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by alex_anglin 12y ago
With respect to nuclear weapons, the question isn't just with their use but also their misuse. There have been a non-zero amount of incidents in North America with non-nuclear detonations (fortunately). Source: https://en.wi
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
Maybe not, but as a job seeker would you want to take that risk? Not everyone involved in the hiring process is guaranteed to be paper-adverse.
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
While I think that the overall idea isn't necessarily a bad one, two things jump out at me with the templates that are provided: -Do people really put their photos on their resumes?? -Given that resumes are often printed and reviewed i
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
Except that the 'Ah Ah Ah You didn't say the magic word' sequence shows up on a Mac desktop.
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
Some might consider that a feature.
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
As someone who hails from Ottawa, where Shopify is headquartered, this is wonderful news. From my perspective, they have contributed more to the tech and startup community in Ottawa than anyone since Nortel. Kudos to them on their success!
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
Especially when the first script installs Dropbox. I was sure I wasn't the only one who read that and thought "Seriously???"
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
Further to your point about cheap, traditionally BBMs wouldn't incur text message fees. These days though it seems like carriers offer plans with a sufficient number of text messages for most people... which isn't a surprise given
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
Speaking as someone for whom statistical software puts food on my table, one of my favorite statements about data science is (roughly speaking) "If you don't have data, are you really a scientist?" I would completely agree wi
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
As a Canadian, I don't have any affection for CGI. But I would point out that this goes both ways: Just yesterday a peace activist in Canada was acquitted for not participating in the Census because she objected to the use of back-end
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
In a more modern context, this sounds very much like the spending associated with countering IEDs by western governments.
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by alex_anglin 13y ago
Tailoring services.
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by alex_anglin 14y ago
The Globe and Mail ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ) among other national Canadian papers are covering this story extensively. Be forewarned the details are to me very disturbing - both of the incident and subsequent treatment of the vict
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by alex_anglin 14y ago
I'm inclined to agree: As other comments have noted, the author had all of the upside in the business and in my reading seemed not too concerned about the potential downside for his employees should the venture fail.
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by alex_anglin 14y ago
While I love Evernote as much as anyone on hacker news, Mark does make very good points about the state of security within the application. It seems that with respect to today's security breach that the company has done quite well with thei
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by alex_anglin 14y ago
Speaking as someone who does his fair share of dimensional modeling, I would just point out that the example you cite could only involve two tables in a well designed dimensional model (sales fact and time/date dimension, I reckon). The cha