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tomnewtonon Interactive Map of Toronto Housing Changes 2011-2016

Your comment is racist - and certainly unCanadian.

What on earth does someone's race have to do with the housing market? Why does a person of Chinese decent have any less of a right to a) live in Vancouver, b) buy a house, c) have some economic success, d) drive an Audi?

I'm sorry you're upset about the state of housing in Canada, I really am. Fortunately for you - most desirable cities in the Canada ( and the World ) have Chinese residents so you wouldn't be happy living there anyways - all those signs in Chinese, and the Audis! Oh the humanity!

tomnewtonon Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups

and you have to do that once... big deal.

tomnewtonon Uber avoids car pick-up app restrictions in London

but they make all of our lives better....

tomnewtonon Netfox: A lightweight, one line setup, iOS network debugging library

Why not just proxy your app through CharlesProxy?

tomnewtonon Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

So were we, but we stuck with it, and I'm glad.

App Engine is absolutely second to none as a PaaS. Fact is I sleep better at night on App Engine that I ever could on AWS.

tomnewtonon Ask HN: Heroku or AWS or?

Three words... Google App Engine.

tomnewtonon CircleCI raises $6m Series A

Well done. Great service!

tomnewtonon App Engine down

My Google contact said that 'SRE are all over it. Hope to have more details soon.' but that was about 30 minutes ago.

Does tumblr.com use app engine? They're down...

tomnewtonon Analyze terabytes of data with just a click of a button

We use this product extensively to analyse users who play our games. We record billions of rows of data per day and can query it effectively/efficiently with Big Query. It is a pretty awesome product and getting better all the time.

tomnewtonon Twitter is a Corporate API

Facebook is worse.

tomnewtonon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)

London, UK ( Piccadilly Circus )

We're ( social gaming - http://www.iwi.com/ ) hiring C# .NET, Actionscript, Python and Objective-c/C++ developers.

Get in touch! Come build great games played by millions each month. jobs //at// iwi.com - use the subject HN.

tomnewtonon Facebook autobot going berserker

They really do have an issue with communication. Unless you happen to know someone that works at facebook, you're pretty much left in the dark.

tomnewtonon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)

London, UK ( fulltime )

iwi.com ( http://iwi.com ) a division of Gamesys Ltd (http://gamesyscorporate.com/).

We're building a social games company within one of the most successful gaming companies in the UK, located centrally at Piccadilly Circus.

We're currently hiring:

1 x C# .NET Developers to work on our gaming Platform Team. Experience with Amazon AWS preferred, but not essential. Our platform runs exclusively on AWS utilising nearly every service available: EC2, SimpleDB, RDS, S3, CloudFront, SES and more...

2 x Objective-C / C++ Developers to work on our mobile team, developing awesome games for iOS. OpenGL experience a plus.

1 x Actionscript 3 Games developer to join our team of 5 AS3 developers. Get in touch with us if you're looking for a challenge and love to build games.

Get in touch to apply: http://www.iwi.com/join-us/ put HackerNews in the subject, or holler @ http://twitter.com/tomnewton on Twitter.

tomnewtonon Taskforce (YC W11) Helps You Organize Your Inbox and Become a Taskmaster

Someone needs to go down to their basement and reboot the mac mini that's running this thing ;)

tomnewtonon Tweetdeck sells for 30m I really should have finished this side project...

UI needed work, but it was integrated fairly well with Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube and GMail.