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What are the preferred solutions for people that are forced to support IE11? I've seen fallback CSS and JavaScript polyfills used.

Parents would have to be equipped to be able to answer these questions in the way you suggest though. That seems a bit of a stretch if they haven't been educated similarly themselv…

I hope that the USDS-inspired CDS can prevent these situations in the future, and improve the procurement requirements. https://digital.canada.ca/

on .ca they seem to be newer accounts, often "FIRSTNAME LASTNAME" "located" in the US somewhere. Totally forgot the _every_ book thing - they also sometimes have items that aren't …

a similar scam has been going on for a while, with at least video games, board games, and bike gear, from what I've seen on Amazon Canada. Third party sellers with a "real" looking…

It was mostly persistence and luck in finding a position that matched my existing skills and interests. You'll often have a code screen as an early step (because remote jobs get hu…

They seem to have a lot more publications listed here: https://www.vanaqua.org/act/research/publications Are some of these not peer reviewed? I'm not familiar with the journals tha…

It's even more fun, in BC "high technology companies/professionals" are exempt from a bunch of the usual labour laws around overtime, hours of work, stat holidays, etc. http://www2…

PolicyStat | Carmel, Indiana or remote | full-time (remote) A hospital’s best tool for standardizing and implementing life-saving improvements are their written policies and proced…

This is a great post. I think the "paid to write code" is often a byproduct of environment - whether it's poor engineering leadership, bad productivity measurement, etc.

A follow up to this, how do benefits work for team members who are not in the USA? I imagine things like health insurance would be different, for example

Man those were the days. I was just barely old enough to be able to get into them before they died. Anyone remember the door games? I remember it being pretty crazy that I could pl…

Your local copy is also twitter, instead of github :)

The rental market has begun heating up lately (stories of rental auctions, renovictions, evictions for airBnB, etc) so although they may be comparatively reasonable, they may not s…

Vancouver is currently a mess of low interest rates, FOMO, foreign buyers, and supply issues. Due to both the city & BC government having a large number of developer donors, it's a…

This piece is good also, to explain some of the limitations of the study: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/poking-...

Residency tracking is hard. Actually, the city of Vancouver got permission from the provincial government to implement a vacant homes tax, but it's based on the home being unoccupi…

There are no shortcuts to solving brain drain. Find a compelling way to solve it (paying more, giving more opportunities to grow is a good start) and let's talk from there.

That study also had flaws, here is an article poking at it. Among other issues, excluding pre-demolition homes from the city-sponsored study doesn't make sense. http://www.scmp.com…