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In case anyone has doubts about my motivations, I just want to state that I'm not an employee of the company that makes the keyboard and I don't get a cut of the sales or anything.…

If you're looking for a better python prompt, you might want to check out BPython as well: http://bpython-interpreter.org/

exactEarth Ltd. - http://www.exactearth.com - Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge Area, Canada exactEarth is a data services company leading the way in delivering global maritime vessel i…

Google recently announced that they're moving their whole Region of Waterloo office (in Canada) into a larger building to accommodate more growth: http://www.therecord.com/news-sto…

What's your skill? Machine learning? Big Data?

It seems to me that Dropbox is becoming complacent. They still only offer 2 GB of storage for their free plan. Someone else here commented about using Bittorrent to sync their musi…

There have been stories on a few of these 'unlimited sync' services in the past few months. While it's a good idea, I really would prefer to have a little space available on a cent…

It takes an extra 8 months to get your degree. Your 4-year degree basically turns into a 5-year degree.

I think your math is off. Imagine that you have a population of 200 humans (100 male, 100 female). Only 40% of the women want kids, which, in this case, means that 40 women want ki…

I don't think that it's wrong to put the word "scientists" in quotes. Consider this: it seems that one of the 16 concerned individuals is Burt Rutan. He is a well-known aerospace e…

Come visit DevHouse for some informal tech discussions and presentations: http://groups.google.com/group/waterloo-dev-house (Originally founded by the PostRank people that have now…

A recent Typesafe blog post was written in response to the last Scala-complaint furor: http://blog.typesafe.com/getting-down-to-work One of the points mentioned there is binary com…

You could dual-license Arc, like Gambit Scheme does. I believe Gambit uses Apache 2.0 and LGPL 2.1. I hope that the open-sourcing of the language won't cause it to become too stabl…