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This has changed quite a bit. There are a strangely large number of companies (both startups and a-bit-older-than-startups) doing various large data analytics type things. Also ple…

Please do. Everyone I know is hiring. We're hiring. http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/11521

download.com does not make me trust you. It's a red flag that makes me think you're even more likely to be malware. Especially given this: http://insecure.org/news/download-com-fia…

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ke... Works just fine with version 1.x files

I quite enjoyed Simon Morden's Metrozone trilogy - which has a lot of similarities to Snow Crash and Daemon (main character is essentially a hacker, run-amok AI, cyberpunkish dysto…

Derek over at http://www.biospace.ca/ and http://makerspace.ca is trying to do some of that sort of thing.

Actually, that's another good point. There are a lot of people working remotely here, as it's relatively quick to get to both Seattle and Vancouver (under an hour by float plane, a…

I agree, there's definitely a problem with salary, and I don't dispute your characterization of it. However, my observation is that you need to be able to wait for the well paid se…

The retirement community aspect has shifted somewhat; downtown is now younger and a bit more vibrant with all the condos that have gone up (and continue to be built). $300k will ge…

While it's true that salaries are by default depressed, anyone who's a pretty good hustler should be able to at least get within 5% of Vancouver. The real problem is that you're co…

I live and work in Victoria, and have for the past 5 years. I currently work for a company that is hiring, and know of several others that are as well. Booming is, of course, relat…

I wonder how easy it would be to hook this up to dns tunneling software such as http://code.kryo.se/iodine/ in such a way that after the the initial ssh auth step, you would have a…

Neverblue - Victoria, BC, Canada We are a full-service advertising brokerage that specializes in online customer acquisition and lead generation. We deliver millions of profitable …

What's the right perl module to use for queue based worker stuff these days? I like rabbitmq, but unless there's something I'm missing, AMQP support in perl seems a little sketchy.…

There are limo services advertised, and a courtesy phone that will reach them in the SFO airport right after the baggage pickup. I used one 3 weeks ago, and it took 5 minutes for m…

At least a few given the number of times stuff from here gets posted on facebook by various infosec friends.

If someone has interesting work, and wants to pay me to learn COBOL, then absolutely I will. Actually, I have another startup in the works that probably will require learning COBOL…

Bad legacy code is certainly unpleasant. I'm currently working with a large code base that was mostly written about 10 years ago. It's not even particularly bad code, it's just big…

I haven't ever had problems hiring good perl people for the startups I've founded. But that may just be the area (Vancouver has a bunch of really good perl people). Also I try to o…

You might just not be in the right echo chamber. In the last few years I've been in several startups where perl is the primary development language. Most of the people we hired wer…

There is no debate. Copyright infringement is not theft. Copyright infringement is also not murder, arson, or vandalism. Words mean something. That's why we have different words fo…

In perl you can use http://search.cpan.org/~abigail/Regexp-Common-2010010201/lib... The entire Regexp::Common namespace is basically a cookbook of the "right" way to use regular ex…

I've used e-xact for a few different projects. Never had any problems with them, and they're relatively developer friendly (I wrote the Business::OnlinePayment::Exact module on CPA…

He just seems kind of ignorant really. My experience is certainly limited to the west coast, but I've been around for a while both as a founder and early stage employee in plenty o…