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Ha! I was going to reply to this comment - "If you're interested in data-all-the-things, then you should take a look at Hyperfiddle" - until I recognized the user handle and realiz…

I came to the same conclusion (and I'm not a big company that can afford Qt), so I built my own. Before Flutter got a new team @ Google ~3 years back, it was a set of tools for bui…

Thanks! I've updated the code to only save twice a day giving the EEPROM an estimated lifetime of 137 years. It's a little more inconvenient, but (maybe) less inconvenient than hav…

Join the community and take some classes with https://bradfieldcs.com/ They've got a great set of experienced & knowledgable staff, plus a group of other developers who all care ab…

The Zimov's (Russian scientists) are behind this effort. Check out their Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/907484977/pleistocene-p...

There's a team of scientists in the arctic who have an unconventional but (possibly) effective idea to reduce/slow the release of permafrost methane. The Zimov's have a Kickstarter…

WalmartLabs - Clojure Developer. | SF | Remote (US Timezones) | H1B VISA You can work on Clojure at quite a few companies, but rarely can you impact millions of people at such a pe…

Same. Changing teams every two years seems like a long time. Not mentioned in the post, but I would bet that in Microsoft-land, the release cycle is about two years so it gives a n…

WalmartLabs - Clojure Developer. San Francisco (full time) or US remote. You can work on Clojure at quite a few companies, but rarely can you impact millions of people at such a pe…

It's a Canadian thing. You'll find grads from all the Canadian universities are humble and practical. Being a top university with grads in high demand, it's actually amazing that W…

I would say that the variability of education quality between Canadian schools isn't that high, but the number of universities isn't great either. Waterloo does try to be more expe…

I'm very proud of my time at Waterloo. The school surrounded me great students and (some) great professors who were constantly challenging and rewarding. I wouldn't be the person I…

It looks like they're comparing averages from all those countries, when we all know that the population of the USA is largest. Even though the distribution might be different, the …

are there more talks yet to be posted?

I guess when Priceonomics finds their business model has also fallen on hard times, they can resort to ... uh ... journalism.

Great post, Brandon. Getting object & honest thoughts, opinions & feedback is vitally important to both teams and each one of us. To help our team be more open, I've tried to use r…

It's great to see that more people are waking up to the fact that working hard != progress. You can work hard, spin your wheels and not actually make progress towards your long or …

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