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We're wildly aware. Currently 80+% of our trade is with the good old USA. We're basically an economic colony. But when the ambassador to Canada and Trump himself note that they don't need Canada (both statements happened in the last 2 weeks) we don't really have a choice but to attempt to diversify. We don't want to do it, we were reasonably happy with the existing arrangement, but it's not up to us to decide what the US does. It's up to us to decide what we do.

Careless People (the book about Facebook from a rogue insider) has literally a through line about all of this. Zuck is responsible and knew, both times.

Doesn't every personal computing device on the planet have a browser and thus Javascript? Aren't there more mobile devices than laptops and desktops? I'm an Excel dev and I'm pretty sure that Javascript is the largest development language in the world.

Not OP, but I did work for a boss once that was technically very strong, but not as strong in terms of planning and scheduling work. It was a very difficult process, because I couldn't deliver what they wanted, as what they wanted changed both during and after delivery. Most things I delivered, which were what we agreed upon before delivery, were rewritten as they did not envision or plan work in advance. Technical skills are not a panacea; professionalism is a multidimensional skill matrix.

Exactly: being able to quote esoteric facts and trivia about CPU instruction sets or compiler features and use those while working doesn't automatically make someone adept at planning and leading a team of developers. However, some companies think the opposite, and the end result is not good.


What's a great overview of this phenomena in book form? I'm intensely curious about this.


Hey! You got it right!


It's almost like I wasn't commenting in bad faith or out of ignorance in the first place.


I think you don't understand what has happened here. OP's wife has a DUI in the USA. Canada does not normally allow people with a DUI into Canada. In exchange for $250, they allowed her in. This is both a surprise and a nuisance for OP.


It sounded to me like she paid her US fine and thus ceased to be a scofflaw. After further reading it looks like convicted criminals can apply for a temporary residence permit for CAN $239.75.

This may not be needed if 5+ years have passed without further misdeeds and may apply to be deemed rehabilitated.

This covers individual evaluation of your case and may be denied. It probably also serves to keep the riff raff put especially Americans who otherwise may take a day trip to share their further drunken driving adventures with their least lucky Canadian friends.

It is hard to contextualize this as a bribe with poster as a victim when the very reasonable alternative is simple denial.

You have no right to visit Canada and they can charge you as much as they please and its your responsability to do your own homework as far as travel requirements.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...


Rogue


I know this is late to the party but I think, given that this topic comes up.every day, we should start including statistics in our posts to get a better sense of how AI is working or not for us. I imagine a years of experience / primary language used / tool used / AI positive or negative as a percentile estimate.

Personally for me it's 20 years of experience / Python / Copilot / 85% positive experience.


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