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by guinness 16y ago
I've worked for a couple of startups in Montreal. Their biggest competitive advantage was always that they could do things for less. This is because wages are low and so is the cost of living. I don't think that undercutting your competitor
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by guinness 16y ago
If you find karate impractical, try a good school of kyokushin karate and tell me that it's not useful. As for kung fu not being practical, that depends entirely on your school (kung fu covers so many different types of martial arts includi
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by guinness 16y ago
I think that if you are in Toronto, it's worth checking out aikido seishinkai. I used to go there before I moved and missed it ever since. They don't have a website but: http://www.torontoparentsguide.com/spid/1400/details.aspx
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by guinness 16y ago
A lot of people are recommending you learn emacs. I do too but I want to add that emacs is very hard to learn since it feels so foreign at first so don't get discouraged, take it a little bit at a time. I used to use vim and tried switching
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by guinness 16y ago
We should get a book thread going. Shogun is definitely one of my favorites.
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by guinness 16y ago
The price tag seems high. As previously mentioned it might be because of, low inventory volumes, new tech., etc.. What baffles me is that this technology was developed with OLPC in mind. How can you hope to sell a 100$ laptop (original pric
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by guinness 16y ago
E-mail provides no security. An e-mail can be forged simply by using telnet to connect to and SMP server (usually your ISPs) and typing the appropriate message (see wikipedia SMTP. The easiest fix for this is PGP as mentionned in previous p
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by guinness 16y ago
Couchsurfing doesn't really set any guidelines for this, I've had people sleep on my couch who were moving, etc. It is really up to your host so make sure you mention this in the e-mail you send them. You might want to try couch surfing but
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by guinness 16y ago
I agree with what he said. Unfortunately for me, I did exactly what he said not to do and GSoC wasn't as fulfilling as it could have been as a result.
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by guinness 16y ago
Lisp isn't a purely functional programming language, it can have side effects if you want it to but it isn't required. The best way to see lisp is as a programming language which allows you to quickly build a context specific language to so
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by guinness 17y ago
I never gave much weight to these tests but saw myself described very well in poster's article and decided to do the test. Turns out I am also INTP. Pretty cool test. As a side note, to solve my not finishing anything, I make a list of thin