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You're giving up after less than a year? I have a rule of thumb. I think that If you want to start a startup, make sure you're willing to devote at least 3 years to getting it going. Otherwise, don't bother. It's difficult enough to get a b
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It is a good article, but I'd say a more precise word for Canadian banks is that they're skeptical, rather than Conservative. I think skepticism helps to define Canadians. We were skeptical enough to not join the Americans in leaving the mo
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Yes, that was also part of it. There was a period of time when the Canadian banks wanted to merge to form even bigger banks and reduce competition further. The Liberal government during the 1990s and early 2000s prevented two mergers that w
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Having bigger banks is not necessarily all bad. One of the reasons the Canadian financial system was rocked to a lesser extent than the rest of the world's is because our banking industry is dominated by a handful of big stable players. So
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Felix Dennis has this to say on the subject: Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done and tha
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Actually, I beg to differ with the author. The problem I've come across with a lot of CMSes is that they have tried to make content so abstract as to make it cumbersome to do anything with it. The only thing that really exists with content
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One caveat with MacPorts. Not everything is building properly. I had problems compiling libsdl (used by ffmpeg/VLC) and python26. There's a compatibility list here: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/snc/snowleopard . For people upgrading their
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I'm not sure why you got down voted to 0 for asking a legitimate question. The block objects are part of Grand Central Dispatch. A programmer tags an isolated unit of work as a block. The OS then takes these blocks and schedules them into e
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Forget the text field. I tried putting in a specific dish first before reading the instructions, and was puzzled when it asked me what ingredients I wanted to use. I figured "what the hell, I just asked it how to make this dish, I don't kno
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I'm still in my 20s, so take my limited business experience with a grain of salt. But every time I've witnessed a company pre-announce an aggressive hiring binge like this, what happened was a hiring surge followed by an equally precipitous
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A while back I played this joke on Ruby people. It was an elaborate joke, where I wrote a fully dynamic assembler in a couple weeks, and then did an entire presentation at RubyEnRails (Amsterdam) basically showing how my “literal machine”
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It says in the description the wages were net wages. Toronto proper (forget the big box store suburbs) is a great place to find cheap food. You can find tastier, healthier food at a cheaper cost than fast food, which is why I find our fas
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I know a few presidents of companies that routinely get on the phone with a competitor and try to chew them out over an issue such as poaching their employees. It's business trash talk. Every entrepreneur should have an open communication c
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I can see your point and certainly I've seen code as you have described. However, just because the model lives on a server doesn't mean that you can't have a model class on the client. If that were true, then we would not be able to have mo
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If you take this perspective, hacking has progressively been dying since 1940. So choosing the prototypical 1990s hacker is quite arbitrary. In the 40s Turing had to make his own electro-mechanical computers from scratch and invent his own
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Not sure if your comment was updated or I was just too quick to reply the first time, but as to the points you made in your final paragraph, I'm on the same page. I think the right courses of action here are: 1. Call Apple out on the contra
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Well we're at risk of defining what is right or fair. I loved my first year philosophy course just as much as the other guy but that's a damn slippery slope to go down :) I will say one thing on this matter though. Companies are amoral. The
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The thing about the App Store is that it allows small developers to reach huge audiences without a lot of logistical headaches. Little things to brick and mortar stores, like charging the right amount of tax to a customer, are huge problems
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I went to a free iPhone Developer Tech Talk where they specifically addressed this policy. Not too many developers in the audience seemed thrilled about it, but it was laid out in front of them. If a customer comes to you for whatever reaso
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Inside a Starbucks a business plots world domination Aspiring "Next Facebook Founder" Non-Programmer: "You need to write the code so that it can scale to at least 3 million users in 6 months" Contract Programmer Hired Off Craigslist: "Par
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The App Store is part of an emerging market and this is what emerging markets look like. I'm barely old enough to remember going to computing shows in the mid- to late- 1980s. The kind of warez being pawned off at these shows for $5-$10 was
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Heh, it is a machine generated name. I am by no means well-known or a public figure, but some of the people I deal with regularly are. I have had the unfortunate experience of having people digging up dirt on some of these people try to use
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I for one know I couldn't have done it if it weren't for socialized (yes I'll use that evil term) medicine here in Canada. Fortunately, I haven't been sick. But I have gone to the doctor a few times over the past few years for routine check
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Chances are that a lot of the folks around here are both makers and managers. The contextual change between maker mode and manager mode however is enormously expensive. It's not dissimilar to a CPU context switch. However, meetings have the
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Here are some tips for those of us makers that are forced to be on a manager's schedule from time to time: Meeting avoidance techniques -Pickup the phone if an email thread gets longer than 3 emails. Long email threads are the carrots tha
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I'm not American, but Americans get a bad rap on race relations. Go to other westernized countries and racism is far more systemic. I mean for crying out loud, you have the gypsies all across Europe who are marginalized, Spanish fans taunti
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Honestly, I'm pretty damn sure 10 years from now my ISP subscription fee will include a bundling of access to websites. It will be AOL all over again. The problem with subscriptions is the way they're implemented now, not that people find t
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This looks promising. I'm sorry I'm late to the game with the postMessage API (first time I've seen it). But I have a question about that. How does it compare to, say, Cocoa's NSNotificationCenter style of messaging, in which there is a def
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I wouldn't normally whine, but why is this comment being downmodded? It's largely a factual observation. In fact, the parent of the comment above is arguably incorrect in that countries have recently been imposing protectionist measures. No

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