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by r-s 7y ago
This is a really cool visualization.
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by r-s 7y ago
Rails + Postgres + Heroku. I may be living a decade in the past, but all the bugs are worked out and the development speed is extremely good.
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by r-s 7y ago
I went through SICP a few years after finishing my computer science degree and enjoyed it greatly. It was a great experience and I think made me quite a bit better developer. I also became a huge fan of lisp which I think is one of the side
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by r-s 7y ago
Alberta has teachers top out at around 100K CAD. The Average is around 80k. I suspect the average teacher salary is similar to an average software developer salary here. The data I can find actually shows the average teacher salary higher.
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by r-s 7y ago
I know a rep who leases freezer space from our local big chain grocery store and is responsible for that area. Ive heard of quality issues from this specific ice cream before, and it always reminded me of getting poor quality items from non
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by r-s 7y ago
I learned recently that some older cars also had this feature. A 1992 mazda 929 had a solar sunroof option to power some fans. Quite a few early 2000s Audis had this as an option as well.
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by r-s 7y ago
Has much thought been put into driving in poor road conditions? It seems in the cities self driving cars are pretty much ready, but I wonder about how they will be in bad snow/ice/hail/wind conditions. Humans are pretty bad a
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by r-s 7y ago
Working remote at a company with good culture, 0 commute, no children, and minimal housing upkeep. At 32yo I have never had more free time in my life. I spend very significant amounts of time in the gym (which I love), and in the outdoors.
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by r-s 7y ago
I dont understand this, if it can be bypassed, by definition, it is not secure?
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by r-s 8y ago
Since its a ban on all Canadian airspace, will this effect American flights which pass over Canada? I imagine quite a few flights cross over the southern part of Ontario.
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by r-s 8y ago
I have inherited many rails codebases and do not share this experience. I have found that often teams end up not using typical conventions and start re-inventing things well before it was necessary. To be fair, I usually seem to find myself
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by r-s 8y ago
With the exception of working at a University with no coverage, everywhere I have worked (before I started consulting) provided dental coverage. However it was often $1500-2000 per year max which is very easy to use up.
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by r-s 8y ago
It depends. In Alberta they have a "Fee guide" which is what people with insurance will get reimbursed for. Some dentists follow the guide, some do not. It's frustrating because they do not like to tell you the price until it
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by r-s 8y ago
I am a Canadian and I have traveled to Mexico for dental care multiple times. It worked out way cheaper cheaper, and I got some nice vacations out of it. I have heard horror stories but my experience has been great. For those unaware, Canad
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by r-s 8y ago
Ive worked with 100s of developers, and 2 stand out. One was around 60 and the other was early 20s. The one who was around 60 would think through problems at a much deeper level then the entire team. I remember one instance where most of th
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by r-s 8y ago
Can your barber own the rights to your haircut?
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by r-s 8y ago
My father also sent my cat to a farm when I was young!
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by r-s 8y ago
In University I worked for a professor translating FORTRAN77 code to C. Tools existed for this, but did not produce human readable C code. There is still a ton of Fortran code in academia.
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by r-s 8y ago
Ruby, too: https://github.com/mbj/mutant I think most languages have something like this now.
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by r-s 8y ago
Jim Murray has always ranked Alberta Premium rye whiskey quite highly. I always found this funny as its one of the cheapest alcohols available in Canada. Mr Lahey of trailer park boys fame even drinks it (although its poorly blurred out). I
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by r-s 8y ago
I was traveling in Newfoundland last summer (Deer Lake) and someone phoned into the radio station reporting that they saw an overly large moose. This may be the biggest story of the year.
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by r-s 8y ago
Depends on the project. Yes, some take decades.
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by r-s 8y ago
Canadian tech worker here. Base salary is 120k CAD in Calgary which is far above market rate but I am educated, experienced etc. That is 93k USD. I am looking to move to the USA because of higher salaries, but I am not 22 years old anymore
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by r-s 9y ago
"Full Stack" dev here, been coding for 16 or so years. CS degree in there somewhere. I've used every one of those technologies with the exception of Salt (Nothing against it, just have not used it). I don't think I am th
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by r-s 9y ago
First step is to relax. You will see many codebases like this in your career, its not worth getting all worked up about. Slowly migrating a codebase like this to a good one will take a bunch of work, but its a worthwhile challenge. They are
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by r-s 9y ago
Worked in many AWS shops, I bet almost none of them switch to alternatives if the price rose 10%.
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by r-s 9y ago
REQ and XRB I am most enthusiastic about. I got into XRB after a Bitcoin transaction took me over 6 hours and I searched for alternatives. I see DAG coins as the future.
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by r-s 9y ago
Honestly, this site is nicer to use then many I use on a daily basis.
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by r-s 9y ago
I generally do internationalize apps that I build right from the start. The cost for switching at a later date I have found to be very significant. I do not however localize them until its needed. Often working with translators and ensuring
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by r-s 9y ago
Have a 2017 MPB I got for work, I pretty much only run it in closed clamshell mode. If I need to actually be type something, I will pull out a $500 acer laptop from 5 years ago running linux because it is much nicer to type on. If I actuall

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