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by pkaler 13y ago
Instead of raising the minimum wage, I'm a proponent of increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_Income_Tax_Credit Rather than paying people more to flip burgers, I think it&#x
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by pkaler 13y ago
> The Cheney administration was openly deceitful, as it were, a brazen set of liars fronted by an idiot stooge. This turn of events - particularly given Obama's rhetoric and the expectations of him - seems in many ways much more ins
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by pkaler 13y ago
Already patented. You even have the choice of which patent you would like to infringe: - Apple: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20100227632 - RIM: http://www.uberphones.com/2010/12/ri
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by pkaler 13y ago
> What I don't get is all the companies actually setting up shop in San Francisco. If I were a tech startup, I'd actually setup shop in a nice area relative to cost of living, then attempt to draw people out. I live in Vancouve
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by pkaler 13y ago
Define Ruby on Rails. At that scale don't you have to transition your model layer from ActiveRecord to a service layer that sits on top of your databases? Certainly at that scale you are going to be using many different types of data
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by pkaler 13y ago
> Golang has a GUI tool kit: the "net/http" and "html/template" packages. The article is written from the point of view of a game developer. He means UIKit or WPF. Most games used to write their own UI con
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by pkaler 13y ago
> Warning! The entire article is filled with arcane finance newspeak and obscure acronyms! Boris Wertz is a SaaS/e-commerce investor. LTV, CAC, ARPU, churn, etc are pretty standard metrics for those types of businesses. Here is a g
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by pkaler 13y ago
> Best thing to do: forget about them. If and when the time comes, you'll know what to do. That is terrible advice. If you work at a startup then compensation will be a mixture of salary and equity. You should know your worth and n
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by pkaler 13y ago
Only Apple can get away with something like this. Yeah, you're right. And that's because of their behaviour the other 364 days of the year. Broke the screen on my iPhone, they replaced it for free. Lost a plastic insert
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by pkaler 13y ago
Your lament/envy is misplaced in this particular case. Hootsuite sells into the enterprise and has tons of revenue. It looks like you are a game developer by looking at your profile. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but game compan
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by pkaler 13y ago
Let's say the pre-money valuation of a startup is $4m and they raise $1m. The syndicate would own 20% of the company. Let's say the company exits for $20m. Let's ignore preferred stock and assume it's all common to mak
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by pkaler 13y ago
This could be the subject of an entire series of blog posts. Look up adrenal fatigue; which is a controversial and not medically recognized diagnosis. I basically followed the approach others have outlined. I didn't take the gingko, b
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by pkaler 13y ago
Sounds like Marco is in the same place I was in my late 20s: burnt-out.
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by pkaler 13y ago
Fixed it. It looks like a difference between the rdiscount and maruku Markdown parsers. Github Pages must be using the opposite of whatever is the default I'm using for Jekyll.
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by pkaler 14y ago
I worked in game development for 5 years and left when I was about 28 years old. This article is pretty much spot on. I like to work a lot. I like to work 60 to 80 hours a week. The things is that reward has to be somewhat commensurate w
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by pkaler 14y ago
This isn't a very well informed rant. Sandboxing exists so that malware doesn't get access to all of your files. The address book used to not be protected and look at the crapstorm that caused when Path accessed the address book without in
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by pkaler 14y ago
"I’ve been struggling with my baby, a mid-2010 27″ iMac for months now. She’s been unstable for better than a year now, and it keeps getting worse. After a few minutes, or hours the screen gets corrupted. Little discolored squares appear an
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by pkaler 14y ago
Canada Post put parcel lockers in the lobby of my building before Christmas this year, too. http://instagram.com/p/TT99kWmyd5/
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by pkaler 14y ago
I did game development in a previous lifetime. Probably half my day was implementing algorithms and thinking about the correct data structure for a problem. I spend less time these days implementing algorithms. However, you need a good un
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by pkaler 14y ago
Alberta offered bus tickets to welfare recipients to leave the province. A lot of them ended up in Vancouver and in the Downtown Eastside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Canada#Cuts_to_...
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by pkaler 14y ago
I live in a Vancouverism condo and about half the units on my floor are currently empty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouverism These residents winter in Hong Kong, Phoenix, San Diego, etc. I don't really blame them. I'd rather spend
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by pkaler 14y ago
What about merge conflicts? Looking at their API docs it looks closer to rsync than to an API you could use for collaboration. I don't think you could edit a document on your iPhone and iPad at the same time. Both clients' changes would j
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by pkaler 14y ago
I interview Business Development people just like I interview developers. I want to see them "code". I have them open up their CRM tool of choice. Then I have them explain their funnel. They should be able to step me through how they've
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by pkaler 14y ago
Recruiting is inbound marketing. Blog posts, podcasts, meetups, social media, newsletters, comments, Youtube, Slideshare, Github, etc is how you find customers. It also happens to be the way to find a cofounder or employees.
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I can add one more anecdote. My grandmother passed away before my first semester final exams in my first year. My parents didn't actually tell me until after my exams finished. The thing is that she passed away in India. My grandmother w
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by pkaler 14y ago
Apple should acquire Foursquare to compete at the Maps API level. Apple Maps uses Yelp for venue and Point Of Interest search. I'm in Vancouver and Yelp is OK but not great here. I'm told it's worse in places like Europe. On the other han
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by pkaler 14y ago
> His suggestion #3, that the standards should define more of the commonly used behavior and leave less of it undefined, wouldn't even require C programmers to do anything about it themselves. I've written Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox, Pla
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by pkaler 14y ago
> This propensity for today’s working programs to be broken tomorrow is what I mean when I say these languages are not future proof. It doesn't matter. This is not how programming works in the real world. In the real world, you write
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by pkaler 14y ago
Your impressions of Vancouver are dated by about 5 years. A lot has changed over the last few years with the Olympics, Canada Line, BC Place renovation, Convention Centre, Shangri-La being built, etc. > There is zero night life in Van

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