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Did you read the article? The article was primarily about noise pollution.


The Panda is also a bumbling unskilled male who fails upwards while being supported by a female who put in years of work to build real expertise (Tigress).


Because the Tigress paints inside the line and follows all the rules. Where Oogway specifically chooses Po because he is a self learner and innovates and does things in an unconventional way. Which is why he is the one who beats Tai Lung.


There are lots of PM jobs where an engineering background would be really helpful.

Shameless plug: we have a bunch posted at datadog.com/careers. Take a gander.


NYC's airport transit isn't as good as other cities (Tokyo, Toronto, etc) but nobody who lives in New York would make that trip by car at that time. They'd fly from LGA or JFK or take the car.


Apparently helicopter is also an option for the slightly richer. Not even 1%ers, it’s like 250$ from manhattan to jfk


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I did apply to your company many times, but never got a reply. How much time should one expect to get a reply?


Code that obscures network access is not good. How do you handle errors, retries, reconnects, timeouts, etc?

It's not worth it :)


"Toronto is already home to a number of successful venture-backed businesses, such as Shopify, KIK, ..."

Fact check time. Shopify's headquarters is in Ottawa. Kik is in Waterloo.


While we're at it, a bunch of YC companies are headquartered or have an office there like Appcanary, Upverter, PagerDuty. Big tech companies have offices there too, like Mozilla and Google (mostly sales in Toronto for now, eng in Waterloo). Lots of small bootstrapped tech startups, consultancies, and agencies, too—like the famous Teehan+Lax agency that got bought by Facebook. This is just from the top of my head, I'd love to see a more comprehensive list.


Don't know about KIK, but Shopify has a large development office in Toronto near King and Spadina.


They also just invested in a huge space (King Portland Centre) that won't be built until 2019.


Huge is putting it mildly. This is a pretty major campus.


Kik requires devs to be in Waterloo.


Shopify is also in Montreal


how is the tech scene at Montreal?


Regrettable

Some say it's ok. There are some startups, but most of the environment seems to be "corporate oriented", and .NET is very popular


That's a shame. Given that Vancouver and Toronto both have higher rents and are less attractive cities than Montreal, I was hoping that it'd be heating up in terms of jobs.


A certain irony that the "language barrier" for most people will be C# and not French.


future? any new policies taking shape to attract more companies?

I read somewhere that due to French clause in Quebec companies stay away from the city. Is it true?


There is some aspect of the French law that keeps companies far, yes, though there's a limit (the law doesn't apply to small companies in some aspects)

https://www.thestar.com/business/small_business/leadership/2...


It's not bad, but not great. Some startups, lots of corporate. I've never had trouble finding work, though.


Ok. I'm making a decent living here doing Ruby and JS development, but salaries are not great.


Waterloo is arguably part of greater Toronto. The local commuter service (Go Transit) reaches all the way to Kitchener-Waterloo.

I say "arguably" because it's a two-hour train ride each way, which is pretty brutal.


No Waterloo is not and will not call itself a part of greater Toronto. It's like saying Baltimore is a part of DC (just a little bit closer), or like saying Philadelphia is a part of New York City (just a little bit farther).

Kitchener-Waterloo is a distinct town, and is a part of the original Canadian "Tech Triangle" - with the demise of RIM/Blackberry, it's lost the lustre but there's no way anyone can take seriously bundling Waterloo into the Greater Toronto Area.


Bad example, Baltimore and DC are usually considered part of the same metro area.


Waterloo is over 100km away from Toronto


Which is similar to the distance between Santa Clara and the Golden Gate Bridge, for what it's worth.


Does driving between Santa Clara to the Golden Gate Bridge include farmland in the middle?


If Waterloo is part of Toronto, you may as well count in Hamilton, Oakville, and Milton as well. Hell, throw in Niagara Falls.


Those cities are actually part of a geographic region called the Golden Horseshoe Area, which is more comparable to Census Statistical Areas in the US (like the SF Bay Area, Baltimore-Washington Area, and Chicagoland).


It's called the "Greater Toronto Area" for a reason.


It's really too bad I Waterloo us not in Toronto. It would be like Stanford being the heart of SV or MIT being in Boston.


Counter fact check: there's a massive Shopify office on Spadina


Yes, they have a big office in Toronto but their main (and largest) office is on Ottawa.


I tried it last night. It was amazing. Going to be huge.


Did you try it as a one off or have you bought a headset for long term use? I feel that as a one off it would be mind blowing but soon loses its appeal over a period of time.


Dev. here, and in it daily, sometimes for hours at a time. It's true that the initial wow does wear off fairly quickly, but there is way more to the platform than that.

Indeed, the fact that the depth isn't immediately obvious is probably one of the best indications that it isn't a fad. Fads tend to be based on things that are shallow and ephemeral. The advent of synthetic space is anything but.


Year of the VR desktop?


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Damn why aren't you in San Francisco! I've wanted to work for you guys for months! Expand faster!


Apply! Remote will work for the right people. :)


If index funds become the default investment of choice, will their value diminish?


Short answer: yes, and already happening.


As an outsider, I'd love to read more about this.


Basically if you are following the same publicly known strategy (buy the index), other investors can arbitrage you by buying or selling ahead of you, like before a stock becomes part of the S&P500. That means you always buy stocks dearer and always sell cheaper.

That's why confidentiality and anonymity is crucial to a functioning market.


If there any difference if people were to instead invest in a Total Market index fund vs a S&P500 one?


You dodge the arbitrage of stocks getting in and out of the index but you miss the virtue on using an index, which is that the index rules are not a horrible investment strategy: buy the stocks that are on the rise, sell when stocks are on the way down.

But total markets will still have other downsides, like all the stocks become completely correlated if enough people are only making investment decisions on the total market instead of individual stocks, and prices become less meaningful.


Interesting - I've been saving money and trying to get into investing more recently, and lots of the advice I've read for someone young seems to point towards using an allocation of something like 90% stocks and 10% bonds, maybe like

- 55% Vanguard Total Market Index

- 35% Vanguard Total Market International Index

- 10% mixture of Vanguard bond domestic and international index funds

Is there a better strategy out there besides index funds that doesn't involve me getting eaten alive with active fund fees? A lot of what I read suggests that actively managed funds never consistently outperform the market index.


Fees have been going down from 1% to 0.05%.


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