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by wmoxam 15y ago
"the borders of the U.S. and Canada aren't really all that similar to the borders of countries like the Netherlands or Spain" They used to be.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
Not really. The US-Canada border was far easier to cross pre-911. You didn't even need a passport to cross up until 2004.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
Is this the part where people are supposed to start chanting "USA! USA! USA!"?
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by wmoxam 15y ago
No Github profile. Less relevant buzzwords than a resume on Monster.com. Lame.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
If HAML is an unforgivable sin I want to be a sinner. Btw, HAML eliminates a class of errors (improper tag nesting) and I find it much easier to read. To each his own, but I don't get why such an opinion piece is front page on HN. Is this t
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by wmoxam 15y ago
Similarly, 1.8.7 is the stable version of the 1.8 series.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
Actually the non-english speakers are split evenly between french speakers, and speakers of other languages. The discussion was about diversity (and the imagined lack thereof in Canada), not about IQ ...
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by wmoxam 15y ago
I guess it depends on what you consider 'diverse'. You seem to only consider skin colour. Besides, Canada is more like 80% 'white' vs 72% in the US. An interesting tidbit you may not know is that less then 60% of Canadians speak English as
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by wmoxam 15y ago
That's certainly the argument he makes. Unfortunately it's not a good one. If anything it could mean the end of in-memory key/value stores (ie: memcached)
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by wmoxam 15y ago
You can (and people do) use Capistrano to deploy php code.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
But it can (and should be) fixed. It's not that difficult. Choose a convention (ie: always $haystack before $needle), find the methods that don't conform, and print deprecation messages for them, add their replacements. Then in the next maj
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by wmoxam 15y ago
Are taxes lower in the suburbs of most American cities? I thought they'd be higher due to lower densities (more roads, sewer pipes, etc per capita to maintain). At least that's the case here in the Greater Toronto area ...
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by wmoxam 15y ago
There are huge differences between the two. China has far, far better infrastructure for starters, and the amount of absolute poverty is far lower in China.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
That is largely not the case with your neighbors to the north. In Canada only 1/3 of taxes are collected at the federal level, and some of that money is distributed to the provinces to spend (poorer provinces get a larger proportion of paym
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by wmoxam 15y ago
Yup, I have. Don't really see any distinct advantage, though writing new formulas (and contributing) is comparatively easier.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
What sort of 'thing' were you trying to do?
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by wmoxam 15y ago
Macports is a decent enough package manager. My only real gripe is the lack of binary packages.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
No, in fact there's a good chance that the Parti Quebecois will win the next provincial election. Separatism still has mass support in Quebec.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
Not all EC2 & EBS instances are down. I have several in US-east-1a and 1 is down, while all of the others are working.
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by wmoxam 15y ago
PHP "arrays" are not so unique. http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Hash.html "Hashes enumerate their values in the order that the corresponding keys were inserted."
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by wmoxam 16y ago
Argument kinda falls flat. For starters, Xcode 3 is still free, at least for now. No need for Xcode 4. Also, I'm certain that someone will package gcc for mac sooner or later now that there's an incentive to do so. There has not been much i
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by wmoxam 16y ago
For my sites IE is no longer the 'dominant browser', it's market share has fallen to ~35%, down from >50% a year ago. Of that 35%, only half is IE8 with IE 6 & 7 making up the other half. If trends continue, IE9 might constitute 1
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by wmoxam 16y ago
They could not come out against it before the ruling was made. They are the gov't, and the CRTC is an arms length agency. It's not the government's place to interfere with an arms length agency, at least before they've announced a decision.
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by wmoxam 16y ago
Savvica - Toronto, ON (must be on site) We're looking for a Design Lead and a Senior Developer ( http://savvica.com/jobs ) We are India’s leading educational marketing and recruitment services company. We work with universities and colleges
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by wmoxam 16y ago
Alcohol is heavily taxed and the LCBO also enforces a price floor to discourage heavy drinking. http://www.lcbotrade.com/selling_pricing.htm
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by wmoxam 16y ago
I'll provide another data point (as someone who isn't as heavy a user as acangiano. I'm with Teksavvy as well and currently pay $31.95 + tax for a 200GB cap. I'm using less than half of that, or about ~80GB/month. Under the new rules I will
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by wmoxam 16y ago
Teksavvy won't be able to offer 200GB for $29 anymore now that UBB is a reality (at least for their DSL offering, not sure about their cable offering).
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by wmoxam 16y ago
Many sites use session cookies, which expire on exit.
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by wmoxam 16y ago
I just checked Learnhub's numbers ( http://learnhub.com ) and IE is now at 40%, it was 54% a year ago. Most of the traffic comes from India. Chrome went from 7.5% to 20% in the same time frame.
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by wmoxam 16y ago
"IIS is believe it or not a very good webserver" Does it have a portable config file yet? Or do you still have to use scripts to transfer website configurations (which breaks when you have sites configured with SSL for example). I still hav

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