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It’s a good callout, shouldn’t have editorialized like that.

Not even close to the point I was making: If you want to get taken seriously, write to audience.

The piece the author is missing, and why zendesk likely ignored this is impact, and it's something I continually see submissions lacking. As a researcher, if you can't demonstrate …

zendesk is 6k employees, they have general council on staff

3 is hardly a sea shanty of vulnerabilities for a 7 year old library. I think you're conflating releases with vulns.

In no way is this an interns fault. If your entire infrastructure relies on the secure password of ... checks notes ... a single intern! then you're doing it wrong.

Anyone know if the `smuggler` tool used is available online? Can't find any reference to it in github or elsewhere, and I'm not familiar with it. Edit: Found it here: https://githu…

> Why’d he quit? ... he told me this: at each stage of a company’s growth, they have different needs. Those needs generally require different skills. What he enjoyed, and what he h…

> TVs blaring in waiting rooms when you'd prefer to just sit in silence. When I can, I turn the TVs off. No one has complained yet.

> Getting motivated to lift 2x a week is another issue... Was in the same boat until I started doing group classes. Used that to build accountability, motivation, and a "vocabulary…

Not training managers on how to manage. When devs are promoted into management or team lead positions they are not given adequate training on what it means to manage / lead. Thus d…

Password protected zip. And/or wrap in another zip is usually enough to thwart Gmail

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corrected - thanks

I'd love to DM you with some questions about Toronto. Can you ping me via my profile info?

> 'progressive' practices such as unlimited vacation Unlimited vacation is not progressive and it is also unhealthy. It causes feelings of guilt while on vacation. Often there's an…

Your solution of mapping to a grading system A,B,C,D; or terrible, crap, better, best was mentioned in another thread about this article. It's a common thought, however it's incorr…

It's an assumption on my part, and anecdotally a correct one. Having included this entropy example in a number of talks and asking the audience what's wrong, the majority of the te…

One friend is in a townhouse in North Vancouver. Rented for a while, then bought. Real-estate is stupid silly there. I've also heard talk of people moving to Victoria as an alterna…

I can speak a bit for western canada; Vancouver has seen many of the larger/top companies open offices: Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, etc. so plenty of jobs to be had there. I live …

Question - are you primarily a windows or mac developer? Because the counter part on mac is sublime text and I see a ton of that!

I'd agree 100% on this. As a Canadian, looking at our future career prospects it is in our best interest to learn how to work well as remote employees.