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by r-s 2y ago
> 58. Trying to police commit history is going to be painful This has been my experience. Very painful
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by r-s 2y ago
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/consumers/home-buying/first-time... The Canadian government did try a similar strategy for a bit (although I think it maxed out far below 50%). It was discontinued recently.
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by r-s 3y ago
Smaller smaller world - I work with him today!
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by r-s 3y ago
Some bigger cities (such as Edmonton, 1M people) still have a somewhat sane real estate market. In Edmonton a single family detached home averages around 450k CAD, while average household income is over 120k.
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by r-s 3y ago
Carpal tunnel and poor posture causing back pain
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by r-s 3y ago
In some cases it lasted even longer than that. In 2004 at a Canadian University I was told during the student orientation that CS was not a great choice due to outsourcing.
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by r-s 3y ago
There is no reason someone couldn't change commit dates and be prolific far earlier than December
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by r-s 4y ago
Its been one hell of a rough go for Heroku lately. I think you would be insane to start a new project with them today. Which is crazy for me to say, as I was one of their biggest fans for the last decade.
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by r-s 4y ago
"Travel K for 20 feet, take the first L and immediately get in the H-most lane"
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by r-s 4y ago
Some small part of me wants to use vim-clutch and make a manual transmission version of this.
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by r-s 4y ago
Did Shopify have a choice? Many Canadians who got computer science degrees left to work for American companies for 2x-3x more money.
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by r-s 4y ago
Many many years ago I was hired to convert a Fortran app to C. The first person to try it ran it through a software called "f2c". It worked fine - but the code was totally non human readable so it couldn't be extended later,
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by r-s 4y ago
Thread safety in Rails is a total pain in the ass. So many libraries out there are not thread safe. I have worked with many large rails codebases and there always are gems that somehow work their way in with major threading issues. I think
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by r-s 4y ago
I came to a similar conclusion years ago. Yes, there are examples of applications that have done it, but they often have very elite engineers. Most teams are comprised of various levels of engineers and its extremely difficult to get right.
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by r-s 4y ago
So does the "PHP4" book on the shelf.
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by r-s 4y ago
I don't regret it at all, but finding high paying roles can be a little more difficult. Its a tradeoff though, because after a few years at a role its often seen how valuable you actually are so in bad economic times you may be the las
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by r-s 4y ago
I am at a similar level / write a lot of Ruby. I have pretty mixed feelings. I do enjoy writing Ruby and echo the low friction between an idea and running code. However, on very large Ruby projects I have inherited I do see a common fl
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by r-s 4y ago
There is a surprisingly small amount of senior rails developers. Many who learned it when it was cool, have moved on. There are so many legit companies making tons of money on Rails stacks with 0 intention on leaving. The market is excellen
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by r-s 4y ago
If I find myself having a hard time with a big decision, that almost certainly means both sides have pros and cons and its a very close decision. If one side had way more pros and less cons, it would be a pretty easy decision. If its a very
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by r-s 4y ago
I too have seen something very similar to this. I am extremely nervous all my private repos got compromised. Watching this very closely.
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by r-s 4y ago
Its not fully clear to me, entire private repos been confirmed stolen?
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by r-s 4y ago
I did these drills in Canada sometime before 2005 (when I graduated).
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by r-s 5y ago
Some discussion here: https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop-rspec/issues/94
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by r-s 5y ago
2006 Honda Element, manual transmission, AWD. Reliable, can fit an insane amount of stuff in it, consumables are cheap for it. Fuel efficiency is not great but i drive very little. Under 100,000km on it. I bought it used several years ago a
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by r-s 5y ago
Rails API + React Just because after years of being in both ecosystems I am ridiculously productive and don't fall into as many traps. With heroku in 30 mins I could have app deployed production ready with auth, CI, API, database setup
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by r-s 6y ago
If this system did not error out and display the error messages to the mall shoppers, it would still be unknown.
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by r-s 6y ago
I rarely seem to see that on the FIRE forums. It seems like 99% of people on those forums are trying to achieve FIRE, and very little discussion about those who have.
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by r-s 6y ago
I bought a CPAP off an Amazon seller here in Canada a few years back. I have a large neck and would wake up gasping for air in the night. It was going to be several months to get the sleep study so one day I impulse bought it. First night I
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by r-s 6y ago
Generally the FIRE crowd stays heavy in equities and considers a 3-4% withdraw rate to be safe. Will this slow down a lot of early retirement plans? Almost certainly. However the market is not 0, lots of these people still have substantial
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by r-s 7y ago
Seems back up now?

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