wattt

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by wattt 10y ago
Mouse-based design. Not ideal for me on a mobile phone where I have no mouse!
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by wattt 10y ago
Flickr is the only part of Yahoo that is worth anything. The question is how much.
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by wattt 10y ago
You mean real estate agent. Landlords generally get the cheapest shit because otherwise it cuts into the bottom line.
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by wattt 10y ago
80% of the world's Muslims were still permitted in during the ban.
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by wattt 10y ago
You might be interested in mbasic.facebook.com.
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by wattt 10y ago
Surprised it has not been mentioned yet, but mbasic.facebook.com would solve the issue in both articles. I don't even have a facebook account and I'm constantly referring people to the slimmer version. I guess they must not advert
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by wattt 10y ago
Upvoting for the correct use of all caps.
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by wattt 10y ago
> by Segway What planet are you living on where this is true? Do you work for Segway's marketing department or something?
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by wattt 10y ago
I didn't say similar things didn't exist in Canada, I said "Jim Crow" didn't exist in Canada because that was the subject of the comment I was replying to. Thanks for the scolding though.
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by wattt 10y ago
Thank you for this, I remember reading about this a few years ago. IIRC my work would be covered but I'll double check!
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by wattt 10y ago
The BC Liberal goverment has been in power too long, but people really like to play Real Estate Casino so the legacy lives on for now.
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by wattt 10y ago
Six months ago people knew this was coming. If they bought at that time they were just ignoring the writing on the wall because they wanted to play real estate casino. No sympathy for sad house flippers, sorry!
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by wattt 10y ago
Keep in mind if you get capital gains you pay tax twice to both governments. You make it sound like it is a huge deal but factor in the increased accounting costs and in most cases the advantage isn't that great at all.
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by wattt 10y ago
No they mean increase. Rents are high and it is causing problems for retail workers who have to commute 2h to get to work because of living costs in the city.
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by wattt 10y ago
Likewise
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by wattt 10y ago
Canada didn't have Jim Crow laws, wrong country.
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by wattt 10y ago
So you want Vancouver to be a Prince Edward Island!
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by wattt 10y ago
One of the proposals was to look at energy use. Which is sorta absurd for "green" Vancouver to encourage cheats to waste energy on things to make the empty home look active. Not sure if that is what actually got implemented though
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by wattt 10y ago
That is... Weird. I'm a Canadian who does business in US (but I do not reside or physically work there). I have always understood TN as the way to go. I have relatives on L-1 and P-1 visas and I always give the L-1 guy a hard time beca
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by wattt 10y ago
If that is the case why not use Jekyll? It is the most popular thing out there that I am aware of.
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by wattt 10y ago
I second this!
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by wattt 10y ago
I guess if you aren't good you start calling yourself a "pinko commie" as if it was a virtue!
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by wattt 10y ago
I wish you weren't being downvoted! If you join an organization that is union you should almost certainly join. Otherwise... You're a scab. That's how it goes. Sorry HN doesn't see reality.
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by wattt 10y ago
Wow you and I live in alternate universes. In my experience, and having been without work at various times, and freelancing... I believe developers are scarce. You need an aptitude and some (self?) training to take part and a lot of people
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by wattt 10y ago
Scarcity. Once you know how to program, and others know that, everyone wants to hire you. There are simply not enough developers yet for all the things people want to do right now.
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by wattt 10y ago
I'm not a Mac user, but bravo to the author for doing a really good analysis. I run a skylake-based Asus running Ubuntu with Gnome and it performs well, but the battery life does vary more than my Lenovo/haswell did. I'm able
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by wattt 10y ago
.com was a command extension in DOS even before that.
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by wattt 10y ago
I have never heard of that, but I will share one thing I like about it as an IDE (and historically I have hated IDEs and used vim)... No config. Open a "folder", no project setup bullshit, and it remembers your work-state for each
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by wattt 10y ago
It does. The only things quirky about it: command mode "up" button doesn't know about the history of past commands... Sucky for iterating on a regex. Undo is also broken, but it took me 2 full months to notice that the vim pl
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by wattt 10y ago
I have used vim for years and I was tasked with making an Electron app for a client so I tried vscode... And I love it! I still use vim for sysadmin things but it has been the first thing Microsoft has made since the original Natural Keyboa

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