alanctgardner3

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by alanctgardner3 10y ago
Where do you live in Canada? In southern ontario (where Toronto and most of the people are) there's no snow for 8 months out of the year. And backyards/sidewalks are really only impeded for maybe 2 months (if you're able-bodi
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Gogen-Avro: Generate Go Structs and Serializers for Apache Avro Schemas(github.com)
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by alanctgardner3 10y ago
Alcohol sales (and drinking age) vary across provinces - I don't think any will let you sell your homemade liquor, but Ontario is very restrictive, while Quebec (for example) is relatively relaxed.
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by alanctgardner3 10y ago
The repo maintainers are going to be on the hook to rebuild every dependency every time any package in the dependency chain changes. That sounds like a nightmare versus the current scenario where only one package gets revved when a library
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
It's important to have role models you can identify with. Recognizing and celebrating the achievements of female directors is important. When you don't include female directors in lists of great movies, when female directors don&#
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
> I'm a clinical psychologist who was in charge of the largest randomized controlled trial of online cognitive behavioral therapy for depression (n=500). Peer-reviewed study, please? > every person is a special snowflake argument
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
Do you have any insight into when Zeller's was good and what went wrong? HBC seems to have done a much better job turning around The Bay locations (albeit very gradually) and apparently they also own Saks? I'm pretty young and all
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
Reach out to some local companies that look interesting? Job search sites are a pretty poor resource in most cases - you'll do better from referrals within your network. Even cold-calling/emailing/LinkedIn messaging people at
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
I love that people who don't work in tech can still afford to live in Toronto. I don't think we're doing as well as we could to combat income inequality, but I'm glad we aren't throwing billions of dollars at overin
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
For reference, ~100 people died in terrible conditions building the Hoover Dam. It was a tremendously unsafe worksite. The environmental impact of the project was barely considered. I think all things considered we've made good progres
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
What part of sending things to space isn't "Engineering"? Are you implying SpaceX, ULA, et al. are just winging it sending things to the ISS?
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
In my experience, almost all overhead in Go programs will result from being bitten by memmove, alloc and GC. Profiling any program that uses interface{} and byte buffers will quickly expose you to how much the runtime loves to reallocate an
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
Powershell! Seriously, MS doesn't do everything great, but Powershell has typed pipes (typed everything, actually, it's not just stringly like *sh) which are seriously awesome.
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
French in Quebec is kind of similar - to avoid being assimilated into English Canadian culture, it's very resistant to change. French speakers from Europe tend to find it kind of quaint because it's been developing independently s
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a rephrasing of a much older, well known principle in psychology (they cover it in undergrad), that work satisfaction is a function of: autonomy, feedback and variety. In other words: people want to control how
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
At least for the running example, running marathons is extreme. A lot of people run 6-10 mile distances, precisely because it doesn't take over your life. You might be surprised at how many people you know run and don't talk about
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
All major corporate open source projects have a contributor license agreement (CLA) which contributors must sign. Regardless of whether they intend to close the source in the future or not. See the VLC license change fiasco for why CLAs are
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
Two things stick out: Catching unused variables is pretty essential, it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot by redeclaring a variable with := inside a block. >> which means you have to need separate storage for the actual RaceCa
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
There's a big difference, calling someone "boy" or "girl" instead of "man" or "woman" is demeaning. How often do you honestly refer to male engineers as "boys"? > don't care eno
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
Just to clarify, in your view women: don't work, can't be engineers, always want to be in a relationship, and are terribly unfaithful and will leave you for somebody with more money? Also, maybe stop calling adult women "girl
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by alanctgardner3 11y ago
Okamoto (based in Japan) makes some good ones that can legally be sold in the US. http://www.okamotousa.com/
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
> If Leap schedules things correctly, in part because they are a private company and have incentive to do so I don't know what you think the TTC does all day, but it's not sit around and say "if only we had competition, we
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I found the copy insufferable. I don't think I'm the target audience, but there's some irony in hitting a wall of text complaining about how people write too much and think they're Shakespear
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
Posted down-thread as well, but Google Wallet worked in Canada when it first launched. It wouldn't accept a Canadian address, but you could pay if you could get money onto the prepaid card. They added progressively more limitations, un
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
Nope. I had Google Wallet working on my Neuxs S in Canada two years ago, you can use it at any Tim Hortons ;) Canadian banks do support their own mobile wallets (similar to the ISIS model), but only on a few cherry-picked devices, and with
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
All provinces have a comparable professional organization, all of which are members of Engineers Canada. We have the notion of "self-regulated professions", where the government gives a charter to the professional organization to
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
My understanding is it's all corporate accounts. Almost nobody actually goes into the store, but my girlfriend's work regularly puts together orders and has them delivered for any office supplies they need. The retail stores are j
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
> The biggest issue with big data is most of it sits unused This is really variable. If you're at a place where they jumped on the bandwagon, then yes. There are also lots of companies (and not just Google/FB/LinkedIn) tha
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
There's a lot of stuff under the "Big Data" umbrella: I focused on Hadoop below because that's my focus right now. I'm sure I'm missing some roles here, but the specialities I can think of are: - getting data o
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
alanctgardner@gmail.com, feel free :)

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