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by acrooks 6y ago
My understanding is that the mainland to Vancouver Island routes are quite profitable, but almost every other BC Ferries route posts a loss annually. BC Ferries is mandated to provide the loss-making routes for provincial accessibility reas
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by acrooks 6y ago
Commodity firms and other businesses in the supply chain space (shipping, logistics) have a long history of trying to build platforms to simplify global trade. While a great goal, over and over again these initiatives have failed because of
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by acrooks 6y ago
I make it a habit, when I have an above-and-beyond customer experience, to reach out to superiors of whoever helped me to praise them. This most often happens in hotels where a particular day-to-day employee is extremely helpful or thoughtf
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by acrooks 6y ago
It is considered among the most "fun" tech companies to work for in Vancouver. Its beautiful office, nap rooms, free Yoga and other exercise classes, meals, rooftop happy hours, as well as a general party culture. The lifestyle si
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by acrooks 6y ago
You need to separately install a copy of RCT2 for the graphics / sounds / etc. It can be bought from Steam, too. Back in the day here in Canada, cereal boxes often came with CDs of different games you could install and RCT2 was on
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by acrooks 6y ago
I visited in December 2017 and was worried about altitude sickness, but was quite rushed the days before the trip and didn’t have a chance to get sickness pills from my doctor. I personally didn’t feel any symptoms, and neither did my frien
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by acrooks 6y ago
My usual strategy is to write PRs for the end-to-end functionality of a deliverable (meaning they can get quite large), but with many small commits that can be stepped through during the review process. When I'm ready to submit the PR,
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by acrooks 6y ago
This is possible, although hard, and is being done at a number of businesses. Most of my experience in this space revolves around working with this business in a consulting capacity a few years ago - https://truebearinginsights.c
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by acrooks 6y ago
I'm actually not so sure about this. Apple's gross margin target is in the ballpark of 38-40% and a savings of $200-800 per MBP would have a substantial upwards impact on that gross margin number. Apple carefully sets pricing to a
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by acrooks 6y ago
That doesn't take away from the absurdity (after enough time has passed from infection). There is _no chance_ that somebody who has not contracted COVID-19 is safer than somebody who has. In the case of no immunity, they're both e
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by acrooks 6y ago
Once my phone learns that I never intentionally write the word "ducking" I will be happy.
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by acrooks 6y ago
I find that very surprising that you uncommonly pen test 3rd party vendors. Working at a company that delivers a product to the enterprise, pretty much every publicly traded company we work with requires us to go through a pen test, or requ
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by acrooks 7y ago
Lately, not at all. My iPhone screen time has reached absurd heights. Prior to social distancing - if your hobbies generally involve computers then of course this will be difficult, but some strategies of mine... At work: - Instead of takin
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by acrooks 7y ago
In the advanced settings you can disable plane usage for the bots, and then restrain yourself from using them. This forces you to build an efficient network using trains, trucks and ships. I recommend in general poking through the advanced
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by acrooks 7y ago
As far as I can understand, the point of layoffs vs. reducing hours/etc. is so that the person losing their job can apply for unemployment benefits. In Vancouver, for example, I have a number of friends who work as fitness instructors
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by acrooks 7y ago
Not as of January 01 - there's a new regulation this year that imposes a sulfur cap on fuel burned by cargo ships [1]. Most ships must now burn more expensive and cleaner fuels. Some ships - mostly larger ones - still burn HSFO but the
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by acrooks 7y ago
I can definitely attest to the poor customer support - the wait times for car2go were unacceptable across the board. My credit cards on file expired twice during my time as a customer of the service and each time that put my account into ne
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by acrooks 7y ago
From the west coast, there are non-stop flights to SG from LAX, SFO and SEA. There are rumours that either Air Canada or SQ will create a direct flight to Vancouver as well, which I will welcome with open arms :) I live in Vancouver and nee
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by acrooks 8y ago
This is available on cars manufactured by Holden - I rented one a few weeks ago and it let me set a maximum speed on the cruise control. I actually found this to be far more intuitive than cruise control with a minimum speed, because I just
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by acrooks 8y ago
I work at a company where most of our contracts are for larger enterprise businesses and, as a result, we have a training component to our launches. As much as possible we try to bring a person from Product (dev + design + PM) to be involve
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by acrooks 8y ago
Maybe a little bit picky, but the average size of a crew on a, say, 9000 TEU container ship is actually closer to two dozen. 20-24 most of the time. The number can rise further with more complex cargo.
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by acrooks 8y ago
I suspect that you want to move on from your jobs after a year or less because of burnout, etc. Perhaps if you join a company that has a sustainable working culture and minimal office politics then you would not encounter the same problem.
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by acrooks 9y ago
That sounds like a dream for me! As a Canadian who spends a lot of time on the road it’s not uncommon to see $200-400 phone bills at the end of the month. Getting a local SIM isn’t really an option because having my normal phone number is i
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by acrooks 9y ago
I love the data of Waze, the UX of Google Maps and the iOS integration of Apple Maps. If only we could have all three benefits out of one solution.
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by acrooks 9y ago
Do Not Disturb has a great option to allow calls but ignore everything else. You can also set it to ignore calls unless there are two in a row from the same person. I keep DND on all hours of the day, every day, but never feel like I'm
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by acrooks 9y ago
Probably the most frustrating thing for me is when I’m connected to another terminal via ssh and am typing in a command (without using autocomplete). When I am on a poor internet connection the latency between rendering each keystroke makes
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by acrooks 9y ago
I use Instapaper for reading online articles and the Safari extension adds a handy link below each submission to add the article to Instapaper. I've really been trying lately - especially the busier I've been - to use that link ex
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by acrooks 9y ago
I normally leave everything until the last minute which means I have no choice but to be incredibly focused and motivated to deliver on my commitments. I've always had a reputation for delivering late but this has gotten better over ti
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by acrooks 9y ago
I work at a company ( https://www.stage3systems.com ) that builds software for the marine shipping industry. Currently we are expanding one of our products for a large container ship owner so we can import these loading condition

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