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A friend of mine runs a 6 person company where they specialize in maintaining WordPress sites for SMBs. It's definitely a viable business!

There is a saying I've heard: "Silicon Valley is powered by Waterloo Grads" The problem with Canadian innovation is that our best and brightest tend to complete their education in …

In an interview, Yann mentioned that one reason he left Meta was that they were very focused on LLMs and he no longer believed LLMs were the path forward to reaching AGI.

This is a war of attrition. Russia is expending its soviet cold war materiel. Its trade embargo is seriously undermining its ability to continue to fight. It may be sooner than we …

You can probably expand your user base to Canadians by also adding a "touching snow" feature.

From the article: "...explains this rate of muscle decline is significantly higher than what is typically observed with calorie-reduced diets or normal aging and could lead to a ho…

I think it's the opposite. I think quality often comes from evolution and iteration. There've been so many projects where I get stuck because I want to maximize quality, so I get w…

Have you optimized for sleep and exercise? If you haven't, there's no other drug or behavior that can boost your cognitive abilities without first optimizing those two things.

I'd still prefer to have an intern. However, it's because I'd empower the intern to use Claude or GPT to be even more productive.

I've experienced being on teams where PRs and commits happen infrequently, resulting in massive PRs and merges/rebases that constantly have conflicts. The spirit of pushing small i…

I love this game! It's really satisfying and addictive. Nice work. One suggestion: I have a friend who is color-blind and has a hard time seeing the red and green numbers. Maybe ad…

If we're being pedantic, you'd need to eat 500 extra calories over your what your body burns daily. But over a 6 year period, you would definitely accumulate 300 pounds of extra we…

I'm totally fine with this. Content is paid with your eyeballs or with money. If you're not willing to pay with your eyeballs, then you shouldn't get the content. I think that's fa…

I have a similar anecdote in my career as a developer. At the height of the financial crisis I was just 2 years out of school and working for a small startup. Our first child was j…

One of the positive things that came from the pandemic for me was that we were forced to work remotely, and that gave me an opportunity to nap at noon. It's made such a big differe…

I'm in a situation where my partner loves to acquire things whereas I have a minimalist mindset. I have felt like every item I own is a burden, and when I live in a house where the…

For me it, the drive to be more disciplined stems from the fact that I live my life so compulsively and I want to experience more things in life that require discipline. As an exam…

It feels like so many of these complaints on your list are things that have existed for decades in western culture. I'd argue things are getting better. Greed has always existed. A…

If you've been in the industry long enough to experience working on a variety of different projects and teams it's an easy sell to understand the concept of a 10x programmer, but t…

On the feed I was watching it showed that only attacker's hand was passed the line. Hands and feet are exempted for the offside rule.

I discovered the 12 hour walk from a podcast ( https://12hourwalk.com/ ) where the idea is to really contemplate and analyze your life by walking alone, without any music or distra…

I'm pursuing my passion to climb mountains. I grew up in Alberta and my favorite childhood memories are of camping trips in the mountains. I always dreamed of climbing peaks. I nev…

I LOVE listening to Tool while on psilocybin. This song especially gives me frisson even when I'm sober. There's something so beautiful about listening to the right music on psyche…

I worked for a company that adopted SAFe and sent me to get certified as a SAFe Program Consultant. So I worked to set up "Agile Release Trains" and coached a few teams that had ne…