Surprised it has not been mentioned yet, but mbasic.facebook.com would solve the issue in both articles. I don't even have a facebook account and I'm constantly referring people to the slimmer version. I guess they must not advertise it.
I didn't say similar things didn't exist in Canada, I said "Jim Crow" didn't exist in Canada because that was the subject of the comment I was replying to. Thanks for the scolding though.
Six months ago people knew this was coming. If they bought at that time they were just ignoring the writing on the wall because they wanted to play real estate casino. No sympathy for sad house flippers, sorry!
Keep in mind if you get capital gains you pay tax twice to both governments. You make it sound like it is a huge deal but factor in the increased accounting costs and in most cases the advantage isn't that great at all.
No they mean increase. Rents are high and it is causing problems for retail workers who have to commute 2h to get to work because of living costs in the city.
One of the proposals was to look at energy use. Which is sorta absurd for "green" Vancouver to encourage cheats to waste energy on things to make the empty home look active. Not sure if that is what actually got implemented though.
That is... Weird. I'm a Canadian who does business in US (but I do not reside or physically work there). I have always understood TN as the way to go. I have relatives on L-1 and P-1 visas and I always give the L-1 guy a hard time because the path to become a citizen is beholden to his (now bankrupt) employer. Never even considered that any of us would qualify for H1B. I suspect it is "lazy" legal departments who just file Canadians with all of their international people.
I wish you weren't being downvoted! If you join an organization that is union you should almost certainly join. Otherwise... You're a scab. That's how it goes. Sorry HN doesn't see reality.
Wow you and I live in alternate universes. In my experience, and having been without work at various times, and freelancing... I believe developers are scarce. You need an aptitude and some (self?) training to take part and a lot of people can't be bothered.
That being said, I see you describe yourself as a "pinko commie" and as a business owner who was at one time a union administrator in a past life I would never hire you, so perhaps that explains the bubble you are living in.
Scarcity. Once you know how to program, and others know that, everyone wants to hire you. There are simply not enough developers yet for all the things people want to do right now.
I'm not a Mac user, but bravo to the author for doing a really good analysis. I run a skylake-based Asus running Ubuntu with Gnome and it performs well, but the battery life does vary more than my Lenovo/haswell did. I'm able to get minimum 5h of dev, max 10h, depending on a variety of factors, without using powertop tuning. This post reminded me that my suspicions about Gmaps are worth investigating. Try to always close maps... But now I will be more careful!
I have never heard of that, but I will share one thing I like about it as an IDE (and historically I have hated IDEs and used vim)... No config. Open a "folder", no project setup bullshit, and it remembers your work-state for each project/folder you open... And best part: autocomplete! But it is not heavy and slow. It does autocomplete per-file. So it does not need to analyse my entire project codebase, it just sees I used a word before and lets me tab to complete. So nice.
It does. The only things quirky about it: command mode "up" button doesn't know about the history of past commands... Sucky for iterating on a regex. Undo is also broken, but it took me 2 full months to notice that the vim plugin broke undo!
I have used vim for years and I was tasked with making an Electron app for a client so I tried vscode... And I love it! I still use vim for sysadmin things but it has been the first thing Microsoft has made since the original Natural Keyboard that I absolutely love. It is good. I recommend it to others. I hate bloated editors and it is good... No config/setup process either - the defaults are enough!