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by acrooks 9y ago
Given a set of questions - e.g. "how's the food" "how's the atmosphere" "how's the service" etc. - you could figure out how the restaurant scores relative to others by stack ranking based on the
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by acrooks 9y ago
I wrote this a couple of years ago [1]. I think we need to remove subjectivity on ratings by asking more specific questions and only allowing a binary answer. 1. Is the food good? 2. Is the service good? 3. Is the atmosphere good? That&#x27
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by acrooks 9y ago
I think that the companies delivering the most raw value to the world are the ones that fly under the radar. The 100 person software company that builds a properly meaningful product isn't making the news because it isn't sexy, or
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by acrooks 9y ago
>A teacher lost ~60lbs on a McDonalds-only diet. He was my Uber driver once and spent the 45 minute ride from Des Moines to Ames trying to sell me his book :) Nice guy.
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by acrooks 9y ago
I am a heavy car2go user, and have been for several years. The previous generation fortwo was certainly a very unpleasant ride. Shifting would take literally seconds, uncomfortable suspension, and a not good entertainment system which would
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by acrooks 9y ago
I subscribe to this website (I am based out of Vancouver): http://www.yvrdeals.com I'm sure most cities with large airports have something like this sort of website - of course this strategy only works for people Whenever a
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by acrooks 9y ago
Email me
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by acrooks 9y ago
Stage 3 Systems is hiring in London!: https://stage3systems.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=5 Some highlights: - You ideally have 4+ years of full-time experience and a salary expectation of $90-110k - You have worked wi
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by acrooks 10y ago
http://www.sleepyti.me - a calculator to let you know when to set your alarm in the morning to maximize your chances of waking up feeling refreshed / not breaking a REM cycle
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by acrooks 10y ago
Their guidelines page ( https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ ) has some pretty curt language. Interesting how terse and forward they are here as compared to other Apple docs. Reads as if a j
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by acrooks 11y ago
Nah, they do case insensitive matching: https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen/blob/master/index.js#L1...
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by acrooks 11y ago
A lot of fresh grads (from UBC) in Vancouver are living around Kitsilano where you can get a one bedroom place for <$1000/month. Right now I live in a two bedroom flat in the heart of Kits where I'm paying $825 and my flatmate
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by acrooks 11y ago
For the last six months I have been working remotely from Europe for a North American company I have been at for about three years with an otherwise in-office presence. I worked at a company for just over two years based in the office and t
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by acrooks 11y ago
I'm a software developer from & living in Vancouver, so if you need any tips check my profile for my email.
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by acrooks 11y ago
His website (1) says he works at IBM. (1) psuter.net
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by acrooks 11y ago
I used to be a free user of LastPass and wanted a vault on-the-go. With LastPass the only option was an annual subscription, for an app that I didn't find particularly impressive. Switching to 1Password was extremely easy. It offered s
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by acrooks 11y ago
That seems a bit high to me. I pay £650/month all-in for a room in a three-bed just around the corner from Stockwell station. Granted, my room is small, and the only real common area is the kitchen. But the only thing I need in London
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by acrooks 11y ago
I would consider that you add a step before making a phone call or going and tapping somebody on the shoulder. The thing that most threatens my zone is when the headphones need to come out. The _only_ exception is a simple yes/no, such
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by acrooks 11y ago
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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by acrooks 11y ago
No, you're right, but I think branchless' comment was referring to the Queen in the context of her role, not the person herself. Her role is that of, among others, a high-profile figurehead for the upper class. And the prominence
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by acrooks 11y ago
They need a dot com, so strike out the .io [1] [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
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by acrooks 11y ago
The infrastructure for cycling in London sucks, but I find it remarkably easy to get around. My first or second day riding here I was unfamiliar with the territory so spent a lot of time paying attention to signs, markings on the road, laws
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by acrooks 11y ago
(Crosspost from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9803815 ) The problem with these sorts of legislature as I've experienced is that while the theory seems quite appealing it never really works as you would expect. Ca
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by acrooks 11y ago
The problem with these sorts of legislature as I've experienced is that while the theory seems quite appealing it never really works as you would expect. Canada did a similar thing a couple years ago. The CRTC imposed a law where an in
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by acrooks 11y ago
https://auth0.com/ provides some pretty incredible documentation (they also provide a great product; we use it to support authentication for our suite of corporate/enterprise-facing apps)
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by acrooks 11y ago
We use https://www.gandi.net/ for all domains and SSL certs and have no complaints.
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by acrooks 12y ago
I do attend UBC, but I live in the city, so I do not suffer from the poor transit out in Coquitlam or Surrey. Building the UBC subway would certainly help the usage in the suburbs though. It would completely replace the 99, and reduce deman
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by acrooks 12y ago
I agree with you that the Compass card project has been a failure, but I don't think it is fair to fault their ability to execute a transportation project based on their inability to execute a software project. Translink has a proven s
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by acrooks 12y ago
It's fair that you don't trust the government to spend money properly, but if the government has no money to spend then this problem is left unsolved. Here is a document outlining the plan and budget: http://mayorscounc
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by acrooks 12y ago
I live in Vancouver and will be voting Yes; but I am pretty confident that the No-side will win this battle. The group(s) that have been promoting the No vote seem to be using big numbers and mostly baseless arguments. Statements like &quot

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