caffodian

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by caffodian 9y ago
What are the preferred solutions for people that are forced to support IE11? I've seen fallback CSS and JavaScript polyfills used.
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by caffodian 9y ago
Parents would have to be equipped to be able to answer these questions in the way you suggest though. That seems a bit of a stretch if they haven't been educated similarly themselves
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by caffodian 9y ago
I hope that the USDS-inspired CDS can prevent these situations in the future, and improve the procurement requirements. https://digital.canada.ca/
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by caffodian 9y ago
on .ca they seem to be newer accounts, often "FIRSTNAME LASTNAME" "located" in the US somewhere. Totally forgot the _every_ book thing - they also sometimes have items that aren't actually released yet, but are avai
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by caffodian 9y ago
a similar scam has been going on for a while, with at least video games, board games, and bike gear, from what I've seen on Amazon Canada. Third party sellers with a "real" looking name will list an item at a ridiculous disco
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by caffodian 9y ago
It was mostly persistence and luck in finding a position that matched my existing skills and interests. You'll often have a code screen as an early step (because remote jobs get hundreds of applicants in days), so getting good at those
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by caffodian 9y ago
They seem to have a lot more publications listed here: https://www.vanaqua.org/act/research/publications Are some of these not peer reviewed? I'm not familiar with the journals that they were published in.
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by caffodian 9y ago
It's even more fun, in BC "high technology companies/professionals" are exempt from a bunch of the usual labour laws around overtime, hours of work, stat holidays, etc. http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/cont
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by caffodian 10y ago
PolicyStat | Carmel, Indiana or remote | full-time (remote) A hospital’s best tool for standardizing and implementing life-saving improvements are their written policies and procedures. PolicyStat’s mission is to improve healthcare delivery
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by caffodian 10y ago
This is a great post. I think the "paid to write code" is often a byproduct of environment - whether it's poor engineering leadership, bad productivity measurement, etc.
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by caffodian 10y ago
A follow up to this, how do benefits work for team members who are not in the USA? I imagine things like health insurance would be different, for example
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by caffodian 10y ago
Man those were the days. I was just barely old enough to be able to get into them before they died. Anyone remember the door games? I remember it being pretty crazy that I could play BRE or LORD with people, even across BBSes in some case
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by caffodian 10y ago
Your local copy is also twitter, instead of github :)
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by caffodian 10y ago
The rental market has begun heating up lately (stories of rental auctions, renovictions, evictions for airBnB, etc) so although they may be comparatively reasonable, they may not stay absolutely reasonable for long.
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by caffodian 10y ago
Vancouver is currently a mess of low interest rates, FOMO, foreign buyers, and supply issues. Due to both the city & BC government having a large number of developer donors, it's also a very partisan issue. For the longest time, t
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by caffodian 10y ago
This piece is good also, to explain some of the limitations of the study: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/poking-...
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by caffodian 10y ago
Residency tracking is hard. Actually, the city of Vancouver got permission from the provincial government to implement a vacant homes tax, but it's based on the home being unoccupied for a whole year. It probably won't work.
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The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development(frontside.io)
183 points by caffodian 10y ago|75 comments
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by caffodian 11y ago
There are no shortcuts to solving brain drain. Find a compelling way to solve it (paying more, giving more opportunities to grow is a good start) and let's talk from there.
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by caffodian 11y ago
That study also had flaws, here is an article poking at it. Among other issues, excluding pre-demolition homes from the city-sponsored study doesn't make sense. http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/