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I love Gitlab but sadly, quite a lot of services that offer free accounts for open source projects (TravisCI comes to mind), generally don't integrate with Gitlab

It's one of the few reasons why I am still using Github :( .

so if JWTs are supposed to be avoided, what's a better alternative? cookies? (does that not open another can of worms?)

I could be wrong but what I think he/she meant was the fact that Uber has so many investors in it's pie that a loss like Uber would be monumental (considering the profits they'd get if it succeeded).

So it's investors would probably bail it out (and try their best to make sure it's a bit more restrained).

The only place where I've seen the certification as a requirement is govt jobs (and UfT I believe).

Apart from those two, I've yet to find even a reference for it (let alone a requirement) - which is a cycle because one of the requirements of being a PEO is 12 months of work experience under a PEO (which won't happen as there aren't enough PEOs - the chicken and egg problem).

Software Engineering is recognized as Engineering both by IEEE and by Professional Engineers of Ontario (or other provinces) who are members of Engineers Canada.

Certification does exist....it's not widely used or accepted because in most cases, companies want developers not engineers.

To add to it, the only thing stopping Software Engineers from becoming members of the above mentioned organizations is a code of ethics (and experience) - not knowledge or know-how.

Because spending $200/m hits you more than just the thought of future illness.

I don't support this bill, I do want this idea explored / discussed - as in, why should healthy people subsidize costs of insurance for the unhealthy? (as in, is not fair is it?)

I don't want to discourage you, but those numbers are very good (7/50 onsite means you got to almost the final stage and considering that you are not applying for every job under the sun - this is a good number - 10/50 would be a great number imo).

Don't give up now even though you feel like it!

While I don't have 12 yrs of experience as you do, I had almost 2 yrs of exp leaving Uni and still had a hard time getting a job!

Just out of curiosity - are you looking for jobs at startups? and are they located in SF/SV?

As a final point, from what I've been told it's a better idea to deal with good recruiters instead. Maybe asking your colleagues for recruiter recommendations and contacting them would get the results you are looking for.

Just to be clear...best practices with designing status pages:

1. ensure it does not depend on your infra (if your api server goes down - it should not take down your status api with it)

2. make sure your service reports to your status page instead of your status page looking for the service.

3. redundancy for your status page?

anything anyone-else wants to add?

Can someone explain to me why a teddy bear need to be connected to the internet?

Especially in this fashion?

Why can't we just have a BT connection between the device and the phone and IAPs in the phone if they must?

because he refused to hand over the local passwords for his devices.

I am not saying what the CBSA did was legal (as the case was dropped), but not handing over local passwords is considered "obstruction of the officer's job" by the CBSA (for which he was charged).

So I'm assuming that if they did want to charge you, they could.

This is not exactly true.

* Canadian' border can ask you for your local passwords.

* You can refuse - at which point, if you are Canadian/PR, you are allowed to enter the country but your device is confiscated and sent to Ottawa for further examination.

* They can NOT ask for online passwords (like your dropbox account for example). THAT SAID, if you give them your local password, and you are logged in to Dropbox, it's fair game.

Furthermore, this has not been through the Supreme Court to set precedence.

I've always wanted to visit the US. I grew up in India and UAE and viewed US as the ultimate place to be. It was my lifelong dream to get a job and settle in the US (and have an American way of life).

The more time goes by, the more the US is moving away from that pedestal I had put it on.(privacy is getting eroded, cops are killing people, the govt. does not trust it's own citizens etc. - and no it's got nothing to do with Trump, this was happening before Trump too - doubt if he'll make it better).

Even now, US still has a lot of ideals I consider dear, but man, they are making it hard for me to even visit the country (wanted to have an all-over-US driving trip when I get my car - but I doubt if that's happening considering recent news)

I didn't realize the power of Jest (and how it made everything easy to use) till I decided to re-create the functionality with Mocha (and nyc for coverage).

Took me almost half a day to an half-assed port of sorts of such an awesome tool.

(the reason I used Mocha was because it was already a dep for my integration testing and I didn't want to introduce Jest - in the end - I introduced jsdom, enzyme and nyc as well)

The idea is that you can probably open the file from other windows programs (like Sublime text).

For a while, it was impossible for windows programs and WSL content to mix (and if you could somwehow do it, it was highly discouraged).

But that's no longer the case. Notepad is just an example to prove this point.

CDB is a really cool db for the time I've been playing with it (just a few months I think).

That said, I'd really appreciate if they'd launch a hosted DBaaS. By that I mean, more in line with dynamodb or documentdb instead of say MySQL on AWS for example.

I know it's on their timeline, but dbs generally get selected during the start of the projects and unless absolutely necessary, companies don't want to change dbs.

Azure's VMs was awesome till they decided to create the new portal and add in new features. Then they made networking insanely complicated.

But Azure is very pricy if you want to use it just for VMs.

and why Medium?

No seriously, what's the value proposition?

Youtube at the time had an awesome "free" service when most others were littered with ads and had terrible video players.

Instagram had an awesome mobile service that was hip and clicked with it's users.

Medium is at best a crappy bloggr that was once pretty awesome but now that it has a lot more users (and worse a lot more writers), the quality of content has dropped significantly.

I've read articles about from people who are basically using Medium to do content marketing and worse yet, do dumb challenges like 1+ article / day challenge - case and point: https://medium.com/@larrykim

Medium is quickly turning into hipster 9gag or buzzfeed.

I'm definitely not saying we don't need a Youtube for written content, but imo, Medium is not yet it.

We seriously need self destructing time based keys.

Once a device does not have a password in a time defined by the user - all of it is wiped.

It goes without saying that this should be off by default but definitely a good feature.

But I was under the impression that Vancover was incredibly expensive.

Your take home pay at the end of the year would be 88k - 116k (if those numbers are to be believed). After accounting for rent and other expenses, I feel like that's average at best.

How would a hobbyist based in Canada get access to that market to buy stuff from? (without getting scammed?)

If there is any way I can help (anything from building, or even just documentation or support), I'd love to get involved.

I am very passionate about XaaS (X as a service) think that we need a lot more DBaaS and we just don't seem to have that many options to choose from which is sad considering almost all software projects out there - especially the hobby ones would benefit so much from such a service.

I wish some company (apart from compose.io) would create a RethinkDB as a service (DBaaS).

I would totally love a dynamodb or firebase kind of payment structure!

I specifically excluded compose not because their service is not great (from what I've heard - it's excellent) but more so because they charge a premium for it.

my mom (an anesthesiologist) wanted me to become a doctor and do my masters in radiology.

So I decided to observe an radiologist at an hospital for a day (back in 2011), and I noticed that most if not all of it was already automated.

Radiologists were there to rubber-stamp the machine's work (and to ensure compliance, laws and what not).

I totally understand.

And we have quite a lot of bad lemons (if I may), who basically have 0 clue of what they are doing. They join teams or take on projects, blow away loads of $ and have nothing to show for it.

But imagine if every doctor or lawyer was paid based on such bad lemons for example (considering that we can still had bad lawyers and doctors even after having licensing exams).

I've been reading up about this - why do companies setup provincial corps when they could be setting up federal corps (as in, it costs $100 more and there seem to be no downsides last I checked)?

Also, how do you manage taxes? (especially for revenue earned from other countries for example).

I feel we are not getting paid enough!

FYI if you think devs are overpaid, it's generally in SV (and even there, they make average considering the cost of living - a good idea is to look at the end of month savings instead of earnings).

With that said, we are getting paid a lot less than the value we add - seriously - the entire world around you works on software and if it were to stop for even an hour, we'd have a lot of issues - so with that in mind - we should be getting paid more.

Now i know you'll say a CRUD developer adds no value, but I could argue that neither do most lawyers or traders - but they get paid a lot more no?

A friend of mine had something similar[0] on his car (it was a Lamborghini) to avoid his car being identified in images online. I'm sure it's not hard to have hoodies and tee shirts with this integrated. It's not visible to the human eye so unless you hold up a camera, it'll not be a problem. That said, this might be an issue if you visit a bank or airport or something along those lines. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2oYReMaS4A

That's because they are not selling those very pictures to anyone who'll pay.

They (facebook) are the middle men - people who have money come to them to sell their product, and facebook knows who to show those products too.

your friends (and mine, and a huge percentage of facebook's userbase) trust facebook enough for that to happen.

And it does not help anyone's cause when people say "X company (be it Google, Facebook etc.) are selling your info".

Can you ask for a refund? :)

What I'd like to see - is the employee breakdown.

How many are working on the acutal product/engineering?

I work for a startup (that was bootstrapped I believe) and our sales team is almost half the company (we are just under 100 people right now).

Point being, at Snap's scale - I have a feeling they'll have a lot of Business Development Reps trying to bring in contracts for adverts.