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by fleitz 12y ago
Corba is an architecture astronauts wet Dream, to go any higher would result in negative vaccum.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Every Java program becomes a bug ridden slow version of half of Common Lisp (implemented in xml)
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by fleitz 12y ago
Alberta has almost as much oil as Saudi Arabia, but the rest of Canada has more moderate reserves similar to those in the US. There's also the Hibernia field with the largest oil platform in the world.
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by fleitz 12y ago
It's the nature of things, you can't have edge forever. Just as each day the HN community degrades a little VICE will lose a bit of its edge whether owned by News Corp or not.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Yes, quebec is ridiculous, but you're only paying 30% in total deductions rather than 50%, total taxation would probably be about 50% in Quebec. This is a good page for figuring out actual tax rates in Canada. http://www.ey.
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by fleitz 12y ago
I swear when I say 'data mining' in Vancouver I get puzzled looks wondering what kind of metal can be extracted from this 'data ore'.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Ok, how is it done in India that could possibly take longer than 30 seconds...
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by fleitz 12y ago
If a driver doesn't want a tip I'm happy to keep my money... Please enlighten me as to how paying for a taxi cab ride could be anymore complicated than taking an amount of cash in excess of the bill, handing it to the driver, and
939.
by fleitz 12y ago
Sweet! Seriously startups, come to Canada, free healthcare, lower taxes, and you get major portions of your R&D costs refunded. (Yes, refunded, as in if you spend $1 million, and don't make ANY income, you get $500-700K back)
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by fleitz 12y ago
Hmm... interesting idea, I have a feeling this startup may have the technology you're looking for. http://www.moneyfactory.gov/
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by fleitz 12y ago
"When you finish a taxi ride, between two to ten minutes are wasted in dealing with the payment." How? On what planet? This takes about 30 seconds, tops. Why is the driver digging around for change? Are you too cheap to round the
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by fleitz 12y ago
Likely a decrease, 3G is cheap, mesh networks would merely highlight the bad deal most telcos provide.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Email works on a single server, it's pretty easy to get an email system working that doesn't involve the Internet.
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by fleitz 12y ago
It shouldn't be much of a problem to get interop working, everything objc goes through objc_sendmsg and everything C is well, C
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by fleitz 12y ago
touche.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Yes, it's amazing how US law does not apply here. I frequently have to remind my fellow citizens that it makes little sense to plead the 5th here, because whether parliament has sat in the last year will not effect the outcome of your
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by fleitz 12y ago
I think the reason swift gets away with it is because it borrows enough from a language you already know that the rest feels like an addition. (eg. Python + that, C# plus this, OCaml + brackets, c++ plus ARC, ObjC minus square brackets) Als
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by fleitz 12y ago
Unity (C#) / Cocos2D (C++) I've released apps in RubyMotion and am currently making apps in Swift, however, I don't really see these languages as good fits for game dev, I guess it depends on what kind of games you want to ma
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by fleitz 12y ago
From what I understand going from 2008-10 and talking to the more experienced that it was mostly over by about '95-'97 after someone died and they had to make a bunch of rules.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Brilliant idea. Turn public opinion, city council pretty much has to follow. The free market might appeal to us but it's not going to appeal to your typical city voter. If uber can turn its message into something urban voters can ident
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by fleitz 12y ago
Why would they not? I doubt SpaceX would care whether the entity was a corp or an individual, but if you have enough money to invest in SpaceX why are you holding it personally instead of via a holding company, etc?
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by fleitz 12y ago
Not at all, usually what the 'intelligensia' thinks are 'important' industries are not really that important at all. Things that benefit the common man are usually way better economic bets than lofty ideals. Getting most
953.
by fleitz 12y ago
How is advertising zero sum? It is true that ad spends generally result in diminishing returns, however diminishing returns are far from zero sum. In industries subject to economies of scale advertising is actually really good for economic
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by fleitz 12y ago
Yes! I can't stand this kind of thinking in code reviews, someone will say X is slow, and I say, "How slow is it?" they'll say something about O(X) and I'll say, no really exactly how much time in seconds will be sa
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by fleitz 12y ago
That depends entirely on how much the client is paying. Usually clients don't value their time very much.
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by fleitz 12y ago
It points out the vast discrepancy between what Google recommends people do and what they actually do, suggesting that they are either ignorant of best practices, or are lying about best practices.
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by fleitz 12y ago
It's too bad the Google+ team never saw this document.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Their company is a family... one of those cannibalistic ones that eats their ancestors.
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by fleitz 12y ago
It's deck chairs all the way down. You rearrange them to the best of ability, get some commendations on how well the chairs are arranged, and get promoted to the next sinking ship before the current one sinks. If you're lucky you&
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by fleitz 12y ago
Haha, yep, pretty much. If you can't be part of the solution, there's plenty of money to be made being part of the problem.

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