The stack is to deep. Nothing is easy anymore. The technology count is staggering. I'm close to retirement. I'm looking forward to pursuing my personal programming interests while I work some mundane, no responsibility, minimum wage job.
True. Northern Ontario here. I was born and raised in Toronto, where a damp -10C + moderate windchill feels orders of magnitude colder than dry -40 and no windchill.
The coldest I've been in was -52C (off an alcohol thermometer) and I was fine beyond my eyelids and nostrils crystalizing. That being said, I've been frost bitten a handful of times, each time, the temperature has been near freezing and damp.
But at the end of the day, I'd gladly exchange locales down to the North Carolina/Tennessee area on a permanent basis.
Mr. Buffet pledged 80% of estate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with many, many other wealthy people for the betterment of mankind.
By all accounts, The Gates Foundation is delivering on their promise by reducing child mortality, womens rights, life expectency, health care and education to the underprivileged of the world.
Granted, I live 'up north' but it still gets hot in my new house. I mounted some exhaust fans in the ceiling to pull the hot air from where it naturally rises too. Combined with the forced air furnace fan to circulate cool air (pulled from floor level). Finds the inside of my house 9C cooler on the hottest days of the year.
This is especially important as the brick gets heat soaked and releases its heat well into the night.
Nice to read an article from somebody local, or nearly so, to me.
I remember the outage well, I worked at a major telecommunications company with reserve generators. I really didn't appreciate the depth of the issue until I drove home that night. People were telling other people, total strangers, that nukes were dropping all over the US. You can imagine the panic.
Word eventually spread and the northern mindset of looking after your neighbours took hold, as mentioned in the artice.
I went to use the BBQ to make some burgers. We ran out of propane naturally. My neighbour offered his BBQ which coincidentally, was out of propane. Then HIS neighbour offered his BBQ. He was out building a deck when the power went out. He fired up his generator and continued on. His skil-saw was the only sound to be heard. All the neighbours threw in food and drink and we got to know one another.
I will admit to being a little said after the power was restored, because, except for a nod or a wave, we went back to the business of minding our own.
If I had a gray beard... 30+ years as working dev.
I've never taken a 'computer class' while in school, although I've taken some instruction while working.
Entirely self-taught. I do this because I like it. Back in the day, I never played video games, I taught myself, and wrote, code. To this day, I don't play video games.
It's been my experience that hiring degreed CS graduates may not be the best course. Theirs a big difference between being 'book-smart' and real world smart. I tend to give preference to guys who write code for fun over those who are in it for the money.
Case in point, we just brought on a high-school student who is about to start his comp-sci degree. He has written code for years for fun. He's just rocking it. I'm sure he'll be invited back each summer until his degree is complete and will likely be offered continued employment after.
30+ year programmer here. This is absolutely true. Some days you cause more damage then progress, forcing you to spend still more time correcting it.
My supervisors understand that some days I'm not going touch code, instead I'll spend my time on education by keeping up with new tech, or, writing docs.. anything but talk with other co-workers distracting them
I recently had to update 3 db machines with the updated schemas from one, and the data from a third. Then copy the finished version over to the first and finally the third.
Turns out Visual Studio has a 'diff' generator for both schema and data. Holy hell that worked the treat.
Ask if this is a new position or refilling and existing position. With some discovery, you'll find if the churn rate on the job offered is high. If so, run. Something is very wrong.
I'll be traveling from Ontario to Yosemite and back this summer in my Tacoma. I have exactly the same setup. It works.
I've been deeply interested in going nomadic full time for more than a decade, despite it only recently becoming a thing. Family, job obligations combined with a relatively low cost arrangement for living expenses finds me plunked down firmly.
If my wife and I split, god forbid, you'll find me on the road.
PS: Their are no construction standards for trailers/rv's. Their are built as cheaply as possible. I'd much rather do the van thing if only for the structural integrity.
The trick is not look for work in a startup/dev environment, but in the institutional and corporate environment. Their are jobs and the payscale you desire, just not in the quantities you desire.
For instance, I was at my last position for 6 years. The last 3 of which, I was actively looking for work. It took a while, but I'm making equiv to Toronto wages in a new position.
But yes, the majority of postings are in the low rent payscale neighbourhood. Which is weird, because you'd think to attract skilled talent away from T.O., the scale would in fact be higher.
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