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It has a reputation for being the best engineering school in Canada, so lots of the best people self-select to go there. Now having said that, I think there is less variability in the quality of education you get between Canadian Universities as compared to US schools. This is mostly based wishy-washy conjecture though.
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I don't know the specifics. Following some links in here and just saw this. http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu...
In that case you will enjoy the blog of Adam Curtis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/

He uses archive footage in his exceptionally well written articles to make a hybrid documentary that is not plodding (like how TV is if you actually count the words per minute) and not devoid of moving pictures (every picture tells a thousand whatever).

I wish more news and current affairs was presented in this mixed-medium way.
This should make HP's WebOS patent sale more competitive.
Yeah, it's not like you'd use this to figure out who should be paid the most, - it's "who should I hand the phone to" when someone calls several years after a project finishes, and if that's wrong occasionally it's ok. And, there's no incentive to be #1 in the result :)

The reason it works is that people write commit message like "Fix X for ACME Corp", and the project leads tend to work on the project for the most calendar time - they may not have the most commits if they have to attend meetings, but after a project/release "finishes", one person ends up sticking around for a while to handle any issues that come up. That naturally gives them some small commits.

To me the risk to me is that this may not generalize, since different projects/products are run in varying ways.
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Worked fine here. Firefox 17 + CentOS 6
Yeah, but not what projects they worked on ;)
Another of the "oh it's been tried a million times, it'll never work, it'll never happen" ideas that are out there that might ACTUALLY work. I love those kinds of ideas.
Does anyone know if companies view soft-eng grads vs. compsci grads from uw differently? The school says it's the same, but I'm hoping to hear some first hand experience. Asking as a prospective undergrad next year :)
The idea is completely plausible

I disagree. The definition of plausible is "seeming reasonable or probable".

To say "the idea is completely possible" might be accurate but has a completely different meaning.

A security researcher discovering malware that infects several different BIOS types including on PC and Mac hardware with every major operating system that can spread via USB and communicate via sound between standard speakers and a standard microphone over distance and then going about his normal day-to-day life over the next three years is the very definition of improbable.
Less Voice, more Exit. The solution is not more democracy; everyone'e been pretty consistently complaining about Washington's power for years and it's only gotten worse. The solution is "Google Republic".
Good luck. If manually emailing editors is taking too long, you can try doing a press release for a few $XXX through prnewswire, businesswire or prleap as well. Might not have the same success as personalized emails, but it's an option if you're busy.
> "even Nobel prize winners can be susceptible, just recall Pauling and Shockley. Also, Bobby Fischer. This guy could easily have fallen prey to the same kind of brain eater."

I've heard this referred to as the "Nobel disease": http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
My anecdotal experience is different - almost every software type I went to school with at Waterloo is now in the US somewhere. I know exactly 3 Canadians I went to school with who are still in Canada.
I'm surprised this story didn't credit Quora as the original published source. I imagine that's possibly because Gamasutra reached out directly to Baggett or he decided himself to cross-post the story after its success on Quora.

I find the phenomenon of Quora posts becoming "real" articles quite fascinating. I've actually been "published" in Slate and Forbes online just for spending some time writing answers.
This is like claiming that McDonalds China is shipping money back to the USA, when in actuality, they are just reinvesting it back in China...and kicking back profits to shareholders who are hardly American.

The only way that this could have a shred of truth is if the Sweden banks had to pay Swedish taxes rather than Lithuanian taxes. Given how taxes work, you generally get taxed where you do business, not where you are headquartered, so this is most definitely false. More likely the Swedish banks are investing capital in Lithuanian for the benefit of their not necessarily Swedish owners.
For what it's worth, I'm only 31...

I'm genuinely surprised by the responses I've gotten to my post. I replied to a post that spoke in generalities and said "you can't" with my own message of "I did" and people are disagreeing with that assessment by saying "not everyone can".
http://harpers.org/archive/1956/03/subways-are-for-sleeping/

I would argue that it's difficult to determine if the problem is worse, better or the same. The best intentioned efforts sometimes go off the rails -- homeless people might prefer buses, because they are safer, cleaner and more comfortable than shelters.
I'm not sure if your post is sarcasm or uncritical listening to the internet telling you people only buy music on the internet, but a quick glance at wikipedia [1] shows the ratio of physical to digital sales varies greatly by country. Even in the United states, the ratio is about 1:2. In Japan, it's 4:1. In Germany it's almost 5:1.

Physical media are still a $1.5 Billion/year business in the U.S. alone.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry go about halfway down the page.
Currently working with a Waterloo intern and I can personally attest that he is the bomb.
I agree. Anyone have any knowledge of the tools used to create this?
Like all great schools what makes the students great is selection bias. Waterloo has a great reputation, so it gets the first pick of the best students. The great graduates give the school a great reputation.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

(Not that I'm complaining as I was part of the system and have benefited greatly from it. Co-op is a very, very big deal. But the professors and the school itself is not appreciably different from U of T or UBC or wherever)
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If that's the case, why would Canonical lobby hard to patch Mir into KDE?
Perhaps spontaneous ones?
Well, it isn't incorrect ;)
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Is this the same Paul Graham or just a coincidence?
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This to me points at the flaw of the startup model. Most of the problems startups are solving are not real problems, they don't need solving - but there is money to be made in solving them, so they get solved. This is a problem (lack of jobs/affordable housing) that does need solving, but there isn't much money to be made in it.
> (And if this is all an elaborate joke, then I'm an ass for falling for it ;) But that's not the sense I get.)

Actually I think it is a joke. Kind of. It's an elaborate argument for a philosophy (basically: eschew frameworks, use jQuery for DOM and events, manage your own MVP structure).

They go on to say "You don't need a framework" (repeatedly), and "Riot is a manifesto for vanilla JavaScript and jQuery".

I see it as a functioning demo to present an opinion about how apps should be written. Viewed like this, the whole "world's fastest framework" thing seems tongue-in-cheek. Their use of the familiar "Unveiling a new framework" device is a conceit to push a philosophy. It's allegorical.

I admit that starting off with silly benchmarks undermines the point a lot :)
People have been partying on yachts since yachts were invented. Seasickness is probably not a significant concern.
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I'm in the same boat, I've considered looking for a Chrome extension to kill all scripts that do this. I've used text selection to mark my place for longer than I can remember and all the popups are starting to get extremely annoying. I fear that I am in the minority when it comes to this though...
This might be the coolest news article layout I've seen...It's awesome to see HTML5 video used in an unobtrusive, classy way like this.

I was also excited to see they're using Video.js, with a super subtle theme that matches the rest of the site (when controls are showing). Really well done.
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Going mach 6 at high altitude is not as much of a boost as it seems.

Consider that orbital velocity is ~mach 25, and energy = (1/2)mv^2. Launching a space vehicle from a carrier moving mach 6 would give you (6^2)/(25^2)= 5.76% of the energy required to reach orbit.

You do get some benefit from launching at high altitude, and reducing atmospheric drag, but that does not require a high speed launch. The high speed launch adds significant danger due to aerodynamic issues, along with requiring a massive fuel expenditure, and a much heavier, more complex, and expensive carrier.
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> social services in Sweden

What's fun to note about social services in Sweden is that they're bleeding money like a motherfucker: more people are using the hospitals, schools, welfare checks, etc. More and more people are jobless and unproductive, even more unproductive people are being imported every year (over 140.000 immigrants are estimated to arrive during 2014), the services are prone to nepotism and very generous salaries for politicians and bosses (sometimes they're synonymous), etc.

The Swedish economy is a bomb waiting to explode, and Swedes are too afraid to speak about it for fear of being called racist or islamophobe or what not.

So... SNAFU. Just like the rest of Europe. Sucks to not be a politician / municipal boss right now. They're the only ones who have it blissfully easy.
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The same. I mention YC at the end.
Google announced the shutdown of iGoogle (which that 'API' was part of) in July 2012. You've had 17 months to update your app.
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"As a programmer, you learn to blame your code first, second, and third... and somewhere around 10,000th you blame the compiler. Well down the list after that, you blame the hardware."

I dunno, as an embedded programmer working on new HW and sometimes with a custom compiler, blaming the HW became the 5th thing, and the compiler the 6th...
Same one. Robert is also a Partner at YC.
> not exactly a "detail of implementation" is it? It's a whole gods damn strategy that the US people didn't directly agree to ... we elected representatives who agreed to this.

Well, the people who wrote the law which the NSA is claiming authorizes this also said they didn't agree to this.

So much for any kind of "rule of law" or "oversight".
If that article really is a pretty good summary of Republican thinking in this sphere, then I'd say it completely backs up what I've been saying. There's not much substance in that article. It very briefly mentions the subsidized catastrophic insurance you mention, but it doesn't go into much detail at all. Worse, it completely handwaves away the major problem with that model, namely, what happens to people with chronic conditions, by basically saying "oh well, too bad, so sad."

In any case, I don't see how that approach is ultimately very different. Sure, it means people cover a bit more stuff out of pocket, and places a higher burden on sick poor people, but overall it's pretty much the same.

The ultimate question that has to be answered is this: do we, as a society, find it acceptable to allow people to die of treatable illnesses when they can't afford to pay for the treatment? This question has been solidly answered as "no" in the US for some decades now, ever since hospitals were barred from turning away patients in the emergency room. The question now is simply how you accomplish it.

So, back to these subsidized catastrophic plans. You'll have to have a mandate on them! Without a mandate, people who aren't sick won't buy them unless you hold some other threat over their head, such as denying them the ability to obtain insurance if they're already sick.

Unless we're going to let people die, the wealth transfer you describe has to happen in some way. Pre-Obamacare, it works using a de-facto hidden employment tax whereby better-off people pay, in a really convoluted fashion, for the unpaid bills of poor people. With Obamacare, it works by forcing people to get insurance even if they don't want it. The Republican idea discussed in your link is some combination of the two, and exactly what the combination is depends on the exact details.

Obamacare is just about the most free-market solution for universal health coverage you can come up with. It's more free-market than the pre-Obamacare regime, it was proposed by Republicans, and it was passed by Republicans in Massachusetts just a few years prior to becoming law at the national level. And lest we think that those Massachusetts Republicans were some fringe group, they nominated the governor for President! Why should I expect Republicans to object to it for any reason other than being the political party of Crazy?
I was simply providing you with a technical reason for why support for newer operating systems might have been dropped. I think you're being complete unrealistic with your expectations or that your understanding of what being a Nexus device means. Google has not announced that it is discontinuing support for the Galaxy Nexus, just that it won't receive the latest and greatest OS.

Had something like this happened to for instance Microsoft or Apple, they would have footed the bill, engineered a solution, and lived up to what they promised their customers in the first place.

Are you really citing Apple as a credible reference for an upstanding company?

I'm going to cite 1st Generation iPad which was released in 2010, discontinued in 2011 and received one iOS upgrade as proof you're full of it. On top of, that numerous Apple devices have only had 2 years of software updates (e.g. iPod Touch 4th Gen) before being discontinued.

Furthermore Apple has settle numerous lawsuits and class action suits filed against it for failure to repair devices under warranty, claiming such bizarre things as being a smoker creates a hazardous operating environment in violation of the warranty. They've had numerous lawsuits against them for manufacturing defects on devices that resulted in high numbers of failures outside of warranty periods (e.g. iBook power-on issue).

Microsoft ships a baseline package of drivers but it's up to vendors and device manufacturers to maintain driver support for Microsoft's Operating Systems so that's not even a valid comparison.

That's why you have a profit-margin after all

No, that's not why you have profit-margins. But even if it were, Google is selling the devices at or near cost so there isn't much margin to work with. So using your own logic against you, getting an OS update this summer on a device that's 2 years old that never made a profit is pretty crazy.

That's totally unprofessional and completely uncool.

You're completely unreasonable.
Yeah I tried to delete the comment, I posted only halfway through. It was a good read.
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I'm very proud of my time at Waterloo. The school surrounded me great students and (some) great professors who were constantly challenging and rewarding. I wouldn't be the person I am now, and wouldn't have had the same great opportunities had I gone to another school.

As always, these stories about 'Canada's hidden talent pool' slide into a discussion about the 'brain drain'. Many of classmates from the class '07 ended up in the bay area, Seattle/Redmond, NYC or Boston. I'd estimate greater than 50%.
In fact, I'm one of them. While I may not be living in Canada, I still stay connected to my home. I have many friends who have moved to the US after school only to return to Canada when they're ready to settle down and have a family.
Canada remains a great place to live; I just wish we could decrease the cost of doing business between Canada & the US lower, and convince more Americans to move up north.
Yet even as they take measures against government collection of personal information, their business models rely on collecting that same data, largely to sell personalized ads. So no matter the steps they take, as long as they remain ad companies, they will be gathering a trove of information that will prove tempting to law enforcement and spies.
I'm getting similar:

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Error reference number: 502
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As if it's very hard to make a redirect to the www domain. It takes only a couple of minutes.
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U of T has been getting more attention from tech companies lately - Google, Microsoft, Yelp, Tesla, and Uber (among others) have been recruiting on campus this year. I would say Waterloo has a much stronger startup culture though. Kids at U of T are mostly busy trying to keep their GPAs afloat.
Since most news and media sites are plagued by buggy Flash video players which barely if ever work for me on Linux, this in contrast was really refreshing.
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How this former Valley exec is poaching US talent for his Mexican startup lab
I'm guessing he ran it on Quora to see if it would gain any traction, and since it did, either submitted it to Gamasutra or was asked by them to publish it there.

Since it's his answer, he can reproduce it anywhere he wants without crediting Quora as a source (since he's the source here), though it'd be sweet if he gave Quora a nod :)
I will say that when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s and collecting baseball cards, I did it for a couple reasons. One was that they were going to be worth something later, but that was near the bottom of the reasons.

The major reason was that it was a way to be involved with MLB. It was fun trading with friends to try to get your favorite players and complete a team or a set. It's Pokemon without the game attached - gotta get 'em all!

Where the wheels fell off was were kids were priced out of the market. 50 cents would buy you a pack of Topps, Donruss, or Fleer - about 30 cards in a pack. But then the infamous 1988 Upper Deck set that introduced thick white card stock, foil wrappers, and holographic seals. $1.50 or more for a pack of 12 (I think). They were somewhat limited and successful, so everyone followed suit. Fleer Ultra. Donruss made the Leaf name premium. Skybox for the NBA. Eventually Topps came out with their Stadium Club cards that were just plain stupid - $5 for a pack of 12. At that point, I was out.
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Microsoft has been onto this for a very long time. Even back in the early 90's they'd hire huge numbers of co-ops and graduating students each year.
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Shouldn't auto-play, though. That is never OK.
If you are interested in this type of stuff, this is a good, free book:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4686

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I never said we have high social mobility. I responded to "you can't" with "I did".
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Yeah, that didn't work. Try again, perhaps later?

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Error reference number: 502
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