colindean
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Comment · 2 years ago
Author here. Thanks for posting. I've not updated it in a long time, but I'm happy to answer questions.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is not universally true. In at least Pennsylvania, "poor performance" as the reason does not disqualify from unemployment.
Comment · 8 years ago
Pittsburgh has a wireless community network, http://www.pittmesh.net, which is run by Meta Mesh Wireless Communities, https://www.metamesh.org. I'm involved!
MMWC doesn't have its own fiber but does have access to KINBER's PennREN fiber network, a little-known gem in the commonwealth that happens to run down Fifth Ave and a few other main roads in the city. We're working on rolling out access to it. As we're a donations- and grant-funded non-profit, our rollout will be slower than a commercial operation.
Pittsburgh has a lot of fiber running through it, but most of it is commercial backbone fiber. One data center that I know of had 12 ISPs peering with it, and that was in 2009. Only Verizon FiOS has executed a residential rollout in the city, and you can read more about folks opinions on that in /r/pittsburgh.
I've passed this thread to the MMWC executive team for them to add more detail!
Comment · 8 years ago
Arcadia.io | Software Engineer | Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Boston, MA, USA | ONSITE/REMOTE | Full time
Arcadia.io is a privately-owned healthcare analytics company founded in 2002 and based in the Boston, Massachusetts area with offices in Burlington, Massachusetts; Rockford, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with dozens of remote employees nationwide.
Phrased succinctly, we use patient records to help doctors tell patients how they can be healthier and how they can get better when they're sick by enabling those doctors to see a patient's record with every doctor they see.
We have a variety of positions available:
* Senior Software Engineer * Software Engineer, Systems Generalist * Software Engineer, Backend Web Development * Software Engineer - Data Warehouse * Software Engineer in Data Pipeline Integration * and more
The main technologies we use are Ruby (on Rails), Scala (Spark, Scalatra web services), Groovy (Gradle and some other in-house stuff + Apache NiFi), and we even have some Rust (CLI app on Windows and Linux!), Python, and JavaScript apps. We're very much about using the right tool for the job, even if that means spending some time learning that tool. We're _really_ big on automation: we're in the middle of scaling our tech to grow our capacity by an order of magnitude within the next two years.
Our [careers link][1] is the best place to read more and apply. Feel free to ask questions via PM, too. I'm based out of Pittsburgh and I'm a hiring manager for some of the positions.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'll never forget the retreat!
Comment · 9 years ago
!m
We did some really cool stuff, for sure.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
https://twitter.com/uptimeconf
Videos will probably be out in a few weeks and announced there.
Comment · 10 years ago
We're working on it at Meta Mesh Wireless Communities, a non-profit company putting together a mesh network in Pittsburgh as an educational and equipment-producing effort. Our AP150 is getting some attention and has been a cool platform for us to ship our mesh configuration.
http://www.metamesh.org <- the org http://www.metamesh.tech <- the tech & store http://www.pittmesh.net <- the network
Comment · 10 years ago
This must be based on the NexDock: http://nexdock.com/
The pictures of the laptop are exactly the same device I have sitting in my lap right now. The NexDock of course has no computer inside it: it's a keyboard, touchpad, SD reader, USB hub, and display.
Comment · 10 years ago
I own an affected model. The exchange program is seemingly not worth it. My compensation offer was $295 if I purchased a Samsung replacement, $195 for non-Samsung. I chose the "repair" because those amounts were approximately 25% at best the cost of a suitable replacement. I have several dogs, so I do a lot of laundry daily and need an expensive unit geared toward large families because of it.
Comment · 10 years ago
I was an IT instructor at one for two quarters in the late 2000s. AMAA.
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