samBergeron

I've been training BJJ for just over 8 years (Brown belt) and I've only hurt my knee once... wrestling, and I train at an academy that has a strong emphasis on leg locks. The best way to avoid injuries, regardless of if they are to your knees or other, if to learn when to tap. Take the time to go slowly, and take care not to go too hard.

Most of the injuries from BJJ happen when you're stubborn about tapping, or when people go too hard on a move they don't understand. BJJ is a long journey, so you want to train with injury prevention in mind. Hope that helps.

The whole point of documentation though is for it to be complete, technical and well explained. Not to have copy-pastable examples.

W3schools is neither good documentation or good examples though.

I feel like people that argument gun control laws are dumming it down to "if it doesn't work instantly then it's not worth it". If they start thinking about gun control as an investment in the long term in reduction of gun violence/mass shootings/suicides, there is no reason argue against it.

> I don't want to take a major hit to my quality of life just to escape Trumpland

Major hit to your quality of life? I'm sorry, you may potentially have a little less money in your pocket, but you're trading direct cash for better social services (read healthcare and education).

You make it sound like we're living in a 3rd world country.

While free climbing, you also need to wait for your partner to climb the same section. Which effectively almost doubles the time. You don't have that limitation while going solo.

People seem to think climbing Everest is "more common" based on how much it gets publicized in the media. But I've been in the climbing business for a while and still don't personally know anyone who's summited. Maybe I don't have the right friends though.

>> The waves of offshoring in the '00s left many thousands of unemployed COBOL developers

If you were a developer affected by stuff in the '00s, you're probably nearing the end of your career (unless you'd just started) The problem here is the lack of a NEW talent pool.

It's not only banks, I took an internship at an insurance company a couple of years ago that had their entire mainframe written in COBOL.

Not only do they have a hard time finding people to replace their retiring veteran developers, but for smaller companies (like this one) that can't afford to pay ridiculous salaries for a top notch COBOL dev, they have to settle for mediocre aging developers that can write COBOL and are on the job market.

These devs are getting paid good money to work on critical systems and aren't skilled enough to properly maintain them. It would be so much cheaper for these companies to pay better devs to do more recent tech. But it's hard for them to get out of that loop. Makes me rethink where I have my money.

You're taking a very specific case and generalizing it like crazy. The CS industry isn't all Electron apps and simple jobs.

The most obvious example would be the video game industry were you're not straying very far from C++ anytime soon. Performance, speed and native compatibility are a big deal there.

There's definitely a valid career path there.

We actually have insurance like that already [0], you get a generally low starting monthly rate, and it adjusts if you speed, start and stop suddenly, are shifting lanes fast, etc. You install a little chip in your car and you can see monthly feedback. If you drive "safe" you actually save a decent amount of cash.

0 - https://www.mobiliz.ca/en/

It's really not that bad. It's mainly there to make sure companies don't alienate Quebec's native french speaker. You can do fine in the Qc tech industry even if you barely understand french (Source: personal experience)

It's okay they've been robbing you for a while now.

This was a great read. As a Canadian, I get the feeling that (most) people get Harper is bad news, but don't quite get all the details. I'll be sharing this one.

Went down about an hour ago, at least seems like it.