mhkhung

It happens to OSS projects all the time and simply discourages further contributions.

Last year I took on an issue that has been opened for years, did all the work creating a pull-request, updating test code, yada yada, even another one that fixes their build problem. The maintainer took the PR to fix their build problem and simply ignores the original issue. Any chance I will spend my time contributing to that project again? No way.

It's capitalism that killed it. Stock price was sky high because of the optical-fiber hype. Management has to kill those traditional businesses (switches, etc) that doesn't have that high growth rate that justifies the stock price. Then optical hype was busted..

Also, who was supporting telecom in the old days? Bell Labs, AT&T, Lucent, etc? The government of course. Privatization happened and trade agreements with Europe meant the US and Canadian government can no longer support telcos and thus the downfall of all these companies at the time.. Even European ones like Alcatel, Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens. This allowed the Asian telcos, not only the Chinese ones, but Korean ones like Samsung to take over.. (Of course the Chinese government and Korean governments were and are still heavily involved in them).

And giving full citizenship to HK people is really not what they wanted. The people there want independence, full-democracy, not an escape route.

The husband and son of the 'chief executive' (ie Beijing puppet) have full UK citizenship (as well as the previous chef executive too).. The British should revoke all these government officials' citizenship (And their family) in fact.

"Laws change depending on who's making them. Cardassians one day, Federation the next – but justice is justice." – Odo, 2369 ("A Man Alone")

How much representation does Catalan has in the central government and high court?

As Catalan has been operating independently, surely with its own police force and Catalan people in the army, can the central government force the Catalan to release power?

Toronto is totally different even from 10 years ago. Spadina/Queen/King (where all the starts-up are located) is so busy even at nights and weekends because so many people live and work there. The ports area being developed, is totally dead by comparison (that's why the city wants Google to help develop). And suburb Toronto, check out Yonge/Sheppard-Finch today, it is 2-km stretch of pan-Asian restaurants that you cannot find anywhere outside of Asia.

Amazon must have nearly 400 R&D people in Toronto now. Probably 300 when I left. I was always involved in recruiting and Amazon hires the best from all over the world and probably over 70% of the engineers were from Waterloo and the new comers are mostly from Europe, plus we got a few returning from US Amazon as well. There is always some who wanted to move to Seattle after 3-4 years but the number is like 1 in 15..

UofT is one of the best research university in the world, at the PhD level.

Waterloo is best at producing the best engineers at the undergrad level.

I think it is common to have incompetents running HR in these high-valued startups, when the VP is probably just a beer-buddy or the wingman of the founder, with no formal HR education or experience. I have had one of those asking the big no-no questions in an interview and I can't stop rolling my eyes.

Vancouver is a retirement haven.. 10 years they all retired. Those needing to work go to Toronto.

Automatic transmissions are way more reliable, with the computer shifting gears at perfect timing each time. None of my automatic transmission cars (1st hand, sold after 4-8 years) ever need to have its gear box repaired. Manual transmission, on the other hand, more than 1 thing would break for sure after 4 years (right after the warranty expires of course) for sure. Gearbox, clutch cables, ...

Cars with auto transmission costs and extra thousand but you get it back when you sell the car, plus you won't rack up expensive repairs and towing.

Detached house is over 1M in Toronto. But there are plenty of semis and townhouses that are way less (700K?) and condos walkable to downtown for half of that.

Amazon is in a class-A tower right next to the banks and they cannot hire enough.

And ALL the good engineers I know have good jobs in Toronto or Waterloo. But there are plenty of bad ones that wouldn't pass a phone screen.

There is always (your) life cycles. Both myself and my brother Waterloo grads in the 90s. He is in the sv and I stayed in Toronto. My company sent me down to the valley to "help" for a few months (ie living and food all expensed) when I was still fresh. Hated it.. there is nothing at night. So I never have the urge to move there afterwards.

Then once you have multiple kids, single income doesn't take you far in the valley even with Google scale salary and mortgage. Plus Amazon has dev centre in downtown Toronto that pays well (not silicon valley well, but Seattle well). (Yes, startups don't pay well in Toronto, but then there are lots of small and profitable sw firms that pays decently).

Or just convince google to move that Kitchener office to Toronto, when so many people are commuting anyway..

And then, Vancouver is always a retirement city..