Nolan Bradshaw

Staff Backend Engineer - Digital Pathology 🇨🇦 like to pretend I know things (I don’t)

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@BenSteiner00 He looks injured. He can’t move and has been holding his hip.

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@ClassicGamerTWR If you want to be a surgeon and you put “cardiovascular” in your title, you definitionally cannot be a surgeon.

Surgeons do surgery.

Why wouldn’t you let a cardiovascular surgeon do your next appendectomy? Specialization matters.

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@Xyleniqq If you think like this you’re ngmi

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@adxtyahq Companies have realized the cost of a bad hire is way too high and hiring in tech has slowed enough that companies have been afforded the ability to seek out only top talent.

[Roy @usr_bin_roygbiv]

explaining to people why taking on a 30 year mortgage for a 95% leveraged asset with a declining population and a median buyer age of 58 for a house is a bad idea

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@yacineMTB People don’t realize how incredibly easy it is to be in the top 10% of employees. The large majority of people are barely paying attention.

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@falconerd While this is technically true, as your application grows in complexity and size the design patterns start to matter.

Very intelligent teams come by the design patterns naturally. The hard truth is that the avg engineer needs the design patterns to keep themselves in check.

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@sregg Canadian salaries in general are quite a bit lower than in the US. Especially for non-tech companies.

This is why the top talent from Canada leaves for the US.

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@thdxr Cloudflare maintenance this morning 🙃

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@JustEsBaraheni Only one of their players was born there

[Xiao Ma @infoxiao]

I just open sourced my “lazy or craftsman?” simple test.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Exit taxes are great, actually… and the alternative is insane.

No exit tax means anyone with huge paper gains get an obvious playbook:

Build wealth in a country. Use its talent, capital, courts, customers, universities, and infrastructure. Let the gains compound untaxed. Then leave right before liquidity and sell in Dubai, Monaco or Singapore.

Would be a terrible loophole that would drive away talented people.

Canada is just saying: you built unrealized gains while a Canadian tax resident, you cannot erase that tax claim by changing your address before selling.

That is good policy!

If the US taxed purely by residence and had no exit tax, the optimal strategy for the Cursor founders right now would be obvious: move to Singapore. They could save billions by doing so and it would be bad for America.

The tax code would be begging them to do it. They would almost be idiots not to.

That is exactly the kind of dumb incentive exit taxes are meant to prevent.

Canada’s version is not perfect, but it has a good feature- you don’t owe the tax until you actually sell the asset. You can defer payment with no penalty when you leave.

You just cannot take all the unrealized gains with you and pretend the old tax base never existed.

IMO Gad should quit whining.

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@grov_777 @BeatinTheBookie 50/50 ball. German player has a right to go up to win it. It’s not the players responsibility to move out of the way of the keeper.

GK needs to use his knee to defend himself when going up for the ball.

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@mario4thenorth Can you offer a different solution to people leaving the country to avoid paying capital gains?

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@gravis821 @Brownmoose “Move to a city with no jobs paying 100k”

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

With all the discourse around the Canadian “exit tax” I’ve yet to hear another solution for people leaving the country to avoid paying capital gains.

Forcing people to realize capital gains to avoid that loophole seems incredibly reasonable.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Following a very difficult meeting with my accountant, I just found out how much it is going to cost me in terms of an "exit tax" to leave Quebec and Canada. No human being in a free society should have their hard-earned money stolen in this manner. I'm genuinely numb. I'm speechless.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Most software engineers are facing an identity crisis bordering on depression.

As CTOs aggressively evangelize tokenmaxxing, a class divide ensues.

The lazy. The lazy push code. They don't write it. They don't manually test it. They don't even read it. They're on autopilot. See Jira ticket, prompt for task, submit code. Many of them are barely on their computer the whole day. A comment on the PR asking why they did this? The lazy ask AI. A Slack message? The lazy ask AI. Need to prepare for standup? The lazy ask AI. As long as it sounds enough like them and isn't detected. Some of the lazy are even overemployed, and work multiple jobs. The lazy smart ones get away with this, and even rewarded. After all, software engineering for the lazy is just a dance to convince your colleagues you're smart and hard working.

The craftsmen. The craftsmen are tired. Very tired. 15 PRs in queue. Slack blowing up. The entire burden of review falls on the craftsman. The burden of understanding. They try. They work their way through the code, thoughtfully commenting to improve what ships. The response? A lazy: "That's a clever idea! You're absolutely right." with an incorrect change. It's fine, the craftsman says. I can fix them. They write a doc urging his colleagues to be better. The next day? 20,000 line PR to review. Day after day, their workload grows. Bugs seep into production. No one seems to care. Another round of AI is thrown at it. Their animosity to their colleagues rises. Eventually, they give up. It's just not what it used to be. The craft they loved is dead. They eventually wake up, a lazy.

This isn't all companies. Many companies are genuinely more productive, adopt the right set of principles and practices around AI development and have highly talented teams that trust each other. It tends to happen in bigger companies that are 10+yrs old with a higher talent variance. But it happens. A lot.

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@troopsoup @JDTurnerr @JohnLeFevre There is a MASSIVE amount of people commuting 2 hours both directions. The 401 is the busiest highway in North America. Your 45 minute drive turns into 90 minutes during rush hour.

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@troopsoup @JDTurnerr @JohnLeFevre Converting 20 hours of my week in traffic to real productivity is something my employer does not care about? Interesting take

[Nolan Bradshaw @bradshaweng]

@YounisJoseph I guess you can only be scanned once per lifetime huh