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by joshaidan 13y ago
My theory is that the reason for Google implementing the Promotion tab is so that they can put ads into the INBOXs of people who use desktop and mobile clients. Doing it this way won't be too intrusive to people who use the web client,
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by joshaidan 13y ago
There is a university in Thunder Bay: http://lakeheadu.ca The advantage with Thunder Bay is that people are trying to develop it into a hotbed for start-ups, and will do a lot to see your startup succeed. Quick examples of Thund
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I've always used this method: http://railscasts.com/episodes/190-screen-scraping-with-noko... As well as Mechanize when working with sites that require session cookies and all that. I'm wondering too what the
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by joshaidan 13y ago
There are a lot of smaller cities in Canada, i.e. cities that are not Vancouver, Toronto, Waterloo, Ottawa, etc. that are trying very hard to build their own start-up communities. You may want to consider these places if it suits your idea.
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by joshaidan 13y ago
> - No matter where you want to go in Canada you'll have to score reasonably well on the French language test. Even if that's the only time in Canada you'll ever use your French. (imho this is a ridiculous requirement, and
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I work in telecom, and this makes me think of two protocols I work a lot with, SS7 and SIP. SIP is like HTTP, in fact I believe it was modelled after HTTP and has a lot in common with it. You can troubleshoot SIP issues very easily using a
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I believe the first bittorrent client was written in python. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
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by joshaidan 13y ago
In other words, Yahoo! will eventually end up buying it.
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EHarmony experiencing +24 hour outage after scheduled upgrade(facebook.com)
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I think the ethos of the copyheart as expressed in this website needs to be a little different. Sure, don't restrict your audiences' ability to copy and distribute your work, but when somebody sees the ♡ symbol, it should be a call to actio
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by joshaidan 13y ago
What I think will be an interesting use case for this technology is public file sharing. If I want to share files with the general public I could just give them a read-only key and then they'll have a folder that syncs with whatever files I
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by joshaidan 14y ago
What URL is the login requests sent to? Would changing the wp-admin directory to something random help avoid the attacks? Or does wordpress have another point of entry for authentication?
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by joshaidan 14y ago
This sounds like it could be a good PR move for Rackspace. I've heard from quite a few developers who, for whatever reason, have a negative opinion of Rackspace. Does this action change your opinion of them? But perhaps it ultimate comes do
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by joshaidan 14y ago
"My question is, what then will happen when Bitcoin stabilizes, that is, when the time to new coin mined approaches practically infinity? Let's assume the global economy grows at 4% per year. Do Bitcoin's proponents believe a constant 4% de
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by joshaidan 14y ago
When it comes to complexity, I think it's a miracle that spinning hard disk drives actually work.
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by joshaidan 14y ago
I stopped using Google Reader and RSS feeds a long time ago without actually intending on doing so. I just started finding so much stuff to read through Facebook, Twitter and Hacker News that I totally forgot about RSS. That being said, I d
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by joshaidan 14y ago
So how hard would it be to get 51% control of the network?
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by joshaidan 14y ago
I don't understand why people find her video series to be so threatening. It's really fascinating and what in reality she is doing is validating the legitimacy of video games in our society. Which is important as video games are being attac
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by joshaidan 14y ago
Cool, but seems like it's not available in Canada.
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by joshaidan 14y ago
Would they need to start a rival block chain? Or do they just need 51% of the current community to run their clients to take over the current block chain? (as suggested by a comment above)
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by joshaidan 14y ago
Yeah, you probably want to avoid privacy related bugs, or bugs that allow people to steal credit card numbers or passwords.
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by joshaidan 14y ago
"The developers have asked all miners and mining pools to switch..." In the grand scheme of things, how much control over bitcoin do the developers have? My understanding of bitcoin is that there is no central authority controlling it like
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by joshaidan 14y ago
I remember a few years ago the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was going all out on Google for capturing data from open wifi connections, which Google promptly deleted. It was a huge story for the Privacy Office, and to me it felt like the s
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by joshaidan 14y ago
For those who are interested, this is what I am told is one of the original reasons for inventing the CVV value. Back in the olden days credit card transactions were processed and verified by taking an impression of the card and the raised
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by joshaidan 14y ago
I'm tempting to make a version of this that will take a URL and automatically generate comments that follow this model.
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by joshaidan 14y ago
I took a networking course in university, taught by a professor who has never touched a router in his life. But it wasn't that bad of a course--it was more of a theory and philosophy of networking course--so if you were expecting to be able
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by joshaidan 14y ago
I noticed they don't talk about where they get their virtual assistants from. Do they hire them themselves, or do they recruit them from another agency? How do I sign up to work as a virtual assistant for them? Oh well, I guess that's part
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by joshaidan 14y ago
I'm assuming something that was not mentioned in this story, the kid also got to keep the $100 he had been saving all this time? :)
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by joshaidan 14y ago
Let us know how many people show up!
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Programmers should take the day off today because Oct 31 == Dec 25(twitter.com)
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