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Curious to know about the pilot program!

I wonder what kind of vetting process the couple went through in the US as well. The story may over-simplify the process. In Canada, my family knew a couple who tried to adopt a ch…

Plenty of adopted folks have been curious about birth parents as teens and adults. Not sure elsewhere around the world. In Canada, the adoption records used to be closed but have b…

Many of us go to conference to present their work, connect with like-minded individuals and possibly finding the new opportunity. From the off-hand remarks from some conference org…

The car-dependent culture create a problem that you can't even go to work if you cannot afford a car.

Agree! The metric, even if it's an intelligent guess, justify why you did such tasks. It helps to bring a coherent story about your professional work. The tasks are not for vanity.…

Yes, please ignore the cynical and negative folks. They are not doing you any good. Like what a few other folks in this thread pointed out, your resume and your portfolio looks out…

> Typically Americans have a very naive understanding of how the world works because American imperialism made it easy for them. Do you have specifics on how Americans adults could…

I never put my real headshot on LinkedIn even before it was scrapped for AI training. LinkedIn still bugs me to put a picture to "increase engagement". Putting headshot in resumes …

> Startups are a terrible way to make money. ...for most people. Even if the company got sold or had an IPO, only the very early employees made life-changing money. There's no guar…

On news: I'd say read from high-quality, responsible news sources. Lots of outlets create click bait, even if the stories are true, to direct readers to their sites.

Sumit B forever has a story to tell at dinner parties.

Username checks out haha!

I was in the area around 2010 working for someone else. Adding to your bullet points: - The pool business near the single-digit RIM buildings had more business than they could do. …

A local technical college has a dedicated course on "Slack at workplace" (or a paraphrase of the title).

Feature request: Enter company shut down dates.

Are there any of you here who pursued a STEM education, entered a STEM field but left STEM altogether not due to retirement age? Some people became jaded on being a cog in a huge m…

> I'd hate to show younger me current me. I had the reverse. My younger self wanted to do something to benefit the humanity, but hated see the old me having no money and out-to-dat…

Word. So many people felt compelled to post and wrote meaningless gibberish on LinkedIn. See the subreddit r/LinkedInLunatics/.

Yes, but the fact that people don't respond to unsolicited door-knocking and pick up cold calls anymore prompt that I need social media as a way to stay in touch with others. My Fa…

> focus on power systems Picking what you'll do specifically without starting the degree does not sit well with me. I am in CS and not in EE, but believe a degree gives you a breat…

Definitely not. The opening was for some generalist-type openings.

A large company in my country posted some tech-related openings saying that they would like to hire someone who has been diagnosed formally with Autism. I was very skeptical about …