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by apercu 9y ago
It's a little more complicated than that for me - I stopped coding a long, long time ago and most of my work now is strategic and business focused. Some of those tasks are highly specialized and I can invoice $200/hr. Some are com
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by apercu 9y ago
Can't we all just get along? I like tacos and burritos.
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by apercu 9y ago
I have no idea why I care about the NFL, but I have been going to profootballtalk.com daily for years. NBC partnered with a bunch of independent sports blogs like PFT a few years ago. They then rolled 'em all out on a new redesign. I s
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by apercu 10y ago
Only slightly better on desktop, with a video player (for unrelated content) cycling adds, and then moving down the right hand of the screen when you scroll away from it. The web is broken. Sigh.
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by apercu 10y ago
I am glad she got a golden parachute only because if she was male she would have gotten one. The larger issue is the one of CEO compensation in the first place.
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by apercu 10y ago
As long as you are not on an H1B you might be better off. That said, fintech in Toronto is burgeoning.
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by apercu 10y ago
The point is when people start talking about average salary.
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by apercu 10y ago
I live about 50 minutes from Cambridge/Waterloo/Kitchener. I'd totally move that way but my wife wants to stay close to her mom. If we made that move I'd be mortgage free after selling the Mississauga house for $200k mor
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by apercu 10y ago
I moved to Canada in 2005 or so. It set me back a little financially to wait for my visa and build up a credit profile here but 12 years later I think it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. Would might net worth be slightl
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by apercu 10y ago
Canada is a large country. $51k in Winnipeg might be a really nice salary. In the greater Toronto area that would be low.
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by apercu 10y ago
I was an executive at a SW firm in Toronto for almost 9 years (I'm originally from the US). In order to hire relatively talented people, the salaries were (even in 2007) no where near what you are describing. When I resigned in 2014 th
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by apercu 10y ago
I think the issue is one of people taking care of a shared vehicle, and having it be clean when you want to use it. I've seen some disgusting cars.
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by apercu 10y ago
HR only exists to keep the company free from liability.
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by apercu 10y ago
As soon as I could install MySQL and Apache on OS X I had to have it. I no longer needed an internet/SSH connection to code.
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by apercu 10y ago
I wish they'd do this in Canada.
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by apercu 10y ago
If you can clearly demonstrate that you are not competing with your employer, using their IP, working on their time, using their equipment then these types of non-competes should be null and void. And yes, I quit a job over that kind of con
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by apercu 10y ago
"licensed"?
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by apercu 10y ago
I occasionally browsed Reddit on my iPad. They force a really crappy mobile execution now (as in in the last 7 days). I'm not going to install the app, I just won't visit Reddit on my iPad any more. On smaller devices they pop up
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by apercu 10y ago
Ah, sorry.
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by apercu 10y ago
Hey, just curious where you live? My consulting company does product management consulting, and I get feeds on PM jobs automagically. Anyway, here in the greater Toronto area, there are junior(ish) marketing positions labelled as "Prod
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by apercu 10y ago
This thread is hilarious. I wish I had time to upvote each comment.
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by apercu 10y ago
I think that's a great title and a welcome legislation if it happens. In the US it's pretty much impossible to give your employees shares or options, unless you have tons of cash to help them pay taxes. I paid something like $29,0
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by apercu 10y ago
Worship music as well (think churches).
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by apercu 10y ago
Eat right, sleep more, try to get some exercise. If you drink, drink less. You will feel better.
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by apercu 10y ago
I think that's true for those that look at products as some sort of cultural artifact, but for many of us it was simply easier to replace the current laptop with the new model and know you'd have quality components. The same could
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by apercu 10y ago
Memories. I had two partners that always had to have the latest and greatest. They both bought ti-books. I was on a pismo. One of the laptops started peeling apart in 6 months. The other was dropped by airport security and fell (almost)comp
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by apercu 10y ago
I love the weather in California, and in some areas of CA I really like the culture. Just not LA, MV, PA, Frisco. The prices suck and you do have to drive a lot. But we have those same two problems in the GTA (housing and car travel).
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by apercu 10y ago
I think it's the nature of how a company implements agile, rather than agile itself. I have a client that subcontracts a lot of work to me (my work is mostly gathering business requirements and BPI). They use "agile" but I ha
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by apercu 10y ago
That's what we did, at my partnership. Except that was 1998-2006 and we only provided 5 weeks that don't roll over. I used 4 weeks one year. The rest of the years I barely got over 3. Personal choice though.
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by apercu 10y ago
Functionally, it's fine. The user experience is awful though.

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