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mikejarema

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About mikejarema

Toronto-based software entrepreneur and consultant.

Currently acting as CTO for vidoyen.com (video-based expert Q&A network) and gopherleads.com (lead generation driven by front-line workers). Also working on a couple of my own startup branding and ideation tools:

http://namevine.com - Find a Matching Domain and Social Media Handles, Fun and Effective

http://logocaster.com - Logo Generator for Startups, Agencies and Developers

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    Giftcards are not cash either! Unless there is an obvious incentive to purchase a giftcard -- critically for a store/vendor which you already have near-term plans to spend money at…

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    Hopefully! But until then we do have the C64 version to enjoy: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1216

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    Thank you for sharing, I'll give it a try Update: "Lo sentimos, algo ha salido mal. Comprueba la dirección de correo electrónico y vuelve a intentarlo."

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    Why doesn't Nokia allow me to preorder or sign up to be notified when the device is released/available in my market? A search for g22 on nokia.com yields zero (!!) results. https:/…

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    The announcement says it'll be renamed to "Red's First Flight" and be re-listed "pending further review". I wonder if this is simply a rebranding so that the original no longer app…

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    "The definitive list of good and bad apples." Definitive, eh? Qualifiers like this are amusing, as they're generally self-proclaimed. However, having a domain like applerankings.co…

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    I think the amount of fees per block is what's "insane" here. Going back a day shows that the fees were on the order of ~3 eth per block ( https://etherscan.io/blocks?p=300 ) where…

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    Helpful ( http://helpful.com ) was working on this as well but got acquired (or maybe acquihired?) by Shopify. I'm not sure how much traction they got or if the product was just be…

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    Union Square Ventures invested in them a few years back, and blogged about their rationale and some info on where Tucows is/has been headed as a business: https://www.usv.com/writi…

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    I tried some commands in [0] and common words in [1]. All return "Bad command or file name." I did find that `ver` returns "FILE-ID.BIZ for the World Wide Web Version 1.2, (C) 2020…

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    I stumbled upon this site when taking a trip down memory lane. Recalling the FILE_ID.DIZ file format[0] from my BBS days, I typed in the closest matching URL (file-id.biz) and foun…

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    I noticed the TM used in the title: "Open Startup™". I wasn't sure if TM was used in jest here or whether there was actually an organization behind it holding the exclusive right t…

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    I haven't been able to minimize the shock too much, but I've seen a little success fully entering and exiting the water repeatedly, staying in a little longer each time. Eg. 5 secs…

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    I regularly do cold water swims in spring and fall months, and wholeheartedly agree with the amazing feeling after a good 10-20 minute dip. I find the first few minutes of the swim…

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    Thanks. I'm Canada-based so it seems the issue is related to geo-restrictions. Hopefully between the two links, everyone who wants to check this doc out is covered.

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    I'm interested in watching this, but the video seems to have been taken down: "Video unavailable This video contains content from Octapixx, who has blocked it in your country on co…

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    The research linked from the linked article: https://www.roberthalf.ca/en/two-in-five-workers-in-canada-h... According to that page, the data is drawn from an online survey of 400 …

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    Thanks -- it was just an interesting diversion with a trickle of traffic over the years, no ML under the hood (or anywhere close to it for that matter). I wish you and your team th…

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    "a feedback loop where you can explore things that are adjacent to something you like" - I dabbled with this idea for a bit a few years back and ended up with logocaster.com as an …

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    A somewhat related and interesting read is Jameson Lopp's [1] efforts to make himself vanish: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/technology/how-to-disappe... His goal was to make h…