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by DeBraid 6y ago
While we're at it, The Meat Eater podcast (no affiliation) is a fantastic resource for all things nature, ecology, natural history. IOW it's not dedicated exclusively to hunting, guns, cooking wild game meat (~50%). ~50% of the c
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by DeBraid 6y ago
To emphasize your point, I'm well familiar w/ Sir Edmund, but TIL about Tenzing Norgay, thank you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay
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by DeBraid 6y ago
Great story! Epic mic drop. > No matter how messy it got, I also walked away from a pit stop with a fresh backside. Here’s some pictures...
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by DeBraid 6y ago
Obesity is mostly to blame. Fat cells kill humans by harvesting resources and messing up hormones. https://twitter.com/search?q=%22from:Royal_arse%20Adipocytes...
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by DeBraid 6y ago
> both winter and summer OP not a comment on long-term climate change, but a statement on how grossly inaccurate short-term forecasts are common (10-20cm of snow is most often 2-5cm, etc).
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by DeBraid 6y ago
100% this. Weather has gone the way of news: sensationalized for clicks. The volume of 'severe weather' risks that turn out as nothing-burgers in the past 5 years is staggering (Southern Ontario, both winter and summer).
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by DeBraid 6y ago
An investor, Meb Faber, has written on this topic several times (2018): > Why All My Books Are Now Free (aka A Lesson in Amazon Scams and Money Laundering) https://mebfaber.com/2018/04/18/how-to-launder-mon
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by DeBraid 6y ago
Sucks indeed. Ended up using the CLI for most JIRA related activities in my previous job. https://www.npmjs.com/package/jira-cli Some utils to add to `bashrc`: alias jo="jira open" alias js="j
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by DeBraid 6y ago
> I'm just like everybody else man, an average playa with above average potential De La Soul -- The Grind Date https://genius.com/De-la-soul-the-grind-date-lyrics
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by DeBraid 6y ago
> try Sublime with multiple selection (or other editors). With multiple selection skills you can transform ... Yes! This saves me time consistently. I could wrangle a shell script, or where pattern-matching is essential, using text edit
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by DeBraid 6y ago
Likely > socioeconomic status (SES) https://www.jstor.org/stable/23363545?seq=1
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by DeBraid 6y ago
Related thread: `Ask HN: What's the best book on the early history of the Internet and/or Web?` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19556208 My previous reco: Not a book, but a great video via Steve Blank: https
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by DeBraid 7y ago
Because the previous provincial leadership (Liberals Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne) performed poorly and caused a shift in political sentiment to the right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premiers_of_Ontario
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by DeBraid 7y ago
Be open about the challenges of context switching and how that may lower your overall productivity. Use specific examples (so everyone can learn) and avoid making about people by focusing on the jobs to be done. If you're not comfortab
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by DeBraid 8y ago
Not a book, but a great video via Steve Blank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
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by DeBraid 8y ago
Walk this street to and from work. I choose to walk on King St. specifically because there are no cars. Street cars are at capacity during rush hour, which is a clear indicator demand for transit not being met by supply (Toronto has a disg
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by DeBraid 8y ago
We did churn our share of low performers at the beginning. I'd say 5 of the first 10 hires stuck (most of the churn was us terminating the relationship). The ones that stayed were able to refer a friend or two. Also, another downside
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by DeBraid 8y ago
Work for Toronto-based company. Most of our developers work remote (in S. America, Europe, Asia, etc) and were discovered via Upwork. We've been growing, so all the good devs have been retained long term (12-24 months and counting).
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by DeBraid 8y ago
Luck is a major factor. Some things that might help: - ask lots of questions, listen, and take notes - be humble and gracious when you receive feedback. Most people avoid mentorship because its really hard to deliver negative feedback deli
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by DeBraid 8y ago
Cannot upvote this enough. IMO every thing else is secondary to finding the right mentor. Applies esp. early, but also later, in ones career.
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by DeBraid 8y ago
Jocko Podcast (leadership, war, self improvement) Conversations With Tyler (Politics, Books, Economics) Masters in Business (Ritholtz, finance and econ) Invest like the Best (Patrick Oshaugnessey, finance, econ, crypto) a16z podcast (tech,
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by DeBraid 8y ago
> If I don’t exercise too hard, I’m inclined to come the next day or the day after. Heavy weights 1x per week. Consistent, light and fast training is optimal (~50-60% max) via "Train Smarter with Firas Zahabi -- Consistency over in
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by DeBraid 8y ago
Evokes the Swedish band `Millencolin` which had a knack for consistently delivering great songs with simple lyrics. Were awesome live because everyone would sing along. > Millencolin is a punk rock band that was formed in October 1992 b
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by DeBraid 8y ago
> The measure prohibits the use of tablets, computers, and other internet-connected devices as well. Ban phones, sure, but no computers? Bring back the typewriter?
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by DeBraid 8y ago
I give the same advice to anyone in a fitness funk. > Go to the gym for 15mins first thing in the morning, EVERY DAY. After a month of pain and progress, 20-30 min workouts become the norm. After 3 months, you're a new person.
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by DeBraid 8y ago
If a task takes < 60 seconds, do it immediately.
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by DeBraid 8y ago
> Most of my work seems to be boring CRUD work where the challenge is gluing libraries together or figuring out business requirements. This is ~80% of software development. To stay sane find a domain where the business logic interests y
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by DeBraid 9y ago
These data might be impacted by Canada's stance on disclosure: > Last week the Canadian finance ministers announced that federal, provincial, and territorial governments will require companies to keep information on beneficial owner
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by DeBraid 9y ago
Masterful data visualization. Simple and informative. Thank you!
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by DeBraid 9y ago
First off, neat tool! I see Finviz.com does much of the same for free. > we (folks behind stockrow) are hobby investors who do not plan to pay for services like bloomberg and ycharts yet require tools and access to data Respectfully, yo

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