I was in Montreal for this year's CUSEC and revisiting that city, I can only say that I fell in love with it. I'm not sure of their startups, but I saw a games company there (Eidos, I believe..).
I'll look into jobs there for sure - if not for a reason to eat in Montreal again. Yumm....
I've looked into some of Waterloo's tech companies. I'm not sure what sort of jobs they are, still, but if they have any entry-level (graduate-experience) jobs, I'll be sure to consider them. Good to know that there are other options with cheaper housing!
I'm graduating from U of T (should have clarified that). I've heard the same things about Toronto and Vancouver as you've mentioned, but it's good to have my sources confirmed. I'm not so adamant about being in the Financial Tech industry, so the gaming one in Vancouver would be more viable. However, salary would sway me to stay in Toronto.
I've been in those Vancouver bottlenecks, but not Toronto's traffic so it's good to hear some sort of comparison. Living in North York shouldn't be a problem in terms of a commute.
This is a great start to start weighing job options. Thanks!
- Make a list of websites you want to explore before doing work and give them a video/article count per website.
- At the end of the list add a video or article to read that pertains to your actual work/task that you wish to accomplish. Hopefully, after you read/watch this, you're more motivated to work or at the very least, you realize that you need to get cracking at it.
- Crawl into your 'Cave'. And I mean bury yourself! Block the outside world, listen to music that has no words (that you can understand), dim the room and have a spotlight upon your desk, get a pitcher of water and a pack of Depends. Whatever it takes!
Just throwing it out there, but what if we threw some of this 'X-Box' money into non-profit organizations that specialize in finding a suitable job, matching the credentials of these desperately unemployed? This way, we can weed out those who simply want to live off the two year no-effort, money-making program playing X-Box. I think that Microsoft makes enough with X-Box Live.
Perhaps Google, with its obviously inconsistent censorship policy, is trying to rile up the users being affected as well as the companies of their services to finally take action again the entertainment industry's censorship. Perhaps Google is the Green Hornet here, posing to be the bad guy?
Then again, I think that I'm just wishfully thinking, not wanting to accept the fact that Google has finally lost its independent mindset and vision of connecting the internets.
The last sentence on the blog sums it up best.
"Google may have been proud to leave China because of its political censorship, but it should be ashamed of promoting commercial censorship worldwide."
I wonder how Google can justify those contradicting actions.
I think that we all need to remember to K.I.S.S. At least those people who have to urge to add unncessary complexity to simple programs need to remember.
I feel that the blog is more about demonstrating against the fact that Java is too complex as a beginner language, not on how Java is the simplest, quickest, or even easiest, because of course it's not. All these comments make valid points, but as a person who has learnt Java as his first language feel that it opened me up to learning other languages quicker because of that fact that I found languages like Python much simpler, whilst I find many 1st-language Python students to be much more defensive and 'clingy' to Python because of its simplicity and directness.
While Python may be an easier language, I find that it is more difficult to debug than Java at times due to incompatible spacing alone, but that's beside the point.
I think that students should be able to decide their first language. I was 'stuck' with Java, but I don't regret it at all. In fact, after having transferred to another university with students having started with Python, I find that I'm ahead in terms of concepts dealing with OOP. I know that Python can do this as well, but Java (for better or for worse) shoves it down your throat.
I'll look into jobs there for sure - if not for a reason to eat in Montreal again. Yumm....