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Why 8VC – Former Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper Joins SV VC Firm(medium.com)
1 points by sospep 9y ago|0 comments
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by sospep 9y ago
not saying these companies[0] wont ask these types of questions, but at least they wont ask you to answer them on a whiteboard [0] https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards related HN discussion thread[1] [1
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by sospep 10y ago
Here's an Oxford study of 702 jobs and the probability they'll be automated.(PDF) [0] List of jobs table is page 57. [0] http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Futu...
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by sospep 10y ago
The average reaction time for humans is 0.25 seconds to a visual stimulus (SRC g?=human reaction time) I think you might have some leeway on the 1ms. :)
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by sospep 10y ago
Agree it's a good analysis. What I wonder is why the fog creek people didn't pursue that path(building Trello into more of a platform) as opposed to taking the exit. I mean it appears that it was quite a good exit for them, but th
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Why Trello Failed to Build a $1B+ Business(producthabits.com)
3 points by sospep 10y ago|2 comments
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Three years of a relationship(imgur.com)
3 points by sospep 10y ago|0 comments
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Why I’m leaving Snapchat and so are all your friends(medium.com)
1 points by sospep 10y ago|0 comments
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by sospep 10y ago
[TLDR] A recent report by Tech North argues that a technology and innovation supercluster in this southern Ontario region would spark Canadian innovation and attract talent and capital from around the world. The report identifies the curren
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How to make the Toronto-Waterloo corridor a technology supercluster(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by sospep 10y ago|1 comments
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by sospep 10y ago
define:irony - a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. example: This is a minimalistic and straight to the point guide to assembling a JavaScript stack. It teache
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Canada approves sale of genetically modified salmon(theguardian.com)
3 points by sospep 10y ago|0 comments
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by sospep 10y ago
Some promises, ex "Bring in 25K Syrian refugees by end of 2015" is considered "Broken" for the purposes of the "Promise Tracker" but the government actually did bring in 25K refugees and counting, they didnt hi
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by sospep 10y ago
> he didn't mention anything that you can't find on the first page of a cliffs notes on quantum physics ummm, i think the idea was to give a "cliff's notes/ELI5" explanation of the subject If you watched the
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500 Startups Announces $30M Canada Fund(500.co)
3 points by sospep 10y ago|0 comments
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by sospep 10y ago
> the last time a property bubble in a developed economy fueled by Chinese speculators crashed, it crashed by 70% FUN facts - IF the Vancouver housing market crashed by 70% 1] - A Vancouver detached house would still be valued at OVER th
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by sospep 11y ago
American: huh, guns are great, healthcare IF you can afford it, language #2 = spanish, hockey is a sport they play in Canada, worlds most powerful military, Trump, avg. American knows little about Canada, metric system - who needs that, goo
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by sospep 11y ago
> Tech companies don't have to be in Vancouver. Agree with you 100%, but they are. And a good portion of those are in downtown or in the city proper. Why? I can see if your an Amazon or Microsoft and need to hire 100+ developers but
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by sospep 11y ago
> who says cities have to allow Chinese investment to dominate the market rather than the people who live in these cities? Vancouver's dirty little secret is that the real estate market IS the economy. If restrictions were placed on
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by sospep 11y ago
> Or we have more remote jobs, and/or satellite offices. So much this. Especially for the "tech industry". A good portion of Vancouver's startups and tech companies are "downtown". Why not move out of the co
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by sospep 11y ago
Why would they pay more? As long as they can fill the seats they have open, paying "Canadian" rates, why not? Sure, they are aware that some talent is leaving for greener pastures southward, but there is no "shortage" of
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by sospep 11y ago
There will be a tech scene, the Vancouver portion of that scene may 1 day be smaller than what it is now.
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by sospep 11y ago
Your right. For a typical 1 Bedroom unit, in the city, you would be looking in the $1500 ballpark, a 2 Bedroom unit closer to 2K. For a 3 Bedrooom unit, well good luck with that. Even with the cost/affordability, the bigger problem is
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by sospep 11y ago
> The price of a typical Vancouver home rose 21 percent to C$775,300 ($584,290) in January from a year earlier, according to the city’s real estate board. The costs quoted in the article are a bit vague. If one were to assume that by &qu
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by sospep 11y ago
remember that Stewart is a Canadian and that 8 Billion US dollars is approximately 2.6 Trillion Canadian loonies, that's just about enough to get him a nice 2 bedroom condo somewhere near downtown Vancouver ;)
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by sospep 11y ago
> The trick is to avoid sweating. would I would imagine that you might want to avoid any - ice + snow patches as well, don't know if you can get * tires for bikes.
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by sospep 11y ago
tell them to head left on the trans canada until they hit whistler, bit of a drive but they can ski until the end of July :)
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by sospep 11y ago
or perhaps a larger one, like say ... IBM now that would be some serious dogfooding!
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by sospep 11y ago
I submitted my vote on their home page poll and it came back with an "SQL syntax error message from their MariaDB server". This doesn't inspire my confidence in their systems ability to run the nation.
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by sospep 11y ago
I believe its U3 and U6 numbers. Came across an interesting article[0] about how they are measuring these along with some historical data. It touches on underemployment as well, indicating that the underemployed are included in the U6 numbe

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