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cam3ham··on Ask HN: What's likely to suck in any development job?
yeah... as someone that has used both. Asana sucks.
cam3ham··on H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
To add to this - universal health care.

This is very important for immigrants who have families. Basically, immigrating to Canada means you have freedom, stability, and health for you and your loved ones.

cam3ham··on Ask HN: How do you get code reviews of your personal projects?
lol.

you test it. does it work? ok. ship it.

cam3ham··on Crypto’s 80% Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash
Hard to take this seriously when Bitcoin is up over 6x from less than 1.5 years ago..
cam3ham··on Pocket’s 30M Users Are Great for Publishers
pocket is long dead
cam3ham··on Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake
lol if anyone has delivered, it's the guy that launched rockets and build electric cars.
cam3ham··on AWS icon quiz
hahaha, this is great
cam3ham··on Ask HN: How much do you earn (and save) as a software engineer in bay area?
not sure, maybe someone else ca chime in.
cam3ham··on Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
it's really not that complex at all...
cam3ham··on Ask HN: How much do you earn (and save) as a software engineer in bay area?
$200K - $500K vested over 4 years.

So approx. ~$100K average per year.

cam3ham··on Ask HN: Why is my post not visible when not logged in?
shadow ban
cam3ham··on Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years
lolwat
cam3ham··on Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years
Ecobee, WealthSimple, Shopify,
cam3ham··on Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years
I'm from Toronto but did 3 year stint in SF and then a 4 year stint in NYC. I moved back to Toronto last year to purchase and settle into my home base. Love it here.

These comments are hilarious and so typical of Toronto - there is a reason it's called the "screwface capital" of the world and I think it really rings true.

cam3ham··on Ask HN: Is Magic Leap just vaporware?
I watched the livestream they did on twitch demoing some of their libraries and it looked terrible.

The AR mapping looked like what snapchat had a year ago.

cam3ham··on Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
the same reason people didnt switch off facebook when they started showing ads. Or instagram. Or Twitter.

the network.

cam3ham··on Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit
lol, re: uber eats - are you serious?
cam3ham··on Spotify hits 83M paying subscribers, more than double Apple Music’s 40M
This. Spotify should be worried about the growth of Apple music - which is only available on iPhone's but already have 50% of the subscribers?

Then you account for the other big platform which is Google Music... I don't see a play for spotify here.

cam3ham··on Up to Two-Thirds of Bitcoin Transactions Have No Economic Value
lol what does this even mean
cam3ham··on PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
they successfully raised crowdfunding..
cam3ham··on How difficult is it to go from system administration to software developer work?
In general, software design/development is a completely different set of skills then sysadmin/devops.

They do overlap when you need to actually deploy your app.

cam3ham··on Ask HN: Have any of you left a startup that was selling snake oil?
Your CEO's job is to build vision and hype. He's supposed to look toward the future - the eventuality of what you guys are working towards.

This is so facepalm/cringe and typical of engineers who think they know better and everyone is an idiot lol.

cam3ham··on Ask HN: Going to lead a struggling dev team in a different culture, now what?
this.

I've seen so many "senior leaders" jump into a project and try to implement these types of "textbook processes" when in fact they don't solve any of the issues at all.

The project just gets dragged out, etc.

cam3ham··on WeWork Bans Meat
the crops that cattle eat are generally not the same as the crops that humans want to consume.
cam3ham··on Ask HN: What steps can I take to earn $250K+?
$250K salary + RSUs? Or $250K total compensation?

Because the latter isn't that great with the COL in the Bay area. Also, if the company isn't already public... then forget about the RSUs!

cam3ham··on Google Is Building a City of the Future – Would Anyone Want to Live There?
considering the average price to own in Toronto is approaching $1M and rental vacancy is nearing 1% this comment sounds like beggars choosing.
cam3ham··on Google Is Building a City of the Future – Would Anyone Want to Live There?
As someone who lives in CityPlace, it's actually a pretty awesome area to live for young professionals. Right smack downtown, close to pretty much everything - work/offices, parks, bars/restaurants, delivery (same day Amazon Prime, all downtown restaurants on Uber Eats), transit, walking distance to every major sports arena, etc.

Not to mention massive growth in the area has lead to a lot of attention and investment from the city... seems to only be getting better every year.

No idea where you got the idea that it was "soulless"? Perhaps because it is a relatively new development/area... there is massive construction going up everywhere in the area including 2 new schools and community center right in the middle of canoe landing park: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2017/09/cityplace-finally-gettin...