marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: Canadian Prime Minister: $400M to Strengthen Canadian VC
Why not move then? It's millions, man! Millions!
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marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: Canadian Prime Minister: $400M to Strengthen Canadian VC
It is not.
It is Steven Harper and Jim Flaherty privatizing profits and outsourcing costs to the people, business as usual.
Remember ~$2 billion dollars disappearing into thin air[1]? Well, I mean, there was the $2m fakelake[2], an unlawful prison[3], and a 'terrorist' was caught[4] (and released[5]) but I still think Canadians did not get their money's worth. Sonic cannon's manufacturers, on the other hand, made out quite nicely. Oh, Canada...
[1]http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/06/17/why-host-a-billion-dollar...
[2]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/06/23/g20-fake-lake...
[3]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/06/28/toron...
[4]http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/from-print-edition...
[5]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/05/15/toron...
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: We switched to Node.js: the good and the not so good
Have you tried writing services in Python and running on gunicorn or gevent?
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby
> <snip> but once you get up and going (...) </snip>
See, that's the problem. How do you get to "up and going" if the docs are sparse?
Just to be clear, this is not meant as a criticism of Ember, just a general observation that I have made time and time again when looking at new projects and reading comments saying things like "yes, X is not documented and hard to get into but once you get up and going it's all roses"
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: Ubuntu bug: grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon
This again..?
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: Quora Plans To Expand Beyond Q&A
>> Quora and Wikipedia have long been seen as complementary <<
That depends on who is looking ...
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
Hey @rdemmer, I appreciate the effort you and other Jetbrains guys and gals put in keeping HN up to date with the server meltdown situation, but your comment does not address my (admittedly first-world) problem at all. I know I can get the trial and register when the keys eventually arrive. What I am saying is that if they arrive after the sale ends, I won't be able to get promo price on 1 year license extension, as to buy the extension one has to provide the license key.
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
That really sucks, I finally managed to get PyCharm and WebStorm today and was hoping to also get 1yr license extension for both. It looks like it is not possible w/o the license key, which is nowhere to be seen so far...
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
You only need one license (as long as only one instance of the ide is running).
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
This is something that I was also confused about. Is it exactly the same, or almost the same, and if it is not, then what are the tradeoffs? After a bit of googling I found this on PyCharm's confluence site: http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/PYH/PyCharm+vs.+Inte...
I decided to just get PyCharm, considering that I will not need Jython intergration, interface is less cluttered, and IntelliJ Python plugin does not handle Flask projects natively, whereas PyCharm does.
One other thing to consider is that If I don't need most of IntelliJ's features, paying $100 a year for updates is a bit wasteful if all that I need is covered by a $59 PyCharm renewal.
edit: typos
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: How to start with Backbone.js: A simple skeleton app
I am currently reading Addy Osmani's "Developing Backbone.js Applications" and like how it begins with explaining the basic concepts. As a js mvc framework beginner I find it useful and would recommend it.
You can find it here: http://addyosmani.github.com/backbone-fundamentals/
For people who prefer learning from screencasts the material from TutsPlus is also good.
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: Why we still love board games
Funny you should mention the board game cafe concept. In Toronto we have Snakes and Lattes, it's very popular and constantly expanding into adjacent buildings/floors. Fun place to go and hang out, have a beer play with friends. I think that somehow in last several years board games begun to be perceived not as a nerdy thing to do but something cool. I have seen people go on dates to SnL.
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science
Pseudoscience would also work, and is easier to say than non-science.
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: HappyEdit: A Vim-inspired, modern, open source text editor
I think that the author will get all the funds regardless of reaching the goal. It is the first time I see indiegogo and it would be quite different from kickstarter, but that's what their page seems to indicate:
>Flexible Funding campaign >This campaign will receive all of the funds contributed by Wed Oct 31 at 11:59PM PT.
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: App Engine down
@latchkey I think you are missing the point the MatthewPhillips is making. With GAE's DB there is nowhere to move, so if you want to move you would have to migrate your data to a different DB engine. If your hosting/cloud provider uses something standard like MySQL you can find another provider or roll your own if you decide to migrate out.
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: The Software Design Handbook
I was actually hoping that it would be a book about software design for web applications. Oh well..
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: RedisConf live streaming
After clicking on play i get "Server not found: rtmpt://ec2-50-112-34-102.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:80/live", anyone else get this problem? I am wondering if it's the stream or the firewall at work.
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site
Personally I would prefer a reverse set-up, post everything to my own site, automatically re-post to big players of my choosing.
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed
If you haven't yet, you may want to try opening the case and cleaning the fan with compressed air. I fixed the infamous "Fan Error" on my 3yo x61s this way.
marekmroz | 13 years ago | on: A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed
Joining the chorus of positive feedback, everything (including all things you specified) work out of the box in 12.04 on x61s.
To be fair, there is a known bug in resume from sleep/hibernation, but it is not particular to ThinkPads but to Intel GPUs.