rubayeet

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by rubayeet 4mo ago
This is false. Alberta is NOT the economic engine of Canada, that’s a huge misconception of a group of Canadians (mostly Albertans) [0] [0] https://youtu.be/5lSJpqA8RU4?si=fxwKpUFFKO7gK63E
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by rubayeet 1y ago
Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) produced a 4 episode TV mini series dramatizing the birth and death of the Avro Arrow plane (can be found on YouTube) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrow_(miniseries)
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The Economist declares Bangladesh as Country of the Year(economist.com)
4 points by rubayeet 2y ago|0 comments
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by rubayeet 2y ago
Neither good or bad to me. Mission is important some people, I have been in the industry long enough to realize companies will change their mission if the business is no longer viable / profitable, so I have taught myself to be indiffe
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by rubayeet 2y ago
Yes, except Shopify is very intentional about us vs them narratives like this. The CEO is an avid consumer of Video games / SciFi / Nerd culture, and the leadership finds ways to inject these themes into the mission statements.
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by rubayeet 2y ago
Former Shopify employee here. The company loves narratives like this where there is an enemy and there is a cause to unite the team behind it to battle with the said enemy. In my time there, the enemy was Amazon, and the cause was “we are a
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by rubayeet 2y ago
The author of the article assumes too much on the interviewers’ ability to deeply reflect on open ended questions, and clearly articulate the response (in a short period of time, because tables are turned when there is only few minutes left
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by rubayeet 2y ago
You are missing the point. It may look like protests are about having a fair shot at getting government jobs on the surface but it is more than that: 1. Corruption / Nepotism - Quotas in gov jobs are exploited by the powerful to hire p
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by rubayeet 3y ago
You beat me to this comment! Skepticism aside, I would like to see other cities and provinces playing larger roles in Canada’s economic future. I myself immigrated to Atlantic Canada, but it was frustrating finding a fulfilling opportunity
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by rubayeet 3y ago
This was my thought exactly. Author talks about Goodheart’s law and how it is bad for the team, but then somehow their concept of “velocity” is not an example of the said flawed logic?
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Scientists Solve the Mystery Behind the Oumuamua 'Alien Spacecraft' Comet(time.com)
2 points by rubayeet 3y ago|0 comments
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by rubayeet 4y ago
Quantum By Manjit Kumar: Traces the scientific discoveries leading to quantum theory, relationships among renowned scientists of 20th century, with a focus on Bohr-Einstein debate. Incredible History of India’s Geography by Sanjeev Sanyal:
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by rubayeet 4y ago
Masters of Doom. It’s the story of two renowned game developers, John Karmack and John Romero, and how they built id Software, the video game company that profoundly changed PC gaming and graphics. I was writing software for enterprise &#x2
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by rubayeet 5y ago
Shopify | Staff Software Developer (Java / Kotlin / Apache Beam / Google Dataflow) | REMOTE (EST / CEST Timezones) | Full-time We are the the world’s fastest growing commerce platform, helping over 1.7 million independen
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by rubayeet 5y ago
Shopify | Staff Software Developer (Apache Beam / Google Dataflow) | REMOTE (EST / CEST Timezones) | Full-time We are the the world’s fastest growing commerce platform, helping over 1.7 million independent business owners around t
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by rubayeet 5y ago
Shopify | Staff Software Developer (Apache Beam / Google Dataflow) | REMOTE (EST / CEST Timezones) | Full-time We are the the world’s fastest growing commerce platform, helping over 1.7 million independent business owners around t
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by rubayeet 5y ago
I am not sure Shopify belongs to the list. It didn’t exactly pivot, Tobi Lutke made a website with Rails to sell snowboards, and realized there is an untapped market for SaaS e-commerce product, so he generalized the framework powering the
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Tim O’Reilly: Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3(oreilly.com)
13 points by rubayeet 5y ago|0 comments
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by rubayeet 5y ago
Shopify | Staff Software Developer (Apache Beam / Google Dataflow) | REMOTE (EST / CEST Timezones) | Full-time We are the the world’s fastest growing commerce platform, helping over 1.7 million independent business owners around t
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by rubayeet 5y ago
Foreign ownership of houses comprises only small % of the housing market [1]. The measures promised (but all political parties, not just Trudeau) have been applied in New Zealand and their housing market still remain white hot. The root cau
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by rubayeet 5y ago
Are there similar tools for GCP?
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The Mafia from the Mountains: Fighting Italy’s most ruthless and secretive clans(newsinteractives.cbc.ca)
4 points by rubayeet 5y ago|0 comments
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Facebook launches cloud gaming service for Web and Android (no iOS)(techcrunch.com)
1 points by rubayeet 6y ago|0 comments
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by rubayeet 6y ago
Whoa! This is a game changer! I was looking into both Kafka and Google Pub/Sub for a event-oriented system my team was designing. Google Pub/Sub looked very promising, but no guarantee of ordering was a deal breaker for us. I’ll c
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Stock Market vs. the Economy: The Impact of Covid 19 [video](youtu.be)
3 points by rubayeet 6y ago|0 comments
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by rubayeet 6y ago
I’m using the one with Bluetooth support. You can go even cheaper by picking the USB only model.
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by rubayeet 6y ago
Google Jamboard + Wacom Intuos tablet with stylus [1] [1] https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets/wacom-intuo...
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by rubayeet 6y ago
Surprised to see Shopify in the list (used for marketing?).
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My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio(linkedin.com)
120 points by rubayeet 7y ago|113 comments
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Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is here to stay(cbc.ca)
180 points by rubayeet 7y ago|253 comments

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