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by jbm 13y ago
Your comment implies that Al-Jazeera is a poor source of news. Is there a reason you feel that way, other than their lack of reporting on Qatar? I find that they have excellent coverage of Africa, Asia, and most of the Middle East. (Sorry
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by jbm 13y ago
I used this library for an internal project for my employer after seeing it on Hacker News I found it relatively easy to use, but it was a pretty simple thing I was dealing with (one-page registration scheme). Having Coffeescript built in
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by jbm 14y ago
Reddit, the website, enabled the labeling of the victim. They apologized for it too[1]; they wouldn't have done so if they didn't recognize some kind of moral responsibility for what happened. While no one should imply that every reddit us
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Hacking contest on a Live CD(janosgyerik.com)
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by jbm 14y ago
I'm having the same issue. I switched to COD. I am hopeful they will fix the issue beforehand. Either way, paying an extra 30 dollars to have a Firefox phone is worth it to me. I'm sick of my iPhone.
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by jbm 14y ago
Can't access as my phone gets redirected to an empty mobile page.
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by jbm 14y ago
The act of soldiers hopped up on religion and hiropin (speed) means it is morally justified dropping an atomic bomb on a civilian city? To the extent possible, I will never do business with you or any company you are associated with. You s
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by jbm 14y ago
I find it sad that after being basically treated like garbage by North Korean society, "defectors" (I hesitate to use that term due to the negative connotation, but can't think of anything else) like Shin wind up isolated within South Korea
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by jbm 14y ago
While I think the parent was overplaying it, I do find most of the Java applications on my mac are slow and irritating to run. Pycharm is an example of one of the apps I am talking about. It just feels like it struggles at times, eventhoug
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by jbm 14y ago
Clearly the negative reputation Dawson CEGEP has should be applied to the administration, and not the students. What a clusterfuck. Since when do CEGEPs expel students for running security checks?
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Not retaining key personnel is why Java is getting buggier(developers.slashdot.org)
2 points by jbm 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 14y ago
That's only true to a certain extent. My wedding cost quite a bit less, although my wife and I decided to do it in Canada and fly over people instead. Many people do a "Hawaii Wedding", fly the guests over, and it costs much less than the m
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by jbm 14y ago
Thanks! I'll take a gander.
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Brain drain to Montreal? I am a bit skeptical that anyone would want to pay Quebec-level taxes, particularly with the recent political issues at play. Could you offer some evidence for this? I'd love to believe it is true (as I am original
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by jbm 14y ago
Anyone who has ever played Japanese Reach Mahjong can tell you with some certainty as to the astuteness of the point made. Ignoring any aspect of the other player's discards (or, more to the point, telling signs emanating from any of the pl
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by jbm 14y ago
> It's not unethical to try to influence someone, even subconsciously, even by the choice of arbitrary design elements ("you start with 2 of 12 checked") -- as long as there's no deception I feel your statement is too pat. Why is that
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by jbm 14y ago
You are not going to convince anyone by making such a generalized comment about a huge company like MS. Moreover, the comment is just false Microsoft makes good products. C#, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft SQL, etc.. Even Zune wa
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Ask HN: Using C or C++ for parallel Android and iOS dev.
13 points by jbm 14y ago|4 comments
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by jbm 14y ago
Everything wrong with the Canadian tech scene probably begins and ends with #2. Here is an email I received not-too-long-ago from a tech recruiter in Canada to someone who has 7 or 8 years of experience as a project manager and coder. -- Th
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by jbm 14y ago
You know, I am reading a lot of comments like this lately on HN. It is always about the same group of countries too. Whether it is the "I hate to be a hater.." comment I read last week in the article about some random Arab nation introduc
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by jbm 14y ago
Don't sweat it. Some of the people who raise the biggest fuss about PHP are also people who never dealt with it (except through Wordpress). I mostly program in Python these days, but I used PHP for years beforehand without much drama. I ev
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by jbm 14y ago
Your friend was arrested for being a Christian in a country with a large Christian minority? Please elaborate.
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by jbm 14y ago
I think you are being a bit harsh by using the quickness of Django as a 1 line throwaway - the entire purpose is for it to produce quick, simple applications. There is an entire class of problems (mainly enterprise-related) for which the si
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by jbm 14y ago
I support the student protestors. Not their violence, obviously, but I suppose violence is inevitable in these sorts of situations. If the government cannot confront organized crime and its parasitic presence in its construction requisitio
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by jbm 14y ago
Montreal is a dying metropolis, with very high taxes, Greece-style debt and an out-of-touch central bureaucracy that is more interested in culture wars than good management. Former premiere Lucien Bouchard mentioned that he was "shocked" w
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The Outer Loop Variable Trap(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by jbm 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 14y ago
I live in Japan. No source, but most utility poles in Tokyo have surveillance cameras attached to them. I can provide pictures if you'd like.
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by jbm 15y ago
I was running this on my iPhone 4S. Outside over wireless; waited 30 seconds on a full 5 bars and just gave up. Not meaning to be offensive at all, maybe it is because of my location (Japan)?
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Mothership Down: Apple bug halts the production of development certificates.(discussions.apple.com)
52 points by jbm 15y ago|25 comments
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by jbm 15y ago
This story really provoked poor reactions on Slashdot, Hacker News and other supposedly "meritocracy"-oriented communities. I don't have the evidence to support this, but my educated guess is that a proportion of it is driven by the fact th

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