vishaldpatel

A well-written book will be easier to remember.

Granted, that one may have to read it again to remember the finer details, but rarely is a technical book written with the aim engaging the reader in as many ways as possible.

This is why telling a story is so important. People remember stories.

Ah, you're right. I'm not sure what vehicles private lenders in Canada have to secularize debt.

Does not mention that Toronto gets 40% of Canada's immigrants and that all the homes are snapped up in a hurry. Also, the borrowers have to generally be well-qualified because Canadian banks are much more conservative when it comes to giving out loans than their American counterparts.

I respectfully disagree. Your definition of discrimination is backwards.

Black people have the right to refuse service to anyone who is a member of an organization with the explicit goals of oppressing blacks.

Muslims restaurant owners are happy to serve the community what they eat for themselves.

The people that are refusing service to gays are doing so because of their beliefs that tell them to oppress others. For example, the KKK believed that blacks were inferior. Indiana just legalized such discrimination. This is the opposite of freedom - it can be used to systematically push people out.

As we get bigger, we need bigger friends to get bigger.

$7500 pays for at least two more interviews with the Secret Service.

As a side-note: services like these come with an anticipation -- I think people that sign up for CSAs will relate to it.

I don't understand all this hate. Unlike US-only offerings, Whimsical is a service that's trying to open up to readers of Hacker News from other countries.

As some have already pointed out, it is not easy to go International.

On top of that, I'm sure by now you've realized that HackerNews has many international readers and they'd be very happy to see services that were previously only in the US with no plans of going international have some International competition.

I'm sorry that some of you are not entertained, but for the rest of us, HackerNews is a great place to Show and talk about what we're working on and get advice on how we could do it better!

It's great to see that this is going to support Canada! =)

It's an advantage to Canadian and UK customers!

This is brilliant.

Not out of the box, no. Sonar makes use of Twilio in the back-end to provide all the front-end functionality that you see.

As for porting your phone number over... a quick search found this: https://www.twilio.com/help/faq/phone-numbers/i-already-have...

Feel free to send me an email: vishal@sendsonar.com.

A company that wants to operate 24/7 would need to hire for the night-shift. This would be based on demand, of course. Night-shift hours are probably lower since most customers go to sleep at night.

I don't see why hiring evening and night staff would be that different apart from training. It's probably a bit more difficult to find people that want to work the night shift... some companies get around this by rotating staff between the day and night shifts regularly to give everyone a chance to lead a normal life.

My bad. Thanks, Matt!

Why keep living? Because it sure beats not-living. You'll have plenty of time to not live after you're not alive anymore. You might as well try out living while you're still alive.

Anxiety sucks. Personally, I tend to feel more anxious when I haven't been taking care of the basics - eating right, getting regular exercise, working on the things I told myself I'd work on, etc.. getting plenty of sleep etc.

The heart can be a fragile thing. You have to keep reminding it that everything will be alright.

What are you guys using to manage in-bound text messages? Something like sendsonar.com or something home-grown?

And by huge need, do you mean people ready to drop $$? If so, in what country? As someone who has been following aquaponics in America, it feels like it isn't nearly as popular here than parts of Asia and Australia.

Great article! Really makes you think about the 2 people that give an otherwise 5-star item a 1 star, bringing it's rating down to 4.5 stars. The thing is, I tend to read over those reviews because of all the bots and hired people / friends that are padding the 5-star reviews.

The reason why companies like doing this is because the H1-B worker is bonded to the company for a long... long time. They can continue to keep underpaying the worker. They can even choose to not follow-through with sponsoring the H1-B worker's green-card application.

So, what's a "fuzzer"? =/

As long as you're not applying for jobs during work hours, you should always say, "Yes! I'm always looking for a better job when I'm not at work! =)".

I learned how to write code in high school. By the end of high school I knew enough to pursue most current jobs. So, three years of one class per semester. That said, it can and has been done a lot faster. I know someone who went from zero to hero in under a year on her own.

Factual information tends to get up-voted to the top... but until then, the people demand a lynching, err.. sacrifice!

We need to get everyone who calls for war to go fight them... you know.. for the economy.

Boy, it'd be great to know more about each commentator before reading their expert opinion on the subjects of project management, procurements, bridge-building, government agency function and anything else relevant to the topic.

I wonder how America's Apple will respond to this.

At $500 a pop, it's a lovely desk with an elegant design. But it isn't what most people would call "affordable".

I keep getting "no results found" =(

Does it cost a large company more to file a shitty patent than it does the community to crush it?

tl;dr; answer: no. No they don't.