samBergeron

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by samBergeron 8y ago
I've been training BJJ for just over 8 years (Brown belt) and I've only hurt my knee once... wrestling, and I train at an academy that has a strong emphasis on leg locks. The best way to avoid injuries, regardless of if they are t
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by samBergeron 9y ago
The whole point of documentation though is for it to be complete, technical and well explained. Not to have copy-pastable examples. W3schools is neither good documentation or good examples though.
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by samBergeron 9y ago
I feel like people that argument gun control laws are dumming it down to "if it doesn't work instantly then it's not worth it". If they start thinking about gun control as an investment in the long term in reduction of g
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by samBergeron 9y ago
> I don't want to take a major hit to my quality of life just to escape Trumpland Major hit to your quality of life? I'm sorry, you may potentially have a little less money in your pocket, but you're trading direct cash fo
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Ask HN: 15 lines of code to represent yourself
3 points by samBergeron 9y ago|1 comments
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by samBergeron 9y ago
While free climbing, you also need to wait for your partner to climb the same section. Which effectively almost doubles the time. You don't have that limitation while going solo.
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by samBergeron 9y ago
People seem to think climbing Everest is "more common" based on how much it gets publicized in the media. But I've been in the climbing business for a while and still don't personally know anyone who's summited. May
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by samBergeron 9y ago
>> The waves of offshoring in the '00s left many thousands of unemployed COBOL developers If you were a developer affected by stuff in the '00s, you're probably nearing the end of your career (unless you'd just sta
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by samBergeron 9y ago
It's not only banks, I took an internship at an insurance company a couple of years ago that had their entire mainframe written in COBOL. Not only do they have a hard time finding people to replace their retiring veteran developers, bu
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by samBergeron 9y ago
You're taking a very specific case and generalizing it like crazy. The CS industry isn't all Electron apps and simple jobs. The most obvious example would be the video game industry were you're not straying very far from C++
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by samBergeron 10y ago
We actually have insurance like that already [0], you get a generally low starting monthly rate, and it adjusts if you speed, start and stop suddenly, are shifting lanes fast, etc. You install a little chip in your car and you can see month
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by samBergeron 10y ago
It's really not that bad. It's mainly there to make sure companies don't alienate Quebec's native french speaker. You can do fine in the Qc tech industry even if you barely understand french (Source: personal experience
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Show HN: A command line Facebook messenger(github.com)
6 points by samBergeron 10y ago|1 comments
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by samBergeron 11y ago
It's okay they've been robbing you for a while now.
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by samBergeron 11y ago
This was a great read. As a Canadian, I get the feeling that (most) people get Harper is bad news, but don't quite get all the details. I'll be sharing this one.
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by samBergeron 11y ago
Went down about an hour ago, at least seems like it.