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by canistr 13y ago
Agreed. Secure infrastructure would be important. I see it as the most important component given that so many companies are switching their infrastructure to support BYOD instead of tying themselves directly to BB, Windows Phone, etc.
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by canistr 13y ago
While I agree in part that internships are generally a form of "charity" or public good that a company will provide in return for a small amount of work being completed, the case for $10/hour is still ridiculous in this day a
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by canistr 13y ago
I agree, particularly with the anecdote of the intern countering for a $15/hour wage. NYC is by no means a cheap city and even I was making $15/hour as an intern many, many years ago. $10/hour is rather insulting and barely
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by canistr 13y ago
All they're really saying is that they want to maintain control without outsiders. And to really do that, they have to convert the company back into a private one, cut their losses by removing the deadweight in the 4500 employees, the
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Let's be clear, Fairfax 'buying' BlackBerry given Prem Watsa was on BB's board is akin to saying Dell was 'sold' to Michael Dell.
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by canistr 13y ago
It should be noted that while they use curves generated by Certicom, Certicom is now a subsidiary of BlackBerry.
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It's hard to really put a finger on whether it's a part of being Canadian or whether particular businesses and corporations are constantly in search a state of denial. For the longest time, Microsoft was in the state of denial ab
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by canistr 13y ago
I would add culture to that whereby executive leadership and downward did not admit to problems and felt the platform was infallible. As a graduate of Waterloo, I can attest that between 2008-2011 people in the KW area were steadfast in de
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by canistr 13y ago
Where is the site being pinged from? The website indicates it is based on Switzerland, but does that mean you are doing it from there using whatever back-end service you are running or is it going to be run locally from my own browser?
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<I>This is precisely why they dissolved the CSIS/CSE watchdog authority so they could spy on us unhindered</I> Well, that's factually incorrect since the Security Intelligence Review Committee oversees CSIS http:
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by canistr 13y ago
I was thinking of filter controls a la gmail style where I can automatically put things into folders or archive/whatever. More control directly in the hands of the user but still allowing your algorithms to do the heavy lifting.
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by canistr 13y ago
I like the idea of re-naming these as a form of mini-notes. But now that Gmail is getting into providing context for emails (such as flight check-ins), I'd like it if the auto-generated emails could also learn based on summaries I prov
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by canistr 13y ago
I respect that we should remember the victims and particularly those related to the tech industry on HN, but this article is difficult to read based on how often the author has to over-emphasize Lewin's achievements.
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by canistr 13y ago
I await the day we get a brain API that can read generic actions and perform the same actions (e.g. read when someone bends their index finger and equally force the bending of said finger)
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I preferred Bob Sedgewick's because of the emphasis on coding techniques which ultimately proved to be much useful for coding interviews. Having taken a course similar to Analysis of Algorithms, I felt the strong emphasis on the theor
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by canistr 13y ago
I disagree with the comparison with Apple and iWorks because with Microsoft's Office products, the level of support they would have to include for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word docs is significantly greater than Apple. They aren't
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by canistr 13y ago
Wadhwa mostly fails to address that Microsoft (prior to a couple of weeks ago) was already "broken" up and organized by business groups (or customer segments) in much the same way he is proposing (Xbox = IEB, Online Services = Bin
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by canistr 13y ago
Good resource on refactorings: http://martinfowler.com/refactoring/catalog/
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Well the general strategy that SteveB has been preaching the past year is the "devices and services" strategy as well as consolidating Microsoft into functional units. And given Microsoft's push towards services to meet thei
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by canistr 13y ago
It should be noted that other Asian people of non-Japanese descent were also wrongly forced into the same Japanese concentration camps. This occurred both in the United States and Canada.
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Former Windows President Steven Sinofsky Joins Andreessen Horowitz(techcrunch.com)
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US Army looking to hire Golf Pro in Japan(usajobs.gov)
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by canistr 13y ago
Just spent the past two hours playing around with Beethoven's 5th on my violin after having not touched it for 5 years.
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by canistr 13y ago
In agreement with you on this one. Exceptions to the rule don't make it the norm. In fact, people like Snowden and Manning are making it more difficult for Gen Y's to work in environments such as theirs because they are viewed c
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To me, the most fascinating aspect of the article is the list of Yahoo acquisitions since Mayer joined: July 17, 2012 Marissa Mayer becomes Yahoo CEO October 25, 2012 Stamped (Social Recommendation) December 4, 2012 OnTheAir (Video Conferen
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by canistr 13y ago
I would half agree with this in that military contractors and engineering firms are in fact centred in the National Capital Region (Ottawa-Gatineau) instead of Toronto. This has a lot to do with the fact that Toronto is the financial hub o
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by canistr 13y ago
Seems as though he's describing Valve's structure or lack of one.
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It wasn't immediately clear in Ballmer's statement, but is the Office division moving under the Cloud services group? It's interesting that they are putting their money-making operations (Office + Server&Tools) under Clo
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I love Day One and had already bought it. But I wish it was the Mac version that was free. The price is rather steep.
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Given that he was a former Apple employee and a Stanford graduate, I would hazard a guess that it was more likely that he left Apple and went to Yves Saint Laurent to gain insight into the fashion industry to return the knowledge back to Si

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