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Show HN: Listen to and share your podcasts on Flapcast.com(flapcast.com)
1 points by mcrider 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcrider 15y ago
Are you referring to business class immigration? In Canada, its $800k, and you don't get a house ([ http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/index.asp] ). But yeah, point.
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by mcrider 15y ago
I do, but only incidentally. I have to walk the dog every morning (its more my GF's dog, but she goes to school early so I volunteer to do day walks). I'll just say that I put on about 20 pounds when I started working from home, and since
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by mcrider 15y ago
Not to mention it doesn't need to impede on your current activity. Currently, if you're doing some work in an app, you can either close the app, create the reminder, go back to your app and try to get your brain back into the mindset of us
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by mcrider 15y ago
I have issues getting it to work consistently. Also the fact that it isn't tightly coupled with my editor makes it very inefficient for me (needing to open up the file i want to debug in MacGDBp, and go back to my editor to make changes).
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by mcrider 15y ago
Still need a debugger :) Too bad MacGDBp is pretty much unusable.
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by mcrider 15y ago
You mean Cmd-shift-F? I haven't experienced Cmd-F as full screen in any mac apps I've run across.
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by mcrider 15y ago
+ Post-receive hook so I don't have to log in to the remote machine to update it.
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by mcrider 15y ago
Nothing really, although there is business class immigration. Basically you pay half a million dollars and you get a visa. The newest immigration path is the canadian experience class. Its a fairly streamlined process if you post-seconda
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by mcrider 15y ago
Temporary hiccough on my end I guess, its working now. Good luck with your project, I wish I had when I was in university (WebCT is a mess).
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by mcrider 15y ago
And Beverly Crusher is one of your users ( http://www.matygo.com/features.html )! Interesting stuff you guys are doing. Are you hiring yet? I live down the street from your offices :) BTW, your blog page seems to be down.
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by mcrider 15y ago
Whatever they'll do their best work on! Our organization doesn't provide computers (its not really a company, its a semi-non-profit entity and all the employees are contractors), but we use Mac, Windows, and Linux and a variety of environm
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by mcrider 15y ago
That's even scarier. When we had our (ridiculous) riots here in Vancouver a couple months back, it was all in one area. Many will argue that the cops didn't do a great job keeping it under control, but at least they kept everything in a r
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by mcrider 15y ago
Having a Git history of my tasks is nice, but this is functionally equivalent to Gina Trapani's Todo.txt (todotxt.com) CLI app/mobile app, which uses Dropbox rather than Git to host the list in the cloud.
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by mcrider 15y ago
Sequel Pro -- Awesome free MySQL manager for mac. Transmit -- Great FTP client.
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by mcrider 15y ago
This may sound childish, but I immediately think of GLBT when I see the acronym GTBI (which could have a similar meaning).
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by mcrider 15y ago
I'll be sure to update cantada.ca :)
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by mcrider 15y ago
Europeans think its sewer water, and you have to wear (or be) a wife beater to drink it. North American's think its gold -- At least here in Vancouver, its usually the most expensive thing at the bar and people only buy it if they're reall
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by mcrider 15y ago
Agreed. And who just watches TV anymore anyway? I'm usually coding while I watch, or at least surfing the web/playing an ipad game. I can spend the whole evening writing code for my personal projects and not feel bad about it because I'm
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by mcrider 15y ago
That's a shame. I was just thinking yesterday how great it would be to be able to host web pages in a P2P fashion (after all, people are building an economy of the bittorrent infrastructure). Sites like WikiLeaks would get a great advanta
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by mcrider 16y ago
As an American that moved to Canada for school, I highly recommend it. Canada has very good schools (and more importantly to me, very cheap in comparison to the US) and as of the past couple years, its pretty easy to get work permits if y
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by mcrider 16y ago
I like how a reputable company still has screenshots with bug comments like "Ship the fuck out of issues2". I love GitHub.
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by mcrider 16y ago
Perhaps if it caught on enough. There are many people that had to learn LaTeX who were not programmers, which is IMHO not a trivial feat. Not that I'm disagreeing with you--But making git point-and-clickable doesn't strike me as being very
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by mcrider 16y ago
Just checked out startups for the rest of us from harold's recommendation.. Looks good. Anyone have any other good recommendations about startup podcasts? Other than This week in startups--I can't stand Calacanis. Also, I recommend Too Mu
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by mcrider 16y ago
I used a html pack from http://sickdesigner.com/resources/HTML5-starter-pack/index.h... then added in my own PHP. I wanted to automate as much as possible any future upkeep of this site, so its very much dynamically generated, with a bun
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by mcrider 16y ago
Thanks! I'm no designer so any feedback there is much appreciated. I've compacted things a bit, but will continue to tweak it. I'm thinking I'll also add a drop-down menu around the top to let users jump to a service quickly (I've already
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by mcrider 16y ago
Thanks -- I couldn't find a SkypeIn logo, so I should've clarified the text. I've just updated it.
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Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada(cantada.ca)
212 points by mcrider 16y ago|118 comments
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Find a place where you can talk to someone in power (i.e., not just HR) and demonstrate your passion for what the organization does (it helps if you actually have some). I wiggled my way into my first programming job because I really liked
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by mcrider 16y ago
People can multitask perfectly fine when the tasks they are doing are automatic (that's why you can usually drive and have a conversation [with a passenger] at the same time without any difficulty). When you're doing multiple things that r

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