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by mock 12y ago
This has changed quite a bit. There are a strangely large number of companies (both startups and a-bit-older-than-startups) doing various large data analytics type things. Also plenty of adtech related startups.
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by mock 12y ago
Please do. Everyone I know is hiring. We're hiring. http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/11521
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by mock 14y ago
download.com does not make me trust you. It's a red flag that makes me think you're even more likely to be malware. Especially given this: http://insecure.org/news/download-com-fiasco.html
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by mock 14y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ke... Works just fine with version 1.x files
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by mock 14y ago
I quite enjoyed Simon Morden's Metrozone trilogy - which has a lot of similarities to Snow Crash and Daemon (main character is essentially a hacker, run-amok AI, cyberpunkish dystopian future...) http://www.simonmorden.com/books/equations-
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by mock 14y ago
Derek over at http://www.biospace.ca/ and http://makerspace.ca is trying to do some of that sort of thing.
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by mock 14y ago
Actually, that's another good point. There are a lot of people working remotely here, as it's relatively quick to get to both Seattle and Vancouver (under an hour by float plane, and float planes don't have bullshit security lines). You c
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by mock 14y ago
I agree, there's definitely a problem with salary, and I don't dispute your characterization of it. However, my observation is that you need to be able to wait for the well paid senior positions to come available. If you need the work, yo
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by mock 14y ago
The retirement community aspect has shifted somewhat; downtown is now younger and a bit more vibrant with all the condos that have gone up (and continue to be built). $300k will get you a tiny condo - $500k will get you something you actua
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by mock 14y ago
While it's true that salaries are by default depressed, anyone who's a pretty good hustler should be able to at least get within 5% of Vancouver. The real problem is that you're competing with all the kids who get out of UVic, don't want t
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by mock 14y ago
I live and work in Victoria, and have for the past 5 years. I currently work for a company that is hiring, and know of several others that are as well. Booming is, of course, relative, and probably refers to the difficulty everyone has fi
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by mock 14y ago
I wonder how easy it would be to hook this up to dns tunneling software such as http://code.kryo.se/iodine/ in such a way that after the the initial ssh auth step, you would have a useful terminal that would be accessible even behind capt
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by mock 14y ago
Neverblue - Victoria, BC, Canada We are a full-service advertising brokerage that specializes in online customer acquisition and lead generation. We deliver millions of profitable customers to clients from all over the world, including memb
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by mock 15y ago
What's the right perl module to use for queue based worker stuff these days? I like rabbitmq, but unless there's something I'm missing, AMQP support in perl seems a little sketchy. Is STOMP the way to go? Or should I just build 0mq worke
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by mock 16y ago
There are limo services advertised, and a courtesy phone that will reach them in the SFO airport right after the baggage pickup. I used one 3 weeks ago, and it took 5 minutes for my limo to arrive.
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by mock 16y ago
At least a few given the number of times stuff from here gets posted on facebook by various infosec friends.
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by mock 16y ago
If someone has interesting work, and wants to pay me to learn COBOL, then absolutely I will. Actually, I have another startup in the works that probably will require learning COBOL at some point anyway...
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by mock 16y ago
Bad legacy code is certainly unpleasant. I'm currently working with a large code base that was mostly written about 10 years ago. It's not even particularly bad code, it's just big, and old, and crufty. But we can refactor that code a bi
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by mock 16y ago
I haven't ever had problems hiring good perl people for the startups I've founded. But that may just be the area (Vancouver has a bunch of really good perl people). Also I try to only do cool things and treat people well. ;-) I see your p
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by mock 16y ago
You might just not be in the right echo chamber. In the last few years I've been in several startups where perl is the primary development language. Most of the people we hired were in their mid twenties to mid thirties, which seems about
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by mock 17y ago
There is no debate. Copyright infringement is not theft. Copyright infringement is also not murder, arson, or vandalism. Words mean something. That's why we have different words for different things. When someone says "Copyright infrin
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Charlie Miller on Mac OS X, Pwn2Own and Writing Exploits(threatpost.com)
3 points by mock 17y ago|0 comments
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by mock 17y ago
In perl you can use http://search.cpan.org/~abigail/Regexp-Common-2010010201/lib... The entire Regexp::Common namespace is basically a cookbook of the "right" way to use regular expressions. Worth stealing and porting to other languages.
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by mock 17y ago
I've used e-xact for a few different projects. Never had any problems with them, and they're relatively developer friendly (I wrote the Business::OnlinePayment::Exact module on CPAN).
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by mock 17y ago
He just seems kind of ignorant really. My experience is certainly limited to the west coast, but I've been around for a while both as a founder and early stage employee in plenty of startups, and I've yet to see one that didn't eventually
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by mock 17y ago
If you have a degree and a job offer, as a Canadian you can apply for a NAFTA visa at the border - it's not a sure thing, but it usually isn't that much hassle.
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by mock 17y ago
There are close to a dozen US angel investors in a company I co-founded in Canada - to my knowledge (and I'm pretty sure it would have come up) none of them had to go through anything particularly onerous in order to give us money. Two of
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by mock 17y ago
Apparently. I've been talking to Dorian about this stuff for the last year or so, and I think he's got some real insight in places. Especially around figuring out what to build and how long that might take.
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The Expedient, Desirable Product(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by mock 17y ago|3 comments
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by mock 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9CJdBugDxE

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