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I have Bing Get MeThere in the Canadian app store as well, but it doesn't appear to search any Canadian addresses.

Went to BlackBerry Jam in Waterloo with a co-worker who did a co-op at RIM previously. They played a similar music video and the key joke from my co-worker was "The cost of that mu…

Not to mention, using high resolution graphics when only displaying at a lower resolution increases battery usage and lowers performance of the webpage.

VxWorks as well, http://www.spacex.com/downloads/dragonlab-datasheet.pdf

The typography also drives me insane. Add some margin between headings and text, reduce kerning, get rid of p::first-letter { font-size: 200%; }

Complimentary to Introduction to Algorithms you might enjoy The Algorithm Design Manual ( http://www.algorist.com/ ).

Taking a look at Amazon's past user interface and experience choices, I'd say they skipped every third idea to make the site simple and user friendly.

Like most articles, can't trust this one at all. Gruber has some excellent thoughts (with actual reasoning) on this which contradict much of what this guy and his "source" is sayin…

Yes but I could write this as 1 * 10^(-inf)

Agreed with GED.

As much as I love Ender's Game I've turned my head away at it since I found out that Orson Scott Card was an extreme right-wing mormon. While I don't like to attribute a book's con…

I wrote a script to use Wikipedia:Random to check as many trails as possible (still data logging with it now!). http://github.com/basicxman/extended-mind

I don't think this analogy really carries over to software development. I think being able to develop quality code in X time even using libraries is a great demonstration of experi…

I'm currently 16 and have a job making five figures as a software engineer at a company making millions. There is no reason to not start right now. On the matter of education, I'm …

Locally.

Well, - Vim - Google Analytics - Dropbox - Git - Linux - Google Docs - Skype Not a cent paid, not a single complaint.