Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — vancouverwill

vancouverwill

HN member
Joined
Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 6:52 AM UTC
HN karma
8
Public activity
19 items

About vancouverwill

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #36545722

    Any thing bureaucratic in Canada takes longer than you could possibly imagine. Very frustrating when you are relying on it.

  2. comment
    Comment #36545698

    It sounds fine in theory but leaving Vancouver to go to St John's for affordable housing is not really an option for any one with family here. I may as well go to Thailand for affo…

  3. comment
    Comment #32607604

    which company is that?

  4. comment
    Comment #30565544

    > I appreciate and applaud your ethos. 100% agree with this sentiment. People should not have to justify having other passions, charitable, artistic or political pursuits. All the …

  5. comment
    Comment #16672222

    I'm always worried about that but have been since about 2012 so it is hard to know what the future holds. Best hedge plan is to live well within means and save lots so if/when ther…

  6. comment
    Comment #16672198

    See my point I added today bait internet interview skills to @ccajas. It is a whole different skill set to learn and not necessarily taught through traditional schooling but worth …

  7. comment
    Comment #16671433

    Really great points here! Really liked the points about public speaking and dealing with meetings and asking questions to shy engineers.

  8. comment
    Comment #16671387

    I can definitely relate to your position and I imagine a lot of other engineers would also relate as our skills sets tend to mean the engineering part comes more naturally but the …

  9. comment
    Comment #13851035

    Side question to the main focus but I'm curious, have you found it to be profitable writing a book? Don't need to go into specific numbers but just roughly. It seems that for the a…

  10. comment
    Comment #12729792

    Most definitely you can write good code in soho like anything it is a language which you are free to write in however you like. However Php allows for really sloppy code (not faili…

  11. comment
    Comment #12729237

    Not sure about that. Most companies biggest problem is finding talent employees and most experienced engineers will not want to work on a Php codebase especially one full of techni…

  12. comment
    Comment #12728716

    Performance is directly related to profit on consumer apps. See http://glinden.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-2... plus like you say PHP might be faster to get started…

  13. comment
    Comment #12724137

    you could definitely argue that a company using PHP nowadays would find it harder to find good engineers because the best ones who care about quality, performance etc don't want to…

  14. comment
  15. comment
    Comment #12343135

    Those sound like good figures. How are you getting those numbers? Estimations or have you managed to speak to there book keepers. I always won D we about coffee shops, they seem to…

  16. comment
    Comment #12022240

    Yep, I noticed that. A completely biased view to a very important matter. Completely overlooking the dangers of weak crypto, government invasion of privacy and safe control of acce…

  17. comment
    Comment #11271356

    Most of Europe and Australia give you a month plus of vacation but you do need to factor in less pay than the US.

  18. comment
    Comment #10025791

    He hasn't limited upper cap he has imply set a higher base salary.

  19. comment
    Comment #9709082

    I wish more were as progressive as you, with different languages the syntax changes bit the patterns and computer science is exactly the same. A good programmer can adapt very quic…