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by pkaler 10y ago
Canadian by birth. Indian by ethnicity. Vancouverite by choice. Let me know if you have questions about relocating, personal or professional.
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by pkaler 10y ago
Here's my whole list for the year in reverse chronological: - Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance - Tools of Titan by Tim Ferriss - Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen - Scrum: A Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction by Chris S
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by pkaler 10y ago
I compiled it down and did a quick profile. Looks like a lot of the time is spent on line 96, converting a Character to its ascii value. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13740348/Screen%20Shot%2...
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by pkaler 10y ago
Makes sense. At the macro level, the way you see gains in the economy is when you redeploy resources. At the micro level, the way you redeploy resources is by using your two feet. :)
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by pkaler 10y ago
> Why should another immigrant get the same benefits as him faster than he could by paying even less in taxes? Because it's not a zero-sum game. One person's right to citizenship does not erode another person's right to ci
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MVVM, Protocols, and Operations in Swift(parveenkaler.com)
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by pkaler 10y ago
Do they realize they are being throttled? Just because one end sends a swipe doesn't mean the other end receives it right away or at all. Men who send a lot of swipes get their outgoing swipes throttled. Women who receive a lot of sw
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by pkaler 10y ago
If you're on OSX/iOS you would use an NSOperation and NSOperationQueue. Your NSOperation objects would conform to the NSCoding protocol. Then you would iterate through NSOperationQueue.operations and use NSKeyedArchiver to serial
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by pkaler 10y ago
It looks like Portability is not a core focus of the core team. It looks like IBM is doing a ton of the Linux compatibility work and has offloaded the core team. (BTW, shameless plug, I send a weekly Swift newsletter here: http:/&#x2
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by pkaler 10y ago
This is probably just a coincidence. NTSC runs at a framerate of about 30fps. PAL runs at 25fps. I have not worked on an 8-bit console. But if I were to, I would probably run a simulation/AI tick every 6 frames. By coincidence, some
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by pkaler 11y ago
Shameless plug for the weekly Swift newsletter I put together: http://www.swiftnews.co
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by pkaler 11y ago
The list doesn't mention optionals in Swift. Optionals are a substitute for nil/NULL and handle the absence of a value in a type-safe manner. It is similar to the Maybe type in Haskell. (BTW, if you're interested in Swift,
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by pkaler 11y ago
"If property values were tied directly to incomes..." They are not because there is no land left. It is impossible to buy a single-family detached home because there is no land left. Renting a condo is still very economical compa
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by pkaler 11y ago
There is no such thing as an LLC in Canada. You are either a federal corp or a provincial corp. http://www.canadabusiness.ca/eng/page/2853/
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by pkaler 11y ago
I'm standing at my desk in my apartment that I pay $1589/month for. An equivalent apartment in SF or NYC would be $3500 or higher. The problems are two-fold. 1) Vancouver hasn't created a single-family detached home lot sinc
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by pkaler 11y ago
I think Github's response was about as good as it could be. In hindsight, they probably should have contacted CocoaPods when they pegged one CPU. And they could have given the same general solution to Homebrew and others. With respec
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by pkaler 11y ago
I've had the Bekant desk for about a year now. I haven't had problems with the motor or controller. My experience is about the same as the reviewer of the Skarsta. The Bekant isn't super stable at higher heights, but works
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by pkaler 11y ago
The way to save Yahoo is for Yahoo to kill Yahoo. Tumblr is in New York. Away from Sunnyvale. Yahoo could build a new Yahoo there that was comprised of small teams, making new products, shipping on a regular cadence, shielded from the mot
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by pkaler 11y ago
Yes, I believe so. From here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/... "Every instance of Swift’s Character type represents a single extended grapheme cluster. An extended gr
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by pkaler 11y ago
I'm on a Swift project for an App in the neighbourhood of millions of DAUs. Swift is ready.
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by pkaler 11y ago
Aeon is an HTTP server written in Swift that has an API that looks like Sinatra. https://github.com/Zewo/Aeon
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by pkaler 11y ago
> Regarding Claim 1, you are advocating that company will sacrifice its growth in order to live off of SRED. SRED zombies are a real thing. Companies that should otherwise fold keep living on. It's not that they are sacrificing gro
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by pkaler 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to point out. It looks like TVMLJS is the framework that the current set of "Apps" are built with. They're basically dashboard widgets that display XML and Javascript. https:/
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by pkaler 11y ago
I'm not afraid of taxes. I'm pointing out the cost. And it's about focus. I live in Vancouver. The city should probably be focusing on the downtown eastside and on transit. In SF, the city should probably focus on Muni&#x
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by pkaler 11y ago
> The free Internet service will cost the government about 1.5 billion pesos ($32 million) a year and will be available in areas such as public schools, hospitals, airports and parks, said Monchito Ibrahim, deputy executive director of t
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Good Analytics Change Behaviour(parveenkaler.com)
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What's New in Swift 2.0(parveenkaler.com)
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by pkaler 11y ago
I agree with you in principle, but not in practice. Outsource your bookkeeping to Xero or Bench or wherever. As a consultant, accounting is a cost centre. You should be focusing on sales, marketing, or service delivery. As a consultant, y
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by pkaler 11y ago
> I get that this is aimed at the startup crowd, but I've always felt that this sentiment is pretty privileged. We, the elite, get to cherry pick our work and do what we like. But I bet 9/10 people will never feel they have thi
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by pkaler 11y ago
In Vancouver, we call this Vancouverism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouverism It is a long-term commitment to mixed used development, walkable streets, view corridors for everyone, public parks within walking dis

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