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by ayuvar 10y ago
For awhile Facebook was using their Vancouver office to 'park' foreign talent until they could secure H1Bs for them to go to the US offices, because it was much easier to get a work visa for that talent in Canada.
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by ayuvar 10y ago
You probably could have done some basic artillery calculations. Then again, you might work in one of those weird offices where trying to measure the distance from your desk to theirs is more awkward than repeatedly attempting to shoot your
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by ayuvar 10y ago
I have also wondered why Duroplast (stamped panels made up of leftover cotton and resin) never made it outside of the Trabant to the wider automotive world. If anything, the bodies lasted too long.
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by ayuvar 10y ago
Those are some impressively ballsy thieves. Obviously the street level guys have kicked them up to an organization of some sort.
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by ayuvar 10y ago
A huge portion of BC (and Canada's) economy since the oil price crash has been FIRE, so I would imagine there is no interest in bursting the real estate bubble. The foreign investor tax is a low-effort attempt to skate through another
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by ayuvar 10y ago
Signing the installer would help detect tampering, except it seems like in this case the compromised installer was not signed and the usual one is. Nothing really stops you from unpacking all of the contents of the first installer, and repa
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by ayuvar 10y ago
I can't wait for the tools side of things to pick up on the MAX_PATH fixes. msbuild path limits have been a thorn in my side at a few jobs now and it will be nice to finally kiss them goodbye. Nice to see that stuff on UserVoice does g
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by ayuvar 10y ago
I'm usually not one for office perks, but a miniature train track would be alright with me. Hudson actually had a bunch of other train-related stuff in their R&D offices, if memory serves. It's a shame to see it abandoned like
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by ayuvar 10y ago
In Canada, Bell purchased Radio Shack and rebranded it. It has pretty aggressive cell phone upselling, and we missed out on the arduino/makerspace stuff that the US Radio Shack was embarking on a few years ago.
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by ayuvar 10y ago
It's by far my biggest complaint. There are even issues where one control panel does one set of features and the settings window does a whole different set. I also had a sticky problem where it was convinced I had a Canadian French key
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by ayuvar 10y ago
Pretty much all of GDI used to be in the kernel, the font stuff is one of the major parts still remaining, although the article says that Microsoft is moving it out as of Windows 10. A few years ago there was a remote code execution exploit
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by ayuvar 10y ago
The memmap trick is pretty clever, though I wonder what the syntax is to make grub reserve multiple unrelated bytes instead of a 1-byte contiguous 'chunk.'
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by ayuvar 10y ago
It's common for campaigns to run oppo on their own candidates. If you can find something before an actual opponent does, you can pre-emptively deal with it.
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by ayuvar 10y ago
It's a little sad that I use the Instagram report-spam feature often enough that I become aware of subtle changes to its UI over the course of months. I feel bad for whoever has to handle the reports on the other side.
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by ayuvar 11y ago
I didn't know they had DVI cards yet, much less one with a flicker fixer built in. My 1200HD has a sketchy VGA adapter that came with it when I found it in a Value Village; when I try to play games every LCD I have in the house refuses
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by ayuvar 11y ago
I wanted to do this, but used VTs are pretty expensive (mostly the cost of shipping). I do have an old French Minitel terminal, though - anyone know what the protocol for those is like?
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by ayuvar 11y ago
Holding down option while I select "About this Macintosh" doesn't seem to work. Not sure if it's getting sent to the emulator properly (Key Caps also seems to act oddly). Cool port!
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by ayuvar 11y ago
A lot of car dealerships nowadays will finance repairs or maintenance. I don't know about how available the same kind of credit facility is to independent mechanics (dealerships tend to be pretty cozy with banks/financiers for obv
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by ayuvar 11y ago
Zellers (no apostrophe, even though it was started by a guy named Zeller) was able to stay 'on top' of the Canadian department store game for quite some time. They were founded in the 20s, profitable well into the 90s, and had a n
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by ayuvar 11y ago
The train is already going past the existing station, so I would imagine the additional cost of supporting the station for the two times a day the train stops there is relatively small - additional brake dust in the air, some extra energy b
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by ayuvar 11y ago
I ran into a #1 where during the interview they wanted to know if I was planning on leaving for Silicon Valley anytime soon, because that's where all their employees were going. I said no and gave reassurances, they didn't hire me
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by ayuvar 11y ago
Not necessarily, but the PowerBook was built out of a titanium alloy and the iBook some kind of polycarbonate. I'm no materials engineer but I can see an argument for the iBook needing to be thicker to support the same design loads. (I
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by ayuvar 11y ago
The Titanium G4 was a really aggressive design, and for the most part they pulled it off. There are a few pieces that don't hold up to rough daily use (the hinges). The contemporary iBooks had much thicker bezels and were built much mo
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by ayuvar 11y ago
From the article, they've already managed to negotiate the price to $490 (through, I assume, a bulk discount). Some of the testing has already been funded by the state of Detroit (albeit very late) and the federal government. At $150 p
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by ayuvar 11y ago
Great article. I keep meaning to get started on my Game Boy Printer emulator so I can download pictures from a GB Camera. My plan was to just hack an eBay link cable in half and solder them to the board, but this is much cleaner and way cla
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by ayuvar 11y ago
I have been messing with nodemcu on an ESP8266 ebay board for the last few weeks. It was initially really weird to have a REPL on an embedded system but I'm already missing it when I go back to other platforms.
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by ayuvar 11y ago
I played with Factor a few years ago and came away impressed. Sounds like the library has only gotten better.
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by ayuvar 11y ago
I never realized this went as far as distributing phones (with custom firmware to boot!) - way cool. That must have taken forever to set up. The followup article on the wirelessly-accessed cola machine is also cool: http://robots
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by ayuvar 11y ago
A place here in town builds modular office environments that have snap-together walls, etc. Sort of like huge cubicles that are grown all the way up instead of slapped together. They have giant metal base plates that you install on the exte
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by ayuvar 11y ago
One of the common themes at my last gig is that I would start conversations and presentations with "There are no technical problems here. These are people problems." Eventually they tried to solve both problems by adopting a techn

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