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    separatist BS

So millions of people who feel strongly about things you don't agree with is bullshit? You might have been too harsh, but you are not helping your case.

The city's aiming high. Some people there have a dream. And all you can do is bash them and denigrate them and tell us how their (in some cases actually very reasonable) political opinions will bring their demise. Should they just not even try? I don't understand your logic.

BTW, it was obviously a PR piece. At least we agree on that :)

    There are no elite Universities in Quebec (McGill is
    pretty good, but not French), and there is zero access to
    networks from elite schools among Francophones.

Another blanket statement. What constitutes an "elite" university?

The Francophones in Quebec have traditionally been, as a population, mostly against making "big bucks". One of the reasons was the religion. The other was that the anglophone ruling class were more than happy to (read "actively engaged in") suppress French success in general.

A lot of things changed in the last century. There are a lot of first generation University students in Quebec today, most of them French speaking. Naturally, the wages in general are expected to be lower. But one has to make the distinction about cost of living. It's lower in Quebec than in a lot of other places. This would explain the relative lower number of French Quebecois who "sign checks" - although they do exist.

Do you have any idea how big is the "circus"? There are some interesting documentaries/reporting on YouTube. Worth checking out. Another big company is the Desjardins bank, which was ranked #1 strongest bank in North America last year IIRC.

Success is relative, it depends on your social status and on what your peers define as being successful. Sure you can apply the SV VC definition of successful to mostly anywhere in the world, and you won't be much impressed. That doesn't mean the locals aren't successful. For a example, for a long time in Quebec the definition of being successful was becoming a pharmacist, doctor, dentist or lawyer. That's something that is being felt today still: a lot of potentially great scientists/entrepreneurs just want to become doctors, because doctors are successful.

Arguably this is no different from elsewhere, but combined with the general population lagging behind the rest of N-A with regards to accumulated wealth and level of education, the net effects are bad (IMO). But the gap is lowering, and I know plenty of young people with big ambitions. Time will tell, but I'm an optimist for the future.

Are you in Toronto? What makes people hesitate before moving to Montreal? The usual "disincentive" is the language - a lot of people (including immigrants) just don't care about learning French. Personally though, I have met plenty of immigrants (at school and work) and from my own sampling, the more educated immigrants all learn French - it's a no-brainer for them. They consider it a genuine advantage, not a chore. For natives though, that's another story.

If you have some free time ( ;) ) I would be very interested in seeing a proper ranking. Maybe they're limiting themselves to "Deep Learning AI" when they say Montreal has one of the biggest concentrations of researchers in the world.

Puisque tu insiste...

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    Self-delusions of grandeur of Quebeckers are funny.

What does this article have to do with "Quebeckers"? If you had frequented any of the mentioned universities you would know they are full of foreign students, especially so in the graduate programs. 150 hackers != the whole province.

    Too bad they can't attract talent and can't use the ones
    they attracted there

You are self-contradicting. Google just opened an AI lab there[0], and it wants to turn Montreal into a "super-cluster of AI knowledge"[1]. Nobody is affirming that Montreal is the only place where AI research is going on. They're merely pointing out that recent investments and research base are putting it in a very good position worldwide. Is that false?

    Montreal is a great city but gets dragged down by the
    French Quebec BS

What does "French Quebec" have to do with this story? Did you flip out because you saw some accented characters?

You hate French speaking Québécois, for your own personal reasons. Keep it to yourself. It has no place here (an anywhere, really). I'm glad that your brand of instinctive Quebec hate is not very popular amongst the general population.

Ignorance crasse.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/google-opens-montreal-ai-lab-s... [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-institute-le... [2]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/microsoft-...

What do you mean by "bottom up" in this context? They mention having a lot of researchers (grunts) and now a brand new startup accelerator.

> There just isn't enough quality people to do this in Canada.

Do you really believe that would be the cause?

Here's one data point: There are about 150 academic AI researchers in in an area of 1.4 square kilometre radius in downtown Montreal.

Can someone flag this comment? I don't have the option.

I had written a proper response but the level of ignorance and apparent hatred displayed in your comment makes me doubt you would have read it.

Unfortunately I don't think your attitude is particularly constructive either. Out of the many (many many) web frameworks out there, why should parent bother with this particular one? I think asking for a mobile optimized website is reasonable in 2017.

Does it personally bother me? No. But I think the expectation is reasonable.

FWIW, I use Kaspersky in a corporate environment with > 250 Macs and I haven't seen any issue thus far. I've seen plenty of HDD failures, fan problems, Chrome hangups, general system slowness due to problems with corrupted preferences and other bening issues, but never ever seen a system slowed down by the AV.

    then you get people who don't care at all about computers
    and really never have, working as developers

You can say this about any profession though. Just look at the medical field. Some MDs have "true passion" but a lot have chosen this path because it pays well and comes with high status. At least that's what my personal experience suggests.

How preposterous. Let the kid do what he wants. I would say Medicine needs more software engineers than the other way around.

I forgot to say that I'm reading your text now :) I had a compiler class with Marc Feeley, author of Gambit-C, and I've been sold on Lisps ever since. I really love the simplicity of Scheme, but I found that it's much easier to get going (i.e. not having to re-write even basic things such as for-loops) in CL than Scheme. I can write/read some basic macros but my end goal is being able to write a read-macro for a DSL. I can't really envision doing this as easily without a Lisp.

In chapter 1 you mention that Petzold's book is underrated. If that's any consolation, I have bought the book when it came out and have talked about it to many of my friends since. I wouldn't say it's underrated, but just not well known. Great book!

There are no real details about the OS in the article. Did anybody here work on the project?

Meh, I could also ask you to provide evidence that you're not a p-zombie... There's an undivisible thing (particle) that has undivisible charge (electron) which exhibits properties and behaviour that could not be explained clasically. How do you explain classically (i.e. Newton's laws and no limits on observables uncertainty) electron diffraction and discretized spin?

Electrons are defined in part by having unit (negative) electric charge. What other conclusion would you make from that experiment?

    you don't see it in common parlance

I think one of the factors for that is the fact that most high-level scientists learn to be cautious about the claims they make. You're much more likely so hear a layman make strong claims about X or Y than you are to hear the same from a PhD physicst, on average.

What a lot of people who didn't go through the grinder of Academia seem not to understand, is that when one says "I don't know", it doesn't mean "I know nothing about this". If I say "I don't know", chances are I could discuss the subject at length, but my comprehension is not satisfactory to answer the question on a deep level, or I don't really grok the subject enough to feel confident to give my opinion. This is less present in laymen and can lead to some friction in discussions.

Electron diffraction implies wave behaviour, and wave behaviour implies the superposition principle. Is that good enough evidence or are you looking at experiments measuring entanglement in electrons?

Technically you could cover your eyes with an anisotropic photon up/downconversion material and "see" infrared/ultraviolet. But yes, clickbait.

Is the NZ fauna as bad as Australia's? I have spent a lot of time walking in North American forests, and I feel pretty safe in them, even with possible bear presence (I was in Alaska twice and it was majestic). I'd be scared to walk in a forest/bush in New Zealand or Australia.

A family member died from Alzheimers last year. She was both physically and mentally gone. If I had to choose, I'd go out swiftly like my dog, whose spleen fissured from cancerous growth and was put to sleep in the hour. Slow, agonizing death is horrible.

This is what I was looking for before deciding to read the article or not. Didn't find it, came back here, and now I just won't bother. Unfortunate.

And how is the port supposed the stay functional upon removal of the key? The point of this attack is stealth.

Well, that was not very nice. Should have asked confirmation. I clicked on the link thinking there would be an explanation of what this project does.

Did you take the time to learn vim? Just start using it. With only a small subset of commands you can be pretty damn efficient. The fact that you can compose actions means that you don't need to remember every command - you can just create them yourself. After a very short while you will "get" it. You can say to yourself "I want to change the next three words" and immediately do it by pressing "c3w". Or you can move around with your mouse. The former is much faster.

BTW, I rarely use escape. I am using Spacemacs with evil-mode, and the default "fd" is perfect for me. It's much faster than using ESC.

The proposed distro (Debian) was spot on for me. You could probably split the questionnaire between people who want to try linux for the first time, and people who want to try a new distro.

Ah, that's cool, but as I often write in French and I'm trying to learn how to write proper Spanish, I appreciate the default-off.

My personal strategy is to acknowledge this type of person exists, and act accordingly. This means, unfortunately, not putting too much trust into that person in areas they don't deserve it. You need to evaluate carefully both of your interests. Any divergence is a weak point that could be used against you.

I know I can put my faith into that particular person for some specifics such as writing business research and collecting market data, for example. But I could not, for example, leave my computer unlocked with that person. Nor would I use their internet connection to do bank stuff. Nor would I discuss certain things in certain rooms of their house. Some things I'm paranoid for, others not. The point is, some people need to be kept in check ;)