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Saw "Sign in with Microsoft" and left.

Proper hand washing techniques say to wet your hands before applying soap, but I rarely see people doing that.

I wonder how Instacart feels.

How do I check if my RAM is being used as disk cache? Is that known as "swap"? I'm using the FreeMemory app which tells me that 371 MB is free right now.

I have a 120 GB SSD with 8 GB free.

Try airpair.com

I've been in Toronto all my life and I love it.

Job market for developers is good. There are a lot of hot startups in Toronto (500px, Wave, Wattpad), Waterloo (Vidyard, Thalmic), Vancouver (Unbounce), etc.

Check this list out of the top 100 Canadian startups by TechVibes http://www.techvibes.com/blog/the-canadian-startup-index-201.... Also try all your standard job boards (GitHub, Indeed, Mashable, Craigslist) and Canadian ones like StartupNorth.

When you move to your new city, use Meetup.com to find local tech meetups. It's a great place to meet people and find work.

I'd be happy to answer more questions via email.

I recommend putting some sample problems on the home page to persuade people to sign up.

This doesn't sound right. You have good credentials. You should be able to get a job.

1. Are the companies looking at your transcript? If so, are your marks acceptable?

2. Are you targeting the right jobs?

3. How far are you able to get through the HR process? Do you get interview requests? Do you pass the first interview with HR that usually just measures culture? Do you pass technical interviews?

4. For companies that you've had some sort of convo with, have you asked them for constructive feedback? I've done that successfully many times

5. Make sure your GitHub project clearly demonstrates your programming skills. If you don't have any open sourced projects on your account, that's a serious disadvantage. I had a few private repos that I recently open sourced, I said "ah what the heck, why do I need to keep this code private?" and it's really helped my job search process. Employers don't feel the need to test me so much in technical interviews because they've seen a lot of my code on GitHub.

6. Spray and pray is just one tactic. There are many others. Use LinkedIn and request to connect with people who work at your desired companies. You absolutely must write a personal message <300 chars and sell yourself. Or google those people at your dream companies, find their email address, email them, sell yourself, ask for a convo. Some will respond and have a convo with you or they'll connect you to HR. This got me some great opportunities.

7. You should be working your network. Go through your LinkedIn contact list, use your discretion on who to message, send a short note that you're looking for X role in Y type of company. People will help! Again, this has worked for me.

Find my contact info on my profile, I'm happy to help via email/skype.

Have you considered what the <3 month stint will appear like on your resume/LinkedIn profile? Will you keep it on there or omit it and accept a gap?

I'm looking for that role. We should talk :)

Many times a day I'll just open my stream and read a few tweets. Usually I'll find great content like links to blog posts and job opportunities. I've gotten a lot of real value out of Twitter.

Absolutely javascript. You'll be making a mistake by using CoffeeScript first. It's very important to understand the underlying language before using a meta language like CoffeeScript.

The roommate thing is really annoying. I'm a grown man with a full time job paying $100k+ and I gave to have roommates? That was not in the plan...

Try posting your need on http://www.airpair.com/

Read JavaScript The Good Parts. Some chapters are pretty difficult. I'd say if you can fully understand and apply everything in that book, you're an expert.

Also Addy Osmani free books on large scale javascript applications and design Patterns patterns are very good.

Why does that first problem exist? I could not deal with that.

I had and still have a girlfriend when I entered the startup scene. I pick work, her, and sleep. I skip the exercise and I feel fine. Not sustainable forever though, but it'll do for now.

I'm a Canadian citizen applying to the best US tech jobs and I feel your pain man. I'm having visa troubles too and it really sucks, you feel helpless. That's why so many people are working on immigration reform.

  Getting Real
  Rework
  The Dream by Gurbaksh Chahal (motivational, not instructional)
  Business Model Generation
  The Lean Startup
  Delivering Happiness

Good luck!

This is inbound marketing at its best. What a great way to tell the tech community you're hiring.

"Don’t sell me your product, sell me your challenges"

I actually care about the product equally if not more than the engineering challenges. I write code to build products and businesses, not for the sake of engineering. I'm a bit different though :)

1. Will there be any kind of mentorship and professional development for you or do they just want individual code monkeys?

2. What's the culture like? Is pair programming encouraged? Are there lunch and learns? Is there a budget to buy books or go to conferences?

Well what I meant is HTML with minimal presentational classes like span6 push1 or something. I'd like the CSS classes in my HTML to be related to the object, not whatever grid framework I happen to be using.

I'm using SASS and the Foundation grid mixins to define visual components of the site (eg tag, display-picture, etc) that can be put on any page and have different sub classes (eg tag-small, display-picture-large).

With this, the goal is not to have CSS increase linearly with the number of pages/content because I've defined all the visual components of the site and they can be shared across pages.

Looking forward to advanced lessons on writing semantic markup using grid mixins + their options (eg nest, collapse, etc).

You're right, oversight on my part.

All the best with your next venture Max.

Curious, what are some Toronto startups you think are on never ending life support?

I really like it. Haven't seen one better. Will probably implement it soon.

Depends on why you quit your job. Need more details.

Sacha you are a beast! You're always putting our new projects. I'm starting to notice your designs even before I see your signature too.

This plugin is hilarious but very unnecessary.

I solved this a long time ago with a simple `alias hrc-='heroku run console --remote'`. That way I can type in console `hrc- production` or `hrc- staging`