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by imack 15y ago
This reminds me of a video I saw about scaling with ruby on a niche social network ( http://zenbach.com/scaling-fetlife-com-with-ruby ). It was an interesting talk, but they also tried MongoDb and moved away from it, though, they were also
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by imack 15y ago
It really says something about Dublin that the path avoiding pubs passes right by the Guinness brewery.
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by imack 15y ago
Honest question: what happens to developers after they are no longer "Developers"? As a 29-year-old I'm kind of freaked out by the fact that I'm on the older part of that distribution.
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by imack 15y ago
I'm definitely one of that core group, but since the twitter app started doing push notifications on mentions the only notifications I get from Notifo are ones I send myself from my webapps. Grantit, I've found those insanely useful, but
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by imack 15y ago
An open war between China and the US would not happen. Killing your customers is exceedingly bad for business.
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by imack 15y ago
While it might be more successful to have 8500 (fairly large) seed investments, Microsoft is not a venture capital firm. If one were an investor in MS, I'd would wonder why they were using my capital for other companies and why I shouldn't
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by imack 15y ago
It's especially unfortunate since there is a Google office in Waterloo. I know it's probably pretty complicated, but I feel like this isn't really a benefit to the Canadian startup ecosystem.
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Growlab Accelerator Launches in Vancouver; offers startups $25k in seed funding(growlab.ca)
1 points by imack 15y ago|0 comments
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by imack 15y ago
"Normally I'd just ignore or delete the app if it's bad" I think the popups are counting on this. People who have used an app "n" times probably have a favourable view of it, which is why they are being prompted to rate it.
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by imack 16y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how companies will spend months trying to find someone with skills that take weeks to learn.
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by imack 16y ago
I actually figure that's harder. There are no shortage of people who "talk the talk", but its hard to see who'd be good at raising money, getting customers, and biz dev based on interviews. At least with techies, you can see if they can bu
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by imack 16y ago
Adding to your point, it is very important to note that France French != Quebec French. When a Montrealer goes to Paris and starts speaking French, the Parisian will get confused and respond in English if they know it.
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by imack 16y ago
"As for talented potential employees… that’s tougher" No kidding. What Montreal has going is pretty impressive, but Quebec has an abnormally high personal income tax rate and the language issue is always going to hang like a cloud over it.
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by imack 16y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/somebodymakethis
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by imack 16y ago
In the tech world, if blocking social networks means your employees can't access social networks, it means you've hired the wrong employees.
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by imack 16y ago
True, but I draw a large distinction between 'the valley' and SF. SF was an hour and a half away in traffic from my employer, and I don't want to spend 3 hours a day of my life commuting.
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by imack 16y ago
I find that mentality interesting. Personally, I spent a short time in the valley in my very early 20's (internship) and found it so boring outside of work that I knew I didn't want to spend the rest of my 20's there. I did see how if one
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by imack 16y ago
Doesn't that limit you to potential employees who aren't currently employed? And what percentage of people do you "drop"? I imagine once you spend a week with someone you might get attached to them enough that it would be hard to let them
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by imack 16y ago
Or perhaps RIM wanted this to happen so thousands upon thousands of techies would view their careers page in a simple viral scheme. Though, were I to place a bet on what happened, I would put my money on your scenario. I doubt RIM unintent
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by imack 16y ago
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_CA/ca/pressroom/ca-pressrele... The rules are changing, its less annoying for American VCs to do business in Canada with the removal of the Section 116 stuff in the most recent budget.
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by imack 16y ago
Did you find that you needed fewer after the upgrade? I'm in the middle of moving my 2.3.5 app to 3.0.3 and am finding that there are fewer plugins as some are now part of rails or made redundant; jrails and subdomain-fu come to mind.
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by imack 16y ago
To say nothing of the fact that if one graduates with a large student debt, taking below market salary on the small chance that you might break even on employee stock options is irrational unto itself.
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by imack 16y ago
I find the whole "polluting French" absolutely hilarious in a historical context given that English was Germanic before it was "polluted" by French at the tip of a spear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England
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by imack 16y ago
I hope they got a software patent if only to help protect themselves against trolls who are filing patents for this right now.
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by imack 16y ago
The most common use case of Stack Overflow will be a programmer working away on code encountering a problem, googling for a fix, and finding it on stack overflow. I don't see how mobile would enhance that. While I appreciate there are a fe
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by imack 16y ago
I managed to amalgamate some similar projects into http://feedladder.com and move it from activerecord to mongomapper. Basically it allows for twitter feeds to have their own submission and voting for their tweets. Best example right no
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RIM sues Kik for patent infringement(blog.davidlam.ca)
84 points by imack 16y ago|55 comments
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by imack 16y ago
"It is worth pointing out that the Globe and Mail is WAY off on the acquisition price of socialdeck, sources put it at $2.5m, not $10-20m" -@startupnorth Not sure if this is any more true, but it may not have been as impressive.
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by imack 16y ago
Having screened many, many resumes from co-ops and interns, I buy the shorter resume arguments. A lot of people put crap that some job counsellor told you will make you look more rounded, but the sad truth is that I care about your ability
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by imack 16y ago
Software interns in Canada get paid. He was a Waterloo student where he'd be required to do the co-op program since he was an engineer and he'd be paid pretty well at RIM. I did the co-op program and was able to finish undergrad without a

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