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Show HN: InsuraMap – Insurance rates across Canada visualized(kanetix.ca)
1 points by tariq 12y ago|0 comments
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by tariq 15y ago
cool, and here i thought i was alone in needing to take time to name things correctly. had to name a variable earlier this week and even broke out the thesaurus. best i could muster was years_experienced_absolute :/
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by tariq 15y ago
yet another world's cheapest [insert gadget] announcement. time to step it up, waiting for the day i hear world's best...
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by tariq 15y ago
Toronto, Canada; Kanetix - http://www.kanetix.ca Looking for a developer with both front and back end skills who can get stuff done. Our current web stack: linux, apache, perl, oracle sql, memcached, html/css/js). Similar concept as www.l
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QA? We don't need no stinking QA(thecodist.com)
54 points by tariq 15y ago|58 comments
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by tariq 15y ago
Toronto, Canada; Kanetix - http://www.kanetix.ca This month we're specifically looking for a developer with Java experience to work primarily on rating engines. You'd be working in a small team of 4 developers. The majority of the work wo
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by tariq 15y ago
Showed it to a non techie friend who loves to cook. Here's his amusing feedback... foodnetwork has an app where u can search a recipe then make a shopping list that's useful an app that spits out random ingredients based on a sear
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by tariq 15y ago
Nice job, works really well
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by tariq 16y ago
Toronto - Web Developer - http://www.kanetix.ca Looking for a web developer to join our team who is interested in learning and wants to bring their skills and ideas to the table. info: http://jobs.perl.org/job/13944
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by tariq 16y ago
lol whoops, forgot my sarcasm tags. i was not advocating calling anything RESTish.
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by tariq 16y ago
how about calling it RESTish? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242162
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by tariq 16y ago
we used cufon for the last few years. looking to switch now since google preview doesn't support canvas and you end up with screenshots with no text
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by tariq 16y ago
yep, doesn't belong here. (unless it was less generic)
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by tariq 16y ago
more here: http://konamicodesites.com
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by tariq 16y ago
excellent, just appended '/html' to the default browser search engine url. would be great if instead of having to use specific urls that this could be set up as a preference in settings. still, i'm a happy camper :)
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by tariq 16y ago
familiar with html and css? you could design the page to be completely fluid and use up to 100% of the screen width. then use the meta viewport tag and/or media queries to size the page for mobiles. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archiv
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by tariq 16y ago
does the job. ui doesn't look too great though. why so small? countdown time should take up entire screen.
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by tariq 16y ago
this. the "improved" image search is terrible. very finicky and even hard to use--hardly simple. re: ddg. regular user, but as others have pointed out already the ajax load for results is annoying (because it's slow and flashy/jerky).
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ConcertsTO - Change the way you look for concerts (in Toronto)(concertsto.com)
1 points by tariq 16y ago|0 comments
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by tariq 16y ago
pretty much mirrors my outcome. some social anxiety, lone wolf tendencies, with situational/social awareness thrown in there. can't complain really, although makes me wonder how i would have turned out had it not been for the rough childhoo
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by tariq 16y ago
doesn't look too promising. let us know if you are successful. "Requests to remove papers from the [student paper] database must be submitted to the Turnitin help desk by the institution's Turnitin account administrator."
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by tariq 16y ago
or use a dedicated csv editor. i use CSVed.
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by tariq 16y ago
never used posterous, but it looks more similar to blogger than wordpress. well suited for churning out a simple blog.
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by tariq 16y ago
you're correct. the differences between wordpress and blogger are vast. you've mentioned the big ones already. blogger is... - easy to setup - hard to customize - limited in terms of features / plugins (if any) - hosted as a service
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by tariq 16y ago
so 3 of his rants could have been resolved by simply reading the docs. brilliant.
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by tariq 16y ago
care to elaborate how it compares to other js templating frameworks? (ie. features, speed)
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by tariq 16y ago
agreed. not sure what direction they intend to go in
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by tariq 16y ago
# Do this twice because its stupid and won't work once # I apologize for how messy this is. Blame it on an inconsistent database structure. I did the best I could.
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by tariq 16y ago
why is it so difficult to just not use it? when i felt things were "out of control" i trimmed down my friend list by half and stopped contributing needlessly (no status updates, photos, comments, etc.) i'll login roughly once a day, peek at
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by tariq 16y ago
i've installed and used it in a few years ago at a previous organization. it's alot of eye candy and nothing more. very limiting in terms of analytics (you're better off with google's offering). if i recall correctly we dropped it shortly a

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