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Possibly a tactic to make himself look dumb so Page underestimates him.

I don't really buy Uber's denial. They can profit from this; knowing their ethical framework, you'd think they're encourage it.

> go offline

So you're priming the surge pump, so to speak, since you know where the ride requests will be anyway.

I wish Canada was a socialist country...

The government doesn't "favour new Canadians over old ones." That's crap.

The government offers funding to new immigrants because they lack many of the social networks that people who were raised and educated here possess. Also, it's a pretty good investment, as immigrants have a stronger entrepreneurial bone than the average Canadian, due to self-selecting as go-getters (i.e. emigrating).

You'd think they'd use localStorage...

Bad Metric is Bad.

I have some friends there, it seems livable :) But I'm in Canada so I'm not seeking U.S. employment "in these turbulent times", if you know what I mean. 8) Thanks for the offer though!

I was like, hot damn, cheap housing and good paying jobs, I'm moving to Baltimore!!

How could they forget Revelations?

> I appreciate nobody spends on elections quite like the USA

The scale is nowhere close. Maybe if you include black money, India might be a contender, but how much of that is spent online?

Next up, they will hit up on the idea of dedicated roads for truck convoys; also, a single engine to pull them all; and finally, the creation of roads with steel rails to put the trucks on.

Have you posted about this at length somewhere? If not, care to elaborate on what it took to design this system?

Because what Microsoft needs is less testing for bugs...

It's fine talking about messes, but _someone_ has to pay for the content, and display ads don't cut it. Paywalls will be the dominant form of monetization for most mainstream news orgs in the next 5 years. The second most important one will be the Guardian's supporter model, which is a paywall lite. It's still not clear this model will work at the Guardian is still bleeding money.

I think eventually you'll see a re-arranging of press wire cooperatives such as AP and CP to limit dissemination of wire content for free without strings attached, forcing the hand of many.

You could just set rails or clotheslines outside the station for an external drone camera to travel along.

> "is this cause worth it?"

How would murderers and rapists get a lawyer then? You misunderstand what the profession of lawyer is about.

So IE should say "sorry I suck, switch to another browser?" Doesn't make any sense...

I mean sites will already tell users they don't support older browsers.

Lawyers are blocked from some fancy restaurants and they drop their animal rights client? If you were looking at hiring these lawyers, would that inspire confidence in you?

But clearly it's not addictive enough, someone needs to fully facebookize HN.

That's pretty weak.

This one also illustrates that if it has "science" in it, it can't get a joke...

The margins in Canadian telcos and banks are the opposite of thin...

If that was the case, Canadian employers should have the upper hand in competitive salaries, because they don't have to cover healthcare, and corporate taxes are also cheaper. This happened in the auto sector, where Canadian plants have enjoyed a few decades of favoured status compared to American plants due to lower employment costs. That's now changed since the UAW has caved in so much to the automakers and workers in the U.S. South will work for peanuts, on top of state government offering massive subsidies to attract new plants.

What happens is simply that many Canadians like Canada and don't want to move south, and the Canadian economy is poorer than the American one (in particular, there is way less VC investment per capita), so companies have less money to fight over developers, and many developers (like myself) are content with this market.

The scrambles in Toronto don't prevent pedestrians from crossing the street on a green light; the scrambles are there because there's just so much more pedestrian than car traffic... (I'm thinking Yonge/Dundas here).

Québec City has many as well, but that's because at many intersections, drivers are so aggressive that you don't actually want to cross the street on a green light, lest someone take a turn and run you over, so the scrambles exist for the pedestrians' safety. There, they're actually an abdication to driver-first culture.

Have your pick: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=duplicate...

Good point, I hadn't thought about that. But my point is that obviously cooking will happen faster you throw double the manpower at it, even if it not in a linear fashion. :P

A good PR representative doesn't want to get caught flat-footed, and usually gets all the information they need from inside sources so that they can bullshit properly without (accidentally) misleading the public and causing the company legal trouble. Microsoft can afford good PR staff. If they didn't say yes, than the answer is probably no.

> together we consistently hit the low-end.

But that's two people, so really you just hit double the low end?

> Asked if Microsoft had previously fuzzed the Windows Defender component, a company representative said yes.

> "Fuzzing is one of a number of techniques we employ to update and strengthen our software," the representative said in an e-mail. "It is a standard practice we use as part of the Security Development Lifecyle for our products."

This journalist is naive. This answer says "sure we use fuzzing, but we have no idea if this particular bit of code was fuzzed." When you ask a binary question and a binary answer isn't provided, someone is usually trying to obfuscate the fact that they're on the wrong side of the binary.