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Static typing alone won't save you from creating monolithic code that's hard to maintain. My current employer has been slowly decoupling their 20 year old core product written in .…

I get the sense reading this article that the main concern raised is whether or not enough value is being generated by companies and researchers that "use machine learning to solve…

Apple being the acquirer wouldn't change the potential conflicts of interest or the trend towards monopolization, which is what a lot of people are upset about. Animosity toward la…

No worries, happy to help.

Might be obvious, but the biggest thing you'll give up in this market compared to cities like Toronto or Montréal is selection. There's some larger companies with satellite offices…

Developers in Toronto are getting a raw deal. The cost of living is orders of magnitude higher than the rest of the country and devs aren't making the difference up with higher wag…

My team used Sails for a project about 3 years ago and can confirm that your description fits the framework to a t. We were sold on the premise of a Rails-like experience running o…

sigh it's not a Saskatchewan Ricky, it's a Samsquanch!

This sounds like the most likely explanation to me. The only programmers I've personally worked with that wrote code in a functional language for their day jobs were data engineers…

This looks promising. Although, it seems they only offer NFL, soccer, and tennis coverage currently. Hopefully some day they'll add NHL and NBA games as well.

I'd love to see a SAAS product for watching sports. Similar to Netflix in terms of UI and pricing, but also with the support for live content. I know this probably won't happen any…

As a Canadian who's spent a few years in the southern states, I can say that the difference in infrastructure here does help reduce the risks of road accidents when there's snow. I…

I really like what they've done here with the update notifications. It's much less disruptive than the alert messages at the top they had before.

Based on the survey results it looks like devs using PHP are paid significantly less on average. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#work-salary-a...