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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
I Suppose one could say the same thing about your post. Yes we all have personal issues to deal with but what level of insecurity or damage pushes individuals to use this as a coping mechanism. I don’t know about others but quite often whe
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
Not sure what you're alluding to since they're one and the same. This situation's been building for well over a decade. Bush talked tough but did nothing when he was in Office, Obama chose to pull a Chamberlain (same with I
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
Half of this article could be summed up as "Validate your idea/product. Do not assume what people want." The other half is "Marketing is not stupid". Marketing, sadly, is something that many of us are not good at.
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
I know. I was replying to the comment and using the his/her terminology. It's actually a blended common core/discovery math hybrid.
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
I disagree. I am not uncomfortable with math in general or the "new math". What I am uncomfortable with is the fact that my kids, and everyone else's kids, are essentially lab rats in a massive experiment. The result of wh
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
I didn't read it as you bashing Amazon. I read as Amazon is "stealing" all the talent by offering better wages, etc...
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
How is this Amazon's fault? Maybe if Canadian companies weren't such tightwads they would have a better success rate in hiring top talent. And I say this as a Canadian.
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
You come off sounding like all of the whiners on various Reddit fitness subs complaining about how they can't lose weight, or their lift numbers aren't going up just looking for someone to tell them that's it ok to quit or ea
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
This might sound glib but it's not meant to be; habit and discipline take over after desire fails. Meaning you need to establish a new normal for yourself. Maybe that means no more soda (not even the sugar free crap) and no ketchup on
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
The actual values are not important. They are merely a tool to achieve the desired outcome when no other avenues are available.
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by ghettoCoder 9y ago
Nothing surprising to see here. This is why I seldom bother getting involved in open source projects and NEVER use my real name. Large, interesting projects are too much like this and groups quickly form using the same BS as in high scho
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
Assuming that society's ability to absorb all the new unemployable citizens is maxed out I would say that in dire times ethics and morality are a luxury.
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
Faster please. Anything that accelerates Twitter's demise is ok in my books. Bonus points if wounds are self-inflicted. I'm old enough to remember when you only had to deal with the crazies holding signs and hollering if you went
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
Define succeed. Nice job, nice wife, etc... or FU money level of success? I can only speak from my experience hiring and getting hired but all things being equal that piece of paper will likely get you hired over the other applicant(s). F
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
The latter. There's a belief that the "labour" should be grateful to the "owner" for a job instead of a looking at it as a straight business exchange of labour for dollars. It runs pretty deep in medium to large b
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
What's not to get. They're just casting a wide net looking for that special unicorn coder that only appears when the planets align. All other mere mortals are not worthy but they will gladly waste your time until then. I guess
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
Yep. CSE or CSIS https://csiscareers.ca/available-jobs/3
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
Fellow Ottawan (is that what we call ourselves?) here who also relocated from Northern Ontario many moons ago. The thing about Ottawa is it's a government town so most of the local tech firms (not including Shopify Mitel, etc...) are
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
If they're anything like the place I work at it comes down to mindshare. Yes, it's just consuming a Twitter feed and maybe some other proprietary datasource but some exec "needed" an app because then our logo (icon) is
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
Only if you consider Coors Light, the mountain beer, to be water (which it is). Draught is the british (and Canada, other places as well) spelling for draft as in draft beer. Not trying to be grammar nazi, just thought it was funny cause t
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by ghettoCoder 10y ago
While there is some of what you mention going on my personal experience having lived many years in northern Ontario, had many native friends and acquaintances and seen many different bands (some call them reserves) is that many are successf
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by ghettoCoder 11y ago
most likely because the local school transportation company owner was related to someone high enough in the school board (not sure what they are called in US) to pass such BS rules.
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by ghettoCoder 11y ago
... and I am sure the company owners do realize that. that's a very dangerous assumption. The company comes first for them. If you can't or won't fit into their vision then, thanks for everything and good luck.
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by ghettoCoder 11y ago
Oh yeah, what's the secret handshake?
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by ghettoCoder 11y ago
Wow! Way to stereotype there. I guess the name fits.
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by ghettoCoder 11y ago
I'm sorry but everything you just described is not a PM's job. The PM does NOT represent the customer. The PM is responsible for delivering an agreed upon set of functionality within time and budget. You're describing a pro
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by ghettoCoder 11y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this. The fact is that individuals act in ways so as to maximize their allocation and use of resources within a particular set of social mores is not new. The fact that social mores change ov
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by ghettoCoder 11y ago
If the pain inflicted on the deer is relatively equal and the desired outcome (lower deer population) is achieved then what difference does the method make. The ecosystem you speak of was destroyed when the apex predators were removed gener
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by ghettoCoder 12y ago
What drought would that be? Lived in Ottawa for over a decade and only remember a few summers of "crispy" grass and a few wildfires due to lower than average rainfall. But you are correct that they we're asking people to wat
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by ghettoCoder 12y ago
Nothing new here. Mutual funds are just a way for fund managers to charge inflated management fees for average to below average returns. Get a basic index fund and save the fees. The few years the managed funds beats the index funds wil

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