jamie_ca

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by jamie_ca 7y ago
Mortgage interest is not tax-deductible in Canada.
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by jamie_ca 7y ago
I subscribe to a bunch of webcomics via RSS, and a few have changed over the years from embedding the comic into the feed to just having the feed be a link to the comic page so that they can still get some ad impressions. I also subscribe t
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by jamie_ca 7y ago
Yes, it's more time overall, but that's not the point. From the example in the article, if it would take them 2 months to build a robust email delivery system or 2 weeks to put a temporary hack in place, it could be worthwhile to
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Yeah, the NES emulator that's one of the benchmarks is about 1.8x faster so far, so only another 1.6x to go on top of that.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Unfortunately, TripleByte is focused on just a few major US hubs at the moment.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Disable the "Editor: Accept Suggestion on Enter" option. There's also a setting "on Commit Character" which would approve the suggestion on semicolon (javascript). Took me a while to find them, but life is so much n
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
More effective than breaking them up would be imposing regulation. Force the incumbents to allow 3rd parties to use their infrastructure at a regulated wholesale rate, and then compete on service. In Canada, there's a bunch of smaller
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
That feature's "coming" - part of SQL 2011 called System Versioning, currently supported in DB2 and SQL Server, but available in MariaDB 10.3 Beta according to this talk: https://youtu.be/xEDZQtAHpX8?t=2278
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Location: BC, Canada Remote: Yes (8 years remote, I know what it takes) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby/Rails, SQL, some devops, learning React Résumé/CV: http://blog.tracefunc.com/static/jamie-mace
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
I switched to Firefox about a year ago on Mac, and coming from Chrome I've been totally satisfied. Not that I've run any comparison benchmarks or anything, but it'll load basically anything I want to throw at it, has the righ
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
AFAIK, Shazam (and other audio fingerprinting stuff, like youtube's copyright analysis) works on some very precise timings of volume peaks & tones. I wouldn't expect it to properly identify a live performance.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
There's an unofficial rust implementation[0] that runs in a docker image and uses sqlite for persistence. I don't know what the details are for storing data at-rest in the sqlite db, but it's supposed to be much better on sys
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Yeah. I've got a 1440p 27" monitor that I connect via HDMI (USB-C adapter dock thingy) and the difference when I upgraded to Mojave was very stark. I actually prefer Windows rendering now to Mac.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
The "why" is apparently "so we can capture that revenue stream". They just launched an alpha of a competing service (autoscaling dedicated servers, on Google's cloud) and apparently want to nix the competition. htt
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
I _can't_. "Hey Siri" picks up faster on my phone, and when the mac hears the acknowledgement chirp it shuts that down.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
$219 is the stock's high price from this summer? The fall from there was totally unrelated.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Pretty much, yes. Benchmark comparison from April https://wyohknott.github.io/video-formats-comparison/ But do keep in mind that it's competing against x265 (HEVC) which has been on the market around 5 years now,
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
BC Native, here. We're now staring down our 3rd referendum on switching to Proportional Representation. 2005 Referendum was 57.7% Yes, 61% turnout, required 60% to pass. 2009 Referendum was 39% Yes, 55% turnout, required 60% to pass. T
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
> Why are employers locating there? Also, proximity to talent. If all the other game developers are in the same area, it's easier to recruit employees with "come work for us, we're 2 blocks east" than it is with &quot
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Yeah, when we get steak for dinners, we wind up with 500-600g for a family of four. And that's 2-3 cuts.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Dropbox was an early solution, and put the effort in to make it nearly effortless to get set up. They've also built a lot of good will from me over the years with promotional offerings. I don't actually pay for a subscription, but
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
> Imagine you are a software developer that sells a hospital management system built on Java Then you're probably earning enough to pay Oracle for continued support. 6mo is just the no-cost timeframe.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Yeah, try "US inventors" and the list of faces at the top you need to get to #9 before they're not white males.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
shrug Canada. Outside of promos, 2% flat seems to be the best of the bunch. https://www.greedyrates.ca/blog/best-cash-back-credit-card-c...
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
I believe it. My MasterCard is 2% cashback (through points, but that just means I batch it), but has an annual fee of $150 for two cards, and a minimum household income. I need to spend $7500 on the card just to break even, but if I funnel
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Someone up-thread said that it's a progressive target, it'll be brought down to 1 minute intervals by 2021.
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
They could. Get somebody from out of state, and give them just a raw map with population counts/density/whatever. Heck, do this 3 times, and then get local party affiliates to look them over, and each party can eliminate one of th
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
Yeah, the stated reason is pretty much BS. There's nothing stopping the government from saying "A party must have 5% of the vote to be awarded any PR/list seats" in order to keep the fringe parties from grabbing individu
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
I was gently ribbing my friends about their woes and complaints with Skype over the past few years (one in particular had repeated bouts of skype throwing up ads _with audio_) and commenting that my Mac client was just as usable as it'
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
It also depends on the business somewhat, but actually having an office you can invite outsiders to (investors, prospective clients) can be an indicator of success. Truthful or not, it's the perception that counts.

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