vancouverwill

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by vancouverwill 3y ago
Any thing bureaucratic in Canada takes longer than you could possibly imagine. Very frustrating when you are relying on it.
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by vancouverwill 3y ago
It sounds fine in theory but leaving Vancouver to go to St John's for affordable housing is not really an option for any one with family here. I may as well go to Thailand for affordable housing, it is more affordable and flights are t
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by vancouverwill 4y ago
which company is that?
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by vancouverwill 5y ago
> I appreciate and applaud your ethos. 100% agree with this sentiment. People should not have to justify having other passions, charitable, artistic or political pursuits. All the best teams that I have worked on, are/were big mix o
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by vancouverwill 8y ago
I'm always worried about that but have been since about 2012 so it is hard to know what the future holds. Best hedge plan is to live well within means and save lots so if/when there is another big crash have savings to last until
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by vancouverwill 8y ago
See my point I added today bait internet interview skills to @ccajas. It is a whole different skill set to learn and not necessarily taught through traditional schooling but worth the effort so that your skill set can be shown in the best l
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by vancouverwill 8y ago
Really great points here! Really liked the points about public speaking and dealing with meetings and asking questions to shy engineers.
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by vancouverwill 8y ago
I can definitely relate to your position and I imagine a lot of other engineers would also relate as our skills sets tend to mean the engineering part comes more naturally but the soft skills take a lot of work. I would recommend reading b
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by vancouverwill 10y ago
Side question to the main focus but I'm curious, have you found it to be profitable writing a book? Don't need to go into specific numbers but just roughly. It seems that for the amount of time it takes to write a book and the pro
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by vancouverwill 10y ago
Most definitely you can write good code in soho like anything it is a language which you are free to write in however you like. However Php allows for really sloppy code (not failing on index misses, undefined variables still running, each
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by vancouverwill 10y ago
Not sure about that. Most companies biggest problem is finding talent employees and most experienced engineers will not want to work on a Php codebase especially one full of technical debt due to the variety of other options in languages wh
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by vancouverwill 10y ago
Performance is directly related to profit on consumer apps. See http://glinden.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-2... plus like you say PHP might be faster to get started with but becomes much slower on
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by vancouverwill 10y ago
you could definitely argue that a company using PHP nowadays would find it harder to find good engineers because the best ones who care about quality, performance etc don't want to work on a PHP app
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by vancouverwill 10y ago
exactly.
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by vancouverwill 10y ago
Those sound like good figures. How are you getting those numbers? Estimations or have you managed to speak to there book keepers. I always won D we about coffee shops, they seem to be popular but I wonder how much profit is actually made.
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by vancouverwill 10y ago
Yep, I noticed that. A completely biased view to a very important matter. Completely overlooking the dangers of weak crypto, government invasion of privacy and safe control of access to information.
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by vancouverwill 11y ago
Most of Europe and Australia give you a month plus of vacation but you do need to factor in less pay than the US.
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by vancouverwill 11y ago
He hasn't limited upper cap he has imply set a higher base salary.
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by vancouverwill 11y ago
I wish more were as progressive as you, with different languages the syntax changes bit the patterns and computer science is exactly the same. A good programmer can adapt very quickly as even within a language ylthey have to adapt all the t