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by adammcnamara 4y ago
This is window dressing: 1. Many foreign buyers buy through a child studying in Canada or numbered company. 2. Canada’s immigration (~400,000/year) far outpaces housing completions (~200,000/year, of which only 50,000 are single f
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by adammcnamara 9y ago
Community. Inspiration to pursue big problems. Inspiration to always be learning.
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by adammcnamara 9y ago
Food Rules by Michael Pollan - for understanding food and nutrition Sapiens - for understanding what it means to be human The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant - for understanding groups of humans (civilization) The Most Important
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by adammcnamara 10y ago
Check out http://chefhero.com
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by adammcnamara 11y ago
Congrats to the Shopify team.
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by adammcnamara 12y ago
How frequently does the site update after new data is added? A few more cities have reached 100% but haven't appeared on the index page yet.
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by adammcnamara 12y ago
Thanks for sharing.
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by adammcnamara 12y ago
Countries like Canada have done exactly this, extending anti-money laundering and terrorist financing disclosure rules to BTC. http://www.coindesk.com/federal-bitcoin-law-canada/ The real benefit is time of transfer. A
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Everyone Can Learn Angel Investing Using Kiva(adammcnamara.com)
26 points by adammcnamara 13y ago|10 comments
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by adammcnamara 13y ago
Shopify (Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Canada). http://www.shopify.com/careers If you're interested in ecommerce, physical retail (point of sale), or payments product management, talk to me directly. We have many position
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by adammcnamara 13y ago
http://docs.shopify.com/api Order creation will be open soon.
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by adammcnamara 13y ago
A beta of Shopify Reports actually launched today as well. We're starting with point of sale customers, then bringing all merchants on shortly. http://docs.shopify.com/manual/your-store/8-reports
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by adammcnamara 13y ago
We don't package one in the Hardware Kit, but there is bluetooth barcode scanning integration. http://docs.shopify.com/pos/about-pos/hardware/barcode-scann...
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by adammcnamara 13y ago
A good number of our stores sell > $1M/month. And, now that Shopify 2 has shipped, any feature gaps that were around are closing very quickly.
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by adammcnamara 13y ago
Thanks for the tip.
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by adammcnamara 14y ago
Like most sites, there are public and "private" APIs. Publicly documented APIs are officially support. Private API can (and often do) change at any time, which is why we don't recommend they be consumed by customers.
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Identity Cache(github.com)
3 points by adammcnamara 14y ago|0 comments
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by adammcnamara 15y ago
Looks interesting Joe. Any chance you'll offer team pricing? Per seat pricing quickly runs away in cost compared to alternatives.
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by adammcnamara 15y ago
From a talent perspective, this is a brilliant move. The Tungle team is top notch. I think they bought a team that knows calendaring inside and out, not a technology per se.
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by adammcnamara 15y ago
Completely agree, but that's missing the point. Lots of people apply who have published 100+ apps. The problem is that they're 100 variations of the same app, which has no value at all. Most startups we know would prefer three bullet point
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by adammcnamara 15y ago
Agreed and turned off.
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by adammcnamara 16y ago
I'm excited to see if any of this money makes it back into the Maritime startup community. This is an area where Ottawa does extremely poorly. Very little mentorship and money made it from the telecom generation of founders to today's gene
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by adammcnamara 16y ago
We all get the incoherent client/customer emails about wanting feature XYZ yesterday. It's wonderful to hear that they had users, or at least a user that loved their service and was willing to tell them.
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by adammcnamara 16y ago
It's called the Elo Rating System ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system ). From the article, it's used to rank the relative skill of two players. It was created for chess, but I believe underpins most competitive ranking today i
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by adammcnamara 16y ago
1. No more time-limited sessions. Baristas always issue you another session when you ask. 2. More explicit directions on how to get "up and running". Every vendor is different. Disclose the business rules of the hotspot on the landing
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by adammcnamara 16y ago
All comms are via SSL. The application ties into a backend SSO system for authentication and authorization. The app uses timeouts on top of the ones enforced by the iPad. All requests run through backend data access policies via web service
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by adammcnamara 16y ago
An unfortunate coincidence. Ask me anything
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Electronic Health Records on the iPad (AMA)
3 points by adammcnamara 16y ago|4 comments