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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
Here's a good essay on Canadian vs American unemployment numbers. Structurally, the Canadian unemployment rate has largely tracked the American one, but been higher. The professor who wrote this essay delved into the reasons why and found t
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FB just bought ChaiLabs who responded by "pausing" their beta API. My first thought (well after thinking "crap, there goes all my work") was that they wanted to absorb the ChaiLabs API into the FB platform. So, while they might seem sensiti
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That's usually true unless the product is from Microsoft. Unlike Apple, Microsoft is pretty up-front about what their product will be like before it's actually released. Also, it's not like Microsoft will be starting from scratch. They've g
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I disagree. I think Microsoft and RIM should team up. Microsoft is supplying Windows 7 to vendors that just don't give a crap about what software is on their phone as long as it's got all the checkbox features (i.e. they offer both Android
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Business people that just aren't that good will exploit you by trying to get you to work for free. Business people that are good will pay you for your work and will multiply that investment as their reward. It's amazing how often the latter
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I wish I had a link to the report, but the Canadian government did a study where they showed exactly what your intuition told you. Even successful entrepreneurs had notoriously big debt loads in the early years. We're not talking double the
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You're running out of runway and have two choices: 1. Safely abort take-off: Stay back on the ground, join the rest of the employed world, and find a salaried job. 2. Crash: Let your emotions get the best of you, and stubbornly try to take
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I worry about Google. But then I remember that they can barely return relevant search results these days without getting confused by keyword farms. Remember that Schmidt has to talk up Google's capabilities. In reality, he's oversimplifyi
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His personal life very much had bearings on his professional life. People are very much affected at work by what they do outside of it, and vice versa. Positively speaking, the tough times in his personal life may have proven to be the sort
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There's a reason the "command and control" model has evolved. The history of mankind has shown an increasing tendency toward specialization of expertise in our daily jobs. One of the risks of doing things this way is that people that aren't
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The first thing that jumped out to me is "why should I care?". What's wrong with the "command and control" model? I don't know what the problem is which this tool is trying to solve.
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China's great until you have to go to court there and realize you're being totally screwed over because your opponent has an "in" with the government. There are countries like Australia and Canada that strike a nice middle ground between to
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I think you may be correct. The reason I say this is that Bell Canada and Telus upgraded their entire network across the country this past year just to be compatible with the iPhone and other GSM phones (but primarily they were motivated by
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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
For the same reason they bought Ars Technica. It was an Internet play to say "look we're still relevant." Except, they used the wealth they accumulated in their print empire to try to prove relevance in the online age. Truth be told, they d
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"My girlfriend..." So you're following Felix's advice then :-)
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The law varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but here in Ontario, common law status has very real consequences. Not all of them are bad and in fact if you read this FAQ on property division, it sounds like what people would expect when
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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
Honest question here and I apologize if it comes off as snarky. I'm just curious. But why is Wakemate pursuing this sort of business model as opposed to say, producing a few prototypes and shopping those around to gadget makers who would ma
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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
Pseudo work is the lottery of productivity. And yet, because people spend so much time doing it, the odds eventually come up that they'll reap some sort of reward. That said, I have found a rule of thumb for myself: the more that pseudo wor
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I have actually been on the other side of the hiring process. The best candidate that ever crossed my path was a Microsoft employee who was a high school dropout and applied anyways for a position asking for post-secondary qualifications
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You don't just send a resume, you send a covering letter too. In the covering letter you can write "I understand that the position calls for XYZ as a requirement..." and go on to explain why you think you are qualified none-the-less. That m
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The challenge questions are to filter out completely inappropriate candidates. They aren't meant to determine if you're a genius or not. As for the CS degree requirement, not having one myself I run up against this all the time. A good comp
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Just curious about your wording. Why do you say this is the cheater way? It might stop working for large values of num where the anonymous function scheduled by the setTimeout begins executing before the for loop finishes. But it's certai
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Exactly. There are great essayists. Then, there are great debaters. Both types are great at the art of persuasion, which is the ultimate goal. I used to believe in interviews like this. But after stumbling through poor results, I came to th
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Not at all. The most annoying thing on OKCupid is seeing a repeat visitor that will not strike up a conversation with me until I initiate it. I actually find take-charge girls really attractive. What I meant is that I didn't find the girls
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Or, I might just be incredibly picky. See my reply here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1466098 . I guess that brings up another point. Some people might not have found someone offline because they're just picky. So don't presume that
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Or are you saying that you've simply been on the site for 6 months before connecting with someone for a first date? this. I've been sending out a lot of messages. I get replies quite often. I had two girls setup dates with me and we had e
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I have a date lined up from OKCupid. One word of caution, but this goes for online dating in general. It's taken me 6 months to land a first date. In real life (err I guess offline) it's easier for me to land a date than it is online. So, I
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I just walked home through much of the G20 district and must have walked by roughly 500 police officers on my way home. Most of them are just concerned with finding shade at this point (it's a cloudless sunny day). None of them are being je
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Isn't there a bit of self selection and typical Google pseudo-science going on with this approach? You can't get in the door of Google without a particular baseline standard resume. This is Fried's entire point, that he would actually consi
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I read somewhere that upgrading a 3G from OS 2.x to one of the OS 3.0 betas and then to OS 3.0 final, without doing a full reset somewhere in between would cause this problem. OS 3.0 was sluggish as hell for me until OS 4.0 beta came out an

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