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by apalmblad 6y ago
A good discussion of rice cookers, in my opinion, needs a link to Roger Ebert's (yes, of film fans) article on The Pot: https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/the-pot-and-how-to-us...
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by apalmblad 8y ago
Clio | Senior Systems Engineer | Remote (Canada Only) We are currently seeking a Systems Engineer, Production to join our rapidly expanding team. This role can be performed from one of our offices (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto) or remotely,
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by apalmblad 9y ago
As someone who grew up visiting the Vancouver aquarium, I struggle a bit with this decision. Vancouver'saquarium has always tried to brand itself as research focused, and I have concerns about the loss to research if we stop allowing
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by apalmblad 10y ago
While I'm not sure starting with IPOs is the best idea for a novice, I recommend questtrade for a cheap canadian brokerage. Here's how you'd do it with them: https://community.questrade.com/b/diy_investi
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by apalmblad 10y ago
Hire slow, fire fast. He's new. If he's still in a probationary period - either by statute or contractually - get rid of him. If he's not, and he's a brand new employee, consider adding wording to future contracts rega
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by apalmblad 10y ago
I remember speaking to my partner's cousin about this, a phd working in Ottawa for the federal government. No love lost between her and our previous federal government, so I figured I'd hear a great rant. However, she figured it
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by apalmblad 11y ago
First of all, I'd suggest addressing the issue company wide. Before firing, tell everyone pii outside of the office is unacceptable. Figure out a way you want to deal with that that lets people keep working, whatever it's work t
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by apalmblad 11y ago
Sounds like a broken culture. I won't comment on the normalcy of your situation, but I do not think it's acceptable. If you want to stay, talk to your manager and explain you need more mentoring. Talk to the friendliest senior yo
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by apalmblad 12y ago
I'm shocked; I saw a talk or two he did in Vancouver, and really enjoyed that he tackled deeper technical topics. He's too young to have passed away.
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by apalmblad 13y ago
Hmm. Bringing in a consultant is probably your best bet. Database optimization needs to generally take into account YOUR data and usage patterns. If you want to learn a bit yourself, pick up a copy of "High Performance MySQL." I
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by apalmblad 13y ago
I did the test and came out 37% ahead. I was surprised. That said, I often find myself fiddling with the cursor to mark my place when I'm reading something long, so the idea that extra indicators of place might help doesn't surp
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by apalmblad 13y ago
A while back (some time in the last year), they had a few of the files zipped up. There were a lot of support requests for help unzipping it. The files had a >4GiB file inside, requiring zip64 extensions. I remember at the time, my ou
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by apalmblad 13y ago
I'll toss out another warning to those thinking of using this for back packing. I've seen baffles come apart on MEC sleeping pads with a similar design - it's a big enough problem that they acknowledged on their website for their first gen
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by apalmblad 13y ago
I notice no mention of sales. Are your cofounders able to sell the product, if raising investment is not going well? Have you actually launched? Are you close to launch? Real sales and real feedback from real customers is really the only
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by apalmblad 14y ago
I feel like the author is overstating the benefits of a like button on every page. Google - and many other ad networks - also know the products being viewed if the site owner is using retargetted ads. Might facebook offer compelling retar
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by apalmblad 15y ago
Hmm.. this reminds me of a design presentation I saw a while back that talked about using the "6 Thinking Hats" approach. Basically, after creating a number of designs, a facilitator walks team members through six different ways of thinkin
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by apalmblad 15y ago
Hah, I remember seeing that quote from Bezos and wanting to do the same thing. At the moment, I make do with Jabber and a cron job, but a bit of semi-realtime feedback on positive activity is fun.
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by apalmblad 15y ago
Perhaps someone would be interested in writing some embeddable javascript for the smaller guys that, say, puts a black banner and info links across the top of site? [Me, well, I'm Canadian, and feel like it'd come across as more of a stunt]
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by apalmblad 15y ago
I once reached out to someone I knew personally who wasn't as a reference, who then told me that it was his understanding that contacting people for references without the permission of your candidate is illegal. (I'm based in Vancouver, B
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by apalmblad 15y ago
I definitely agree with your point about stack traces - I've used var x = function(){} for some projects, but have found in practice that named functions are very much worthwhile when dealing with stack traces? What's the benefit of var x =
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by apalmblad 15y ago
Great news for Skitch and great news its becoming free. I remember the trial, and how much easier it made filing bugs on my website for small UI tweaks and such. At the time, owing to the fact I'm cheap, I ended up switched to Jing, which
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by apalmblad 15y ago
While great news for those who can go to RadioShack, I'm somewhat disappointed that where I live, Vancouver, Canada, Radio Shack's have been replaced by "The Source". NOt that I was really a fan of what Radio Shack had become, but I've got
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by apalmblad 15y ago
Seems fixed now. If you did something, thanks. If not, please accept my apologies for a waste of time.
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by apalmblad 15y ago
I may just be slow, but I didn't see a way to actually start editing without embedding their link tag on my site. I imagine that'd be hard to do what they want without a bit of hackery to get around cross domain issues, but for casual poki
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by apalmblad 15y ago
Meh. Doesn't seem to work as advertised in Chrome (dev channel). Not bad, but I was never able to really get into CSSEdit, which is sort of what I imagine it to be similar to. A lot of missing editor features - or maybe it just not being vi
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by apalmblad 15y ago
Congrats to the team! I just hope this doesn't reduce the volume or quality of posts to igvita.com - it's such an amazing resource for technical ruby "stuff".
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by apalmblad 15y ago
While tools may not make a great programmer, tools do make a great programmer more effective. In fact, I'd say passion (I'd prefer a different word, but need something stronger than strong preference) for tools is a trait of great programm
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by apalmblad 16y ago
I was wondering about that... I'm not a NetFlix user, so I take it the misspelling is not either an American spelling nor a variation used by NetFlix. (Or perhaps the poster couldn't handle the consecutive vowels: http://xkcd.com/853/ )
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by apalmblad 16y ago
Didn't you mean Robert Kiyosaki? I'm not sure how Kawasaki is attached to Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
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by apalmblad 16y ago
It sounds like ticket design is the problem; an algorithm is needed that: - produces a set of bingo cards or tic-tac-toe boards such that only one board per card is a winner - produces cards that contain a number of almost winners Simply

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