> Second, salaries are garbage, especially for migrants. There is a term for this situation called "Canadian Experience": employers claim that because one does not have experience working in Canada, they deserve a…
> This means that foreign-trained doctors (as an example) can easily get a federal visa to enter the country, but the province will refuse to recognize their medical training, forcing these skilled immigrants to work…
> It tells me I need to get out because it represents a shift to a higher level of abstraction in programming. In the ideal I hear expressed, instead of programming you'd be just describing the code you want and letting…
> Likewise, I find it absurd that anyone running a startup outside of the US would ever incorporate in Delaware. What if I told you it's sometimes easier for a foreinger to setup a corporation and sell in the US than it…
> My daughter thinks I'm one of those nerds that married a regular girl from college and can do magic with software because I can make her computer go back in time and bring back versions of her files. Wait until she…
With shrinking recess time and PE disappearing from some schools, boys with normal needs for physical activities are increasingly labelled as "sick" and medicalized for completely normal behavior by the taxpayer funded…
> many countries have their own laws and policies regarding air quality exposure. Often times these regulations use metrics about time-average exposure (e.g. the annual average 8-hr maximum ozone concentration) and…
> Unsubstantiated [0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421151224.h... [1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225792.shtml
> I remembered growing up with a the children of a customs officer. Every now and then he would show up with boxes of confiscated pirated movie / game days discs, asking us to pick what we wanted before he was going to…
A lot of what Turing did was kept classified or not publicized too much by the British government. They seem to have done a complete 180 on this relatively recently (now that tech and SV are all over the news) and seem…
I don't think people realize how relatively easy it is today to have a healthy lifestyle. Don't smoke, don't vape, drink a little and cook at home. There has never been a better availability of fresh produce everywhere…
> I find Russians to be highly political apathetic That's a good survival strategy. You'll see them side with the winner as soon as it becomes obvious who that is.
One simple question I ask is to count the words in a string. It's a warmup question and a way to get the candidate comfortable with the format of the interview and the optimal workflow (discuss requirements, propose an…
What's crazy is that, unlike this ESA engine and prototype rocket, Raptor and Starship R&D is all privately funded by SpaceX's profits. Starship will fly payloads to LEO before this European rocket reaches the Karman…
3) Something else than naive "The OceanGate CEO who is trapped on a 22-foot submersible on an ill-fated voyage to see the Titanic wreck once explained how he didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience…
I mean, 50 cents is still 50 cents. Every one of them wouldn't think twice if a US Green Card magically appeared in front of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
> but aren't keyboard switches essentially the last product one would want to 3d print en masse? Yes. Or at least use resin. To me it's the difference between craft and engineering; nobody would consider hand-crafting…
Montreal yes. Toronto I'm not so sure. Few years ago we acquired something in Montreal related to AI, and it's interesting because when we tried to get the team to relocate to California many weren't interested. A lot…
> Twitter hasn't collapsed and is delivering new features. Their API is gone, breaking every third party client out there. Bots using screen scrapping are fine and there are more than ever on the platform. Half of their…
> Me personally, I dont even think I'll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too…
Isn't the answer simply: My body my choice?
> All of the inclusivity movements that have happened in my workplace have involved hiring people unfit to do their job. I'm starting to think there's more harm than good with these inclusivity movements. It creates two…
> Edit: You'll never get all the kids to leave the class loving CS, but you can usually get all of them to leave the class not feeling frustrated by it. There's nothing wrong with kids not enjoying CS at the end of the…
> In other places this is much more difficult - see Bangladesh, Pakistan, various sub-saharan countries. At this point I have to ask what's these countries excuse not to adapt. Isn't it the government's job to plan for…
It's much better than what he would have made under the old medallion system Uber disrupted. Pre-Uber/Lyft, either the driver rented the car from a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was…
> Second, salaries are garbage, especially for migrants. There is a term for this situation called "Canadian Experience": employers claim that because one does not have experience working in Canada, they deserve a…
> This means that foreign-trained doctors (as an example) can easily get a federal visa to enter the country, but the province will refuse to recognize their medical training, forcing these skilled immigrants to work…
> It tells me I need to get out because it represents a shift to a higher level of abstraction in programming. In the ideal I hear expressed, instead of programming you'd be just describing the code you want and letting…
> Likewise, I find it absurd that anyone running a startup outside of the US would ever incorporate in Delaware. What if I told you it's sometimes easier for a foreinger to setup a corporation and sell in the US than it…
> My daughter thinks I'm one of those nerds that married a regular girl from college and can do magic with software because I can make her computer go back in time and bring back versions of her files. Wait until she…
With shrinking recess time and PE disappearing from some schools, boys with normal needs for physical activities are increasingly labelled as "sick" and medicalized for completely normal behavior by the taxpayer funded…
> many countries have their own laws and policies regarding air quality exposure. Often times these regulations use metrics about time-average exposure (e.g. the annual average 8-hr maximum ozone concentration) and…
> Unsubstantiated [0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421151224.h... [1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225792.shtml
> I remembered growing up with a the children of a customs officer. Every now and then he would show up with boxes of confiscated pirated movie / game days discs, asking us to pick what we wanted before he was going to…
A lot of what Turing did was kept classified or not publicized too much by the British government. They seem to have done a complete 180 on this relatively recently (now that tech and SV are all over the news) and seem…
I don't think people realize how relatively easy it is today to have a healthy lifestyle. Don't smoke, don't vape, drink a little and cook at home. There has never been a better availability of fresh produce everywhere…
> I find Russians to be highly political apathetic That's a good survival strategy. You'll see them side with the winner as soon as it becomes obvious who that is.
One simple question I ask is to count the words in a string. It's a warmup question and a way to get the candidate comfortable with the format of the interview and the optimal workflow (discuss requirements, propose an…
What's crazy is that, unlike this ESA engine and prototype rocket, Raptor and Starship R&D is all privately funded by SpaceX's profits. Starship will fly payloads to LEO before this European rocket reaches the Karman…
3) Something else than naive "The OceanGate CEO who is trapped on a 22-foot submersible on an ill-fated voyage to see the Titanic wreck once explained how he didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience…
I mean, 50 cents is still 50 cents. Every one of them wouldn't think twice if a US Green Card magically appeared in front of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
> but aren't keyboard switches essentially the last product one would want to 3d print en masse? Yes. Or at least use resin. To me it's the difference between craft and engineering; nobody would consider hand-crafting…
Montreal yes. Toronto I'm not so sure. Few years ago we acquired something in Montreal related to AI, and it's interesting because when we tried to get the team to relocate to California many weren't interested. A lot…
> Twitter hasn't collapsed and is delivering new features. Their API is gone, breaking every third party client out there. Bots using screen scrapping are fine and there are more than ever on the platform. Half of their…
> Me personally, I dont even think I'll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too…
Isn't the answer simply: My body my choice?
> All of the inclusivity movements that have happened in my workplace have involved hiring people unfit to do their job. I'm starting to think there's more harm than good with these inclusivity movements. It creates two…
> Edit: You'll never get all the kids to leave the class loving CS, but you can usually get all of them to leave the class not feeling frustrated by it. There's nothing wrong with kids not enjoying CS at the end of the…
> In other places this is much more difficult - see Bangladesh, Pakistan, various sub-saharan countries. At this point I have to ask what's these countries excuse not to adapt. Isn't it the government's job to plan for…
It's much better than what he would have made under the old medallion system Uber disrupted. Pre-Uber/Lyft, either the driver rented the car from a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was…