PRODUCTIVITY I put a VirtualBox with Ubuntu on my laptop. That's fun. Even more fun: I'm scheduling out 4 50-minute blocks of time each week, minimum, to start going through Learn Python the Hard Way. If I end up with significant downtime at work, I'm going to try going through How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, since I can do that without having to screw with my work laptop. I've learned that I'm a lot more likely to stick with things like this if they are clearly scheduled out. NOT PRODUCTIVITY Hanging out with a lot of people who work for the big tech companies out here and trying not to feel like I'm a "part of the problem" but they seem like good people and it's weird trying to look at this group from the outside. People fall into strange places and I've been falling hard lately. Going to Portland in two weekends so cgod better tell me the name of his damn cafe.
Portland is great! Going for a vacation? And let me know if you have programming questions, happy to answer here or on IRC. As for how to not be a part of the problem, in general action is best. Volunteer, participate in your community, be kind to others, then it's hard to write you off as a brogrammer.
Just for the weekend with a friend, partly to see two other friends who live there. I'm already doing volunteer work semi-regularly but there's not too much of it right where I live that aligns with my interests, unfortunately. Thanks for the offer! I'm not a programmer / brogrammer, just trying to learn it to compliment my current career and maybe try to make a switch in a year or two if possible.
The hatred of techies is a consequence of the residual hatred from the last tech boom, which Seattle had hard. The other problem is back in 2000, the tech companies were at least innovative (livedoor, metacrawler, realnetworks) while this time they're fuckin' Crazy Bezos and his prices which are INSANE.
On hiatus. It wasn't fulfilling what I was looking to accomplish, listening to good music and reviewing it is great, but I realized that while yes, some people might find new music, it's not exactly the kind of thing I'd like to do for music. Brainstorming ideas of how to make it a locally/regionally focused thing.