lalit10368's comments

On: Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellect...

[lalit10368]

Go to Bangalore, India.

On: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

[lalit10368]

What do you mean "we just put him in a home"?

[JayMickey → lalit10368]

Typically means they put him in a retirement or nursing home. [1]

[1]: http://www.phrasemix.com/phrases/put-someone-in-a-home-insti...

[guitarbill → JayMickey]

Also, in this case "just" probably refers to time only (as in very recently; in the immediate past), and not the more colloquial usage in the sense of "just put it over there". (English is hard.)

[astura → lalit10368]

"A home" refers to some sort of permanent assistant living facility. In this case it's probably a nursing home.

[barking → astura]

Q: What's the difference between a house and a home?

A: A home is where they put you when they want the house.

That resume is from shortly after he turned 54.

It must have been hard looking for a job at that age and I don't think the economy was brilliant in 1980 either.

That was when Reagan got elected after Carter had only one term.

[jmadsen → barking]

It was not, and stayed not the next 5+ years

There was a recession, actually

[Gibbon1 → jmadsen]

In the bay area officially the recession was well over in 1983, but frankly it sucked till 1986-7. Commercial tech sucked worse than military.