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The hate comes from little inaccuracies that have caused hours of stress and confusion. It is probably not as bad now but I recall getting pretty frustrated after spending hours debugging only to find out the docs were wrong.

If someone barfs in the taxi (which I think is quite common tbh) it may not be visible to the camera even if they wipe it up.

In either case, that car still smells like barf until it is really cleaned.

Pretty sure if I got in a car that was full of barf while on my way to the airport I would stay in the car (and probably barf a bit myself, too).

Look at the cost a different way: your data is clearly important and you just saved having to hire an ops person to help manage it part-time.

I get that this isn't reality though. Once you provision something the amount of maintenance is minimum if done well.

I'm convinced this is how some of the payment gateways make their money.

With one gateway after we switched providers and took the interface out of production we received about 5 fraudulant payments in the month that followed. Someone had hacked the bank's "iframe" service that we did not use and even though we only had the account open for a potential rollback we were still liable for $20 x 5 in fees. It was entirely the bank's fault.

You don't hear about senior-level jobs for $80,000 in major US markets though. In Canada they are quite common (and realistically only worth about 60,000 USD). I work remotely and I've been priced out of my own country. I occasionally take a Canadian gig and it is always about 50 percent of what I would make in USD and the client complains on and on about the cost (if they only knew).

The author describes walking their children through the house upon becoming the owner and finding two people smoking crack. So yes, it was a crack house.

It was also in Parkdale - not exactly one of Toronto's "best" neighborhoods.

I haven't spent much time in NYC but I had never seen people go through the doors as passengers until then. It seemed to be frequent/common too. I've since seen this once in another city and it was pretty clear that it was out-of-the-ordinary when it happened.

I now refer to Visual Studio Code as "vsCode" since it seems to be obvious what it is if you know about it.

Why on earth would you trust substances humans have been using for thousands of years in favor of something brewed in a lab by a pharma company with quarterly goals and a decade (or two?) of tests (perhaps with incomplete test coverage). Difficult choice.

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So the president of a country on a different continent must know all the laws of all other countries in the world?

Trump is pretty openly pushing for bilateral trade, this should not surprise anyone. The fact that Germany has other arrangements and won't change that until the EU dissolves is their problem. It doesn't suggest that Trump is stupid.

Before everyone hates on me for "voting for Trump"... I'm not an American. I'm just sick of US publications ripping on this president for pedantic shit like this.