Frostbeard

As far as Canada goes, the winters in Calgary are pretty nice. I've lived in the Yukon, Nova Scotia and I grew up in the lower mainland of BC, but I'm in Calgary now and have been for a couple of years. Definitely prefer it here.

There's little snow, and we get tons of sunshine. When it does get cold, it's dry, so it doesn't feel as bad as a warmer temp on the coasts. You get reprieves in the form of chinooks too, where the temperature will jump up 20 degrees for a week or two. It's above freezing here today, but it was at -20C on Friday.

There is a tech scene here as well, and it's starting to get a bit more traction now that oil and gas aren't eating up all the brain power. Getty Images has offices here, and there are start-ups in and out of the energy industry. It'll be interesting to see what the city looks like in 10 years. Lots of folks are calling for it to be the next Detroit, but it doesn't really seem to be going that way.

Another digital service that's only available in the US. Content licensing is just plain broken.

good coffee, donuts better than Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts.

Maybe a few years ago. Everything at Timmy's is warmed from frozen now, and the quality is much worse than it used to be.

I've seen a few of these stories that assert Hiroshima lost his account. That misrepresents things a little. What actually happened is he was blackmailed into changing his username; his Twitter account, including his tweet history, followers and everything besides the single-character username, seems to have remained intact and under his control throughout the ordeal.

All the hacker claims to have obtained from PayPal is the last four digits of the credit card number. Perhaps this failed attempt they mention was them asking the hacker to provide the complete credit card number ending in XXXX as a form of verification?

It seems pretty harsh to do it this way, but from the sounds of things these were pretty sweeping layoffs ("hundreds" is what's being said). Doing it on a personal level probably wasn't even remotely viable, even just in terms of time.

We leave the feature branch on the remote repo indefinitely, but we really don't need to do so. The diff between the feature branch's squashed commit and the previous commit of the project usually tells us everything we need to know when a problem crops up. We keep the feature branches "just in case", but in practice they're never used once the branch has been merged into production.

In my team we do something superficially similar, but instead of rebasing we just merge changes from master into our feature branches whenever master is updated. This seems to result in fewer conflicts for us, despite what you might expect.

Also, when the feature branch is to be merged into master we do a squashed commit so that all changes from that branch show up as one commit in the main project history. The feature branch's commit history is preserved in the repository (thought not in the master branch), so it's not really any more difficult to roll back partial changes.

Our situation is likely different from many projects though, as we only ever have one developer working in a given feature branch.

On the other hand, they have been contacting bloggers and media in exactly such a manner. https://plus.google.com/+JeffJarvis/posts/5X7nHcjijsC

Apparently knowledge of basic physics isn't a prerequisite for being president of a major corporation. Who knew?

A childish sense of humour is not the exclusive domain of men, fwiw.

My first reaction when I saw this campaign was to roll my eyes a bit, to be honest. My own daughter loves the gender neutral and even "boyish" construction toys, and even though she loves ponies and princesses and pink frilly things, she'd probably cast something like this aside.

On reflection though, I think anything that helps get girls interested in the concepts is fantastic. This simply wouldn't be of value to my own daughter (or my nieces for that matter), but I can see how it would be really helpful in getting girls like your niece interested, and that can only be a good thing.

I was expecting more misogyny. I may be spending too much time on reddit.

(Edit: To be clear, I'm referring to the group "Shit Reddit Says", who highlight and then downvote instances of misogyny and the like in reddit comments).

I actually live only 10km away from where I work, and my commute amounts to less than an hour per day.

I'm at the office by 0700 and I leave sometime after 1700. My work situation deviates significantly from a programmer's "standard" in a lot of respects, unfortunately. I do get paid for overtime at least, but I'm beginning to question whether it's worth it.

I wish it were possible for me to do something like this during the week, but it isn't. I wake up at 05:30 as it is, and I'm out the door and heading to work by 06:30 (that's an hour to SSS, prepare and consume breakfast, take out the trash, scrape the windshield, and whatever else might need doing). I don't get home until after 17:30. I'm typically occupied being a loving and attentive father up until 20:00 or so. Assuming I want to get 8 hours of sleep, that means I'm left with one and a half hours to split between personal projects and my wife during the week.

On the other hand, I do get up just as early on the weekends, and it's probably my most productive time of the entire week, up until my kids get up.

So, apparently there is a limit to the number of add-to-circle actions you can perform in a day. I added the circle and then removed it, and when I went to re-add I got an error: "You've reached the daily limit for adding to your circles. You can add more tomorrow."