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> 58. Trying to police commit history is going to be painful

This has been my experience. Very painful

Smaller smaller world - I work with him today!

Some bigger cities (such as Edmonton, 1M people) still have a somewhat sane real estate market. In Edmonton a single family detached home averages around 450k CAD, while average household income is over 120k.

Carpal tunnel and poor posture causing back pain

In some cases it lasted even longer than that. In 2004 at a Canadian University I was told during the student orientation that CS was not a great choice due to outsourcing.

There is no reason someone couldn't change commit dates and be prolific far earlier than December

Its been one hell of a rough go for Heroku lately.

I think you would be insane to start a new project with them today. Which is crazy for me to say, as I was one of their biggest fans for the last decade.

"Travel K for 20 feet, take the first L and immediately get in the H-most lane"

Some small part of me wants to use vim-clutch and make a manual transmission version of this.

Did Shopify have a choice?

Many Canadians who got computer science degrees left to work for American companies for 2x-3x more money.

Many many years ago I was hired to convert a Fortran app to C. The first person to try it ran it through a software called "f2c". It worked fine - but the code was totally non human readable so it couldn't be extended later, so it provided almost no value in this case.

Thread safety in Rails is a total pain in the ass. So many libraries out there are not thread safe. I have worked with many large rails codebases and there always are gems that somehow work their way in with major threading issues. I think its a legitimate strategy to run rails apps single threaded and multi process. Not necessarily for all apps or workloads of course.

I came to a similar conclusion years ago. Yes, there are examples of applications that have done it, but they often have very elite engineers. Most teams are comprised of various levels of engineers and its extremely difficult to get right.

I work more in web dev now and I suspect the majority of my team does not know the difference between a thread and a process. HN readers may scoff but these are productive engineers who have build some honestly pretty impressive apps and systems.

So does the "PHP4" book on the shelf.