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by a3camero 15y ago
I think it is relevant because it's wrong . Unless it says somewhere that it's a suggestion or it probably won't work like that. If you tell AdMob to not spend more than $15 a day and then it immediately spends triple that amount I wouldn'
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by a3camero 15y ago
I'm not sure that there is a HN downvote but I upvoted you anyway.
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by a3camero 15y ago
What's also interesting is that almost any other predictions they could have made would have become partially true. There's virtually every service and idea imaginable online now to at least some degree. I'd be shocked if most of the predic
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by a3camero 15y ago
May I suggest: Ross Perot @ 19%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_presidential_campaig... Ralph Nader @ 3%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader_presidential_campai...
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by a3camero 15y ago
I'm not sure what the time limits are for deleting posts but you might want to consider doing that if you have some sort of pending negotiating/legal troubles. There are not that many 5-10m range startups in Canada and someone might be able
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by a3camero 15y ago
I think the danger in this approach is that you're moving towards just being a regular consultant which sort of defeats the purpose of what I think he's trying to do. I think this illustrates why consulting is really what lots of people are
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by a3camero 15y ago
I assume the target is people that need to build something (re: anything) to show to investors. Kind of like a brochure. Orrrr he lives somewhere very inexpensive (not the case). The former is actually not a bad idea.
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by a3camero 15y ago
It often is... Geocoding is a fun game. I recently did a project with just geocoding in Ontario and it took a while to fix all the various cases for the 600+ volunteer-entered locations. Bonus points: only some (and different) geographical
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by a3camero 15y ago
Hey, Vancouver's in Waterloo and Waterloo's underwater along the border with the US. Geocoding problem?
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by a3camero 15y ago
First command I tried was ls. Out of curiousity, why did you take it out?
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by a3camero 15y ago
It would be better with at least a close button in the top right that indicates that you can close it.
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by a3camero 15y ago
Great comments. I've used an American service ( http://www.shadowtv.com/ ) that was a way better version of what this sounds like. It wasn't perfect but you didn't have to contact a big pile of TV stations and have them send you DVDs in the
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by a3camero 15y ago
Good point.
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by a3camero 15y ago
Oh I think you're right but what was maybe half quality a few years ago is now a small fraction of HD signal quality. Perhaps x% of median quality of Canadian broadcast channel signal quality would be more appropriate? I'm not sure but fixi
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by a3camero 15y ago
Sure! There's a type of service called media monitoring. It's where companies... monitor the media. Clients often want media clips from the TV shows they were featured in. So you need a database of TV clips. There's a government body in Can
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by a3camero 15y ago
The perils of writing your laws to current day technology: s. 8(2)(b): "excerpts shall have a resolution no greater than 320 pixels by 240 pixels and a frame rate no greater than 15 frames per second;"
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TV broadcast monitoring in Canada must be Doom-like resolution (320x240) x 15f/s(cb-cda.gc.ca)
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by a3camero 15y ago
I'd like to see how it works. Screencast? At least screenshots? I tried to click on the screenshot-ish image on the main page but alas, no images of the product.
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by a3camero 15y ago
There's some great professional advice in this thread already but I think you're probably going to be coming at your problem from this perspective. I recommend responding to lots of Craigslist postings (if there are enough in your city).
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by a3camero 15y ago
FYI and despite what the URL indicates, the Widgets SDK is now called "BlackBerry WebWorks": http://docs.blackberry.com/en/developers/deliverables/30182/... . Same name for Playbook and phones.
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by a3camero 15y ago
I don't know for sure but this seems a lot like GMail circa a while ago. Why no comparison to GMail times? It'd be interesting to see the side-by-side between vendors.
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by a3camero 15y ago
This is not exactly an answer to your question, but be very careful about this market. Schools are a challenging market to break into. Are you prepared for the long purchase process that schools follow? Banks tend to want their interest now
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by a3camero 15y ago
Is he opposed to moving? He might find more luck on the other side of the country in Waterloo, Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal. Each of these cities have large tech communities and are within about 6-7 hour drive from each other. He might have
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by a3camero 15y ago
True, but there are a number of other costs associated with being a lawyer. Various professional courses you're required to do in some jurisdictions and clothes that make you look like a lawyer instead of a programmer. Carrying costs of you
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by a3camero 15y ago
Fair enough but maybe a higher bill rate would change your mind. Quote a high enough price that you're happy to do it. It's a win-win because they'll either leave you alone or pay you lots of money!
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by a3camero 15y ago
Haven't taken a close look at your product but what I would find useful is an API for generating those queries that I can use within my own tools while developing simpleDB apps although this use case might be just for a particular project I
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by a3camero 15y ago
The Civil Code is just in Quebec. That's because that region of the country was originally owned by France and centuries later it's still French-speaking and uses a France-derived legal system for all but criminal matters. There are many En
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by a3camero 15y ago
Why shoot them down? Ask for money. There's good money to be made in developing ideas that you might not see the value in but someone else does (possibly rightly!).
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by a3camero 15y ago
To play devil's lawyer: lawyers have very high fixed costs due to insurance + bar fees. In Ontario they're about $6k a year. Database subscriptions are also very pricey. The expenses are considerably higher than that associated with program
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by a3camero 15y ago
You might want to look into the civil code system of law. It might appeal to you more than the English-derived system that I suspect you live under. Check out the Quebec Civil Code: http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch

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