mattadams

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by mattadams 8y ago
There is something to be said about wired peripherals... their dependability, ease of use and lack of wasteful batteries that just end up in a landfill.
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by mattadams 9y ago
I have to second this. I am a long-time Linux user, having run Debian since the late 90s and Slackware since 1993 but systemd put me over the edge. Things that worked and were easy to figure out in the previous init system just stopped work
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by mattadams 15y ago
I feel badly for this guy but drinking on a public street is a no-no in most places in North America. There is something to be said for understanding the local rules, regardless of how stupid they may be.
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by mattadams 15y ago
TightVNC
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by mattadams 15y ago
I'm aware that there are unmanned stations -- not only oil platforms but regular leases. I live in oil & natural gas country (Northern Alberta). What you don't see are the thousands and thousands of guys running around keeping it al
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by mattadams 15y ago
Yeah, that is probably never going to happen or if it does it's so far out that it's not worth speculating on.
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by mattadams 15y ago
Quickbooks, absolutely. If you're doing anything serious you need to use an industry standard (not necessarily Quickbooks) for this kind of application. Your accountant will hate you for using anything else.
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by mattadams 15y ago
I think my biggest gripe is that these things are only possible by using one of the many libraries or rolling your own solution. The rather disorganized state of the node.js libraries is far too confusing for most of us who don't do Node 2
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by mattadams 15y ago
How about "please don't use stuff that makes rendering horrifically slow on relatively modern hardware?"
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by mattadams 15y ago
Please see my reply below, thanks!
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by mattadams 15y ago
I know that Jason will reply to this later today but I figured I would do it now. The company is based in Ontario. Jason lives in Oakville so anything in the GTA would be good.
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Ask HN: Know any good law firms based in Canada that specialize in startups?
8 points by mattadams 15y ago|0 comments
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by mattadams 15y ago
Data tables (jQuery addon) does a pretty good job with HTML tables.
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by mattadams 15y ago
Is this just a subvertisement for Mongo?
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by mattadams 15y ago
Not even. You misunderstood what I was referring to: http://goo.gl/6iXui
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by mattadams 15y ago
HOSTS.TXT anyone?
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by mattadams 15y ago
Be very careful with screwing with your sleep cycle. Our bodies and to some extent our minds are hardwired to depend on the natural rhythm caused by daylight/night-time. Obviously this is pretty easy to mess with thanks to artificial light
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by mattadams 15y ago
Disagree. As a Canadian entrepreneur and someone who has previously worked as a sole proprietor for many years you should absolutely consider incorporation. If you are a sole entrepreneur looking to go with a Canadan Controlled Private Corp
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by mattadams 15y ago
Waitaminute. Paying to pitch?? I thought ideas were a dime a dozen!
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by mattadams 15y ago
My guess: severe burns, pulmonary edema and cardiovascular collapse. I'm basing this on the temperatures of lava vs. what would be expected inside of a fully involved house fire (I used to be a volunteer fire fighter).
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by mattadams 15y ago
Olark, among others. I'm surprised no one has mentioned them.
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by mattadams 15y ago
I agree with your point that "each purchase vector should either be done right or not at all." In Pizza Pizza's case they should have stopped at an easy-to-use location finder with address and contact info and avoided the ordering bit altog
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by mattadams 15y ago
I'm willing to bet that Pizza Pizza isn't missing out on much money over their website. It is far more common for someone to place an order for pizza by dropping by the establishment or making a two minute phone call. What is more likely is
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by mattadams 15y ago
I don't think I've written anything extraordinary about running a startup in relative isolation but I am curious to know what other people think of the idea. I'm definitely on the "it's better to be closer" side of the fence but I'm willing
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Isolation Is Bad For Your Startup(blog.stuffbymatt.ca)
3 points by mattadams 15y ago|1 comments
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by mattadams 15y ago
To expand on your statement, if you're doing a lot of meaningless work in a startup then something is seriously out of whack. Nothing, absolutely nothing, should be meaningless to a startup. If it is then it's not essential to the startup a
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by mattadams 15y ago
Fair enough. I really thought you were advocating something else.
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by mattadams 15y ago
Also most modern systems don't support hardlinks on directories.
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by mattadams 15y ago
Bullshit. Free market or not, that's an entirely one dimensional view on the value of software. Plenty of software has value -- the software that makes a business more productive, competitive or saves it money has inherent value, not to m
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by mattadams 15y ago
This might sound like a big deal but it shouldn't be a headliner. Whatever the details (and we don't have many) companies use and drop technologies on a fairly regular basis. Sometimes it's a good fit and sometimes it's not. Obviously in

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