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by pbourke 9y ago
> Does the Canadian copyright lobby have friends in very high places? Yes, to the degree that a certain percentage of Radio and TV content must be of Canadian origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content
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by pbourke 9y ago
As a counterpoint, I worked there for 6 years until 2013, and I saw it happen a few times at the SLU campus.
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by pbourke 9y ago
In my experience, most devs start with an ORM/data store/framework/pattern and try to shoehorn the solution into it. I think Domain Driven Design[0] has held up well as an alternative to this - especially the strategic design
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by pbourke 9y ago
FarmLogs and Flexport are two that seem neat from the outside (farming and logistics, respectively)
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by pbourke 9y ago
This looks really sharp! You mention Lua as a scripting language - was it used for the entire program?
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by pbourke 9y ago
Step aside from, typically due to a conflict of interest.
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by pbourke 10y ago
> At the end of the day, those 'low' salaries are only low relatively. They are more than enough for most people and only a reason to move south if your main driver is money. Otherwise they're good enough. The average Cana
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by pbourke 10y ago
> If the federal government built it Things working the way they do, the government could not build a system that even approaches a service like Uber.
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by pbourke 10y ago
"His staff filters important messages, prints them out and puts them on his chair for review" A desire to filter out noise and apply their attention in a selective manner is probably the biggest motivation to avoid email. At this
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by pbourke 10y ago
I wonder if this is a consequence of the SARS outbreak ~10 years ago.
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by pbourke 11y ago
I saw the Sortable ad in my Facebook feed. Good for a few laughs. Presidents come and go, but the opportunities in the US have been consistently better than Canada for decades now in tech. Canadians come to the US for a better standard of l
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by pbourke 12y ago
Computers, even these, are cheaper than development and opportunity costs for a complex system. Especially if that system has been around for 30+ years and lies at the core of a large business.
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by pbourke 12y ago
> A desktop environment that made it easier to perform generic development would be a unique selling point. The power of modern hardware and lightweight VM-centric workflows (vagrant) has made it so that we can enjoy the Mac hardware and
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by pbourke 12y ago
As someone who worked with this team during the time in question, I find this to be a mean-spirited and ignorant comment. It's mean-spirited because you refer to my colleagues as "idiots," when I can assure you that they are
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by pbourke 13y ago
> If you have applied to do the job shouldn't you already have the knowledge? If you can't do a job you have got it dishonestly or their was a failing in the hiring process. Or, you met the broad requirements for the job, such
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by pbourke 13y ago
> "Tim Bray's is the very American ..." Tim Bray is Canadian.
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by pbourke 14y ago
Just some friendly feedback that I found it hard to discover what this service is all about. I hit the index page to get an overview, but it took clicking through to the Real Estate and Mobile sections to piece it together - I would normall
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by pbourke 14y ago
The point is that if you know one of the languages cited by the parent ("C++, Perl, and even PHP"), then you do make your life easier by working with that language rather than choosing one which you don't know. All other things being equal,
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by pbourke 14y ago
Isn't it easier to work with the tool that you know thoroughly, which may not be "cool", rather than pick up a new tool in a different ecosystem?
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by pbourke 14y ago
Haven't kept tabs on it lately, but one resource for the Victoria tech scene is the Victoria Advanced Technology Council (VIATeC) site: http://www.viatec.ca
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by pbourke 15y ago
Smoking also causes heart disease, lung problems, etc.
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by pbourke 15y ago
5 if you count the terminal
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by pbourke 15y ago
There is another side to the story - the worst managers I have had throughout my career have all been former programmers. Leadership and managerial skills plus an analytical orientation trump a coding background or specific technology skill
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by pbourke 15y ago
This sounds like something that would make a nice feature on an existing invite/event product. You could also offer it as a white-label service to print shops.
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by pbourke 16y ago
Since we're dealing with metaphors, we're free to invent whatever we want - the metaphor should be judged on it's usefulness to ourselves and our fellow programmers. Which of the following would you rather be? Which would you rather work wi
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by pbourke 16y ago
> These are rights: Right to liberty, to own property, to your life, to the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of speech. > These are not: Right to a job, to a 'fair' wage, to an education, to internet access, to clean water, to a pig
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by pbourke 16y ago
> Sorry, I can't get past this. If the word "right" is so fluffy we can use it anywhere, it doesn't have any meaning. Rights are simply those things that a society values and there are tradeoffs inherent in any articulated set of rights
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by pbourke 16y ago
> What a brave new world that has such people in it. And read the Tempest, as well - that's what Huxley references in the title.
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by pbourke 16y ago
- IIRC you have to make special accommodations (battery backup?) to ensure pellet stoves work during a power outage. - you can buy logs made of compressed sawdust for your wood stove. These are sized properly for most stoves, though I find
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by pbourke 16y ago
People are also willing to cede control in favour of attributes that they value more such as safety, convenience and shorter trips (in duration).

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