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by wstrange 8y ago
My recollection was that they ask for your health care number, but if you provide a correct one they don't have any way of verifying the information. I suppose if the service gets abused they will need to address this.
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by wstrange 8y ago
Alberta created a free 1-800 number that you can call to discuss symptoms with a registered nurse. If there is any hint that the issue is serious they tell you to go your doctor (or emergency). But for many minor ailments advice over the ph
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by wstrange 8y ago
AFAIK, GSR is really intended to support cloud deployment. So not a replacement for Google code. I think the assumption is that most folks will use github / gitlab , etc. as their primary, and mirror to GSR for deployment.
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by wstrange 8y ago
Our experience with GKE has been excellent. EDIT: I should also add that our account sales team have been outstanding. We are not (yet) a big customer - but they have been very responsive to our questions. My take is they are trying very ha
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by wstrange 8y ago
If you are writing "business" apps (for some definition of business), you should probably use a PaaS. If you want to create a PaaS, Kubernetes is an excellent foundation (see Knative).
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The Robinson R44 has a long history of deadly crashes(latimes.com)
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by wstrange 8y ago
> Canada is not captured by a huge pharma/medical industry like the US is I think you are making the case for single payer. The government has much more power to reign in the pharma/medical industry. See the linked article on
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by wstrange 8y ago
Single payer cuts out an entire tier of administrative costs from health care delivery. This is not insignficant. It also provide more control over wages, drug costs etc. For example, Canadian doctors make less than their US counterparts.
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by wstrange 8y ago
Timezone coverage, vacations, training, sick days, etc.
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by wstrange 8y ago
If you measure by App store revenue[1], the picture looks a bit different. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-n...
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by wstrange 8y ago
We tend to view this as a technology problem. The real question: Why do we let governments get away with this kind of behavior? Fighting a technology arms race with the government is a losing battle. They can ask for private keys to be hand
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by wstrange 8y ago
The presentation seems quite balanced. Probably not the spin that Breitbart was hoping for.
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by wstrange 8y ago
Android One phones are pretty close to stock. https://www.android.com/one/
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Reified Generics: The Search for the Cure(gbracha.blogspot.com)
86 points by wstrange 8y ago|43 comments
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by wstrange 8y ago
GCP has service catalog[1] that can interface to various GCP services (Spanner, cloud sql, pub sub, etc.). Service catalog is based on the open service broker spec. [1] https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs&#x
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by wstrange 8y ago
It's really devilishly clever. You have to see it to appreciate it. This site has a nice overview: http://prius.ecrostech.com/original/PriusFrames.htm
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by wstrange 8y ago
Have you considered Flutter? Supported by VSCode and IntelliJ community edition. Hot reload is the cat's PJs.
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Robin Hoodization of OSS and Commons Clause License(medium.com)
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Nobody gets sued for illegally downloading movies, right? – Think again, Canada(business.financialpost.com)
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by wstrange 8y ago
> Getting rid of patents will just lead to trade secrets getting lost It is hard to keep a secret. Even the most closely guarded ones (the atom bomb, for instance) tend to eventually leak. That, and many devices can be reverse engineere
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by wstrange 8y ago
https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
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by wstrange 8y ago
One wonders if the unintended consequence of this ruling is to further diminish competition in the smartphone space down to Apple and Google. Google is clearly getting in to the smartphone manufacturing business with Pixel phones and their
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MILKED: We investigated organic milk(projects.thestar.com)
5 points by wstrange 8y ago|2 comments
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by wstrange 8y ago
This seems like a very uncharitable reading of the article. Inheritance has it's place in the toolbox.
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by wstrange 8y ago
I don't think this is a fatal decision at all. With Dart 2 syntax making new optional, widget layout is quite compact and easily readable. I think the Flutter team has made the right call here. Sticking with pure Dart has a lot of adva
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by wstrange 8y ago
A PaaS solution (like App Engine) would be far more appropriate for what you want to do. Unless your goal is to learn Kubernetes - in which case minikube works just fine. W.r.t. to the GCP console and tools - I guess it's a preference
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by wstrange 8y ago
It's not an official Google project, but there is a lot of activity here: https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
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by wstrange 8y ago
Amazon is the 800 pound gorilla in the cloud. Do you really want to see them completely dominate the market? Kubernetes levels the playing field, and brings competition and choice.
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by wstrange 8y ago
Google gsuite pricing is $5 / month for the basic version.
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by wstrange 8y ago
More information: https://medium.com/flutter-io/flutter-beta-3-7d88125245dc

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