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I've been training BJJ for just over 8 years (Brown belt) and I've only hurt my knee once... wrestling, and I train at an academy that has a strong emphasis on leg locks. The best …

The whole point of documentation though is for it to be complete, technical and well explained. Not to have copy-pastable examples. W3schools is neither good documentation or good …

I feel like people that argument gun control laws are dumming it down to "if it doesn't work instantly then it's not worth it". If they start thinking about gun control as an inves…

> I don't want to take a major hit to my quality of life just to escape Trumpland Major hit to your quality of life? I'm sorry, you may potentially have a little less money in your…

A friend of mine was recently asked in an interview process to provide 15 lines of code, that he wrote, that represents him. After thinking about it I wondered what I would have su…

While free climbing, you also need to wait for your partner to climb the same section. Which effectively almost doubles the time. You don't have that limitation while going solo.

People seem to think climbing Everest is "more common" based on how much it gets publicized in the media. But I've been in the climbing business for a while and still don't persona…

>> The waves of offshoring in the '00s left many thousands of unemployed COBOL developers If you were a developer affected by stuff in the '00s, you're probably nearing the end of …

It's not only banks, I took an internship at an insurance company a couple of years ago that had their entire mainframe written in COBOL. Not only do they have a hard time finding …

You're taking a very specific case and generalizing it like crazy. The CS industry isn't all Electron apps and simple jobs. The most obvious example would be the video game industr…

We actually have insurance like that already [0], you get a generally low starting monthly rate, and it adjusts if you speed, start and stop suddenly, are shifting lanes fast, etc.…

It's really not that bad. It's mainly there to make sure companies don't alienate Quebec's native french speaker. You can do fine in the Qc tech industry even if you barely underst…

It's okay they've been robbing you for a while now.

This was a great read. As a Canadian, I get the feeling that (most) people get Harper is bad news, but don't quite get all the details. I'll be sharing this one.

Went down about an hour ago, at least seems like it.