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You can buy a sportsnet subscription for $12/mo, directly from sportsnet, and stream all the NHL games (and more) live in the sportsnet app. I got it for the playoffs, it was easy,…

i share your sentiment; in neo4j, a popular graph store, you can’t even get primary keys without a third-party plug-in (apoc)

i know relationships don’t typically have props in a store like neo4j, and moreover you can reproduce that in something like postgres with a foreign key we had a challenge like wha…

this is really powerful stuff when working with a CISO “the data itself defines who may access it”

If you put PostgREST in front of your Postgres instance, it looks like POST https://my.website.com { title: “Cool New Technology”, article: “I learned a thing today”, user_id: 1234…

i was going from memory and trying not to exaggerate! another factoid about the paths is the city clears them before roadways after a snowfall! love the app!

I grew up in Calgary, and after spending the last 14 years in Toronto I have decided to move back. Income taxes are way lower in Alberta than Ontario; moving my remote-ok tech job …

I think on balance it actually hurts more than it helps. The author lists Equifax as a case where an organization “failed to update a web server in timely fashion (a few months)” b…

N-Dimension | Richmond Hill (Toronto Metro Area) | 6mo full-time contract | On-site We're building cybersecurity products to help protect the critical infrastructure sector, and I …

N-Dimension | Richmond Hill (Toronto Metro Area) | Full Time | Onsite We're building a managed cybersecurity / intrusion detection product focused on serving the critical energy in…

N-Dimension.com | Full Stack / Front-End Developer | Richmond Hill / Toronto area | FULL-TIME Want to help contribute to the cyber security of North American critical infrastructur…

N-Dimension.com | Intermediate Full Stack Engineer | Richmond Hill / Toronto area | FULL-TIME Want to help contribute to the cyber security of North American critical infrastructur…

I actually think this is a really interesting argument. Here's some quick napkin math that shows a large enough difference that, I think, you can't just shut this down as a strawma…

One of the things I found surprising and curious about bitcoin is that the minimum viable amount is actually the transaction fee, which is maybe around 27,000 satoshis (median tx s…

It was flagged, amid speculation in the thread that the story was a hoax on account of the site hosts links to anti-semitic "resources" edit: not sure why this is being downvoted, …

In Canada, banks offer fixed and floating rate mortgages; the mortgage rate is always prime + some %. If you get a fixed-rate mortgage, you're locked in to your rate for 5 years re…

Just a guess, but wouldn't this approach used in isolation result in a high potential for getting stuck at local optima? It seems to me that the success of this experiment is the r…

I think what they're pointing to is that the ELO system "true skill" that dota uses is a log normal distribution. To your point I'm not sure that means that player skill improves a…

Yeah, you can increase the safety of handling nuclear waste material, decrease its volume, increase its long term stability, and lower its surface mobility by turning it in to a gl…

There's truth found in Ajit's comment, that Americans' internet infrastructure just isn't as good as other countries. Is that because of the regulatory climate? The ISPs receive a …

Nice job! I like how easy it is to see the metering between devices on your effects chain

Systematically delete accounts which might contribute bad press and lower ad revenue. Add a feature that allows users to censor their feeds / remove @replies from "trolls". Decreas…

I think part of the issue is cultural, and part of it is education. Japanese society is rooted in Confuscianism, with an emphasis on social harmony. I don't know how we change or i…

This is actually how I became a programmer; cutting my teeth on problem solving physical systems, and learning how to self-teach using Haynes manuals fixing a classic F-body Trans …

Is this correct? Because I am having trouble understanding the rationale behind making the unix epoch relative to an earth solar year, as opposed to just the "number of seconds whi…