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by canistr 9y ago
I mostly agree. Tory's strategy seems to be optics first, policy second. Even if it means going against his more conservative principles. It doesn't really factor in the people who live in neighbourhoods/areas affected by
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by canistr 9y ago
The problem with AirBnb is that if you live anywhere in the downtown core (particularly King West in Toronto), you're likely to encounter AirBnbs being rented out to parties. And especially on a consistent basis. It's extremely a
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Children used as mules to smuggle phones across Hong Kong border(scmp.com)
1 points by canistr 9y ago|0 comments
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by canistr 9y ago
On one hand, I'm definitely concerned about my privacy and sharing my data. OTOH, I like to think of Google using my data as a form of a vote. The more data they have on me and tailor experiences using my usage data, the more useful i
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Uber opening Toronto research hub for driverless car technology(thestar.com)
2 points by canistr 9y ago|0 comments
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by canistr 9y ago
I'm not saying they're the same thing. But there is the appearance that they are effectively "getting out of the game". Not mentioning he is selling stock doesn't mean he hasn't sold some of it. Especially cons
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by canistr 9y ago
Has anyone else noticed that a bunch of people leaving the investing scene/liquidizing in the past year are part of the same circle? Specifically Sacca, Tim Ferriss, and Richard Branson? I'm certain there might be more people.
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by canistr 9y ago
No, I don't think any of the big Canadian banks would or should count.
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by canistr 9y ago
As far as Toronto is concerned, nobody grows to the size of a multi-national juggernaut. Everyone takes the buyout/merger/acquisition way before that ever happens. It's often been said, what major multi-national corporation h
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by canistr 9y ago
What's sad is that Canada has a very good public school system all the way from Kindergarten to University. Combined with the lower costs (i.e. free K-12 for these good schools unlike Americans sending kids to private schools) and redu
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How a powerful tycoon had a Chinese spy master in his pocket(scmp.com)
1 points by canistr 9y ago|0 comments
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Discussions Blocked on Weibo and WeChat(citizenlab.org)
1 points by canistr 10y ago|0 comments
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by canistr 10y ago
I do recall this submission and commenting on the ridiculous nature of it. But I wouldn't say it was voting manipulation so much as people who may not be familiar with markets voting up something they saw that used neural nets. The di
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by canistr 10y ago
#3 bothers me a lot. It reminds me of the way owners of sports franchises use public tax-payer money to pay for stadiums, meanwhile keeping all the profits from the money made by their teams. If the various governments in Canada are fundin
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by canistr 10y ago
Sure, but Toronto and Waterloo have different reputations when it comes to Engineering and Computer Science. And if it really matters to you that Waterloo be involved, it's obviously worth pointing out that Pearl Sullivan (Dean of Wa
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by canistr 10y ago
I think you're overlooking the broader point I'm making by focusing on that one line. The point is that if Toronto had the same tech ecosystem as to say even Seattle or New York for salaries ranging between half to two-thirds of
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by canistr 10y ago
Toronto's problem (and to an extent the other major cities in Canada) isn't so much about the salary differences with SV so much as the entire tech ecosystem. The money and cost of living would probably affect decisions for peopl
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by canistr 10y ago
Alternatively, you could hire remotely or move your office to somewhere where the cost of living is lower. Perhaps even move to Toronto where those salaries in CAD would actually be in line with market prices.
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by canistr 10y ago
The other problem is that with so many startups nowadays, none of them offer a compelling enough vision or mission that would entice someone away from the Google/Facebook/Microsoft's of the world. A lot of them are either
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by canistr 10y ago
I misread the "Five Guys" as "Five Eyes" in the video title. Five Eyes Burgers & Fries would actually be a great name for some joint operation/meeting/etc.
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by canistr 10y ago
I like using Uber. But I also don't like the idea of money flowing out of the country/province/city into Silicon Valley. I'd much rather that the money earned by Uber stays within Canada in some form such as a tax or inv
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by canistr 10y ago
"I hear you no longer work for Apple; is that true? A. Correct. I joined Apple in January of 1997, almost twenty years ago, because of my profound belief that “the power of the computer should reside in the hands of the one using it.”
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by canistr 10y ago
Well it's most a matter of Apple sherlocking features vs. shutting down because they want complete control over the user interaction model. As with most acquisitions, unless the team will continue to work on that app (and based on Sunr
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by canistr 10y ago
Call me pessimistic, but how likely is this acquisition by Apple going to result in them integrating it directly into iOS versus completely shutting down in the future? Perhaps Apple is using the acquisition strategy as a method to shut dow
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by canistr 10y ago
So does this mean we need to stop trading BTC on GDAX until Coinbase considers the issue resolved after the fork? What if we haven't touched the BTC on GDAX in a while? Wouldn't those chains still exist post-fork? They left a bit
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by canistr 10y ago
Your post is equally surprising given that for Waterloo, our undergrad ECE curriculums covered all this material. Arguably, we covered significantly more math (albeit in Electrical Engineering, but there was significant overlap with Compute
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by canistr 10y ago
To the people who say spending "4 hours is more like 6-8 hours and it is unreasonable": - How is this any different than spending an unreasonable amount of time studying balancing binary trees and similar trivial whiteboarding pro
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by canistr 10y ago
Enabling Jack also prevented the ability for devs to use Instant Run. It's not a dealbreaker, but combined with all the other broken libraries it definitely added to the frustration with needing/wanting to upgrade to Java 8. I nev
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by canistr 10y ago
This sounds like it's optimizing for the wrong component of the interview process. I've never had issues with spending time on phone screens because they are one of the main ways in which I screen companies I'm interested in.
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Android Studio 2.3(android-developers.googleblog.com)
2 points by canistr 10y ago|0 comments

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