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by jarek 14y ago
> I am currently in Toronto, but next month will be taking a vacation to the USA. If you're not going to a common tourist destination for two weeks, have fun at the border.
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by jarek 14y ago
You could call it a company, but that doesn't quite have the same rock-star ninja cachet...
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by jarek 14y ago
Wait, iOS can't be set to update selected applications automatically?
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by jarek 14y ago
Or, rewritten without the tone: "> While not intentionally misleading, this chart is pretty sloppy I agree, I don't think this chart is intentionally misleading. From my experience, minor errors do happen, even to the best of reporters/
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by jarek 14y ago
Screen options on the Thinkpads have been pretty underwhelming for a while, unfortunately. Not really fitting for a premium laptop.
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by jarek 14y ago
I clean-installed Ubuntu 12.10 last weekend. Out of the box it has an Amazon icon in the side 'dock', I removed it and don't remember what it does. Searching with the 'dash' search box does bring up results from Amazon. The alt-f2 run box,
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by jarek 14y ago
> To all of those complaining about the new Apple devices, this is what you should do. You should vote with your wallet. But then how will people know I have Taste?
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by jarek 14y ago
So what would happen if you took 20 weeks off? 8 weeks? Where's the cutoff?
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by jarek 14y ago
So what kind of tax benefits did GE get for moving production to Kentucky?
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by jarek 14y ago
> To get a TN Visa you need 3 years work experience in the relavent field (there's a list) This is completely inaccurate unless you mean without a post-secondary degree. Tons of new grads head south on a TN straight after graduating, ev
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by jarek 14y ago
It doesn't matter if it's just hysteria as long as the media frenzy does happen. Voter and societal outrage rarely follows logic.
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by jarek 14y ago
Do you agree to an EULA when buying an MBP or another laptop, implicitly or otherwise? Serious question.
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by jarek 14y ago
Until it gets so locked down it can't run Emacs, anyway.
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by jarek 14y ago
Is USPS not a sane service? Sorry to hear.
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by jarek 14y ago
> And eating Thai food. Get acquainted with Malaysian/Singaporean while you're there too.
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by jarek 14y ago
Sure, that's one of the ways to solve the problem. Most retailers are upfront regarding the delivery service used. You wouldn't shop at a brick and mortar retailer that's unreasonably far from you. Why shop at an online retailer that sends
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by jarek 14y ago
If you feel that one of the options has a much greater chance of a payoff and your time is limited in any way, the choice is obvious. Of course if it'd be no effort for you to pass the Google interview, you might as well. edit: to clarify,
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by jarek 14y ago
Or just get things delivered by a sane service that stores your packages at a neighbourhood postal office rather than a warehouse in a distant suburb :)
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by jarek 14y ago
Just have the levees built and maintained by private enterprise rather than U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and you should be all golden with no unexpected problems or failures
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by jarek 14y ago
> Perhaps there's a startup idea in there. Bill Nguyen, Inc. for the last two-odd years...
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by jarek 14y ago
But that would bring them out of the 90s. Unacceptable bloat in an otherwise MVP
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by jarek 14y ago
Now curious - can you post a screenshot of how the Royal Ontario Museum 'crystal' building looks like in Apple Maps? It's at 100 Queens Park, Toronto, ON. This is Here's view looking approximately west-south-west: http://i.imgur.com/psWne.
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by jarek 14y ago
Vancouver satellite imagery is over three years old. Geolocation by Canadian postal code less accurate than Google or Bing. Though points for detecting my browser and telling me how to enable WebGL for the 3D functionality, and Toronto 3D i
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by jarek 14y ago
I would rather like to note that the noise we're now waging a "war" on was brought on by the very social media providers and advertisers now engaged in conflict over how much eyeballs on the noise should sell for.
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by jarek 14y ago
I, for one, applaud this attitude. It gives programmers and companies that know what they're doing a leg up over people who couldn't even bother to figure out UTF-8. Natural segmentation of a target market is a good thing.
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by jarek 14y ago
exists in DNS as xn--ebkur-tra.is
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by jarek 14y ago
> I think it's coined by Jean-Louis Gassée (ex-Apple, of BeOS fame). (and author of the article being commented upon)
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by jarek 14y ago
> some province charges so much tax that to make other provinces eat a share of that cost would be unreasonable. Sales tax varies from 5% to 15.5%, but only 11% of the country by population (Alberta and the territories) are at 5%, and m
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by jarek 14y ago
Nope! If we don't need different languages anymore, Basque only.
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by jarek 14y ago
Nah, you're just on HN.

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