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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> The current fed gov is letting in a ton of people. No judgement implied, but this is primarily on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. There has been little increase to economic immigration quotas since the last government. Also
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I'm in Calgary and totally agree with your strategy. After a decade-plus of crazy-good economic times the city and province have had a tough couple of years due to macro (lower demand, increased US production) and micro (no market acce
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I've been in a similar position as you for most of my life. One weird aspect: employers/managers/companies have come to rely on you "needing" the pay cheque as a powerful motivator and control. When you can literall
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Is this why commercial carriers pay so much better than all the rest? Or is this no longer as true? Also, is the influx of commercial pilots into the western markets from other countries analogous to the software development "We can&#x
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Definitely relates to software dev where some developers have 15 years experience and some have 15x 1 year of the same thing. In reality I think most developers have careers that look like: * 2-3 years of explosive growth and exposure * 5-1
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Do you think Amazon subtracts their own massive utilization of AWS out from their numbers? Not likely.
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by ticmasta 8y ago
The Phone OS is still my favourite UI and was incredibly unique when first introduced. Live tiles in an era of pages of icons was way ahead of it's time. The phone hardware was/is great too; the lack of apps destroyed them though
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Unlimited in jurisdictions with legal minimums is set at the minimum in my experience. They usually say "You get unlimited vacation and are expected to take a minimum of X weeks per year". I've never seen a company the doesn&
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> Maybe even build their own power plants (particularly with things like solar/wind that scale down nicely). Renewables in this scenario is a fairy tale. [No Renewable Subsidy] + [Shift Downside onto Public] + [Energy Demand Tim
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Good hack - I think I'll try this!
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Not only is it not sexy, it's probably the most work. You're now administering the server, storage & the database; you're the DBA for your Oracle instance and databases; Oracle loves to hammer this scenario for licensing
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by ticmasta 8y ago
biking in Boston is... interesting? drivers are not outwardly violent, but don't seem to appreciate bikes much. People seem to (reluctantly) tolerate you but can't resist some passive-aggressive behaviors and lots of honking. It w
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> But if Google does this, that’ll be almost worse. Yes, google never shows you ads.
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by ticmasta 8y ago
This article kind of misses the entire point; Glassdoor and the rest of these "professional review" sites sell reputation management services to the company. They use the negative reviews to push other high margin services to the
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by ticmasta 8y ago
This is true. The fees pay to run the program including all the front-end companies that sell card products to the market; the banks financing it want those big, juicy 20% APRs
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by ticmasta 8y ago
But everyone pays the higher prices while very few hustle CC rewards programs. Just like that superman movie plot or Office Space, the GP is gathering up all those fractional pennies and using them to buy first class air travel.
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by ticmasta 8y ago
You can't "collect" something that has an artificial limit on production, like lego, beanie babies, disney movies, etc. If demand warrants the manufacturer will just start pumping out more identical sets, like Lego is doing w
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by ticmasta 8y ago
It's build on top of the abstractions; not depend on someone else's implementation of all the abstractions...
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> I have never written any BFS code, I'm primarily a backend dev who did a little js a couple of weeks ago that required me to populate a dynamic tree with the results of an api call. Although I think I went depth first, so I gu
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> Contract negotiations are often a sign of things to come with the rest of the engagement I'd qualify this with "if the person(s) you will be work with are the sticklers for the contract." Often contracting is just
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Isn't this the fundamental question? Who do you want to decide what is news worthy for you ?
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Check out Stephen Colbert's "Brain Fight with Tuck Buckford" - not sure who's more ridiculous him or Alex Jones. Stephen is funnier though...
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by ticmasta 8y ago
To mitigate this (though not sure it's the right mitigation), if your kid doesn't specialize incredibly early and show promise they'll be kicked out of the performance stream into the recreational stream. Example: sports star
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I too have 3 in elementary, and offer similar advice, adding: Don't look to me to tell you what you should do; the hottest vocations of my generation will likely not even exist for yours (example: petroleum engineer). Look externally
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Depending on where you live, ask someone in their 40's who came from China, India or Pakistan, someone in their 60's from Eastern Europe or someone over 80 from Ireland or Italy about "anti-immigrant sentiment". I'd
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Well, it's pretty common to have 10 x 1 year of experience. Lots of jobs require the repetition of a relatively shallow set of skills. When I started my current job I remember the announcement said something like 15 years experience an
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I a nutshell, his playbook was: 1/ buy tonnes of stock at a discount via his "arms length" hedge fund 2/ as CEO take the billions of cash that Sears was flush with at the time and authorize share repurchases (almost 6 bi
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by ticmasta 8y ago
dig into the back story; aside from the public challenges of a traditional brick&mortar retailer, Lampert actively accelerated it's downfall to enormous personal gain. He literally destroyed the business (let the retail stores fall
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> I think many people know how to give a great talk, but choose not to. Not in my graduate school experience. Presenting was often viewed as "display my research while I read from my research".
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> easily one of the most comfortable items of clothing I own Isn't this the sole responsibility of lounge wear? What else does it do?

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