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by uiri 9y ago
Comparing Toronto with Ottawa is simply not a fair comparison. It is like comparing New York City with Albany or Seattle with Olympia. The City of Ottawa includes the core of Ottawa plus all of its suburbs (excluding the Quebec side) and do
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by uiri 9y ago
I am not saying that any of this is practical for 99.99% of email users. In fact, I would venture to say the opposite - my suggestions are practical for less than 10 in 100,000 users. With that caveat, there are a variety of ways to make em
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by uiri 9y ago
The person you're replying to isn't talking about minors . The age of majority in every state in the US is 18 with the exceptions of Nebraska and Alabama where it is 19. The activities listed - getting married, serving in the mil
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by uiri 9y ago
Perhaps you and the post you are replying to are talking past each other. There are at least[1] five worlds of software development: Shrinkwrap/Web/Mobile, Internal, Embedded, Games, Throwaway. All are largely commercial - throwaw
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by uiri 9y ago
Both EULAs and FOSS licenses are license agreements . Presenting them in the same way is not disingenuous. The length of the GNU GPL rivals that of some EULAs. If you do not need to agree to a license before you use a piece of software, th
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by uiri 10y ago
On Android, typically the dialog closes when one makes one's minutes selection. If I make a mistake, I typically just start over since it is at most one or two extra taps. On the Web, I would expect the dialog to go back to hours after
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by uiri 10y ago
For those who are interested in looking at the raw data: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il2017/select_Geo... The figures that the article cites are for a family of four. The thresholds for in
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How to make branding decisions in an open community(opensource.com)
1 points by uiri 10y ago|0 comments
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by uiri 10y ago
A checking account is money that the bank owes you. A credit card balance is money that you owe the bank. The bank cares a lot more about getting its money back than it does about getting your money back.
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by uiri 10y ago
As a former Amazon intern, the impression I got is that "every" role is supposed to be a "leadership" role. It makes sense when you realize that they are hiring/growing so fast, they need to (a) transmit culture qui
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by uiri 10y ago
That is a non-immigrant work visa good for up to 3 years. It is not intended to be used by immigrants. It is not a permanent status like a green card.
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by uiri 10y ago
them/they as a gender neutral singular pronoun is not grammatically incorrect. Wikipedia has a rather extensive article on its history and usage. Criticism of this usage as incorrect only arose in the late 19th century. https:/&#
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by uiri 10y ago
Relevant bits from the article: As venture capitalists became more discerning, investment in U.S. tech startups plummeted by 30% in 2016 from a year earlier. But: Investment in 2016 is still higher than any year from 2002-2013. “There ar
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by uiri 10y ago
I take it this prompted the change to port 70. Why 70? What other protocol was using port 150 at the time?
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by uiri 10y ago
I found this strange too. It sets a bad precedent. Neonazis are banned but the Black Bloc is OK? Does the Westboro Baptist Church fall under the umbrella of right-wing extremists? They mention reasonable law too. That seems to exclude child
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by uiri 10y ago
.ca solves this issue by not publicly publishing the details of individual registrants in the Whois system. CIRA still keeps a record so that they know who the owner of the domain is. Corporate/organizational registrants still have the
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by uiri 10y ago
it would be surprisingly hard to divide up Google into multiple companies that still have sources of revenue, much less were still profitable. What strikes me the most about Google's business activities is that it has, through its ad
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by uiri 10y ago
Yes, it is passed along through the Referer (sic) header.
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by uiri 10y ago
I realize this is pedantic, but your list of "Web" technologies doesn't reflect understanding. The Web is "just" HTTP. HTML and JavaScript come in to play as formats delivered by the Web, but you can also have HTML
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by uiri 10y ago
This reminds me of Paul Graham's talk/essay about how (as a startup) not to die. Relevant portion: When we were visiting Yahoo to talk about being acquired, we had to interrupt everything and borrow one of their conference rooms
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by uiri 10y ago
If this were a suburb of Stockholm or any other European city of 250,000, there would be train service and bus service several times an hour. These are the choices Europeans have that we don't, because they devote more of their income
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by uiri 10y ago
The original article is from an Indian news site targeted at Indian business people. This is relevant to that audience if they are looking to hire local developers. The study is, not coincidentally, put out by an Indian company whose produc
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by uiri 10y ago
QA is a function that is distinct from development and both are distinct from operations. SRE and DevOps are merging development and operations. QA is disappearing because of automated testing. It is a separate career track altogether and i
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by uiri 10y ago
SSNs are issued by the Social Security Administration for the purposes of keeping track of social security (read: government-backed retirement pension). The Internal Revenue Service keeps track of taxes and uses SSNs to keep track of all ta
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by uiri 10y ago
No, the decision is in the context of the market capitalization , not the stock price. If $10M company has a share price of $50/share, then it has 200,000 shares outstanding. If it has a price of $100/share, then it has 100,000 s
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by uiri 10y ago
Was this before or after the large Enron scandal? One would hope that things have been tightened up since then and tightened even further on the aftermath of the late 00s financial meltdown but maybe they haven't been.
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by uiri 10y ago
Original article (and not behind a paywall): http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=80267...
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Maintainer vs. Community(medium.com)
2 points by uiri 10y ago|0 comments
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by uiri 10y ago
The museum described in the Tech Crunch article is located in Seattle. Are you sure you aren't thinking of the Computer History museum? The CHM is much larger although much less interactive.
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by uiri 10y ago
The site claims that 100% of payroll taxes are Federal. It looks like they missed San Francisco's Payroll Expense tax http://sftreasurer.org/2016-gross-receipts-tax-payroll-expen... Maybe I am misunderstanding how this

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