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> 58. Trying to police commit history is going to be painful This has been my experience. Very painful

https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/consumers/home-buying/first-time... The Canadian government did try a similar strategy for a bit (although I think it maxed out far below 50%). It was d…

Smaller smaller world - I work with him today!

Some bigger cities (such as Edmonton, 1M people) still have a somewhat sane real estate market. In Edmonton a single family detached home averages around 450k CAD, while average ho…

Carpal tunnel and poor posture causing back pain

In some cases it lasted even longer than that. In 2004 at a Canadian University I was told during the student orientation that CS was not a great choice due to outsourcing.

There is no reason someone couldn't change commit dates and be prolific far earlier than December

Its been one hell of a rough go for Heroku lately. I think you would be insane to start a new project with them today. Which is crazy for me to say, as I was one of their biggest f…

"Travel K for 20 feet, take the first L and immediately get in the H-most lane"

Some small part of me wants to use vim-clutch and make a manual transmission version of this.

Did Shopify have a choice? Many Canadians who got computer science degrees left to work for American companies for 2x-3x more money.

Many many years ago I was hired to convert a Fortran app to C. The first person to try it ran it through a software called "f2c". It worked fine - but the code was totally non huma…

Thread safety in Rails is a total pain in the ass. So many libraries out there are not thread safe. I have worked with many large rails codebases and there always are gems that som…

I came to a similar conclusion years ago. Yes, there are examples of applications that have done it, but they often have very elite engineers. Most teams are comprised of various l…

So does the "PHP4" book on the shelf.

I don't regret it at all, but finding high paying roles can be a little more difficult. Its a tradeoff though, because after a few years at a role its often seen how valuable you a…

I am at a similar level / write a lot of Ruby. I have pretty mixed feelings. I do enjoy writing Ruby and echo the low friction between an idea and running code. However, on very la…

There is a surprisingly small amount of senior rails developers. Many who learned it when it was cool, have moved on. There are so many legit companies making tons of money on Rail…

If I find myself having a hard time with a big decision, that almost certainly means both sides have pros and cons and its a very close decision. If one side had way more pros and …

I too have seen something very similar to this. I am extremely nervous all my private repos got compromised. Watching this very closely.

Its not fully clear to me, entire private repos been confirmed stolen?

I did these drills in Canada sometime before 2005 (when I graduated).

Some discussion here: https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop-rspec/issues/94

2006 Honda Element, manual transmission, AWD. Reliable, can fit an insane amount of stuff in it, consumables are cheap for it. Fuel efficiency is not great but i drive very little.…

Rails API + React Just because after years of being in both ecosystems I am ridiculously productive and don't fall into as many traps. With heroku in 30 mins I could have app deplo…