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by a3camero 15y ago
I was expecting an article that began with Iceland and their ludicrously high beer prices denominated in Kroners. Seems like this has limited hacker relevance.
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by a3camero 15y ago
I'm sure you're right. A slightly different twist: a friend of mine is a pharmacist and he was decrying the end of free lunches provided by pharma companies after he finished first year (a few years ago). The influence of drug companies may
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by a3camero 15y ago
That said, Netflix does have the content and the media companies presumably didn't license it out of the goodness of their hearts.
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"As part of that promotion, Allergan provided kickbacks to doctors in the form of cash, travel, and meals and held seminars instructing physicians on how to bill Medicare for off-label procedures. " http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2010/sep
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Actually the introductory salaries in law are quite high. They start in Canada at or above the average Canadian salary. First year lawyers make between $40-100k a year depending on who you work for (in Ontario). If you're willing to move th
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No. They are interpreted the same way other commercial agreements are. They're also generally very lengthy and specify what they mean (i.e. what counts, what doesn't). They also set out what the consequences of breach are (maybe you want $,
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by a3camero 15y ago
Or they've failed to understand exactly what the SLA says. It may exclude all manner of things so that it says >99.5% but really doesn't mean what you as an engineer might think. These are legal agreements...
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by a3camero 15y ago
It's really a spectrum of enforceability. It doesn't matter whether it's ironclad. The idea is to discourage suits and to have something to point to when people try to sue you. It may not work but it might help. There are many issues of enf
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I wouldn't think so because why did they have him stay so long as editor at TC instead of just switching over to the VC fund?
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by a3camero 15y ago
They do indeed: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-14/spotify-wins-over-m... In addition to the percentage cut, they're also shareholders.
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by a3camero 15y ago
It might be less complicated then you'd expect (at least one way of doing it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering The core idea is linear regression. Here's Google's service: http://code.google.com/apis/predict/ . Here'
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by a3camero 15y ago
Counterpoint: Some schools are magnets for people who have technical interests. I did a science degree at the University of Waterloo. There was a steady stream of inspiring tech people throughout my four years there that you'll get a chance
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My anecdote: I have a H.BSc. in Biomedical Sciences and my only university course was Intro to Programming. I've worked as a programmer at start-up in Waterloo, won a series of international programming competitions that had a decent number
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by a3camero 15y ago
Delete it from people's mailboxes on Exchange? Some people maybe don't check their email frequently... I'm not saying it isn't a stupid comment but there's probably a bit of a reason for why they said that.
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by a3camero 15y ago
Delete it from people's mailboxes on Exchange? Some people maybe don't check their email frequently...
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by a3camero 15y ago
I know what sort of show: a very cheap one. Customer support is tremendously expensive. Sophisticated support for developers costs even more.
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by a3camero 15y ago
$100k-200k would probably bankrupt just about every US school system. Why do you think bad teachers would work their way out of the system due to competition? Ontario pays teachers generously and as a result has a glut of teachers (widespr
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by a3camero 15y ago
There's a fixed MB limit on most browsers/devices I think. I came across this after experiencing problems saving files to PlayBook using HTML5. The main problem seems to be size but there's also a limit on how many items you can write I thi
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by a3camero 15y ago
A gotcha that's not listed is the limit on characters that you can store using localStorage: http://arty.name/localstorage.html
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by a3camero 15y ago
True story (somewhat relevant): I once took over a web contract from a company that failed to deliver. Their website had a tab for helping customers start using gold for payments. I requested and accepted payment in US dollars. There is not
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by a3camero 15y ago
Seems like good news to me: amateurs! I haven't seen a video of US government hackers in action.
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by a3camero 15y ago
This is great but you could serve an unfilled niche by: (product suggestion....) offering something that OCRs PDFs and compares them to the original and says whether or not the signed document matches the one that went out. This would be us
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by a3camero 15y ago
Very cool! But you really ought to talk to some lawyers about their use of it because solicitor-client privilege is pretty important and uploading it to website X sounds like disclosing the documents to X.
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by a3camero 15y ago
That's true, and although I don't know much about the US welfare system, I assume you're better off on welfare than many people were not on welfare 80 years ago (economically).
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by a3camero 15y ago
Good for you for giving someone a chance.
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One thing you can do is parse the tweets for mentions of certain words. In any event, you can alert people to the tweets rather than having them sit there. Not sure how large corporations handle it process-wise.
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by a3camero 15y ago
The monitoring is automated. There are a lot of suppliers of this type of software and it's not very hard to write it yourself. I recommend playing with YQL + Twitter search API + cron.
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This might be more common than you suspect. I was en route to Tokyo from Toronto stopping in Detroit when bad weather meant I missed the flight from Detroit. The Delta staff said I'd have to stay in Detroit, I asked to go somewhere else and
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Although people today are far more wealthy as a result of astonishing increases in productivity that have led to much lower prices for goods. Consider how much you can buy at a dollar store for one hour's labour today. Then there are the mu
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by a3camero 15y ago
The scrutiny that this course will attract because of its popularity might actually encourage a higher standard of teaching for this course than many others that are offered. It could be a win for everyone.

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