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markstahleron Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey

Google didn't give it to us Canadians. Google seems to treat their international customers like second rate citizens. If my carrier picked up the N1 I would have bought it no question. $530USD is out of the question after exchange duty and taxes. Granted I don't know if this is due to Google or our carriers but all I know is we aren't getting any good Android handesets.

markstahleron Mad At Google? Are You Mad Enough To Stop Using It? Can You Even Stop Using It?

I genuinely tried Bing when it first came out but it didn't stick. I have been using DuckDuckGo for a few weeks now and I have changed all my default search engines to it. Great features (! search and zero click info, not to mention not storing my search information).

Like you mentioned, Gmail on the other hand is much more difficult to drop. I spent half hour going through http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121269 looking for a decent solution.

markstahleron Chromium sends data to Google upon startup

http://www.chromeplus.org/ strips all that crap out. Cant stay as current but it's worth it.

markstahleron GitHub Jobs

I was going to say why do we need another one but there has been a surprising number of jobs posted in the short time it has been up. Guess it cant hurt to have another board for smaller type companies.

markstahleron Hey Google

So am I. I can't say I would be happy with Google knowing which content I think is good enough to pay for, they have enough on me already.

markstahleron Toronto HN Meetup 0b0010 - Let's pick a date and place

Why was this down voted? Rhino is a great location.

markstahleron Ask HN: Who needs a job?

Check out www.otherocean.com.

Also my Dad just moved out to Charlottetown last year (from Toronto) for a job. I will post again when I remember the name of the company.

markstahleron Ask HN: When to choose a VPS over shared hosting?

Several VPS providers also offer managed VPS accounts. They secure the distro for you and just give you root to install a few additional items. Most of the initial setup is done for you already.

markstahleron Ask HN: Any stats on how many users browse your sites with javascript disabled?

I used to do this a year or two ago but nowadays 90% of sites dont work properly without javascript. Is your whitelist so big that you dont notice it anymore?

markstahleron Ask HN: (No) Microsoft based start-ups?

With BizSpark startups dont have to pay any licensing costs for some time. I also think that licensing is discounted when you become profitable.

BizSpark aside, I think hosting costs/maintenance is much more. For a $20 512 Linode it would cost a hell of a lot more to run MVC.NET + MSSQL.