Not according to the CBC documentary series "Statistics of Canada".
I find your concept of cheap housing in Toronto and Edmonton to be laughable. Maybe you should wake up and realize it's 2019, not 1967.
You're inventing things! I never even mentioned Edmonton in my post. And when I wrote Toronto, I mentioned "lower cost of home ownership" compared to Vancouver, I didn't say it was cheap.
While I do have years of experience, and I've lived and worked in both the U.S. and Canada, I wasn't born in 1967. All my posts referenced recent experiences. (I sold my home in Vancouver just a few years ago.)
I know Americans are notoriously bad at geography, but take a look at a map and find Vancouver. You'll find that Canada is much larger than 1 medium-sized city. (Vancouver itself is only 600K people while Vancouver + lower mainland is 2.7 million.)
And the cost of housing is through the roof, while the tech salaries are the lowest of all the large Canadian cities. Unless you are born there and have ties that keep you there, the best thing you can do for your tech career is to move somewhere else. Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montréal, all have better pay and lower cost of home ownership than Vancouver + suburbs.
If you're willing to look at smaller cities (Regina, Winterpeg, Guelph/Waterloo, etc) you can slash the cost of owning a home while keeping a mostly decent salary.
The only really great thing about Vancouver is the weather, which is much milder than the rest of Canada. As long as you can mentally deal with the 6 months of constant rain in winter.
As a Canadian working many years as a software developer, while I'm sure examples can be found where this is happening, 99% of the work is still in the U.S. And U.S. employers, as much as they like to complain they cannot find enough developers, are reluctant if not outright 100% against hiring people working in Canada, even with the CAD USD difference.
Just try and convince a hiring manager that you'll get the work done from Canada while the company is U.S. based! I've tried several hundreds of times over the last few decades.
Unless you're willing to move down to the U.S. and be sitting in an office chair at their location 9-5 M-F, you'll never get a call back from HR or the hiring manager.
I have a great idea! Let's make sure we purchase software from the lowest cost bid. Those places keep costs low by hiring low-cost developers. Not bothering with tests and QA. They're also likely to be last on the list of companies to upgrade their process, guidelines, etc. High school students could probably write this in just a few weeks. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm a long-time developer, stuck in code maintenance role hunting down other crappy coders' bugs in a software project written in the 1980s. I already see everything in a negative light. "Get off my lawn" kind of thing. And now you submit stories like this!? May as well pass the razor blades.
Is the database populated with falsely precise coordinates?
No. The locations are the center of a circle. The size of the radius -- which is yet another field in the database -- then determines the precision. But some users (some web sites, some apps, etc) look at the center of the circle, place a pin at that location, and then forget to indicate that the radius is hundreds or thousands of km.
Here is an example from the MaxMind database when I look up a Google address, 65.44.217.6:
Note the "accuracy_radius" field, which is in km. But if you ignore that field and only look at latitude and longitude, you have a single pin on a map, incorrectly making it look like an IP address maps to a specific house or business, while it should map to a large circle with a 200 km (124 miles) radius.
With SSD's being around $100 for a samsung 256gb drive, i doubt anyone is deploying less than 128 these days.
Bought my teenage son a DELL 3-in-1 laptop in October 2018. Came with a 32 GB SSD.
After he turned it on, Windows attempted to download some updates. Filled up the hard drive. We spent a couple of days trying to fix it, removing default installed apps, rolling back updates. In the end it was a lost cause. I finally convinced him to let me install Ubuntu on it, which makes me happier since all my home computers run Ubuntu.
Now most of the disk is free versus having zero disk space available. I found it incredible to see Windows take up 100% of a 32 GB drive and then complain it had run out of room.
The other reason that email is frowned upon in the healthcare industry is that it's far too easy to print multiple identical copies of documents. Patients more and more often want their prescriptions emailed to them and I have to tell them no. How great would it be to get a prescription for Oxy over email and then print a hundred copies, one for each pharmacy in the city?
Are your faxes printed on magical paper that prevent copying?
> The ability to combine two arbitrary files is relatively limited
I disagree. Any file format that has a "comment" field (or other optional meta data field) can potentially be abused this way. And most non-trivial file formats have something similar to a comment field.
The surprising thing is when sites that host these files -- whether Twitter, Imgur, etc -- don't re-process the images and drop the extra information.
What an incredibly effective way to piss off a large set of developers! The early adopters of git obviously were non-microsoft devs. Just discussing this now will be seen as a very serious threat to most of that population subset. Just look at any other product MS has purchased over the years to see what happened to the linux (or non-MS) version 1-2 years after the purchase.
E.g., anyone had any trouble using Skype in Linux over the last year, versus 3-5 years ago?
How long would it take before access to github is integrated into VisualStudio, and how long after that will the command-line version of git start failing to pull/push/etc to github? "Pull must be performed from within VisualStudio Team Explorer. Command-line version of git is no longer supported. Please upgrade to VisualStudio 2020."
Looks like these are electric rental scooters. You unlock one with an app on your phone, take it out for a spin. Once you reach your destination, you leave it somewhere else to charge and use the app to lock it up, thus making it available to someone else. https://www.bird.co/how
In both Canasta and the US, people who are qualified are unemployed while I can't find qualified candidates.
If only corporations were more open to remote workers versus insisting that people be sitting in the head office between 9am-5pm. That is the main problem I'm currently facing, trying to find work in my relatively small city. Lots of work...as long as I'm willing to move to one of the large cities where the cost-of-living is so high I cannot afford a decent house, much less a nice place to raise my children.
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Not according to the CBC documentary series "Statistics of Canada".
I find your concept of cheap housing in Toronto and Edmonton to be laughable. Maybe you should wake up and realize it's 2019, not 1967.
You're inventing things! I never even mentioned Edmonton in my post. And when I wrote Toronto, I mentioned "lower cost of home ownership" compared to Vancouver, I didn't say it was cheap.
While I do have years of experience, and I've lived and worked in both the U.S. and Canada, I wasn't born in 1967. All my posts referenced recent experiences. (I sold my home in Vancouver just a few years ago.)
I know Americans are notoriously bad at geography, but take a look at a map and find Vancouver. You'll find that Canada is much larger than 1 medium-sized city. (Vancouver itself is only 600K people while Vancouver + lower mainland is 2.7 million.)
And the cost of housing is through the roof, while the tech salaries are the lowest of all the large Canadian cities. Unless you are born there and have ties that keep you there, the best thing you can do for your tech career is to move somewhere else. Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montréal, all have better pay and lower cost of home ownership than Vancouver + suburbs.
If you're willing to look at smaller cities (Regina, Winterpeg, Guelph/Waterloo, etc) you can slash the cost of owning a home while keeping a mostly decent salary.
The only really great thing about Vancouver is the weather, which is much milder than the rest of Canada. As long as you can mentally deal with the 6 months of constant rain in winter.
But if you move down here, the housing is cheaper than Vancouver [...]
Canada != Vancouver
As a Canadian working many years as a software developer, while I'm sure examples can be found where this is happening, 99% of the work is still in the U.S. And U.S. employers, as much as they like to complain they cannot find enough developers, are reluctant if not outright 100% against hiring people working in Canada, even with the CAD USD difference.
Just try and convince a hiring manager that you'll get the work done from Canada while the company is U.S. based! I've tried several hundreds of times over the last few decades.
Unless you're willing to move down to the U.S. and be sitting in an office chair at their location 9-5 M-F, you'll never get a call back from HR or the hiring manager.
I have a great idea! Let's make sure we purchase software from the lowest cost bid. Those places keep costs low by hiring low-cost developers. Not bothering with tests and QA. They're also likely to be last on the list of companies to upgrade their process, guidelines, etc. High school students could probably write this in just a few weeks. What could possibly go wrong?
I wonder which government officials used them.
Hillary, of course.
I'm a long-time developer, stuck in code maintenance role hunting down other crappy coders' bugs in a software project written in the 1980s. I already see everything in a negative light. "Get off my lawn" kind of thing. And now you submit stories like this!? May as well pass the razor blades.
Here is an example from the MaxMind database when I look up a Google address, 65.44.217.6:
Took the wrong line from my Apache log file, that IP address is not a Google one but a msn.com bot address.
Is the database populated with falsely precise coordinates?
No. The locations are the center of a circle. The size of the radius -- which is yet another field in the database -- then determines the precision. But some users (some web sites, some apps, etc) look at the center of the circle, place a pin at that location, and then forget to indicate that the radius is hundreds or thousands of km.
Here is an example from the MaxMind database when I look up a Google address, 65.44.217.6:
{ "city" : { "names" : { "en" : "Fresno" } },
"continent" : { "code" : "NA", "names" : { "en" : "North America" } },
"country" : { "iso_code" : "US", "names" : { "en" : "United States" } },
"location" : { "accuracy_radius" : 200,
"latitude" : 36.6055,
"longitude" : -119.752,
"time_zone" : "America/Los_Angeles" },
"postal" : { "code" : "93725" },
"subdivisions" : [ { "iso_code" : "CA", "names" : { "en" : "California" } } ]
}
Note the "accuracy_radius" field, which is in km. But if you ignore that field and only look at latitude and longitude, you have a single pin on a map, incorrectly making it look like an IP address maps to a specific house or business, while it should map to a large circle with a 200 km (124 miles) radius.
With SSD's being around $100 for a samsung 256gb drive, i doubt anyone is deploying less than 128 these days.
Bought my teenage son a DELL 3-in-1 laptop in October 2018. Came with a 32 GB SSD.
After he turned it on, Windows attempted to download some updates. Filled up the hard drive. We spent a couple of days trying to fix it, removing default installed apps, rolling back updates. In the end it was a lost cause. I finally convinced him to let me install Ubuntu on it, which makes me happier since all my home computers run Ubuntu.
Now most of the disk is free versus having zero disk space available. I found it incredible to see Windows take up 100% of a 32 GB drive and then complain it had run out of room.
I have it on a 2012 R2 to create reverse tunnels, the shell you get is the normal cmd.exe.
What happens when you attempt to run a GUI application? E.g., notepad.exe?
$ ssh peter@winpc.local
Password:
Peter, you forgot to provide us with the IP and password so we can test as well.
It's Windows that you'll be talking to. So no X forwarding.
I understand. What I meant by -X was "will we be able to run Windows apps remotely?" Or does SSH only give us command-line access?
So is this just the SSH client? (Which is still a step in the right direction -- sorry, Putty!)
Or are we talking as a server, to ssh into a Windows computer?
And if we're talking server, can we ssh -X and run an actual GUI application?
The other reason that email is frowned upon in the healthcare industry is that it's far too easy to print multiple identical copies of documents. Patients more and more often want their prescriptions emailed to them and I have to tell them no. How great would it be to get a prescription for Oxy over email and then print a hundred copies, one for each pharmacy in the city?
Are your faxes printed on magical paper that prevent copying?
> The ability to combine two arbitrary files is relatively limited
I disagree. Any file format that has a "comment" field (or other optional meta data field) can potentially be abused this way. And most non-trivial file formats have something similar to a comment field.
The surprising thing is when sites that host these files -- whether Twitter, Imgur, etc -- don't re-process the images and drop the extra information.
The land of the free!
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This is the MagicLeap mixed reality game video that was released 3 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apparently are the proper delimiters.
Apparently < & > are the proper delimiters.
Fixed that for you.
In fairness to some recruiters who I know and who are very good, it's the bad 90% giving the good 10% a bad name.
10% good? I think you're being generous!
Git is already supported by VS, what is the problem?
The problem is when Visual Studio becomes the *only* way to access it.
What an incredibly effective way to piss off a large set of developers! The early adopters of git obviously were non-microsoft devs. Just discussing this now will be seen as a very serious threat to most of that population subset. Just look at any other product MS has purchased over the years to see what happened to the linux (or non-MS) version 1-2 years after the purchase.
E.g., anyone had any trouble using Skype in Linux over the last year, versus 3-5 years ago?
How long would it take before access to github is integrated into VisualStudio, and how long after that will the command-line version of git start failing to pull/push/etc to github? "Pull must be performed from within VisualStudio Team Explorer. Command-line version of git is no longer supported. Please upgrade to VisualStudio 2020."
A few herbs and spices [...]
Once upon a time there may have been a series of SF books about giant worms and spices...!
Looks like these are electric rental scooters. You unlock one with an app on your phone, take it out for a spin. Once you reach your destination, you leave it somewhere else to charge and use the app to lock it up, thus making it available to someone else. https://www.bird.co/how
In both Canasta and the US, people who are qualified are unemployed while I can't find qualified candidates.
If only corporations were more open to remote workers versus insisting that people be sitting in the head office between 9am-5pm. That is the main problem I'm currently facing, trying to find work in my relatively small city. Lots of work...as long as I'm willing to move to one of the large cities where the cost-of-living is so high I cannot afford a decent house, much less a nice place to raise my children.