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by ticmasta 8y ago
> sovereign nation once again As a Canadian (and I imagine citizen of pretty much any non-european commonwealth country) I had to chuckle a bit. After being treated like a resource-extraction milking machine historically and then maintai
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by ticmasta 8y ago
IGN unfiltered did a 3-part interview (IGN Unfiltered #17) with him as well that is worth viewing. Ryan McCafferty is a decent interviewer who shows a genuine love of the products and does his research: https://ca.ign.com/vi
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My brief review suggests it's popular for the same reasons that many of us loved incredible machine or even lemmings: logical puzzles with challenging but attainable rewards.
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Your experience with scratch reflects my own with all the block-based UIs. Some stuff is really easy but when we wanted to do things like functions, arrays and populating variables I couldn't figure it out without searching on the webs
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by ticmasta 8y ago
This. Pet stores have zero interest or ability to influence the conditions at a breeder and rarely sell papered animals. They just cash in on trends around certain breeds and will happily sell any animal to a buyer who isn't really tha
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Maybe they don't have any customers for this product? If they do however, it's a dick move to pull out the rug with this much notice over a period when a lot of people are away for much of it...
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by ticmasta 8y ago
The nefarious problem with FB is the illusion of recommendation/discovery. They're not trying to find new and interesting things for you the way say, the cultural aspects of HN performs this feat; they're trying to define you
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I'd also expect some tough to catch exceptions for remote, as that's something I always look at and despite the posting guidelines, posters can't stop themselves from adding things like "sorry, no remote available at thi
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by ticmasta 8y ago
honest question: Do you think open offices are or should be an "embraceable" aspect of start-up culture? Are the common activities of faculty compatible with rows of desks, no privacy and constant interruptions? I'm thinking
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by ticmasta 8y ago
If I buy a house in a neighbourhood that is zoned single family residential, Am I an "inefficient incumbent" because I expect that over the mid-to-long term it will stay that way? These companies are not democratizing investment,
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Tile is also a long-lasting option that's cheaper than slate. The issues are not purely material costs though but supply, specialized labour, environmental factors, etc.
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I agree that everyone should try and read Vonnegut but don't expect everyone to enjoy it or find in it the awakening I sure did. I think his writing really clicks with a particular type of person at a particular time in their life; i
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by ticmasta 8y ago
It sure looks like the Greendale Community College flag to me...
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Well, that may be true if you're building a better transportation company, but why should a lowly mobile app company have to get embroiled in all that regulation when all they do is facilitate a 3rd party transaction? </s>
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If your privately-owned scooter got stolen you'd be lucky to get the police do more than give you a case number. Good luck getting a detective to prioritize your case!
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I'm pretty confident that (A) the police can't barge into a private residence because some tech company points at a phone and says "see! it says my scooter is inside!" - they would still need legal basis for probable c
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> It isn't an accident that the historical center of tech is also the center of the drug This assertion is ridiculous; it could most certainly be a coincidence. I'd suggest the numerous locations around the world known for
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Kurt Vonnegut framed two camps of writers: ones like you summarize above and others that precisely and painstakingly put each word to paper, exactly how they want it to look and do little or no editing. Both are legitimate and you should pr
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by ticmasta 8y ago
1. The US charge is "shipping U.S.-origin products to Iran and other countries in violation of U.S. export and sanctions laws" 2. Canada has similar embargo laws on the books. 3. Canada has a multi-lateral extradition treaty with
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Also important to note that extradition generally requires that the request be for a crime similar or recognized in the requested country. The treaties usually state or outline the crimes or characteristics that qualify. Countries with &quo
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Exactly. If I could find good managers couldn't I just find good employees? This seems like the answer to the first line question of "how do I scale an engineering organization?" but you are not at an addressable solution yet
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what' stopping them from publishing the executive summary or abstract as a generic non-optimized, non-gamified SEO'd document? that's what universities and research organizations did for the first 30+ years of the internet...
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I immediately though of HN-style sites too. What we need is some sort of gumbo made from spanning all of these specialized , human-curated sites, stripping out the Alexa top 100, 1000, top-whatever sites and then re-ordering the results by
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by ticmasta 8y ago
It's not entirely clear from the article and conversation, but they're talking about passive FOBs that use the (presumed) proximity of the FOB to unlock the doors and allow the ignition button to work. These were created to stop
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>> you are nothing else but the custom dev shop for one or two bucket of money customers and you dont have a real product. This is my experience building for and selling to enterprise. There are a limited number of 800lb gorillas and
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I worked for a company that had product managers that were very talented at turning requests for custom features into solutions that we enabled (and our core was required to implement) but using a third party to implement. Consulting was us
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In my experience it's not the orientation in pretty much any situation or choice, it's the zealotry that seems to accompany new converts. I'm not sure if this trait mellows with age (and experience) or ossifies...
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Credit cards let me finance most of my purchases 20-30 days and the merchants cover the financing costs. That's not living beyond your means.
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I love home construction techniques that are "factory-ized" for numerous reasons: consistency, energy efficiency, assembly speed, cost, etc but I fear this has nothing to do with that. the quote: "... gains vast insight from
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and caves! always a cave...

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