Blake_Emigro

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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
Nice list, what tools are you using to scrape these jobs and then format the sheet? I've used Octoparse to pull from Indeed and it worked well, but I wouldn't be able to format the spreadsheet like this automatically.
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
Last year I had the domain altcoindumpster.com . I thought it would be a funny goof to have a list of wallets and an animation of coins being thrown in a dumpster if anyone sent any. That was yet another $20 GoDaddy got from me...
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
You can keep your costs down by doing a lot of your own research, but there are still shortcuts and pitfalls that you can be made aware of by getting some professional advice. My recommendation is having a paid consult at the beginning of y
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
I'm not operating my consultancy anymore or holding the consulting license, I moved on to making software for the industry but don't have anything to offer at the moment. If you're <=32 look up Express Entry for skilled wo
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
Yeah, I guess it's both things.
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
I sent the link to my girlfriend, and she didn't find it very interesting until I told her that I don't have this internal monologue, and it turns out she does. Neither of us knew about the other scenario. I visualize and feel thi
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
I've worked in this industry for a while, helping people immigrate to Canada, and one interesting thing I've experienced are newcomers that don't want their former peers following them. They left for a different way of life a
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
Pawn shops hold the goods they purchased for 30 days to give time for someone to make a claim against them as property that was stolen from them. (This is my experience in Canada anyway.) In theory, exchanges could do the same thing for dep
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
It's been taught / used for a long time in North America, I can't speak for other parts of the world. It reminds me of the, "it's not you, it's me", break-up technique, but maybe I just watched too much Se
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
I'm in no way an insider and haven't paid attention to the history of this saga. I was just using public, possibly shaky info like the others. My point was to show that one graph is not the whole story, and it prompted you to add
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
She used the sandwich feedback technique for a eulogy - an interesting approach. https://www.rightattitudes.com/2008/02/20/sandwich-feedback-...
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
It also doesn't take into consideration revenue growth, which according to the corporation's Wiki page grew much faster and higher in multiples than her salary. As well, according to the same Wiki, "There will be no sharehold
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
There are so many internal battles that you have; paralysis by analysis, over-optimization, learn/build versus buy, impostor syndrome, waiting too long to do xyz, and on and on. Then you have those days where you get stuck on something
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
Good question, this is something that I'm going to change in the process flow. The original idea was that everything we had to offer after the assessment would need the name. We have a PDF summary, an email list, and a portal with addi
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
As a non-coding technologist I was also a skeptic about how this was differentiated from other non-coding options, but it seems I need to get on the Webflow train. I will now add it with Figma to the toolbox for my venture builder empowerin
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
I will never sell anyone's data, or use it for any purpose that the user doesn't want and explicitly agree to. For this assessment, nothing is being stored unless you submit your email address, it's all front-end JavaScript.
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
When people first inquire about immigrating to Canada, most are not eligible. So the next step for this that I'm creating is the "pathway builder" which will allow you to have multiple assessments side-by-side, and the abilit
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
You can scroll back up and click the rewind button on the right to re-answer the question. Thanks!
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
Canada is great, but obviously I'm biased. I've also traveled all over the US and the people you see on the news are such a small fraction of the real awesome people that make up the country. (Mass shootings are f'ed up thoug
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
The link you gave is the official CDN government calculator for this purpose. However, that calculator doesn't tell you if you're eligible for any program or not - they have another tool for that, but that tool doesn't give y
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
For skilled worker immigration to Canada, every applicant has to take an English test, regardless of country of origin or native language. It doesn't seem right, but it gets really complicated trying to say what countries would have th
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by Blake_Emigro 7y ago
A couple of years ago I had a tool built to assess foreign skilled workers for their eligibility to immigrate to Canada. The tool can be accessed with the link. (Heroku may have to wake up, so give it a few moments.) Due to a dispute with t
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Show HN: H1-B problems? Check your eligibility to move to Canada(emigro.ca)
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