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by engtech 14y ago
Setup was free when transferring from Rogers cable, I just had to buy a cable modem which I bought from Canada Computers. Teksavvy has never been to my house, it was just a phone call to set up the cable modem.
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by engtech 14y ago
If you're talking about the recent long gun registry, Canada has always had much stricter gun legislation than the U.S. This website gives a walk through of the process required to legally obtain a gun in Canada: http://www.howtogetagun.ca
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by engtech 14y ago
"So, yeah, if a peaceful process of information flow could bring Afghanistan into the Twenty-First Century, I'm all for that." I'm constantly surprised that when it comes to regime change that there isn't an effort to set up some satellites
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by engtech 14y ago
I don't know that the homicide rate is because of gun control. I don't think it is possible to directly come to that conclusion given the other societal factors. But it's an interesting data point. This article tries to dissuade that contro
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by engtech 14y ago
If you find that staggering, then absolutely avoid looking at Japan homicide stats. Japan is 0.4 per 100,000. Japan has had the strictest gun control in the world for the longest time, and has a homicide rate to match. http://en.wikipedia.
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by engtech 14y ago
Here's an ars technica article going into details about why "STFU and buy an SD card" isn't necessarily a solution. "As such, even the 16GB that Microsoft promises on the 32GB Surface may not be readily available to end-users. Surface does,
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by engtech 14y ago
Ripped from a source you have legal access is undetectable in most cases. Downloading a copy over the net that someone else ripped can be detectable. That being said, I agree that piracy is just piracy. In my mind grabbing something from bi
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by engtech 14y ago
I switched to teksavvy and it's great. It was twice as fast a Rogers and cheaper. I routinely use about 250GB/month on teksavvy. I had a lot of problems with quota when I was on Rogers because my VPN connection to work could use up 30G/mont
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by engtech 14y ago
FYI, Fallout 3, New Vegas and Skyrim have mods that will save every 5 minutes, and this helps with the crash on autosave problem. At the very least you'll never lose hours of playing. The mods use a rotating save system so you end up with 5
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by engtech 14y ago
That was a great talk, and well worth listening to. I think it also highlights why we find your blog posts interesting -- because you are an engaging speaker with that mysterious "charm" quality. I feel that the HN post title is missing muc
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by engtech 14y ago
Were the pundits referring to this interview? “The demographics race we’re losing badly,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.). “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.” http://www.washingt
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by engtech 14y ago
If the 7am-noon trend is caused by the social factor of EST to PST working coming in to work, it'll likely be mon-fri, with spikes on mon and thu. That is the usual pattern for sites that people check when they come in to work.
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by engtech 14y ago
One trick I've always tried to maintain is daily releases, namely that I'll always check in code at the end of the day so that it can run in the smoke tests overnight. Running stats on our version control, I do about 4000 checkins a year, t
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by engtech 14y ago
Interesting site, but I found it hard to get in to a groove of stuff I found interesting. The introduction to the site might work better if it followed a model like netflix where they always show new users some very popular stuff in differe
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by engtech 14y ago
The key to getting attention is to talk to someone about something they are interested in -- and everyone is interested in themselves. Reading the email, it really felt as if it was from someone who already knew the OP well. If I'd read som
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by engtech 14y ago
Does anyone know what firms the campaigns are using for the campaign emails, or is that not public knowledge?
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by engtech 14y ago
This is the same B.S. that happened with the Xbox 360 hard drives. In 2006 Microsoft sold a 20GB hard drive for $120 (which could have bought at least a non-branded 100 GB hard drive) When you used it with the 360, the hard drive would only
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by engtech 14y ago
Great, you've hidden the message with javascript, but now it's still in view-source and in search results for bots. It's also still visible if someone is using noscript (actually, I have no idea if Facebook works with noscript, probably not
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by engtech 14y ago
That's still a few down in the search results. It looks like the magic search term that brings you right to the report page is: "Facebook vulnerability" http://google.com/?q=Facebook+vulnerability
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by engtech 14y ago
That's a great tool. I hadn't realized that every time when I was "sharing with Facebook", or "commenting with Facebook" I was actually installing all kinds of Facebook apps that would have long term ability to post as me. Facebook needs to
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by engtech 14y ago
It shouldn't... but it could be easier. I've been in the situation before where I wanted to report malware on facebook and I couldn't figure out where to report it. I agree that you don't want reporting a security issue to supersede the gen
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by engtech 14y ago
So much of it has to do with where the economy is. Looking for a job in 2000 vs 2001 was a change in what you could demand as a salary. Same in 2008 vs 2009.
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by engtech 14y ago
"Don't waste your 20's "building a career". You've got your 30's and 40's and 50's to do that." It's hard to try to pivot in your 30s if you don't have a resume with at least some points to match your future career. If you haven't used anyt
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by engtech 14y ago
"2) Statistically, women need to have all their children by 35. According to the author, a woman’s ability to get pregnant plummets starting in her mid-thirties. To make matters worse, the odds of a miscarriage for a woman over 35 is one in
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by engtech 14y ago
That blog is quoting from a Seattle newspaper article without linking to it, here's the link to the article: http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/10/31/who-is-seatt... The newspaper article is quoting from the photography is not a cr
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by engtech 14y ago
You're awesome, thank you. I would have never found that. We're so conditioned to look for the volume UI to be near the play button.
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by engtech 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification -- I'd never heard of circular/tampon before so I wasn't aware of what had happened, hence my question. I'm even one of those people who never figured out what buffer app was for despite all their posts on HN.
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by engtech 14y ago
Good on you for renaming the project... but why would you chose that name in the first place? I'm not trying to start a flame war -- just curious because I've been in a similar situation. After university I named the first C unit test frame
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by engtech 14y ago
That's another feature that makes this "better than soundcloud" because they don't provide a volume adjust on their site. Really annoying for those times when I've been playing soundcloud in the background with some other audio source in th
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by engtech 14y ago
I'm not knocking you for using those sources btw, that's a decent way to ignore the hard part of a problem to get to a minimum viable product -- plus licensing tracks is soundcloud's problems. Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because

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