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Originally Posted by Victor
and I agree that suzzer is an inspiration. one day I too hope to be able to pull of a multiple simultaneous remote jobs. truly heroic.
It's actually not that hard to get multiple remote jobs. It's difficult to get ones that pay out the nose for no work, and that's pretty cool for suzzer.
But remote work is the salt mines of programming. The work is hard, lonely, generally doesn't pay well, but it does pay more than running a jack hammer in a salt mine.
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Originally Posted by Victor
ya it was through newegg and then through another company. bad gambo00l on my part.
it is legit shocking that this would get shipped and given that it was, I think my chances a refund or replacement are near nil.
proly will be challenging the charges on my credit card.
So... this is the dirty secret of Newegg, Amazon, Walmart, Sears, Overstock, and basically any online service. You are, more often than not, buying from a 3rd party seller. Newegg does have their own warehouses with proper QC, so it's probably best to buy directly from their warehouses.
I would suggest shooting an email off to the 3rd party seller via Newegg. If they don't contact you in 2 days, open a case with Newegg, etc. You'll probably get an immediate refund. Newegg has very low tolerance for their 3rd party sellers, and has no compunctions about booting them off their platform.
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Originally Posted by Barrin6
You'll fit in SF. People in sF judge you hard if you support trump. I find it odd but I guess thats what happens when you live in such a liberal city.
Honestly, SF feels super non-liberal to me...
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Originally Posted by RustyBrooks
I understand the sentiment but basically if I thought less of anyone who voted for Trump, I'd be a pretty lonely person. I live on the outskirts of Austin, which, sure is a liberal bastion in a very red state, but, most of my neighbors probably voted for Trump. Most of my family voted for Trump. Probably most of the suburban town I live in voted for him.
They "support" him to varying degrees. Many of the people above didn't "vote for Trump", they "voted for the republican party." Some of them regret it and dislike him intensely. Many have resolved their cognitive dissonance by accepting it. It can be complicated.
For the most part, they are normal good people. Such is life in a system of government like ours (where voting is extremely dominated by 2 parties)
... is so much more live-and-let-live than SF. Imagine if you lit a cigarette at a sidewalk cafe in SF, then do the same in Austin. Just one of many small examples.
That's the thing, Austin is just so much more about not really caring what others are doing. Just be yourself, be natural, and don't apologize for anything. Couldn't imagine all that Berkeley stuff happening in Austin.
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I may have this really cool contract working with Arduino boards. I was looking at the Arduino documentation, and overall, it looks super simple to work with, like a light-weight C with a few useful APIs.
I'm wondering what kind of frustrations I would expect while working with Arduino. It looks like there is a large world of devices, options, and so on, but it seems you can do anything with these things.