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Author:  Parasyte [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Welcome to San Francisco

Oh your god! Somehow I landed a job in San Francisco, CA. So Friday night, I drove up here, 13 hours of driving, all alone. And then I parked my Jeep in a public garage for something outrageous like $1/hr. And I fumbled through the dark, just making it to my hotel! I've been there since, looking for an apartment in the city. Not really my cup of tea, the city. But I think I will manage. I did find one pretty cool place. Or at least, it will do for now. It's a roommate situation, and I do not know the girl, but she seems really nice and interesting, and apparently I didn't scare her, which is always a good thing.

Anyway, the company wants me to start tomorrow, which I might just manage, if I can get my parking permit and such things taken care of, as well as moving into the apartment! In any case, things are a bit different, so I'm just trying to hack it, at this point.

More as it develops. I guess.

Author:  James0x57 [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:16 pm ]
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=D

Awesome news mate!! I hope to hear more and hope it all goes well for you!! ^__^


What's the job if you don't mind sharing that info?

Author:  Parasyte [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Welcome to San Francisco

I'm not going to share the name of the company, just yet. Suffice to say it's a tech startup that's building a social networking platform with all the cool modern web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and sexy JavaScript. The backend is apparently Tornado, PHP, MySQL shards, memcached, and a little bit of Python. Hosting provided almost entirely by Amazon EC2/S3, of course. The MySQL stuff is a bit odd, but I think it might be migrating to SimpleDB... Or already migrated. My first day in the office is tentatively set for tomorrow. And the salary is double what I was making in Flagstaff, so that's a big bonus.

The only place to go from here is up.

Oh and one last thing: The server that runs the following domains is down until I get all of my furniture moved into the state:
http://hg.kodewerx.org/
http://trac.kodewerx.org/
http://parasyte.kodewerx.org/
http://kodewerx.pwnz.org/
http://www.doodleearth.com/
... And maybe some others.

Author:  Hextator [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:46 pm ]
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Pretty cool shit bro.

Does this mean KW and your sanity are financially safe?

Author:  Minion [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:27 am ]
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Image

Author:  jleemero [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:11 pm ]
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Make Money, Fuck Bitches.

Author:  oohway [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:40 pm ]
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Welcome to California, buddy.

I have friends up there and it would be really cool if I happen to meet you on the streets somewhere when I visit sometimes. Where do you live by in San Fran? Any specifics you don't mind sharing? I know the area a little.

Author:  Parasyte [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Welcome to San Francisco

I'm moving into the highrises at Parkmerced, near Lake Merced. I work in SOMA. It's a good bit of a commute, but it will do for now.

Author:  oohway [ Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Welcome to San Francisco

I know that place! That place is right near UC Merced right? Some of my friends go to college there. Whenever I visit, we always go to SF - which is pretty much like couple of hours away from the bay. Hahah, yeah it's a good community. It's nice and quiet there because it's away from the metro area if you're one of those people who hate the city life yet it's not that bad since everything is close to Merced - well, I wouldn't say close but it's a quite drivable distance.

Author:  Parasyte [ Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:37 am ]
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Indeed.

Although, fuck, I don't want to drive in this area at all! Maybe if I get an early start it won't be too bad? What really sickens me is downtown. My hotel is near the Civic Center, and half the streets are one-way, with 6- and 8-way intersections. Who designed this shit? Oh, and all the homeless people. And the two universal scents in the city; pot and piss. Yeah, I kind of hate the city life.

Author:  Ben [ Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:18 am ]
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That's really good to hear Para. Hope all goes well!

Author:  anthony [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:42 pm ]
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Fuck you, I moved and all I got was four feet of snow.

Author:  Lazy Bastard [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:46 am ]
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So...this isn't a February Fools joke?

Heh, I remember you mentioning this. Hope the new job is going well, man.

Author:  Parasyte [ Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Welcome to San Francisco

It's going alright. Plenty of busywork for now, but it's good work. It's serious hacks for now; just making things work "good enough". Eventually I'll get to the real engineering.

Author:  anthony [ Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Welcome to San Francisco

I want to insert my finger into your bum.

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