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by teunispeters 8y ago
As someone living with one of the consequences of near-fatal mumps as a child (which includes a lot of gland disruption) I can confirm that this has worked for me. I'm a bit older than wide-spread immunizations. It can take decades for
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by teunispeters 8y ago
Historically it was Canadian policy. You'd probably have to look to the 1930s (start of forced sterilization) or the 1880s (start of policy of suppression of indigenous peoples) to find out where, when, why and how. And as to why it&
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by teunispeters 8y ago
I have found that a lot of the skills to do with writing effectively, professionally and reliably also apply to writing (and maintaining) software. It's not to say they're the same discipline, but they're closer than - say -
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by teunispeters 8y ago
It was amazingly profitable (tax dollar wise) to the previous conservative government ("BC liberals" are a conservative party) so they of course made it as smooth and as easy as possible to launder money in BC through real estate
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by teunispeters 8y ago
Been there done that. Worked a lot of other jobs too to survive (driving forklift, welder's help, construction) - got too injured to continue that so went back to fighting to work office jobs. Eventually succeeded. I spent 20 years i
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by teunispeters 8y ago
maybe around when the first logging camps were set up in the early 1800s? It's been here longer than any of the cities have been. Oh, opium and addiction that is. The term "skid row" is said to originate here or Seattle - bot
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by teunispeters 8y ago
oooh this sounds familiar. Might be me :) yeah been weeded out a few times. and left some really interesting solutions at past jobs. When I get exhausted though I need breaks.. Flip side, it's way too easy to get obsessed over the w
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by teunispeters 9y ago
Oh I'm with that. "Why aren't I getting the attention, focus and control I want?" Especially credit. You get credit in the git logs etc. If you want visibility outside the team go start your own. I have worked in multi
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by teunispeters 9y ago
I'm running on a Dell Inspiron 7000 2-in-1 here. It's running circles around my (relatively recent) MacBook Pro, even considering the 1TB SSD on the MacBookPro and no SSD on the Dell (yet). Running Ubuntu 17.10 - it's workin