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by jpdaigle 7y ago
But how would you detect corruption in this case? If you write random bytes then read them back, you have nothing to compare them to.
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by jpdaigle 7y ago
I'm in Gatineau, Québec and we got it too, so it even got broadcast to neighbouring provinces.
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by jpdaigle 7y ago
All of these seem to require a significant investment of time before the interview process gets kicked off, which is uninclusive because it biases the hiring process against candidates whose time outside of the office is consumed by taking
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by jpdaigle 7y ago
My preferred way to handle this is to explicitly acknowledge that the meeting isn't just sync-up, it's really two meetings: - sync up / status is 15 mins. Any implementation discussion gets put in the parking lot - once we&#x
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by jpdaigle 8y ago
I think I first heard about it on HN, but there's an attempt at this called (StackShare)[ https://stackshare.io/ ]
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by jpdaigle 8y ago
In French, food processors are even called "robot culinaire"
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by jpdaigle 9y ago
Where's the line for material non-public information, vs something not obvious to most of the public, but discoverable through research? Any engineer sufficiently motivated to do so could have examined a CPU at any time in the last ten
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by jpdaigle 9y ago
Yes - assume you're buying 1/200th of an "average home" every month as part of a monthly basket of consumption. It's an assumption I use when comparing cost of living between cities.
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by jpdaigle 9y ago
Another thing I don't understand about the basket of goods approach to measuring consumer prices is how we're getting inflation figures which are so low. Since goods we buy priced in USD have gone up massively in 2-3 years due to
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by jpdaigle 9y ago
I'm asking for something even more basic from ad targeting: as a Canadian, with a Canadian IP address, don't advertise products/services to me that are US-only. You'd think the web advertising industry would at least fig
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by jpdaigle 9y ago
The idea is great, but such a radical change it probably has no chance of being realized. Perhaps a less disruptive change would be to maintain copyright protections the way they are, but attack this at the penalty level: basically enshrine
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by jpdaigle 10y ago
You are thinking of Bill C-6, to repeal the changes from bill C-24. Although it passed over a year ago, it was referred to Senate Committee last December and since then, status hasn't been updated. So "repealed" is premature,
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by jpdaigle 10y ago
No, that demo really doesn't feel respectful of readers: - The headline loads, then flashes off, then reappears when a webfont finishes loading - A "Support quality journalism" popover jumps in front of the content I op
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by jpdaigle 10y ago
This is somewhat available on TripAdvisor if you search for the airport itself by name, e.g. https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Airport-g187337-qFRA-Frankfurt_He... The airport itself is not gathering ratings, but the restaurants
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by jpdaigle 11y ago
Could be a 6 month lock-up period during which the employees who exercised and now hold stock (and thus have a huge tax liability) cannot trade (buy or sell) in the stock. So for 6 months you can be entirely at the mercy of the public marke
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Canadian Charged for Not Unlocking Smartphone at Canadian Border(cbc.ca)
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