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infernal machines posted:this really bothers me, because there's seemingly no practical reason for calgary or edmonton to be any less able to support tech bs than toronto or vancouver or montreal.  Bioware
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infernal machines posted:this really bothers me, because there's seemingly no practical reason for calgary or edmonton to be any less able to support tech bs than toronto or vancouver or montreal. It's not that there's no tech scene whatsoever, it's that it's full of jobs like this: https://www.indeed.ca/viewjob?cmp=i...52f68dceb&vjs=3 This job expects you to do frontend development, backend development, QA, SEO, design, copywriting, social media management. That's at least 5 separate jobs if you want to wrap SEO/writing/social media into an overworked marketing position. Nobody who has experience in any of those is going to want to do much more than dabble in any of the others, let alone be expected to be actually knowledgeable about them and probably make like 70k per year while working for a psycho who thinks that free coffee is a reasonable substitute for an actual benefits package.
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Oct 23, 2019 05:54
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:It's not that there's no tech scene whatsoever, it's that it's full of jobs like this: This is also tech sector AF though. 70k is super optimistic. There are mission critical devops jobs that are 24/7/365 on call for $32k these days.
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Oct 23, 2019 06:01
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infernal machines posted:This is also tech sector AF though. lmao gently caress capitalism
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Oct 23, 2019 06:03
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Lmao I make alkost that much working sales and service at a bike shop.
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Full time minimum wage at $15/hr is $30k/year. Cooks and landscapers used to make double minimum wage. Then again, corporations used to pay taxes. How could shareholders even afford to eat?
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so did the ndp do badly? i'm reading the wikipedia thing, it seems depressing it's because of quebec isn't it
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Kurtofan posted:so did the ndp do badly? i'm reading the wikipedia thing, it seems depressing They had no money, they got wrecked last election, their rhetoric has been uninspiring pablum up until like 3 weeks ago, and Jagmeet has no fire in his belly. And it's also because of Quebec.
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so what's behind the bloc's resurgence? a stronger feeling of independence since the last referendum or a better local platform/manifesto?
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i say swears online posted:so what's behind the bloc's resurgence? a stronger feeling of independence since the last referendum or a better local platform/manifesto? Man in a turban
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ah, a strong secular resurgence that is also anti-catholic, i'm sure
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Oct 23, 2019 10:27
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its heritage not hate buddy
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i say swears online posted:ah, a strong secular resurgence that is also anti-catholic, i'm sure what? No, that giant crucifix in the National Assembly is COMPLETELY SECULAR.
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infernal machines posted:This is also tech sector AF though. My company contracts like $300+k a year for a 24/7/365 on call IT group and about 75% of the guys they dispatch to us take 2 hours to delete a 40gb .OST or troubleshoot a bad headset. What I'm saying is, IT is a land of contrasts.
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Oct 23, 2019 13:46
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Noblesse Obliged posted:it’s heritage not hate buddy It's more like a heritage of hate.
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Grraarrgghh posted:My company contracts like $300+k a year for a 24/7/365 on call IT group and about 75% of the guys they dispatch to us take 2 hours to delete a 40gb .OST or troubleshoot a bad headset. it is indeed. the requirements are a joke and the pay is a joke, well, you get a lot of clowns. your contractors are probably making minimum wage and fresh out of some private tech degree mill
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McGavin posted:It's more like a heritage of hate. whatever do you mean. Im sure a Quebec nationalists ideal world is full of French speaking Haitians and Cameroonians
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infernal machines posted:this really bothers me, because there's seemingly no practical reason for calgary or edmonton to be any less able to support tech bs than toronto or vancouver or montreal. Im not directly involved in Edmontons tech scene but its my understanding there is a lot of infighting between the different municipal companies that have been created to push tech jobs / investment in Edmonton / entrepreneurs / incubators.
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Noblesse Obliged posted:whatever do you mean. Im sure a Quebec nationalists ideal world is full of French speaking Haitians and Cameroonians For like half of separatists that's actually true. There's a lot of surprisingly non-racist separatists. There's also a lot fo really racist ones.
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cougar cub posted:Im not directly involved in Edmontons tech scene but its my understanding there is a lot of infighting between the different municipal companies that have been created to push tech jobs / investment in Edmonton / entrepreneurs / incubators. admittedly i have not spent a lot of time considering the practicalities of building tech friendly market space, but i'm curious what the hell they're doing that's messing it up so badly
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While the wipe out in Quebec was probably inevitable the failure to pick up seats in the GTA is incredibly unimpressive - so much so that Singh just straight up said he has no explanation for why they did so badly. Let's not forget that the NDP in general and Singh specifically wasted a lot of time. After Mulcair was booted they let him hang on for a year before running a leadership race and Mulcair mostly phoned it in (and then spent the next election attacking the new leader, which emphasizes how insane it was that they allowed this clearly bitter man to stay in charge after being unceremoniously humiliated). Then after Singh won a very policy light leadership he hosed around, spent a lot of time making really terrible strategic decisions like his profile in Toronto Life, got married, and generally tried to position himself to be the next Trudeau style instagram politician. In the last leg of the campaign, facing the possible destruction of the party itself, the NDP pivoted back to a full throated and unapologetic defense of traditional priorities like taxing the rich to expand the safety net. It was apparently enough to prevent a total collapse but not much more. Don't let the last half of the campaign blind you to the fact that the NDP created this mess. Singh's leadership has been incompetent and he unperformed badly here.
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MonsieurChoc posted:For like half of separatists that's actually true. There's a lot of surprisingly non-racist separatists. It was really Singh's poor french speaking skills that prevented Quebeckers from voting for him.
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Arivia posted:what? No, that giant crucifix in the National Assembly is COMPLETELY SECULAR. They actually took that specific crucifix down. Now to get to work with all the 10 000 other ones in other public buildings and every single drat thing named after saints.
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infernal machines posted:admittedly i have not spent a lot of time considering the practicalities of building tech friendly market space, but i'm curious what the hell they're doing that's messing it up so badly A cousin's spouse has been making over 200k/year for the last 15ish years doing software development contracting for oil & gas in Calgary. There have been a couple spells of a few months without work but it's been way more consistent than I ever believed possible. That's going to steal talent from start-up land.
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Helsing posted:While the wipe out in Quebec was probably inevitable the failure to pick up seats in the GTA is incredibly unimpressive - so much so that Singh just straight up said he has no explanation for why they did so badly. i wonder if the ndps takeaway will be going back to instagram and pushing for a pharmacare that just 'fills in the gaps' or if they will keep up the tax the rich slightly more rhetoric
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James Baud posted:A cousin's spouse has been making over 200k/year for the last 15ish years doing software development contracting for oil & gas in Calgary. There have been a couple spells of a few months without work but it's been way more consistent than I ever believed possible. that sort of consultancy is the kind of thing i'm talking about too though. it doesn't have to be all "what if uber for dogs?" bullshit. i know tech is synonymous with start-up, but it's possible to have a tech industry that doesn't just burn other people's money on terrible ideas
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DariusLikewise posted:i wonder if the ndps takeaway will be going back to instagram and pushing for a pharmacare that just 'fills in the gaps' or if they will keep up the tax the rich slightly more rhetoric My guess would be that it will be the same Instagram strategy but now they'll be copying AOC instead of Trudeau, except without the huge grassroots movement that AOC is tapping into and without an equivalently charismatic spokesperson.
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butthurt albertans and a strong bloc presence could mean a weaker federalism in the future
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i like how the questions are basically "would you like alberta to provide services, like some sort of government?" like, perhaps if the province stepped up and started doing something useful they wouldn't be so loving asschapped about the rest of the nation
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I think we should end confederation then all join the EU as countries. I want fancy cheeses and meats please
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reminds me of the terminally aggrieved idiots in etobicoke here in toronto. mad as hell about the rest of the city having things like "services" and "infrastructure" but they keep electing barely literate dispshits who promise to never build anything
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The ruling against Jessica Yaniv is bullshit and will hopefully be changed, because it's contrary to all established law. Say what you will about Jessica and her approach, the case was clear-cut from the beginning. But most troubling, a lot of people are using the craziness of the case, and the craziness of Yaniv, to hide their established anti-trans sentiment. That's why you have conservatives coming out of the woodwork to talk about her; they obviously don't care about the case, they just like a chance to disparage trans people. Shitheads like Meghan Murphy springboarded a career as a professional TERF speaker over Yaniv. The case isn't about Yaniv, it's about rights for all trans people, and being on the side of the LGBT community instead of on the side of TERFs. Also: https://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/13772-2/ & https://www.canadalandshow.com/we-need-to-talk-about-jessica-yaniv/ xtal has issued a correction as of 16:45 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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gonna get a big ol yeesh from me, dog
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xtal posted:The ruling against Jessica Yaniv is bullshit and will hopefully be changed, because it's contrary to all established law. Say what you will about Jessica and her approach, the case was clear-cut from the beginning. But most troubling, a lot of people are using the craziness of the case, and the craziness of Yaniv, to hide their established anti-trans sentiment. That's why you have conservatives coming out of the woodwork to talk about her; they obviously don't care about the case, they just like a chance to disparage trans people. Shitheads like Meghan Murphy springboarded a career as a professional TERF speaker over Yaniv. The case isn't about Yaniv, it's about rights for all trans people, and being on the side of the LGBT community instead of on the side of TERFs. Is that copypasta from somewhere insane i should be following?
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Is that copypasta from somewhere insane i should be following? If you find yourself agreeing with Lindsey Shepherd, Meghan Murphy, Ezra Levant, Alex Jones and Jordan Peterson all at once, you should probably re-evaluate your position
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xtal posted:If you find yourself agreeing with Lindsey Shepherd, Meghan Murphy, Ezra Levant, Alex Jones and Jordan Peterson all at once, you should probably re-evaluate your position Sky blue, they said? Heck no!
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xtal posted:The ruling against Jessica Yaniv is bullshit and will hopefully be changed, because it's contrary to all established law. Say what you will about Jessica and her approach, the case was clear-cut from the beginning. But most troubling, a lot of people are using the craziness of the case, and the craziness of Yaniv, to hide their established anti-trans sentiment. That's why you have conservatives coming out of the woodwork to talk about her; they obviously don't care about the case, they just like a chance to disparage trans people. Shitheads like Meghan Murphy springboarded a career as a professional TERF speaker over Yaniv. The case isn't about Yaniv, it's about rights for all trans people, and being on the side of the LGBT community instead of on the side of TERFs. I'm not super informed on this case but I think Yaniv will win on judicial review / appeal.
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Yaniv is stupid and the other people you listed are retarded assholes. Its not a binary choice.
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