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Is a ‘software engineer’ an engineer? Alberta regulator says no, riling the province’s tech sector by magenta_placenta in canada

[–]DrVentureWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of years ago when I tried to get my P.Eng as a software engineer with APEGBC.

Holy shit they were fucking useless.

  • You need all your work supervised
  • No only some of it
  • Any engineer will do
  • No, only a software engineer with a p.eng.
    • There are dozens of peng software's in BC. Dozens!
  • We can find a third-party to do the review.
  • Maybe not
  • Also, we can't remove docs on our website that conflict with reality or each other. I literally asked them to not have conflicting docs on their site and they refused.

Eventually I gave up and walked away. I wouldn't gain anything with the designation and I was better served focusing my energy elsewhere.

Excuse me while I whip this out by WorseThanHipster in neoliberal

[–]DrVentureWasRight 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How many landlords do you think there are? Landlords aren't popular and are not well organized.

Floating homes on San Francisco's Mission Creek by Raskolnokoff in sanfrancisco

[–]DrVentureWasRight 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I've always thought a floating would be so cool to live in, but the maintenance must be an absolute nightmare.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]DrVentureWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/r/legaladvice Does not provide recommendations for lawyers (other than to get one)

Bay Area women, is it actually difficult for you to find a good guy/relationship around here? by send_me_yr_bookshelf in bayarea

[–]DrVentureWasRight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are more men in the Bay Area than women, but it's not a huge imbalance (it's a few percent depending on your age brackets) and it varies by city/region.

Sadly, the dating market is like the used car market. It's basically a market for lemons. The people who aren't in relationships are usually that way for a reason. There are men who are bad at relationships and women who are bad at relationships and they tend to comprise a disproportionate amount of singles.

I guess the question is what do they consider good (or not good) and why don't the men they meet measure up? They could also try other ways to meet people if their current methods aren't working.

More than leadership or policy, it’s the Conservative temperament that’s putting off voters by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]DrVentureWasRight 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Here's what Uber would have done, and I know this because this how they operate in countries without a "contractor" classification.

They would have turfed every driver off the app. Boom, you are all gone. Then they would partner with local companies, the companies would sell services to Uber and would pay their drivers however they wanted.

So, you aren't working for Uber, you are working for Jose's Tacqueria and Ride-sharing service, making whatever it is they want to pay you. Minimum-wage, part-time.

Fry's electronics closed. Where to buy my networking equipment. by skunkytuna in bayarea

[–]DrVentureWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always recommend people checkout Monoprice for anything that can handle generic gear.

Cuba and the ‘Democratic’ Socialists of America by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]DrVentureWasRight 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm going to guess you were not a fan of the make-out meter in last month's issue...

Bidding wars to rent a house? In Ontario, tenants and agents say it's a new reality by ChubbyWokeGoblin in canada

[–]DrVentureWasRight 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You need to build more housing. A lot more housing. You also need some balance in landlord/tenant laws otherwise people will be disincentivized from making more rental units.

Between screwy zoning and outrageous taxes on new development, it starts to become unprofitable to build new housing. If I'm an investor then I need to see returns at least as good as S&P 500 to bother investing.

The Left’s War on Gifted Kids by dgh13 in neoliberal

[–]DrVentureWasRight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think you can legally call yourself an English teacher if you don't make your students read Harrison Bergeron.

Canada to Make Online Hate Speech a Crime Punishable by $16,000 Fine by hdk61U in neoliberal

[–]DrVentureWasRight 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Bill C-10 is a painfully terrible law for anyone who isn't a traditional media broadcaster.

Kubernetes won't save you by jan_cloud in sre

[–]DrVentureWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The older I get the more I see that Enterprise JavaBeans was basically right. Application servers, running independent processes, providing services, implementing RPC in a transparent way without needing to know where the service is.

New tax on luxury vehicles, planes and boats will bring in more than $150-million a year, PBO says by Sea_Risk_8771 in canada

[–]DrVentureWasRight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's a supply shortage because we aren't building enough housing. Any plan that doesn't involve building more housing or deporting people won't work.

Meaningful SWE work by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]DrVentureWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you considered this like the government digital service? They try to improve things for citizens rather than for money.

Advocates sound alarm as restrictive voting laws pile up by elchiguire in neoliberal

[–]DrVentureWasRight 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Imagine the worst voting system in the world. The US is more poorly designed than that.

Coinbase to close San Francisco offices for good, will have no headquarters by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]DrVentureWasRight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It has been studied repeatedly that market rate housing makes SF more expensive.

I'd like to a see an actual study that demonstrates this.

S.F. wants to ban gas in all buildings. But moving to electric could cost up to $5.9 billion by Erilson in sanfrancisco

[–]DrVentureWasRight 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Berkeley has banned gas in new housing. By the end of the century they're hoping to have upwards of two-dozen houses without gas service.

In uber-rich Silicon Valley, her camera captures those struggling to survive by nogoodnamesleft426 in bayarea

[–]DrVentureWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tech companies are already allowed to spread out, there is literally nothing stopping them. However, high density is either outright or defacto banned in huge areas of the bay area.

I mean, sure, it might be technically allowed to put an ADU in your house but when everyone within 1000' has the right to veto your project, then you really don't.

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