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.
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.
If you have hundreds of employees who can find the time time to work for you day-in and day-out, every week, you can find the time to let them go in person.
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.
> The feature branch's commit history is preserved in the repository (thought not in the master branch)
This would require you not to get rid of the branches (remotely and locally), right? GitHub does allow you to undo the deletion of a branch, but is that only for a certain time period?
I like to delete my branches as soon as they've been merged in.
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.
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.