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Where do you live in Canada? In southern ontario (where Toronto and most of the people are) there's no snow for 8 months out of the year. And backyards/sidewalks are really only im…

Alcohol sales (and drinking age) vary across provinces - I don't think any will let you sell your homemade liquor, but Ontario is very restrictive, while Quebec (for example) is re…

The repo maintainers are going to be on the hook to rebuild every dependency every time any package in the dependency chain changes. That sounds like a nightmare versus the current…

It's important to have role models you can identify with. Recognizing and celebrating the achievements of female directors is important. When you don't include female directors in …

> I'm a clinical psychologist who was in charge of the largest randomized controlled trial of online cognitive behavioral therapy for depression (n=500). Peer-reviewed study, pleas…

Do you have any insight into when Zeller's was good and what went wrong? HBC seems to have done a much better job turning around The Bay locations (albeit very gradually) and appar…

Reach out to some local companies that look interesting? Job search sites are a pretty poor resource in most cases - you'll do better from referrals within your network. Even cold-…

I love that people who don't work in tech can still afford to live in Toronto. I don't think we're doing as well as we could to combat income inequality, but I'm glad we aren't thr…

For reference, ~100 people died in terrible conditions building the Hoover Dam. It was a tremendously unsafe worksite. The environmental impact of the project was barely considered…

What part of sending things to space isn't "Engineering"? Are you implying SpaceX, ULA, et al. are just winging it sending things to the ISS?

In my experience, almost all overhead in Go programs will result from being bitten by memmove, alloc and GC. Profiling any program that uses interface{} and byte buffers will quick…

Powershell! Seriously, MS doesn't do everything great, but Powershell has typed pipes (typed everything, actually, it's not just stringly like *sh) which are seriously awesome.

French in Quebec is kind of similar - to avoid being assimilated into English Canadian culture, it's very resistant to change. French speakers from Europe tend to find it kind of q…

I'm pretty sure this is a rephrasing of a much older, well known principle in psychology (they cover it in undergrad), that work satisfaction is a function of: autonomy, feedback a…

At least for the running example, running marathons is extreme. A lot of people run 6-10 mile distances, precisely because it doesn't take over your life. You might be surprised at…

All major corporate open source projects have a contributor license agreement (CLA) which contributors must sign. Regardless of whether they intend to close the source in the futur…

Two things stick out: Catching unused variables is pretty essential, it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot by redeclaring a variable with := inside a block. >> which means you ha…

There's a big difference, calling someone "boy" or "girl" instead of "man" or "woman" is demeaning. How often do you honestly refer to male engineers as "boys"? > don't care enough…

Just to clarify, in your view women: don't work, can't be engineers, always want to be in a relationship, and are terribly unfaithful and will leave you for somebody with more mone…

Okamoto (based in Japan) makes some good ones that can legally be sold in the US. http://www.okamotousa.com/

> If Leap schedules things correctly, in part because they are a private company and have incentive to do so I don't know what you think the TTC does all day, but it's not sit arou…

Maybe it's just me, but I found the copy insufferable. I don't think I'm the target audience, but there's some irony in hitting a wall of text complaining about how people write to…

Posted down-thread as well, but Google Wallet worked in Canada when it first launched. It wouldn't accept a Canadian address, but you could pay if you could get money onto the prep…

Nope. I had Google Wallet working on my Neuxs S in Canada two years ago, you can use it at any Tim Hortons ;) Canadian banks do support their own mobile wallets (similar to the ISI…