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by justinhj 11y ago
I agree with your point in genera but in my experience as a developer who works in Vancouver, but has also worked in SF and NY, the salaries are about the same in number if not in currency. The CAD has dropped 30% in a couple of years thoug
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I don't know why you think it would be so easy. LinkedIn seems to work fairly well to me, and it is not a trivial site to build by any measure.
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This has happened to me with Amazon servers too, it's just the nature of the cloud. I think Digital Ocean handled this as well as can be expected.
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One thing I've noticed is that Apple product users (myself included) always think Mac and iPhone software was so much better 5 years ago. Is it really? I think if you look at it in detail there are features that take turns at being bad
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by justinhj 11y ago
Some backends are fairly sophisticated and require extensive domain knowledge from designing databases that can be scaled, caching systems, security issues and so on. On the client side you may need someone who is an expert in C#, in 3d ren
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by justinhj 11y ago
If Richard Feynman taught our children physics that would be great too. Your bar is unrealistically high I feel. I'm pretty sure there's a large percentage of math teachers that want to teach math and enjoy teaching it. I'm n
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by justinhj 11y ago
I tried Webstorm when embarking on a React Native project. What turned me back to emacs was that neither worked well with jmx in my experience. I tried Atom which did manage jmx excellently but it crashed and or locked occasionally which wa
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by justinhj 11y ago
Since we are forced to live in a world divided into countries, it seems fair to view your own employment position defensively. If I'm doing a job and I get paid X, then I get laid off, but before I can find a new job I have to train an
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by justinhj 11y ago
That's some very sensitive information to put in Slack. If Slack has a security breach or if any of your slack accounts are hacked then an outside party could see this channel. Ever accidentally typed your sudo password at the wrong pr
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Not really, but I put the org mode files in Dropbox and then I can at least read them on the mobile Dropbox app
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by justinhj 11y ago
Seconded, and I like this talk at Google by the creator of org-mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM
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by justinhj 11y ago
I'm nostalgic for those days, I learned assembler and made simple demos and games which lead to a career in video games. But I'm not sad. Look at the current generation. They have game development tools like Unity and Unreal Engin
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by justinhj 11y ago
This is true and as a software developer that has made a living in Vancouver for many years I appreciate it. But when the loonie drops 30% on the usd I can understand why companies here in Canada find it harder to get graduates
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by justinhj 11y ago
But China wants its people to feel wealthy. The property boom ended, then there was gold boom. They wanted a stock boom. People that feel wealthy are happy citizens. They have every reason to keep the stock market high.
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Whenever my son has a new math teacher, I taught him to ask if he can change the base when reciting the times tables. For example the 12 times table in base 12 is 10, 20, 30, 40 and so on. It usually gets a laugh or a tut before he has to d
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by justinhj 11y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, that was just an assumption on my part that turned out to be false.
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Consider one ycombinator company,Uber. Do they generate wealth? From the point of view of a NYC taxi driver they are directly taking both the customers and the value of the drivers medallions. In return,uber drivers work giving 1/3 of
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by justinhj 11y ago
It's an interesting article as is, but these two people were already in each others circles and mutually attracted to each other. A blind date would be a better test.
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It was easier to make money back then. The barrier to entry making a game was higher since to get good performance you needed to write in assembly language. You had to rtfm as there was no internet to ask questions on. So a smallish number
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The article is objective observations of evident intelligence in various forms. If you'd read the whole article you'd probably agree that it doesn't make any speculative claims about animal thinking, which is left to the read
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I've been in the game industry for 20 years and I don't recognize this image you've painted at all
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Agile negates benefits of functional programming by ex Jet employee(medium.com)
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As an immigrant to Canada I'm quite familiar with the process. The government department responsible is overloaded and takes months to progress applications. Often having to contact an applicant for more info moves you back in the queu
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I start emacs maybe once every 3 months if I have to reboot or something. Then it just runs constantly. The article is an interesting exercise but hardly important to optimize away 3 or 4 seconds a quarter.
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It was our opinion that it's harder to write code that will be shared with a bigger team. Some of the factors were the simpler type system, lack of generics meant lots of copy and pasting of common patterns. The package system seemed l
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"learning/mastering both Go and Swift is the best decision you can make" is a very bold claim. In my area we use Go for some systems but found it scales badly from an engineering point of view to larger more complicated syste
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I have a charger I only use at home and it's hopelessly frayed. The users are not the problem here.
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You can't win them all. In another interview the same behaviour the author exhibited in the article could be seen in a positive light "he always sees the big picture not the specific tools, which implies deeper knowledge" If
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By the same logic you could say if only I'd done X I'd earn an extra $15k, $20k or even $50k a year but would you have followed a path in life that was balanced and happy? Not every decision can be reduced to a number
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by justinhj 11y ago
But he explicitly states that he is talking about fundamentalists and Isis, not mainstream Muslims

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