patrick_99

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by patrick_99 9y ago
Low corporate tax rates and laughing young people are the harbingers of WW3?
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by patrick_99 9y ago
They say $40k is the median salary for new developers in Canada, this is much lower than I've observed and it makes me question the quality of the entire dataset. Are these really professional software developers who answered the surv
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by patrick_99 9y ago
I read the second edition of Code Complete when I started my first job. Very good book to transition from fresh grad to professional. It has some very dry sections (eg. a chapter on how to name variables) but these are the little things t
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by patrick_99 9y ago
I'm from Toronto, good senior engineers that aren't working in a sweat shop make $100k CAD or more, you can rent a nice apartment downtown for $2k per month.
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by patrick_99 10y ago
I've always used R for analysis, but using Python opens up the world of PySpark and more scalable ML environments. I think long term Python will become more prevalent in Data science for this reason.
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by patrick_99 10y ago
Maybe they're betting on the British pound to drop so they can hire engineers on the cheap. My understanding is that salaries (for software developers) in London are already pretty low compared to the US and even Canada.
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by patrick_99 10y ago
This. Canadian salaries are low, compared to the US. They're much better than Europe.
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by patrick_99 10y ago
People who can't get visas to the US
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Do You Earn Less Than a Silicon Valley Intern?(bloomberg.com)
6 points by patrick_99 10y ago|4 comments
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by patrick_99 10y ago
I understand the author's frustration but this sounds like sour grapes. Sure, the interview questions that Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and pretty much every big tech company asks are hard and abstract. But it shouldn't b
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by patrick_99 10y ago
I think the lack of assets explains the angst shown by many Americans this election cycle much better than the employment rate. Enough people are working, they're just not making enough. Reminds me of Mark Cuban's Ultimate Stress
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by patrick_99 10y ago
Houses are many baby boomers' retirement savings. Governments are stuck because if they pop the bubble to make housing more affordable, they'll be pissing off a lot of people about to retire who are counting on the value of their
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by patrick_99 11y ago
I was about to share this on hipchat at work until I realized it's April 1st. Very well written April Fools post!
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by patrick_99 11y ago
The company brings up research that says 25% of people that drink A1 milk feel discomfort, yet they don't have a number for their own a2 milk, just anecdotes. An experiment comparing the discomfort of a1 vs. A2 milk would be very cheap
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by patrick_99 11y ago
Another issue is the level of government providing the solution. If one town gives all homeless people a place to live, that could act to attract homeless people from other towns. So the burden of fixing a whole region's homeless pro
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by patrick_99 11y ago
I wonder if it makes sense to develop these next gen fighter jets. 10 years from now, could air forces just use swarms of drones? Stealth wouldn't be as important when you don't have a pilot that dies when the plane gets taken d
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by patrick_99 11y ago
My thoughts exactly when Amazon decided to build a phone
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by patrick_99 11y ago
I visited the US Midwest for the first time in my life a year ago on a road trip. Saw places like Kansas City and St. Louis. They were actually a bit more vibrant than I thought. There were some cool pockets with creative businesses. Go
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AWS Zero Infrastructure Real Time Data Collection Talk (re:Invent 2015)(youtube.com)
3 points by patrick_99 11y ago|0 comments
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by patrick_99 11y ago
Totally agree and government could have a big role here. A majority of government budget goes to healthcare; they need innovation to improve. Why not throw some money to Canadian biotech companies?
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by patrick_99 11y ago
I'd argue Canada made concerted efforts to support natural resource industries at the cost of all other industries. Eg. expending massive political capital with the US to push for Keystone XL. We've hurt our image abroad by figh
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by patrick_99 11y ago
It seems like the effect of the low dollar is already helping the tech sectors. Companies like Shopify make their money in USD while salaries are a bargain. American companies like Amazon are expanding their offices in Toronto and Vancouv
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by patrick_99 11y ago
I did an olive oil tasting at a local shop dedicated to olive oil. Unlike the grocery store olive oil I've always had, their olive oil had a bit of a burning sensation in my throat. Lots of flavour; I buy my olive oil from them now.
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by patrick_99 11y ago
Random predictions from the top of my head: 1. Funding for start ups is lower than 2015 2. Genomics and anything related to autonomous vehices (including drones) will be the hottest sectors 3. Google's revenue from non ad based product