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by allanmacgregor 2y ago
I came here for this comment, thank you!
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by allanmacgregor 3y ago
Reduce immigration done? are you serious? >Trudeau seems obsessed with spending $1b / day in new programs until the election, in a vain attempt to secure his legacy. We agree here, his time is done and he is leaving a mess behind.
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by allanmacgregor 3y ago
This sounds a lot like google wave, and it failed spectacularly due to complexity and user interface, and as result a lot of friction for adoption. How do you compare patchwork to google wave and what do you think you are doing differently?
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by allanmacgregor 3y ago
So we are paying millions of dollars in executive bonuses, and the CBC keeps getting worse? Not on my dime
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Shopify discloses 44.36% ownership of Klaviyo's Series A shares (Dec. 11)(ca.finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by allanmacgregor 3y ago|1 comments
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by allanmacgregor 3y ago
Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify disclosed beneficial ownership of 44.36% of the outstanding Series A shares in marketing and automation firm Klaviyo, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
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by allanmacgregor 3y ago
Kudos on the launch and is awesome this was build in Elixir!!!! Cheers!!
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by allanmacgregor 3y ago
Not with Bill C-11 now being turn into law now the CRTC can do the same on the internet, so Spotify, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube can now be silenced
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by allanmacgregor 3y ago
This is not surprising Shopify has had an identity crisis and lack of focus for years now. To name a few: - Alienating marketplace partners by trying to absorb their functionality - Trying to break into the logistics space - Failing to dev
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by allanmacgregor 4y ago
This is about Canada; I know is shocking but is a different country than the US. The gun regulations and laws and culture is very different from the good ol' USA.
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by allanmacgregor 4y ago
Canadian goverment doesn't care about suicide in fact they encourage it :D or is it only okay when is goverment assisted ?
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by allanmacgregor 4y ago
Canada has already the filters for legal gun owners; we are not the states the amount of hoops that legal gun owners have to go through. Anyone that owns a restricted firearm; like handguns or rifles under certain length is added to a datab
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by allanmacgregor 4y ago
Canada is not the US, we are roughly a tenth of the size and our GDP is roughly about the same. Not to mention Canada has a lot of issues right now where that money should go to.
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by allanmacgregor 4y ago
No we cannot. We should be spending that money on more pressing things, we don't need a stealth fighter. Canada is dealing with: - High inflation - Housing Crisis - Crumbling Health system - Food security issues; in 2022 a record bre
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by allanmacgregor 4y ago
> I can play video games all day if I'd like, go fishing for half an hour here and there in the neighborhood lake, etc. Twitter ? ;P
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by allanmacgregor 4y ago
Hey @ashekhawat can the generated specs exported out of metlo?
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Québec’s New French Bill Prompts Letter of Concern from Tech Business Leaders(betakit.com)
1 points by allanmacgregor 4y ago|0 comments
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by allanmacgregor 4y ago
Hopper during the pandemic cut down 70% in multiple layoffs. Later that year they hit $3.5B valuation https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/17/hopper-raises-170m-on-3-5b...
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Ask HN: Which protocols should every developer know?
2 points by allanmacgregor 5y ago|0 comments
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by allanmacgregor 5y ago
..ok, but how is that related at all with a web framework?
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by allanmacgregor 5y ago
Sorry for your loss
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by allanmacgregor 5y ago
For the example that the OP listed in regards to pipes I prefer to leverage something like https://github.com/CrowdHailer/OK it allows to retain the expressiveness you get with pipes but cleanly handles result tuples:
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by allanmacgregor 5y ago
this is awesome and it has been a "blocker" on app I been wanting to build for a while
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by allanmacgregor 5y ago
Interesting, wonder what is happening behind the scenes to trigger this.
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by allanmacgregor 6y ago
Magento 1 and Magento 2 are not the same piece of software Magento2 was rewritten (twice) and to say is over engineered is putting it mildly, e.g. let's roll out our own dependecy injection.
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by allanmacgregor 6y ago
I switched to Elixir/Phoenix + LiveView for my stack. - Content all markdown - Tailwindcss for styling - Phoenix provides a extremely fast framework - No database at the moment - CI/CD with github actions - Automated deployments w
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Customer complaints pile up against travel-tech darling Hopper(thelogic.co)
2 points by allanmacgregor 6y ago|0 comments
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by allanmacgregor 6y ago
This is interesting, from what I have seen the solutions are trying to solve symptoms but not the fundamental root problem. What is the entire interview process to solve, the problem is trust. Can we trust this person to know what they clai
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Ask HN: Any startups solving for software engineering hiring?
37 points by allanmacgregor 6y ago|40 comments
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by allanmacgregor 6y ago
Been part of some of those conversations, some companies are wary of hosting with Amazon not due to paying their competitor but due to the amount of power they are putting on a direct competitor hands.

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