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by agmiklas 16y ago
As an aside, this reminds me of something Fred Brooks mentioned in one of his essays in "The Mythical Man Month". I don't have my copy handy, but he was explaining that the great cathedrals of Europe (some of which took hundreds of years to
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by agmiklas 16y ago
You might want to consider Beanstream -- they're based out of Victoria and offer services broadly similar to Braintree (data vault for CCs, etc). IIRC, it is possible for a Canadian company to use Braintree and other US based payment proces
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by agmiklas 17y ago
Canada actually uses this system -- we have 13 SEC-like entities: one for each province and territory. The consensus view seems to be that this adds a lot more headache for very little gain. The federal government has been trying for ages
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by agmiklas 17y ago
We use Beanstream for our Toronto based company. One nice thing about them is they support something like authorize.net's CIM feature, so you can do recurring billing without having to store CC numbers yourself. One thing to be aware of, t
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Let's Toss for It: A Surprising Curb on Political Greed(constitution.org)
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Strong Typing(perl.plover.com)
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by agmiklas 17y ago
Out of curiosity, have you found that having a PE licence has been useful at all in your work? I studied Software Engineering at an engineering school accredited by whatever organization regulates the practice of engineering in Ontario. I
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by agmiklas 17y ago
I'm not sure this is correct, but I had the impression that "Eire" in English was used to talk about the island of Ireland. I think this is something I just sort of picked up though -- so it's entirely possible I'm totally out to lunch.
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by agmiklas 17y ago
One way to fix this problem is with a shareholder's agreement that guarantees shareholders the right to participate in future funding rounds on a proportional basis to the shares they already hold. So, assume you hold 99 shares and your emp
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by agmiklas 17y ago
I'd have to say Canada's immigration process is better (for the immigrant) compared to the US. The usual US process: 1. Find a company willing to employ you, even though you are not a US citizen / GC holder. 2. Find some way to start workin
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Ask YC: Do we need to file/pay US taxes (Canadian corporation)?
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by agmiklas 17y ago
A pay-as-you-go pricing option might be useful. The monthly pricing model works well if you plan to run the tests every day/week, but I'm guessing that a lot of people will want to run the cross-browser tests on every new deployment, but p
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by agmiklas 17y ago
Consider this, though. Even the most qualified H1-B candidate can end up getting paid less than they should simply because of the way the green card application process works. Once an H1-B holder has filed for a GC, they can't be switch em
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by agmiklas 17y ago
I think the easiest way to fix the problem is to do exactly what you suggest -- decouple a person's immigration status from their employer. I'd do this by scrapping the H1B program and instead simply offer a green card to every person that
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by agmiklas 17y ago
We're using AWS EC2 mostly because they're the only hosting provider we were able to find that offered high-speed connections between their data centers. We use this capability to synchronously replicate every transaction to at least two d
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by agmiklas 17y ago
We support two-way (i.e. we send you a message on an alarm, and you send back a message telling us to suppress, resolve, or escalate the incident) SMSing to most of the world. Unfortunately, we can only do phone calls to the US and Canada
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by agmiklas 17y ago
There are a few problems with the phone handoff idea, though. One of the problems is there's no safety net: if the guy who has the phone doesn't pick up for some reason, the alert can't auto-escalate. That might be fixable with something
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by agmiklas 17y ago
Hi, this is Andrew, one of the co-founders of PagerDuty. That's an interesting idea. We've actually thought a bit about adding phone-based triggering to PagerDuty (via a 1-800 number + access code). The idea was to make PagerDuty useful t
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by agmiklas 17y ago
I carefully read my patches before I commit them. Probably sounds pretty obvious, but I find that I can catch most problems by simply running "git diff" and then carefully and slowly reading through the output. This is especially true when
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The Development of the Apollo Navigation Computer [video](youtube.com)
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by agmiklas 17y ago
There are ways to encourage businesses to pay wages ahead of other debts, though. For example, Ontario makes directors of corporations personally liable for up to six months of unpaid wages (and some amount of vacation pay too, IIRC).
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by agmiklas 17y ago
You might be thinking of blinding, which lets you do stuff like affix a signature to an encrypted message in such a way that the signature can be "moved" to the plaintext version of the message (I think that's how it went, anyway).
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by agmiklas 17y ago
What I'd appreciate seeing is the YC shareholder's agreement. It will be time for us to incorporate soon, but we've been putting it off because we don't know how to handle setting up things like a dispute resolution mechanism, vesting, ter