jcwilde

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by jcwilde 6y ago
Aha! I came across some odd Whiteclaw (alcohol) product placement on Unsplash, and I was wondering if “influencers” were trying to make a go of it on the platform, but that didn’t seem likely — now it all makes sense. E.g. https:/&#x2
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by jcwilde 7y ago
"It Seems To Me" is my guess based on usage.
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by jcwilde 7y ago
I don't think you can compare full-time employment with an hourly contract directly. The rule of thumb I've heard a few people use to convert from employment to contract is to multiply your hourly employment earnings by 2.5 to arr
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by jcwilde 7y ago
I fail to see how "per capita per square mile" is a useful measure. _Anything_ measured in that way would show densely populated area vastly outnumbering rural areas, perhaps with the exclusion of things that essentially don'
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by jcwilde 7y ago
I would further argue that tech jobs in Hamilton/Mississauga (or other satellite/burbs) don't compete with Toronto-proper in terms of compensation. Which leaves you with 1-2 hour commute each way just to try to save a bit on
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by jcwilde 7y ago
This article seems to implicitly characterize it as a positive, but the lower cost of business in the Toronto tech scene is subsidized by low wages for tech workers. As the article states, the talent and diversity of education is top-notch,
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by jcwilde 7y ago
An important additional component of the GDPR is that an individual can revoke their consent , and require all previously collected personal information be deleted. https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts&#x
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by jcwilde 8y ago
No-content article with a glaring Amazon affiliate link... blah.
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by jcwilde 8y ago
Most writeups/HowTos for this problem cover all human skin colours with reasonable degrees of success (given how niave th algorithm is). The article specifically mentions Hulk and Smurf porn easily defeating the filter.
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by jcwilde 8y ago
Is this not the holy grail?
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by jcwilde 9y ago
Corrected headline: "Lamborghini Unveils Borderline Science Fiction Plans for a Concept Car"
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by jcwilde 10y ago
Kira Systems | Toronto, ON, CA | Onsite & Remote, Full time & Interns | https://kirasystems.com/ Kira Systems is a fast-growing software company that uses machine learning to help professionals uncover relevant info
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by jcwilde 10y ago
Toronto, Canada | Kira Systems | REMOTE ok | Clojure/ClojureScript Web Developer Kira Inc. is a Toronto-based startup using machine learning to automate legal work. We’re looking for a developer to work on our Clojure and ClojureScript
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by jcwilde 10y ago
Although the information is clear, that can barely be called an infographic. It's basically a short text article overlaid on top of a 8-bit-style bitcoin "mine" operation.
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by jcwilde 11y ago
I would really love an answer to these questions.
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by jcwilde 11y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to list a bunch of languages (along with custom logo icons) that are _presumably_ supported by nanobox, only to force visitors to drill-down one-by-one to discover that only one out of three have any support at
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by jcwilde 11y ago
This is a horrible headline and directly promotes misunderstanding. One might even call it clickbait. In reality, virtual currencies can now be exchanged tax-free, effectively putting them in-line with other currencies—no special status has
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by jcwilde 11y ago
Depending on the age of the child in question, _all_ advertising may be inappropriate: children under ~7 tend to lack the executive function to differentiate between entertainment and advertising, and to reason about any agenda the advertis
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by jcwilde 11y ago
This would be an awesome wrinkle in the story if the silent partner, "Jeremy P", turned out to be Jeremy Piven.
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by jcwilde 11y ago
Interesting... One further question: when does it recalibrate—is it opportunistically, when it is already running past the reflective strip (I'm guessing in-line with the black displaying), or every so often (after each image cycle)? O
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by jcwilde 11y ago
If you look closely, the bands are covered in (multi-coloured) threads.
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by jcwilde 11y ago
Seems some pixels are not displaying correct colours on the live feed (most visible as white pixels when displaying the black background of the F21 logo). I guess the spool belts have run out of alignment? I would have guessed they'd h
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by jcwilde 11y ago
My comment was meant tongue in cheek. Maps are _the_ universal data structure: they can be used to map any input to any output. The rest is just an implementation detail. One might even call them "functions", but that ruins the jo
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by jcwilde 11y ago
I wish they had used the word "map" in place of "hash" throughout this entire article. The use of hashes is an implementation detail and wholly irrelevant.
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by jcwilde 11y ago
Not a very helpful link. Yes, just because it is hosted on github does not mean it is required to be open-source, but the documentation doesn't include any information about the licensing terms, so it is a valid question (that is as ye
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by jcwilde 11y ago
Strangely, there was no negatively in the comment you replied to, they were simply asking if is is open-source or not, as it didn't align with their expectations of github-hosted projects (I would argue this would be the case for most
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by jcwilde 11y ago
Yeah, we're pretty sure... if you read the article, you might be, too: multiple laptops and cell phones were remotely rebooted via the remote management facility at the same time (10:40), leaving them in an encrypted and unlockable sta
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by jcwilde 11y ago
Most companies that do this (unintentionally, I believe) are not benefiting from the actual work product, but from the consulting regarding their business problems. How much do you think a consultant would charge to come in for a few hours
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by jcwilde 11y ago
Am I to understand from your explanation that they asked you to solve a real business problem with real business data as an unpaid "coding test"? If so, I'd say they were clearly in the (legal) wrong even before asking for th