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this is an excellent step towards the useability revolution, interesting to see how long it will take to permeate to a standard for high-school and undergraduate students to get to…

This is not a revolutionary idea. Several professional programs (law, accounting, etc.) have certification exams that do just what you are describing. It seems to require a fairly …

As a Mac user, I have to agree whole-heartedly! I was a pretty heavy OpenFL devotee for a couple of years. It's an amazing project, although PixiJS is a very competent competitor w…

Also, HaXe is the only viable technology which enables a high-quality canvas-based applications which mirror native applications (while also permitting compilation to those native …

Words like "debt" can be tricky to pin down, which is why we have an accounting profession who's job it is to establish a cohesive and consistent language system with specific mean…

That's what it looks like

This was open-sourced a while back. Looks like they hollowed out the repo though. Is that bad etiquette? https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad

More appropriate to call it a questionnaire than an interview.

We have a perfect solution for the kind of publishing model which Brett is referring to, which operates in sharing and replication rather than central repositories which are histor…

It seems the problem is that the author is trying to create a representation of knowledge, whereas research papers are more of a logging of work done. His approach may be a perfect…

I disagree. An hourly wage is a very special payment system which requires some kind of foreman to be sustainable. Otherwise, the labour industry tends to drift towards inefficienc…

Gentrification is happenning in Toronto outside of the downtown core, albeit very slowly. The main effect is you have families cashing out and moving further and further away from …

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Yes, the author is pretty off-the-mark and I would say misleading. Here are some scenarios worked out with www.numbercanvas.com Early Retirement, Average Lifespan: $1 million Early…

We're a smallish (under 20) people media production startup based In Toronto, and we've been getting really bad luck with our Internet. We've tried doing business with both of the …

The UK's recent steps towards modifying their Internet infrastructure has prompted me to find a way to explain the situation to friends and relatives. I am no network engineer so p…

For those not in the know, Galton invented the simplest way of understanding normal distribution. Here's a copy you ca ceck on your phone. www.intromath.ca/aakkozzll A quote from G…

The way I see it, political power grabs are simply a continuation of wealth accumulation. Money is limited in its value, but it's the best universal proxy for value that we have so…

Here's another take on it, albeit more for financial computations. Includes a formula preview: http://numbercanvas.com/

If you are willing to spend a little time with it, this might help give you a more intuitive udnerstanding: http://intromath.ca/aakkozzll/ The trick is to keep in mind that in this…

The Aakkozzll app is a substitute for throwing dice. Players can see the probability distribution on each throw (unlike dice which have a similar pattern, but you just can't see it…

I work for a company in the Canadian academic publishing industry. In Canada, it is illegal to require students to pay for their own testing. By law, those textbooks which come wit…