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by r7000 16y ago
I would be happy to have flashcards.ww.com => flashcarddb.com Thank you if or if not possible!
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by r7000 16y ago
Try http://builtwith.com
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by r7000 16y ago
Reflecting today I believe Jim's inspiring message to us is to live life to the fullest even if that requires participation in extreme sports. Jim did not write a letter. He was the "author" of the sentiment (according to the speaker) by th
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by r7000 16y ago
"A message from Babbage's Life..." is too long. A title can trade ambiguity for elegance if the essay is clear.
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by r7000 16y ago
Like many words in English it does not have such a discrete meaning. A story or experience can have a "message" the same way it might have a "moral". In fact "moral" is often defined as: the message conveyed by a story . "Example" would ha
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by r7000 16y ago
My recent traffic from HN (a few hundred hits): Chrome: 55% Firefox: 30% Safari: 9% IE: 4% Other: 2%
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by r7000 16y ago
Interesting stat tidbit: Browser stats for Mac users only: Safari: 75%, Firefox: 20.2%, Chrome: 4.5%
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by r7000 16y ago
I noticed IE drop below 50% last spring on http://flashcarddb.com It dropped from 50.17% in March to 49.05% in April, continuing to steadily decrease since then. My traffic is about 70% North American. I have many students. Macintosh is a
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by r7000 16y ago
My webapp: http://flashcarddb.com/
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by r7000 16y ago
Maybe surfing the net is more addictive than reading a book.
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by r7000 16y ago
r/coding is not bad
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Queen tours RIM(thespec.com)
1 points by r7000 16y ago|1 comments
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by r7000 16y ago
We were just outside the "secure zone" for the G20 when we felt the rumbling and shaking. Two large U.S. military/governmental helicopters (they said "United States of America" on the side) were taking off from just beside the CN Tower. Man
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Apple selling unlocked iPhones in Canada(cbc.ca)
23 points by r7000 16y ago|23 comments
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RIM takes aim at consumer market with BlackBerry OS 6(arstechnica.com)
2 points by r7000 16y ago|1 comments
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by r7000 17y ago
Actually two of my friends ended up married to Finnish-Canadians: one from a Northern Ontario family (Thunder Bay) and one recently from Finland. So if we go by personal anecdote Canada is indeed full of Finns. :)
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by r7000 17y ago
When it comes to cultural homogeneity Canada and Finland are not at all more similar than Canada and the U.S. - which was the issue here. Perhaps the Canadian and Finnish educational systems have more in common than with the U.S. which may
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by r7000 17y ago
Yes Linus is from the Swedish-speaking minority - about 5% of the population right? However, I don't think you are disagreeing that Canadian schools have much more ethnic and linguistic diversity than Finnish schools.
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by r7000 17y ago
Canada also scores highly in PISA rankings. However it is officially bilingual, has high immigration, many ESL and FSL students. Within Canada: Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec score higher than the national average and they ar
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by r7000 17y ago
Are there any reasons to believe that is relevant? If you take PISA scores to be a good indicator than there are homogeneous and non-homogeneous societies near the top and bottom. Canada ranks right up there with Finland every year http://
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by r7000 17y ago
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. A very enjoyable description of the pinnacle of pre-Industrial technology.
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by r7000 17y ago
Backward? Never. This is the company that changed its name to Consignia and ditched the Crown for a random second-rate swooshy circle thingy.
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by r7000 17y ago
There is Folkspraak. Although it is meant to be for all Germanic languages (including English) not just the North Germanic languages. http://www.langmaker.com/folkspraak/folkgrammar.htm http://www.langmaker.com/folksprk.htm#Introduction
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Wealthy people don't savour the little things in life(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by r7000 17y ago|0 comments
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by r7000 17y ago
Where I am most companies (from my experience) log on to their bank or other service provider using custom software.
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by r7000 17y ago
The reasons I commute by transit in Toronto (despite the very accurate drawbacks mentioned above - bring in smart-cards already!) are because it is faster and less expensive. Arguably Montreal's system is better on both counts. The people o
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by r7000 17y ago
Hmm, the comments on twitter are much more positive. They are mixed rather than overwhelmingly negative. http://twitter.com/#search?q=thesixtyone I assume this is because the majority of facebook comments are from "friends" who are more l
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by r7000 17y ago
Payroll may be difficult to move to the cloud. Like HR it is very personal data. Reporting is potentially a big winner. Taxes too. Very interesting project. Good luck!
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by r7000 17y ago
Here is my app. Needs some more work on the really intuitive part: http://flashcarddb.com
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by r7000 17y ago
I use the names of lakes in Algonquin Provincial Park.

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