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Arctic temperatures soar 25 degrees above normal in the dead of winter

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Re: Arctic temperatures soar 25 degrees above normal in the dead of winter

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Post by grecy »

tonyarkles wrote: post #149
thisacctforreal wrote: post #144

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I think there's ~50-200 software developers up here between freelancers and businesses? Of that maybe half of them are fulltime. I know of a couple webshops that are mostly WordPress/Drupal-based, mostly running Mac+Linux. I think Make IT is the most serious custom software vendor, they ship some Scala but I believe are mostly Windows-based. http://www.makeit.com/ FWIW NWTel is also Windows-based, but I'd wager that…

I was just poking around the YuKonstruct site. This is incredible! I wouldn't have expected something that awesome in such a small town. It beats the pants off the Makerspace in Regina! Thanks, you two, for the insight. I have idly looked at the Northwestel careers page off-and-on for a year or two, but I'm not sure I'd make a very good "company man".

I was with NWTel for 4 years. It's certainly a "Company man" kind of place. Old, old, old school management from the 1960s.

But the perks of living in the North are immense. I miss it every day and know for certain I will be back there when I'm done roaming Africa.

Re: Arctic temperatures soar 25 degrees above normal in the dead of winter

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bulatb wrote: post #143
loverofthings wrote: post #127

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Vegetables are expensive because subsidies are small. There's no free market in agriculture. I'm not exactly sure how candies are causing climate change.

Sorry, I don't follow. Are you extending the metaphor or answering literally? Candy is the fossil fuel-intensive lifestyle and eating vegetables is choosing to cut back.

I thought candy was delicious CO2 intensive food. Not a complete lifestyle.

Although, food is just one part of the equation. I've never said diet is the only change necessary to make. A person in the first world would do more by not using AC and heating than switching to a different diet, so one might optimize there. Although, not many want to optimize there, so it's easier to change the diet if they wish to lower their footprint.

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