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It happens to OSS projects all the time and simply discourages further contributions. Last year I took on an issue that has been opened for years, did all the work creating a pull-…

There is Air Transat 236 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236 "This was also the longest passenger aircraft glide without engines, gliding for nearly 75 miles or 12…

It's capitalism that killed it. Stock price was sky high because of the optical-fiber hype. Management has to kill those traditional businesses (switches, etc) that doesn't have th…

Would not considered Neapolitian. There are some 'higher-end' pizza places there that don't follow the 'tradition as dictated by committee'. https://www.eater.com/2018/2/23/1702572…

And giving full citizenship to HK people is really not what they wanted. The people there want independence, full-democracy, not an escape route.

The husband and son of the 'chief executive' (ie Beijing puppet) have full UK citizenship (as well as the previous chef executive too).. The British should revoke all these governm…

"Laws change depending on who's making them. Cardassians one day, Federation the next – but justice is justice." – Odo, 2369 ("A Man Alone") How much representation does Catalan ha…

Toronto is totally different even from 10 years ago. Spadina/Queen/King (where all the starts-up are located) is so busy even at nights and weekends because so many people live and…

Amazon must have nearly 400 R&D people in Toronto now. Probably 300 when I left. I was always involved in recruiting and Amazon hires the best from all over the world and probably …

UofT is one of the best research university in the world, at the PhD level. Waterloo is best at producing the best engineers at the undergrad level.

I think it is common to have incompetents running HR in these high-valued startups, when the VP is probably just a beer-buddy or the wingman of the founder, with no formal HR educa…

Vancouver is a retirement haven.. 10 years they all retired. Those needing to work go to Toronto.

Automatic transmissions are way more reliable, with the computer shifting gears at perfect timing each time. None of my automatic transmission cars (1st hand, sold after 4-8 years)…

Detached house is over 1M in Toronto. But there are plenty of semis and townhouses that are way less (700K?) and condos walkable to downtown for half of that. Amazon is in a class-…

There is always (your) life cycles. Both myself and my brother Waterloo grads in the 90s. He is in the sv and I stayed in Toronto. My company sent me down to the valley to "help" f…