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by cal5k 16y ago
This is a fantastic idea. I was complaining the other day about the lack of a good collection that pulls in resources from all over to create full programs. The problem, from what I can see of the courses marked "complete" or "semi-complete
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by cal5k 16y ago
I distinctly remember "this thing isn't going to sell".
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by cal5k 16y ago
This Kindle book is... not available for customers from Canada??!!
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by cal5k 16y ago
This stuff is shipping April 19th... I highly doubt that, in the less than one month between now and when it ships, the pricing will go up, the enterprise security features will break, the hardware will somehow magically degrade, and the ba
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by cal5k 16y ago
To be fair, the pile-on of cynicism was a mile deep when the iPad was originally announced. Where are the feminine hygiene product jokes now, hmmmmmmm? ;-)
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by cal5k 16y ago
We like to send them crap we don't want ;-) Jokes aside, that's not really the issue... every American I've ever asked didn't know that RIM was Canadian. Hell, they had no problem when their president was seen everywhere with a BlackBerry.
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by cal5k 16y ago
Every comment here seems to be piling on RIM. The skepticism is painfully forced, really. I haven't been a fan of RIM's products as of late, but I think the PlayBook is actually the only credible competitor to the iPad 2 right now. The pric
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by cal5k 16y ago
To be honest, one can always find a reason NOT to start a company. Successful companies have been founded in good times and in bad, in war and in peace, with easy access to talent or with one helluva difficult grind.
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by cal5k 16y ago
It's sort of annoying, actually, that Google is hiring so voraciously in Waterloo. It's making it extremely difficult for us to hire awesome Waterloo grads partly for this reason. So, while we continue to hire from Waterloo where it works,
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by cal5k 16y ago
I think it's an amazing testament to the safety of modern nuclear plants (and the plant in question was commissioned something like 40 years ago) that in spite of being hit by both the largest earthquake in Japanese history AND a tsunami, t
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by cal5k 16y ago
Ali, how the hell did you find time to do this while still running Well.ca? You truly are a machine ;-)
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by cal5k 16y ago
Everything is amazing and nobody's happy.
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by cal5k 16y ago
They're also not as flexible a copper...
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by cal5k 16y ago
I can't seem to find an answer to this in the materials - is this optical or copper? Light Peak was supposed to be optical, but the Wikipedia page has unsubstantiated claims of it initially being copper.
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by cal5k 16y ago
For us, "what's next" was Pivotal Tracker.
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by cal5k 16y ago
It doesn't; rather, it's the weird result of people transposing value judgments on purely economic phenomena.
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by cal5k 16y ago
The problem is not with "startups". The problem is with scaling - there is TONS of startup activity going on in the Toronto, Waterloo, Montreal, and Vancouver areas. If you look for it you'll see that it's thriving as more and more people c
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by cal5k 16y ago
Exactly. The answer offered here is surprisingly ignorant and one-dimensional. The reality is that there aren't two types of software development companies, there are a spectrum of them. At our company, because we don't sell products, clien
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by cal5k 16y ago
Awesome! Now we only need to develop for iOS, Android, QNX/BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone 7, and WebOS. ;-)
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by cal5k 16y ago
Look at the flip side - the US is being deluged with more and more localized data, everything from what restaurants are worth eating at to what every street corner in America looks like. Don't you think the tables can be turned?
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by cal5k 16y ago
I have a lot of respect for David Eaves, but in this particular case it looks to me like he doesn't understand the nuances of the argument. He's simply equating internet to electricity as if they were really similar things. What he utterly
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by cal5k 16y ago
Counterpoint: Free.fr in France. While the incumbent telecoms were charging out the nose, Free.fr charges a moderate price for unlimited access and all sorts of awesome features. Clearly it's working for them. Canadian telecoms are some of
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by cal5k 16y ago
Non-techies cared, in this case, because it was pretty easy to see how this would affect you personally - you would have to pay more. Period. If you asked the average person who is opposed to UBB (read: practically everyone), very few could
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by cal5k 16y ago
I think it's safe to say that, with two major reversals in a year, the CRTC has lost any credibility it may have had (although it did not have much to lose). My vote would be for dissolution - maybe then they can create a regulator that act
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by cal5k 16y ago
FYI, Teksavvy's cable plans still offer 200GB and unlimited options, since they're running on Rogers' lines (I'm a cable customer and have confirmed this with them). This may change, but in the meantime it's the best thing going if you can
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by cal5k 16y ago
Okay, here's another ponderous question then: How many of those individuals have any qualifications whatsoever that would indicate they are in any way knowledgeable about digital media and the internet? Why are we allowing broadcasters, jou
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by cal5k 16y ago
Waterloo, Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto. Probably in that order.
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by cal5k 16y ago
Toronto, ON - Myplanet We're hiring for practically everything - and we really need to add some great developers to our team. We're a fun place to work and we've been on a pretty ridiculous growth clip over the last two years. Check out our
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by cal5k 16y ago
I... believe that's what I said?
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by cal5k 16y ago
Well said. We will always need to find things in a vast sea of information.

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