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A good discussion of rice cookers, in my opinion, needs a link to Roger Ebert's (yes, of film fans) article on The Pot: https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/the-pot-and-how-to-us…

Clio | Senior Systems Engineer | Remote (Canada Only) We are currently seeking a Systems Engineer, Production to join our rapidly expanding team. This role can be performed from on…

As someone who grew up visiting the Vancouver aquarium, I struggle a bit with this decision. Vancouver's​aquarium has always tried to brand itself as research focused, and I have c…

While I'm not sure starting with IPOs is the best idea for a novice, I recommend questtrade for a cheap canadian brokerage. Here's how you'd do it with them: https://community.ques…

Hire slow, fire fast. He's new. If he's still in a probationary period - either by statute or contractually - get rid of him. If he's not, and he's a brand new employee, consider a…

I remember speaking to my partner's cousin about this, a phd working in Ottawa for the federal government. No love lost between her and our previous federal government, so I figure…

First of all, I'd suggest addressing the issue company wide. Before firing, tell everyone pii outside of the office is unacceptable. Figure out a way you want to deal with that tha…

Sounds like a broken culture. I won't comment on the normalcy of your situation, but I do not think it's acceptable. If you want to stay, talk to your manager and explain you need …

I'm shocked; I saw a talk or two he did in Vancouver, and really enjoyed that he tackled deeper technical topics. He's too young to have passed away.

Hmm. Bringing in a consultant is probably your best bet. Database optimization needs to generally take into account YOUR data and usage patterns. If you want to learn a bit yoursel…

I did the test and came out 37% ahead. I was surprised. That said, I often find myself fiddling with the cursor to mark my place when I'm reading something long, so the idea that e…

A while back (some time in the last year), they had a few of the files zipped up. There were a lot of support requests for help unzipping it. The files had a >4GiB file inside, req…

I'll toss out another warning to those thinking of using this for back packing. I've seen baffles come apart on MEC sleeping pads with a similar design - it's a big enough problem …

I notice no mention of sales. Are your cofounders able to sell the product, if raising investment is not going well? Have you actually launched? Are you close to launch? Real sales…

I feel like the author is overstating the benefits of a like button on every page. Google - and many other ad networks - also know the products being viewed if the site owner is us…

Hmm.. this reminds me of a design presentation I saw a while back that talked about using the "6 Thinking Hats" approach. Basically, after creating a number of designs, a facilitat…

Hah, I remember seeing that quote from Bezos and wanting to do the same thing. At the moment, I make do with Jabber and a cron job, but a bit of semi-realtime feedback on positive …

Perhaps someone would be interested in writing some embeddable javascript for the smaller guys that, say, puts a black banner and info links across the top of site? [Me, well, I'm …

I once reached out to someone I knew personally who wasn't as a reference, who then told me that it was his understanding that contacting people for references without the permissi…

I definitely agree with your point about stack traces - I've used var x = function(){} for some projects, but have found in practice that named functions are very much worthwhile w…

Great news for Skitch and great news its becoming free. I remember the trial, and how much easier it made filing bugs on my website for small UI tweaks and such. At the time, owing…

While great news for those who can go to RadioShack, I'm somewhat disappointed that where I live, Vancouver, Canada, Radio Shack's have been replaced by "The Source". NOt that I wa…

Seems fixed now. If you did something, thanks. If not, please accept my apologies for a waste of time.

I may just be slow, but I didn't see a way to actually start editing without embedding their link tag on my site. I imagine that'd be hard to do what they want without a bit of hac…

Meh. Doesn't seem to work as advertised in Chrome (dev channel). Not bad, but I was never able to really get into CSSEdit, which is sort of what I imagine it to be similar to. A lo…