> 58. Trying to police commit history is going to be painful

This has been my experience. Very painful

https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/consumers/home-buying/first-time... The Canadian government did try a similar strategy for a bit (although I think it maxed out far below 50%). It was discontinued recently.

Smaller smaller world - I work with him today!

Some bigger cities (such as Edmonton, 1M people) still have a somewhat sane real estate market. In Edmonton a single family detached home averages around 450k CAD, while average household income is over 120k.

Carpal tunnel and poor posture causing back pain

In some cases it lasted even longer than that. In 2004 at a Canadian University I was told during the student orientation that CS was not a great choice due to outsourcing.

There is no reason someone couldn't change commit dates and be prolific far earlier than December

Lack of pre-december github activity could be an indicator, i.e. no pull requests, no issues, no stars or forks, perhaps even no feed updates, etc.

Lack of github activity may also be an indicator for having a life outside programming. Or using private repos.

Or just being as prolific on Gitlab, Bitbucket or elsewhere. We have to stop taking Github contributions so seriously.

Its been one hell of a rough go for Heroku lately.

I think you would be insane to start a new project with them today. Which is crazy for me to say, as I was one of their biggest fans for the last decade.

Some small part of me wants to use vim-clutch and make a manual transmission version of this.

I like the idea of pressing the clutch pedal to go to insert mode, and releasing it to go back to normal mode.

As I recall, early mouse prototypes involved foot pedals, but businessmen didn’t want to look like they were using a sewing machine.

That’s the usual vim clutch. I used to use it that way but the pedal I used did not offer enough resistance and so my foot would tire.

If your foot would tire, that's a sign that you were running _in front of_ the car. When you run behind the car, your foot will be exhausted.

In my case, since the foot was too tired, it must have been a bicycle or motorcycle.

That's terrific, thank you! The kids are going to hear this!

Exactly, a keyboard should replace that clumsy driving wheel that protrudes. It would be MUCH easier to pilot if every car function had a vim shortcut.

"How to exit car"

The safety angle is key. I’ve never had vim crash on me.

But if you do crash, next time you get into the car it’ll ask you if you want to restore from backup or delete the car.

I do wonder how it will fit car~ in my current directory^Wgarage.

"Travel K for 20 feet, take the first L and immediately get in the H-most lane"

Ooo use it for the mode!

Did Shopify have a choice?

Many Canadians who got computer science degrees left to work for American companies for 2x-3x more money.

Shopify is a remote company. They can hire wherever they want. I suspect it’s a cultural preference.

Anecdotally, I know a senior dev who moved back to Canada from SF to work for Shopify.

They can't hire people who prefer to work in the US for higher salaries though, which is the point.

Yes they can. In fact they do.

They have a San Francisco office, and they employ people in the US.

They can also pay US level wages in Canada.

Then the rebuttal to OP isn't that they're remote, it's that they can pay salaries competitive with other US companies.

> Did Shopify have a choice?

They most likely didn't.

Often, businesses don't realize how much they are missing until they bite the bullet and hire SV caliber engineers.

Seems every time I'm pitched something about "finding unconventional IT talent" it's about hiring cheaper programmers. There's a whole industry built around paying less for programmers. With questionable results. Hell, Canadian politicians pitched Vancouver as an ideal HQ2 location to Amazon since tech workers are worth ~50K less than in America[0]

[0] https://www.vancouvereconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02...

Shopify's salaries are pretty competitive. They aren't "Bay Area" levels, but you can also live wherever you want, so your after-housing take home pay works out better.

Amazon Toronto doesn't pay much better than Shopify- I can say first hand.

> but you can also live wherever you want, so your after-housing take home pay works out better.

"After-housing" doesn't really mean anything: buying a house means you build equity into the house which you can later sell (and pocket the appreciation).

this doesn't apply to most junior/mid level engineers who are just a couple years out of college and are still on their student loans / don't have a mortgage / prefer to rent in downtown to be close to local Tinder scene :p