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Saskatchewan politics don't make a lot of sense to me. I'm not sure how the "let's work together" mentality that gave us the Co-op, the Wheat Pool, and Medicare turned into a "fuck you, I got mine" mentality.

I'm a Saskatchewan resident. It's easy to grumble about the phone company, but Sasktel does a great job. We're a huge low-density province, but with the crown corp mandates, small towns in Saskatchewan have excellent cell and fibre service. There's no way a private company invests like that. Saskatchewan gets better and faster service for less money.

We also have a provincial auto insurer, SGI. The prices for car insurance in Alberta or Ontario are ludicrous in comparison. The power and natural gas crowns are decent, as far as I can tell.

https://twitter.com/wingkarli/status/1582019472315289601 > Canada is just five big banks, two grocery chains, and three telecom giants in a puffer down jacket.

I'm not sure if federal crowns would be any better, but some competition would be a start.

Yeah, Terminate was a big step up from Telix. Wow that takes me back.

> doing unwarranted nmap scans is considered network abuse

After almost being physically ejected from a secure data centre because a member of my group used nmap to see if a port was open, I recommend starting with telnet. :)

A wide nmap is probably going to trigger an IDS, and then you get to meet interesting people and answer interesting questions.

> I'm so excited about what the future has in store for us.

Me too. But sometimes I read too many snarky HN comments and I forget.

We are very fortunate.

Another data point from Canada. I've given up answering my phone or checking my voicemail after 10+ calls a week.

My philosophy is to make switching to a new cloud possible. It doesn't have to be easy. We just shouldn't nail our feet to the floor.

Ah yes, the doomer perspective. Tiresome.

Speaking of the soundtrack, Ben Prunty has done a lot of fantastic work!

https://twitter.com/benprunty

Hmm. I wonder if HD remix would have had more success if they had the opportunity to do a few balance adjustments along the way.

I feel like Super Mortal Kombat 2 Turbo was the logical choice. :)

I think it's worth adding: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix is a rebalancing of Super Turbo done by David Sirlin and officially supported by Capcom. David's design notes and commentary are really interesting.

https://www.sirlin.net/sf-hdr/street-fighter-hd-remix-design...

I'd love to see someone do the same for Capcom vs SNK 2, but a guy can dream, right? :)

That's pretty heartless. People are trying their best to succeed in life.

I remember people getting pulled in by DevRy and similar. Places that I thought massively oversold the outcomes people would receive. I don't rate the education that highly, but you can't fault an individual for trying.

My understanding is that the late 70s and early 80s in England was a hopeless place. As evidence I submit Alan Moore's introduction to V for Vendetta and Ghost Town by the Specials.

- https://slendertroll.tumblr.com/post/66114152363 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Town_(Specials_song)

"Naivete can also be detected in my supposition that it would take something as melodramatic as a near-miss nuclear conflict to nudge England toward fascism. Although in fairness to myself and David, there were no better or more accurate predictions of our country’s future available in comic form at that time. The simple fact that much of the historical background of the story proceeds from a predicted Conservative defeat in the 1982 General Election should tell you how reliable we were in our role as Cassandras. It’s 1988 now. Margaret Thatcher is entering her third term of office and talking confidently of an unbroken Conservative leadership well into the next century. My youngest daughter is seven and the tabloid press are circulating the idea of concentration camps for persons with AIDS. The new riot police wear black visors, as do their horses, and their vans have rotating video cameras mounted on top. The government has expressed a desire to eradicate homosexuality, even as an abstract concept, and one can only speculate as to which minority will be the next legislated against. I’m thinking of taking my family and getting out of this country soon, sometime over the next couple of years. It’s cold and it’s mean-spirited and I don’t like it here anymore."

I'm sorry that you read a book that you didn't like. It sounds like that was very difficult for you.

After going to jail as the CFO of Crazy Eddie, his brother Sam became a forensic accountant. His blog was pretty wild.

https://whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com/

Not only the impact on the victims, but how it ripples through to their children.

Check out Divekick. It's a 1v1 fighting game with two moves: Dive and Kick. And it's got a very high skill ceiling. :)

Sort of like Batman and the Joker?

If someone could guarantee Canadian data residency for SMS & voice, I would be a very happy person.

High tech low life.

What other SMS services are you using? Those prices are really good for the US!

Fantastic article! Well written and very thorough! Keep it up!

I always felt the same way about ACM programming contests. I had to go back days later and figure out what detail I was missing that made my solutions incorrect.

Make sure you flush before you hit the "blow hot air" button. :/

Has anyone seen good results with the new Qt mobile tools? I realize that it won't look quite native - but Qt's got a pretty good track record, and if I could write apps using C++ instead of Java, and get some cross-platform capability, I'd certainly be interested.

What I'm looking for in comments is the underlying assumptions and the "why" that was flying around in the author's head when they were doing it.

The subgenius must have slack!

There is none! It's totally dependent on the project, the people involved and the tools being used.

> Actually large private enterprises don't usually make this kind of mistake. This is a typical big government project.

Your last two points contradict your first two. There's nothing unique about a government's ability to make terrible decisions. I'd say one difference is that private enterprises typically go under if the mistake is big enough, and they have no great interest in telling the public about their mistakes.

That's because it _is_ manipulative bullshit! Heartiste is famous for spouting misogynistic garbage. Pretty terrible stuff.