extending a program.