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Computer science ultimately boils down to the study of how to efficiently compute a solution to a given problem. From here the field has a bunch of different areas that investigate…

They need to keep the number of companies to a reasonable amount in order to give the companies that do get significant value out of the program. So until they manage to figure out…

Hardware has functionality in and of itself, for example a flop-flop is a circuit that can store a voltage (ie. a one for an arbitrary voltage or a zero for a different arbitrary v…

Full disclosure: I am an upper year UWaterloo Student so my opinion is likely biased. If you are looking to work in tech in Canada, Kitchener/Waterloo is the place to be in my opin…

As a fellow young professional, in my opinion the only way to improve decision making is to increase the amount of information and experience that you have to draw from to make the…

I would be interested to see how prevalent this is at top institutions around the world. I can be fairly confident that my program does not do this as my class is very far from div…

As much as I have a personal dislike for Jobs, I think this is advice that a lot of people fail to see value in. Having people who care standing up for their opinion and taking wha…

The one thing I would give as a benefit to setting a deadline is that it can help prevent feature creep for a specific version.[0] The amount of times that I have had a manager com…

I'm not disagreeing with the fact that taking a different approach to a mobile OS could be successful, simply that there is a certain expectation that people have about mobile and …

Not necessarily a question about technical talent, most about talent in any field. Once you recognize that someone has a certain level of talent in an area what helps that person m…

True, but there is an argument that could be made that mobile ecosystems have become heavily relient on a strong third party development community which is likely to be almost non-…

My personal selection would be based first and foremost on the team. If the team is really solid then I would look for a company that I believe in as far as what they are trying to…

Mobile apps have the same problems to over come as pretty much any other business. You need to get people to use it and figure out some sort of way to make money off people using i…

I do believe that a good romance game could be very successful and I would be interested in seeing one made, but the issue would be making one that is a quality game in and of it's…

I agree the Canada is suffering from brain drain, but I don't agree that the big issue is that we are not educating people well enough. The University of Waterloo has one of the mo…

A similar technique was used to identify suspects in the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot in Vancouver, Canada.[0] With people using the footage and pictures of the riot and submitting identi…

First of all I am a Canadian, living in Canada and have no association with the actions of the US Government. Secondly I do not condone killing of innocent people in any situation,…

It's horrific to see this happen. I hope that people make it out of this ok, and they get to bottom of who did this. Seeing these kinds of senseless attacks on the innocent is just…

Some interesting links. There definitely is a point to a lot of weak ties, and I'm sure it works really well for some people. However I do tend to opt more towards a smaller close …