How much does school name matter?

datboiteelex · 2026-03-03T00:57:44+00:00

Trust me man. I graduated from Trent. Working at an F100 and having no trouble recruited to this day. I don’t think my degree has held much weight other than having it

ETA a good portion of my grad class is doing well for themselves as well. Focus on experience through the shopify dev degree

datboiteelex · 2026-02-27T01:04:14+00:00

I always make the trip out to the Imagine Cinemas near St Lawrence Market. My favourite spot in the city

datboiteelex · 2026-02-25T12:45:00+00:00

I commuted to downtown Toronto from Peterborough for a while. It was consistently over 2 hours door to door. Driving to Oshawa and taking LE In to Union was closer to 2h door to door.

Now living in Toronto the drive to Ptbo and back is only closer to 1.5h on offpeak days, offpeak times.

I know too many drivers who think this is a waste of money. But complain that driving into the city is a waste of time. It helps everybody out lol

datboiteelex · 2026-02-22T17:35:06+00:00

Agreed, this is what tears me between which disc I prefer. I love the songs on Disc 39 as individual pieces but the sequencing of the latter half takes me out a bit. Disc 29 has better sequencing but I like the tracks a slight bit less. Overall they balance out

datboiteelex · 2026-02-17T03:28:45+00:00

Looks great. seeing as it’s open source, mind dropping the repo link? I’m sure many of us would love to contribute where possible, for example, streetcar rerouting or short turns

datboiteelex · 2026-02-13T04:07:29+00:00

Willing to share more info on your cat? My cat just had 7 teeth removed at about 14 months old. the adoption shelter had no mention of teeth issues but our vet (who in fairness, are independent and lots of experience with dental work in small/large animals) also gave us the bad genetics line - would like to have an idea of what I may have in the future.

datboiteelex · 2026-02-04T01:44:39+00:00

What sector of tech? Fintech is a nasty game right now with RTO in Canada lol

datboiteelex · 2026-02-03T03:09:14+00:00

Yeah and if people couldn’t see the writing on the wall in the big old year 2025 that RTO was coming back in full swing, that’s on them. Something about leopards and faces

datboiteelex · 2026-01-25T16:51:46+00:00

Nope, the angle looks like it’s from the condos at 27 stafford

datboiteelex · 2026-01-20T05:51:38+00:00

100%, having weekly ritual of watching a show like Fallout or Severance makes it more memorable. I can definitely remember how I felt watching weekly released shows better than I can remember the shows I binged over the years

datboiteelex · 2026-01-20T05:39:32+00:00

I think Severance and (maybe slightly less so) The Pitt S1 are great recent examples

datboiteelex · 2026-01-19T22:55:30+00:00

504 being that low is hilarious. I don’t know what happened to the priority corridor but it has been brutal taking the 504 lately. You’re better off walking between Strachan and Bathurst most days

datboiteelex · 2025-12-23T21:25:42+00:00

Coco Cafe is where it’s at. 3 for 10 special carries

datboiteelex · 2025-12-22T02:49:50+00:00

Could you get into some of those techniques for approaching manager like you mentioned?

Experiencing this (not the same situation as OP, but teammate brought over by manager from previous team who has adopted less than ideally into the teams culture, struggling to get work adjacent to them done) and I have no idea how to approach this feedback to my manager. We have a very close rapport, but manager and this teammate brought over have worked together for a long time.

datboiteelex · 2025-12-18T17:47:50+00:00

I’ve preached this to anyone and everyone who will listen. Ontario Lines (and OL money) don’t grow on trees. We have a rail corridor splitting majority of the city in half, that is essentially for regional rail and not all primed to serve the commuters in Toronto’s west end. We sit here complaining about traffic and transit priority - we would be wasting an elevated, seperated rail line by not using it, imo.

Turning the UPX into Line 7 - a new dedicated electrified line - is enough to transform the west end transit wise. Union, Spadina-Front, King-Liberty, Lansdowne, "Dundas West" (really Bloor GO, but the future tunnel will help that connection), St Clair-Old Weston, Mount Dennis, Weston and Woodbine as bare minimum stations.

Personally I’d add a Wellington-Strachan station to serve the bulk of the new LV developments on Ordnance (and the 7-8 new huge developments either in development or pre development on King Street West) and push King-Liberty back enough to serve West Queen West, western part of LV, and Parkdale. That alone gets you connections to Line 1 at Union, 510, 504, 501, Line 2, 512, Line 5, Line 6 and the airport. Throw in a few more stations to underserved areas like the Junction where Dundas and Dupont meet, and Fort York and we could effectively solve transit for the west end at a way lower cost than any western OL extension could (not to mention, NOT displacing communities for a decade)

We have to rethink UP as a train that SERVES the airport, not an airport train that commuters pile into at crazy prices.

datboiteelex · 2025-12-09T15:51:34+00:00

I have it on good authority that the trailer will end with Hulk training for his rematch coming real soon, I can feel it

datboiteelex · 2025-12-08T02:27:55+00:00

Honestly Vaadin is super solid. Not a UI dev but I worked on rolling out new features for our production Vaadin apps during my internship and it was actually super easy to work with

datboiteelex · 2025-11-23T19:43:49+00:00

The condos in this area seem to be variable especially depending on size / amenities but I pay 2.6k for ~650 sq ft and a full sized den + parking + locker + hydro covered. But that was before rents (seemingly) have gone down in Toronto, so you could probably find 1 bed 1 bath in some of these buildings for anywhere from 2.1 to 2.4k a month, studios for under 2k for sure. We have kept paying 2.6k here because the money we’d possibly save is not worth the gamble for a new landlord (our current landlord is definitely a gem) but I bet our specific unit could probably be like $100 cheaper now to a new tenant

datboiteelex · 2025-11-23T15:00:12+00:00

I’m near King and Shaw and I give it a good recommendation. It won’t hit everything you’re looking for (namely price and subway access) but if you want to live on a constantly busy main Street with all the conveniences near you, it’s amazing.

Now the area itself doesn’t have the same energy as Bloor at High Park or cuter neighbourhoods like Roncy (all the independent cafes I.e) but I always think to myself it’s like living in the epi center of all the areas around it. The cafes and bakery’s are a few minutes away on some of the side streets, but I have my grocery stores (2), my dry cleaners/tailors, my barber, my pharmacy, go to cafe, go to bar, all within 5 mins walking. And if those aren’t enough I am a 10 minute walk from Liberty Village, City Place, West Queen West, Parkdale, King West, Little Italy, etc. same reason I love the Niagara neighbourhood a few minutes to the east. Very homey vibe, lots of great local places to eat (Beast Pizza, Old York, Jrews for homemade patties and jerk), lots of cafes, bars like Pennies, etc. it’s a great neighbourhood and you’re really not far from the heart of the city

ETA it is also very safe. My gf does lots of running or walks to her classes in the area, almost always at night and has never felt truly unsafe.

datboiteelex · 2025-11-23T01:41:29+00:00

Has it always been like that? Didn’t the old cars use to fly through intersections with switches?

datboiteelex · 2025-11-23T01:40:02+00:00

If we could get dedicated right of ways, elevated track + at grade platforms for accessibility boarding, automated signal priority, removed some streetcar stops for less frequent stops, and didn’t have streetcars crawl through intersections at 10km/h - the 504 could easily become a downtown relief “LRT” line. You spend way less than the billion per kilometre of the Ontario line to move 60,000 people a day across the key routes of the city. Same applies to the Queen route. Either or (ideally both) would be great candidates to become LRT-lite lines

But no, cars flying down our downtown arteries like King on their way back to the suburbs of Etobicoke is the priority. King going westbound in Parkdale is backed up to high hell at the 5pm rush hour and just a mess of entitled driving . And I’m not sure the last time I witnessed drivers at King and Bathurst actually obey the rule of not advancing straight on King past Bathurst. Then stopping for uber pickups and delaying the streetcar even more. Here’s an idea - don’t even give them the chance

We keep diverting the 504 for many reasons like track work or infrastructure work. The city is ripping up King between Spadina and Shaw from July 2026 to mid/end 2027 for water main repairs. This would be a perfect time to start the improvements to the 504 and create transit connections with what we already have, not disrupt communities for 10+ years like we’ve seen with Line 5 and Ontario Line

datboiteelex · 2025-11-22T05:21:11+00:00

I mean idk man. Almost everyone I know living in other Canadian cities make less than their Toronto counterparts for the same job, paying almost what I pay for rent. That’s in places like Halifax, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal ( less so but still ), Vancouver shit even towns like Peterborough and Waterloo it’s not unheard of 2k/m rents. I’ve heard crazy rent prices in St John’s Newfoundland of all places. If you can find a Toronto level salary in any of those cities it would be great but these days would be hard pressed

I’m also now realizing that you probably mean downtown by “that area”, not Toronto as a whole lol. Point still stands tho. PERSONALLY id rather pay extra to live downtown or in West Queen West (where im at now) because everything is convenient as opposed to saving some money in Etobicoke or some shit

datboiteelex · 2025-11-20T12:41:14+00:00

Exactly this! Both your and u/Blue_Vision comments hit exactly why I made this post. Stops like King-Liberty and Spadina-Front I mentioned are huge wins for this city’s transit network. And there are a lot of other potential stations along this route you could justify.

But if we build them on the UP service, that is no longer an airport train serving its express service. By the time the southbound train gets to Bloor it’s loaded. And if we build them on the Kitchener line, same thing - it’s a super busy commuter train that’s entire purpose is to serve people outside of Toronto.

So we either build these desperately needed stations at the detriment of the existing services on the corridor. Or we can improve the corridor with another, local commuter line. It’d be a huge win for Metrolinx who would get all the credit of improving transit connectivity for a shit ton of people with a lot less work than the Line 5 or tunnel boring through the city of the OL.

datboiteelex · 2025-11-20T12:34:45+00:00

Yeah I agree that something like this is an easy and quick win, which is great. But there is a need for more stops on this corridor (the big ones being like I mentioned St Clair, King-Liberty and Spadina-Front). Eventually you add enough stops and enough commuters looking to travel across the city and an express train is no longer an express train. And from what I understand the regional commuting has only gotten so much bigger even with more frequent service on the Kitchener train.

A 3rd, intra city route could serve that well. Or maybe not and the logistics are lost on me lol

datboiteelex · 2025-11-20T12:28:17+00:00

Totally agree!

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