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by jamie_ca 8y ago
You mean GitLab? GitHub is free, but definitely not open source (and has never pretended to be).
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
> If just one prisoner does not find his number, all prisoners die. You're trying to find a strategy that is successful for all prisoners. Following the chain reduces the problem to "is there a cycle of length >50", whi
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
VersaPay ( https://www.versapay.com/ ) | Toronto, Canada | Full-time, Onsite VersaPay is a rapidly growing FinTech company providing B2B accounts receivable automation. We integrate directly with accounting software to publis
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by jamie_ca 8y ago
For fixed rate, you'll get hit when you renew at the end of the term (typically 5y). Say you've got a 5 year fixed mortgage, at 3.49%. You buy a new home, taking a $500k mortgage at 25y amortization. That's $2494/mo. At
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
VersaPay ( https://www.versapay.com/ ) | Toronto, Canada | Full-time, Onsite VersaPay is a rapidly growing FinTech company providing B2B accounts receivable automation. We integrate directly with accounting software to publis
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
It's quickly approaching a 1.0 release, and from what I hear when that happens it's going to see a price bump as well.
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
As another driver on the road, I'd far rather that autonomous vehicles maintain speed with the flow of traffic around them, in lieu of strictly sticking to the posted limit.
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
But then you've got stuff like Skywind, who are painstakingly recreating Morrowind from scratch in the Skyrim world builder, from terrain to new 3d models to music... Individually, building one thing from scratch should be clear from a
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
Yeah, we pay for Slack for chat and 1:1 voice/video, but all our group meetings at work are using Zoom. Far better experience, and the video quality has been great. Have had a few instances recently where people couldn't join the
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
I've never got into cubing for speed, but I've long thought that http://beust.com/rubik/ is one of the best ways to start building a feeling for solves. Last layer is only 4 short algorithms (though you may n
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
Mario Odyssey is super great for the younger crowd. Turn on Assist Mode and it gives you arrows to direct you to your next goal and some extra health, my 9yo is able to manage without assistance. The 7yo is more than happy to be the hat in
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
Big picture: once food delivery has really taken off and become "normal", the costs of producing that food can drop. In a dense urban setting, which do you think costs more: seating + servers + greeters + dish pit + front desk for
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
A one-time gift of cash to the poorest may actually have more impact than you think. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/we... > a $150 cash grant to poor women in the northern p
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
Agree on "Preferential voting" but I think a more important problem than replacing first-past-the-post is replacing winner-takes-all. There's a bunch of ways to do it (some more complicated than others), but run an election i
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
For all of Nintendo's posturing on this subject, they've been selling games on emulators for the past few years, both on the Virtual Console and in the form of the NES and SNES Classic.
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
TLDR summary slide near the end: - There is an audience for old games - Out of print games are lost revenue - Emulation is cheap - Emulation is accurate - _Embrace the emulator_ The speaker works as a game developer, worked on the Mega Man
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
The quote you're looking for is "I’m simply stating that the distribution of ... abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes."
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
It's even worse on the 3DS, pirates get an on-device store browser and install things directly. To my knowledge on the WiiU you still need to download and move it over via SD card.
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
> No changes will be made to Firefox unless you have opted in to this Alternate Reality Game. Except installing an addon. > One of the 10 guiding principles of Mozilla's mission is that individuals' security and privacy on t
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
You might be reading the table wrong? Last column is their adjusted baseline, 2nd column is their baseline+options+dependents. Comparing with [two years ago]( https://open.buffer.com/transparent-salaries/ ) it looks like
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
This is also why I can't sit at the front of a theatre to watch films these days - from the middle or back of the theatre, any point on the screen is about equidistant from my head, so my focus can stay fairly static. Up front (and esp
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
They used to, at least via the API. Before we switched to JIRA for issue tracking at $dayjob, `hub pull-request -i <issuenum>` was a part of my daily workflow.
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
We almost have that. VIA Rail operates "The Canadian" line that runs Vancouver-Edmonton-Saskatoon-Winnipeg-Toronto, as well as a line that runs up the ON/QC corridor from Windsor-Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec City. I can&#x2
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
Leaves in this context would be classes that have no dependencies. If you need to create an object, can you pass the name of the class in? Or can the object be created elsewhere and passed in fresh? If you're making a call to a remote
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
There are some shots of those near the tail end of the article. Both pure cylinders ( https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8240/8661684397_3e2953b2ca_b.j... ) and capped columns ( https://c8.staticflickr.com&#x2F
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
I came across an interactive applet last month (on Reddit maybe?) at http://ncase.me/trust/ It explores IPD with a few different strategies, and I found it quite interesting. I'd be curious to see how the various
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
27" iMac has been 2560×1440 from 2009 until they went retina in 2014 (and they're now double in both dimensions, so same logical resolution). At arm's length, on a 27" screen, 1440p is very practical. Getting more screen
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
Separation of concerns means put your styles in a <style> tag rather than the style attribute of a tag, and behaviour in a <script> tag rather than in an onclick/onhover/whatever on the tag. Grouping logically related
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
I am a remote dev out of timezone, and give a yesterday/today standup summary in Hipchat every day. If everyone else did that, we'd all have ~10min more each day for actual work. It's super effective.
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by jamie_ca 9y ago
Slowly bump prices. It's going up by $1 ($2 for the high tier) in Canada this month, I hear.

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