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Toronto Star launches a coffee subscription service(marketwired.com)
1 points by gabbo 10y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Live Map(facebook.com)
3 points by gabbo 10y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 10y ago
Interesting - I guess that actually does make sense, thanks for the pointer.
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by gabbo 10y ago
Hard to say for sure, but since HBO Go is tightly coupled to cable companies - I would guess its distribution model is as well. I can imagine a cable operator centric replication model for Go, where HBO doesn't handle customer delivery
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by gabbo 10y ago
How did you manage to afford a 3 bedroom house 3km from the financial district in Toronto on an engineer's salary? Did you buy a long time ago? I'm incredibly envious because I can't imagine affording that kind of real estate
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by gabbo 10y ago
How is the pay at Amazon Toronto and what are the projects like? I work in tech (not Amazon) and live in Seattle, and given the reputation I don't think I'd really want to work for them in this city given the other options we have
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by gabbo 11y ago
Amazingly, they're not (at the moment at least). Seattle is a really great place to be at Google in terms of gross vs. tax and cost of living.
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Google Maps goes beyond Uber, adds Ola, Hailo and more car services to its app(techcrunch.com)
2 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 11y ago
In other words they're quite low vs. comparable American cities :)
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Canada’s Vidyard Raises $35M to Help It Expand(wsj.com)
4 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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Is Google's Waze app making traffic worse?(mercurynews.com)
3 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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The Happiness Code(nytimes.com)
2 points by gabbo 11y ago|1 comments
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The Controlled Deflation of the Bubble Is Almost Complete(calacanis.com)
15 points by gabbo 11y ago|2 comments
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by gabbo 11y ago
Totally agree. The sad thing is I'm not even entrepreneurial in the "aggressive unicorn chase" sense; I'm just a lucky guy with a rewarding and enjoyable large tech company job with good pay and work/life balance. I
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by gabbo 11y ago
It's crazy and upsetting to watch Canada squander the talent its great engineering schools produce, especially given the low cost. I left Toronto 8 years ago for the US but have close ties to home and keep regular tabs on the labour ma
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Canada forgot to plan for its future by leaning on oil and the loonie(theglobeandmail.com)
177 points by gabbo 11y ago|165 comments
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by gabbo 11y ago
Oh I meant 2 hours each way (or 4 hours per day) is an extra 2-3 hours on top of what most would view as a typical North American commute (ballparking at 30-60 minutes each way, or 1-2 hours total per day). The absolute level of craziness o
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by gabbo 11y ago
2 hours each way sounds absolutely, life-alteringly, macro-level awful to me. It boggles my mind that someone would consider that "a little on the high end for a commute" - it might be a worthy tradeoff all things considered, and
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The Sports Bubble Is About to Pop(thedailybeast.com)
153 points by gabbo 11y ago|168 comments
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The real reason the media is rising up against Donald Trump(vox.com)
3 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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Why the Public Can't Read the Press(theatlantic.com)
83 points by gabbo 11y ago|45 comments
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by gabbo 11y ago
It is hard, though: not least because determining where income is earned depends on defining "income". Revenue is maybe easy enough, but what about expenses? Depending on the industry, there's plenty of opportunity for chican
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by gabbo 11y ago
Depends on the market. I don't live in the Bay Area or NY, but knowing how much I make where I am (plus that of my peers) and similar pay levels in the Toronto tech labour market (one of the better ones in Canada), I would probably end
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When Archaic Takeover Defenses Get in the Way(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 11y ago
Easier said than done, if you don't have any state you're probably not doing something all that interesting. The trick is to keep your state in the right place, the answer usually being to punt state management to a database&#x
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by gabbo 11y ago
Fixed-interval + jitter can work, exponential + jitter can work too. Be super careful with retries that don't involve jitter, depending on your system architecture you may end up with highly correlated bursts of retry load. You need to
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Student Debt's Subprime Problem(ftalphaville.ft.com)
15 points by gabbo 11y ago|8 comments
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Student Debt's Subprime Problem(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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Betterment comes out in favor of fiduciary standard for wealth managers(betterment.com)
1 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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Facebook introduces “click to message a business” ads(techcrunch.com)
1 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments

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