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by canistr 13y ago
I disagree. Any time someone switches platforms, they will undoubtedly be more prone to identify quirks and missing features in the new platform than everyday users. If companies (be it Apple or Google) want users to switch to their platfo
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As an everyday carrier of both an iOS and Android device, it's rather refreshing when people point out flaws and points of improvements on both platforms. I certainly hope Google fixes these problems ASAP.
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Let me posit another question, why are there no visible minorities on Twitter's board? And why aren't people getting up and arms over that?
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I think this would be a great pricing model if applied to tutoring for students. If you find a tutor useful, you'll go back to them. Conversely if you find they weren't helpful, you leave early. So it's up to the tutor to
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I'm always skeptical when companies say they have "no managers" and are a completely flat organization with 100+ employees. I don't pretend to fully understand organizational theory, but I take it that at some point, the
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by canistr 13y ago
Great work. This is exactly what I've been looking for to sell some of my stuff.
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Why does eBay include Skype?
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The degree doesn't matter if your employer is hiring you for a position with "Engineer" in the title. This works both ways between Canada and the US.
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For students it's easy to criticize Jobmine as users of it. But given the even worse (or in many cases, non-existent) co-op application systems at other schools, Jobmine is light years better. I remember working with some Waterloo alu
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Same. I never qualified even when I declared myself as an independent.
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I ignored incidental fees from my figure. Strictly the tuition cost. Also factoring in the point that tuition for engineering is making a major hike (I think it was 5%?) and a lot of students get the 30% tuition cut from the provincial gov
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by canistr 13y ago
It's roughly $6000/term (for engineering, cheaper for CS students though) not including paying for food + housing (an additional $1600-3000 depending on where you decide to live on or off-campus). I'm in the boat of Waterloo
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by canistr 13y ago
The Surface lines weren't marketing ploys. They just happened to consist mainly of excited MSFT employees.
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by canistr 13y ago
Android 4.4, KitKat, which comes on Nexus 5, will also soon be available on Nexus 4, 7, 10, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks.
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Nexus 5 site: https://www.google.com/nexus/5 Already appears to be down.
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For $40, my return on investment is paltry. I understand why it cost that much because of the hardware, but for that amount of money I could do a lot more than buy a screen lock.
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by canistr 13y ago
At first I thought this was similar to a bike lock so that your Mac can't get stolen. But that doesn't appear to be what this is. I don't see why simply "locking" your screen with something as simple as configuring
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by canistr 13y ago
Vybe will vibrate once for a message, and it will vibrate in 1 second intervals the whole time your phone is ringing. For $8/band, that's not bad. I think my mother would find this useful because she tends to not hear her phone
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by canistr 13y ago
> I don't know where you live but in Toronto with the exception of university tuition, all those things are provided for children that can't afford them regardless of their background. The concept of not letting a child go on a
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by canistr 13y ago
If you agree, then we should start with the top (e.g. bankers/corporations) who get away with tax loop-holes. And you're mistaking the long-tail of different minorities who face various socio-economic problems with a myopic scenar
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by canistr 13y ago
Look, I'm a Canadian myself. I paid the $20,000/year tuition for my schooling too (thank you Waterloo Co-op!). But frankly, it's very easy for the both of us to claim we are deserving of certain privileges or that we worked
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by canistr 13y ago
I await the day when this works between the trifecta of print, ebook, and audiobooks. At least this is one step closer.
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And to sort of extend my point. We always laugh at CEOs/CTOs when they fail to provision money/resources for security software and security measures in organizations. That, instead of paying for security up-front, they wait until
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by canistr 13y ago
But couldn't it be argued that the use of body-scanners functions as a form of strong deterrent for potential plots? If a potential terrorist understands that they will eventually be caught or that the stakes to beat the system are too
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You may want to ignore the website Lifehacker altogether then. You may also want to ignore applying to YC since they do ask about your history of hacking things IRL in non-tech related scenarios.
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by canistr 13y ago
Throw in some of the mail clients and other apps like Sparrow, Mailbox, and Fantastical and from the outside, it seems more like acqui-hires to absorb the product and team into a bigger company is the way to go.
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by canistr 13y ago
I hesitate to agree with this article given that that hindsight is 20/20. If anything, you could mark the decline of the BlackBerry with the introduction of the iPad.
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Is your school underrated for tech entrepreneurship?(pandodaily.com)
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Fonts designed to thwart OCR(wired.com)
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by canistr 13y ago
Not at all. Charity/public good doesn't imply free work. And it's still up to the company to provide work that generates value for themselves. It's not free on either part of the company or the intern. I don't kno

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