I had the same experience with Verizon. I told them that I loved Fios, but I was moving to an area without service. They didn't give me any grief.

Can I ask how you found your broker?

I really hope they do, but be aware that this date keeps changing. The last time I checked this page, it was spring 2016.

There's a board game called "Robot Turtles" that's designed to teach programming concepts to kids. I was initially pretty skeptical, but our preschooler loves it.

I'll just add that even if you are able to perform superhuman feats of parenting and coding simultaneously, you will eventually get burned out. I was able to handle both for quite some time, and I've now stretched myself so thin that I don't feel like I'm doing either thing particularly well.

Go to the gym/bike/whatever. It helps me a lot, at least.

I saw it in the theater as a BBS-addicted kid, and I remember being just completely blown away by his setup. I'd never seen an 8 inch floppy before. Here's a rundown of his gear, for anyone who's interested: https://www.quora.com/In-the-movie-War-Games-what-is-this-pi...

I saw it in a theater about 2 miles away from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska (then as now one of the first targets that would get blown off the map in a nuclear exchange).

The wave of nervous laughter that went through the auditorium when Elmendorf got "nuked" was memorable.

We've been with Rackspace since 1999, but I'm getting concerned about the future of the company. Can anyone recommend a comparable managed host for Windows?

>he pays $27 per month for his health insurance through his employer, and it's a nice plan.

This is really an outlier. The US average for employee premiums is $104/month for individuals and $392/month for families.

That might be an outlier relative to the whole population, but is it one relative to good tech jobs?

I pay $0 for health insurance, for example, and what I get is perfectly good.

The context seems to have been lost in the shuffle. Here's what I was responding to:

>I have a brother that works in a pretty normal job earning $42,000 per year (not an outsized salary in the US), he pays $27 per month for his health insurance through his employer, and it's a nice plan. That isn't unusual in the US

My point is that most people in 'pretty normal jobs' pay considerably more for healthcare.

Plans differ wildly in copay/oom etc. So $0 isn't what you end up paying if you actually need to use your health plan.

Show me the US median instead of the average. The average will usually be substantially tilted higher by extreme examples at the top end. I'd be willing to bet the median is closer to $60-$70. That's not expensive.

For even entry-level tech jobs in the Bay Area, it is quite high. I pay $5.

US average? Anyway, all my coworkers pay 30 per person 60 per family on a popular health plan from a major insurance company.

I spent the last decade living in a struggling city, and I was actively involved in city government. In my city, it was a case of limited resources more than anything else. There were something like 300 miles of roadway, but only enough money in the budget to pave three miles a year.

My house was built in the 1780s, but is well-insulated, has modern wiring and plumbing, etc. If you have a well-maintained home, the age of the structure is mostly irrelevant.