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DariusLikewise fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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Oct 14, 2016 03:46
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MickeyFinn posted:There is no alternative that is palatable to a politician. What can they do? Announce that their goal is to destroy the savings of homeowners or tell non-homeowners to get hosed? The only option is to keep building in cheaper areas and hope no one notices their life flying by on the morning and afternoon commutes. I think it's important to note as well that pretty much every politician is deep into real estate themselves. The average age of established pols skews higher, and RE in certain cities has absolutely been the best possible investment to have been holding the last 20-30 years. Council/MLA/MP salaries and buddy deal kickbacks/backscratches are good, but it's still not private jet money. Lots of these folks are also counting on their own RE portfolios to really gild their retirement. They aren't going to gently caress themselves over.
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Oct 14, 2016 03:49
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Subjunctive posted:They don't need computer scientists either, they need programmers. They can be educated much more effectively, and much less expensively, outside the research-fetish university system. If all you want is some chucklefuck with 4 months "bootcamp" experience making GBS threads out React/Angular from google searches, whom you can justify paying $14/hr because they don't have a CompSci / S-Eng degree, sure. The tech sector in this town is the laughing stock of North America and experienced workers in any related field can't flee it fast enough, leaving only the dregs.
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Oct 14, 2016 03:50
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Vision critical and dwave u guys Even if dwave were a real, viable technology, why the gently caress are they in bc? Why the gently caress would anyone with a physics degree want to work for a shitass company for 60k/year when they can be making 200k+ for Goldman Sachs
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Oct 14, 2016 03:53
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leftist heap posted:Labor shortage Labour shortages are caused by a lack of experienced workers. Between industry and the government, guess which one is exclusively capable of giving workers experience in industry. Go ahead, guess. Also, guess which of those two doesn't want to spend a dime turning inexperienced workers into experienced ones. Go ahead. Guess. Can you feel my contempt?
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Oct 14, 2016 03:54
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Rime posted:If all you want is some chucklefuck with 4 months "bootcamp" experience making GBS threads out React/Angular from google searches, whom you can justify paying $14/hr because they don't have a CompSci / S-Eng degree, sure. I'm referring to colleges, not boot camps. They can end up with bachelor degrees, even. Programming is a trade, best taught and learned like a trade.
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Oct 14, 2016 04:01
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Subjunctive posted:I'm referring to colleges, not boot camps. They can end up with bachelor degrees, even. Programming is a trade, best taught and learned like a trade. If only programmers themselves understood this, we wouldn't be in this current workforce predicament.
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Oct 14, 2016 04:07
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Rime posted:If only programmers themselves understood this, we wouldn't be in this current workforce predicament. Yeah, it'll pass. Too many people and companies are trying to take the magic out of Computer Science, the academically significant pieces are going to get pushed down and aside. As should have happened to the trade of Engineering decades ago, but oh my university status signaling.
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Oct 14, 2016 05:27
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Rime posted:If only programmers themselves understood this, we wouldn't be in this current workforce predicament. It is a constant effort to get everyone else to realize this, and you have to be careful while you are doing it as well. Someone that is sniffing their own farts doesn't want to hear that they are basically this generations plumbers.
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Oct 14, 2016 05:28
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Baronjutter posted:People pay big money just for the Trump branding. What's making anyone who isn't actually owned by trump to keep that branding anymore? Legal contracts. Although apparently Trump hotel vacancies are skyrocketing by like 30% lately so that could give cause. I'm sure Trump would fight every one though. That sign's been covered up almost as soon as it was put up. Rumours are that development is getting vandalized regularly. namaste faggots posted:The chinee in charge of holborn is the most tone deaf autist you can imagine so sorry van losers trump is here to stay I liked this interview, he's such a spaz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd4wR3xCad8 Also Ivanka is a piece of rear end, as her dad would say.
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Oct 14, 2016 06:45
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Rime, please do the needful and accidentally drop something on the sign.
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Oct 14, 2016 10:10
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bootcamps seem like a huge scam
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Oct 14, 2016 14:47
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Dreylad posted:bootcamps seem like a huge scam How else will you become the legendary language agnostic mobile developer or full stack web magician?
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Oct 14, 2016 14:58
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Looking at what tech companies are offering in Vancouver even with the lovely dollar and rampant SR&ED abuse: it's not a supply problem.
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Oct 14, 2016 15:36
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It's a population that's too stupid, too lovely, too parochial to come up with new ideas
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Oct 14, 2016 15:38
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https://twitter.com/PhilipSoos/status/786914021295415296?s=09
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Oct 14, 2016 15:39
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Data aside, people who create graphs like that without sufficient axis labels or vertical grid lines need to be loving killed
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Oct 14, 2016 15:40
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yippee cahier posted:Looking at what tech companies are offering in Vancouver even with the lovely dollar and rampant SR&ED abuse: it's not a supply problem. Curious: what sort of figures are we talking? For a junior, intermediate, and senior developer with a reasonably in-demand tech stack background.
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Oct 14, 2016 16:42
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Lexicon posted:Curious: what sort of figures are we talking? For a junior, intermediate, and senior developer with a reasonably in-demand tech stack background. A backend developer with 4 years experience and an S-Eng degree commands a whopping $80k at Amazon Vancouver. Their on-call policies will have you working 12-16 hours a day at all hours of the day and night every three weeks (including weekends), however, so factor in how that drags down your hourly wage. The same position at Amazon Seattle pays over $140k USD, and does not include 16 hour sprints on a Sunday. Rime fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jul 29, 2022 |
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Oct 14, 2016 16:50
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I asked a few of my friends in Victoria and Vancouver's "tech scene" about what they get paid. It's certainly more than me, but my new-hire no-degree amazon programmer friend in Seattle gets at least double. My local friends have many years of experience and multiple degrees. What can we ever do help our poor tech sector's talent problems?? Maybe a horrific right wing government could do something insane like just lift most all labour rights from tech workers? Oh poo poo the BCNDP already did that.
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Oct 14, 2016 16:54
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Canada is like the parents who buy every last thing on the gift list of their children even though their kids don't even really want the things. The kids are Canadian companies.
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Oct 14, 2016 17:18
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Jesse Brown has been heavily implying on the Canadaland podcast that the federal government will soon be subsidizing our media and entertainment sectors too, since he was invited to a panel on that very subject and seemed to be the odd one out for being a) someone who operates a solvent media company and b) thinks Canadian content creators should use their abject failure to make anything worthwhile as a catalyst to do better rather than be bailed out ad infinitum.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:15
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Baronjutter posted:Maybe a horrific right wing government could do something insane like just lift most all labour rights from tech workers? Oh poo poo the BCNDP already did that. I'm guessing you are referring to this? http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/employment-standards/factsheets/high-technology-companies Was that actually the NDP? My google-fu is failing me to find when that was added to the employment standards act.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:23
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peter banana posted:Jesse Brown has been heavily implying on the Canadaland podcast that the federal government will soon be subsidizing our media and entertainment sectors too, since he was invited to a panel on that very subject and seemed to be the odd one out for being a) someone who operates a solvent media company and b) thinks Canadian content creators should use their abject failure to make anything worthwhile as a catalyst to do better rather than be bailed out ad infinitum. gently caress. This. poo poo.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:41
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The Butcher posted:I'm guessing you are referring to this? http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/employment-standards/factsheets/high-technology-companies IIRC it was part of the original act.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:47
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My friend used to work for Bill Tam. She hosed off to Australia (because the actual tech opportunities here in Vancouver suck) and now makes 2.5-3x what she was making in Vancouver.
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Oct 14, 2016 19:05
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quote:Toronto’s rental market is the hottest it has been in years, with bidding wars breaking out and rents soaring, according to a new study that predicts Ottawa’s new stricter mortgage qualification will make the region’s rental market even less affordable. hahaha that is a loving liberal use of the word "study". some poo poo some guy thinks? From a company that most likely gets all its money from the condo industry: "Urbanation regularly conducts high quality market feasibility studies for new condominium and purpose-built rental apartment projects across Canada. We use a multi-disciplinary approach to our studies, leveraging our proprietary database, external data sources, on-the-ground-knowledge, industry contacts and, most importantly, our depth of analytical expertise."
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Oct 14, 2016 20:11
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Based on the same report I thinkquote:http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/toronto-condo-rents-urbanation-1.3804724
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Oct 14, 2016 20:19
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Who the gently caress rents a condo? Why yes I would love to subject myself to the worst part of both renting and owning while having none of the benefits of a purpose built rental unit!
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Oct 14, 2016 20:27
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I do. Motherfucker
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Oct 14, 2016 20:29
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Furnaceface posted:Who the gently caress rents a condo? Why yes I would love to subject myself to the worst part of both renting and owning while having none of the benefits of a purpose built rental unit! A lot of people, because there aren't enough purpose built rentals, or they want crazy luxuries like a dishwasher or in-suite laundry. I'd never do it, but there's a huge demand for it, specially at the upper ends of the market.
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Oct 14, 2016 20:29
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Baronjutter posted:A lot of people, because there aren't enough purpose built rentals, or they want crazy luxuries like a dishwasher or in-suite laundry. I'd never do it, but there's a huge demand for it, specially at the upper ends of the market. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not re: dishwashers and in-suite laundry. I really can't. 
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Oct 14, 2016 20:37
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I spent my college years without a dishwasher and having to walk several blocks to do laundry. I'm not going to do that again.
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Oct 14, 2016 20:41
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Dishwasher, sure. But I ride my road bike 4x a week and run just as often so for me, in-suite laundry is almost a necessity. I'm doing my laundry every second day and often it's stuff that needs to be separated so it's 2 or 3 loads..
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Oct 14, 2016 20:44
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Furnaceface posted:Who the gently caress rents a condo? Why yes I would love to subject myself to the worst part of both renting and owning while having none of the benefits of a purpose built rental unit! All the working professionals that want to live the downtown lifestyle. It's quite popular.
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Oct 14, 2016 20:45
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rhazes posted:Dishwasher, sure. But I ride my road bike 4x a week and run just as often so for me, in-suite laundry is almost a necessity. I'm doing my laundry every second day and often it's stuff that needs to be separated so it's 2 or 3 loads.. Not everyone is a 20 something bachelor/dating, some people have families and value their time. 30-60 mins a day for hand washing dishes, lol get out. Leaving my house for several hours to do laundry instead of doing it during the evening adhoc lol. Spend the money, enjoy your time.
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Oct 14, 2016 20:47
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Risky Bisquick posted:Not everyone is a 20 something bachelor/dating, some people have families and value their time. 30-60 mins a day for hand washing dishes, lol get out. Leaving my house for several hours to do laundry instead of doing it during the evening adhoc lol. I agree with you. I'm just a weirdo who finds hand washing dishes very therapeutic. My lease is up now but where am I going to find a place that's a better deal with in-suite laundry? I'm in a 600sqft basement for $950 in Vancouver in Mt Pleasant. My best hope to find somewhere nice where I can maybe entertain guests/host gatherings is to find a partner and progress to the point where we move in together. And I make $75-80k/yr, I just don't want to put too much of my money towards housing/utilities.
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Oct 14, 2016 20:53
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James Baud fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Aug 25, 2018 |
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Oct 14, 2016 20:56
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If any rentailures feel bad about not having in suite laundry my friends in new York making about 5x as me covet my buildings in-building coin ops vs having to walk blocks to the nearest laundromat.
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Oct 14, 2016 20:57
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namaste faggots posted:I do. Motherfucker Suddenly all the pieces fall into place.
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Oct 14, 2016 20:59
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