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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by gabrielsroka »

cardamomo wrote: post #313
gabrielsroka wrote: post #303

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If you're on a mobile browser, paste this into the address bar: javascript:document.write(' ' + [...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => ({place: el.textContent.trim(), score: parseInt(el.nextSibling.textContent)})).sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score || a.place.localeCompare(b.place)).map(e => ` ${e.place} ${e.score}`).join('') + ' ')

That doesn't seem to work on Firefox for Android, sadly

Sometimes the browser will remove the leading 'javascript'. In that case, type it back in.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by rkuykendall-com »

capableweb wrote: post #44
tluyben2 wrote: post #4

Not sure if this post still ranks in the morning as it's evening in the EU so probably not many people will answer, while the Americas will. I know there are a lot of people from the EU here.

Yeah, would depend on how long it'll be featured on the frontpage page indeed. I know people who only check the /best page once a week or something like that too who would probably miss this unless a ton of people upvote it. Or maybe we can ask @dang to give it a "jobstory" treatment so it keeps around the frontpage for longer?

Well it's only 3 hours old and it's currently #14 on /best, so there is probably a good chance everyone will see it.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by mikepurvis »

908B64B197 wrote: post #315
mikepurvis wrote: post #224

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There are definitely people who commute all over the GTA, but I still feel like Waterloo Region is culturally distinct from Toronto proper— Google and Facebook are in Waterloo; there's the devices heritage from Blackberry and then later companies like Thalmic and Pebble; there's the robotics presence in Waterloo with Clearpath, Voyis, Avidbots, and Aeryon/FLIR; and finally there's networking companies like Blue Coat,…

> there's the devices heritage from Blackberry and then later companies like Thalmic and Pebble Wouldn't brag about these to be honnest.

No, it's not a brag— but they were all pretty influential and continue to cast a long shadow over the tech culture of the region. Particularly Blackberry, since it made a lot of staff very wealthy, who then went on to found, advise, invest-in, and work-for other companies using those skills.

It's not hard to look around Communitech and clearly see a bunch of startups still running essentially on BlackBerry money.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by Rebelgecko »

hwc wrote: post #103
TulliusCicero wrote: post #87

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Denver and Boulder have a good amount of tech. A bit surprised it comes out ahead of Texas though. Also the UK and Germany being about the same is interesting. Germany does have a slightly larger population, but of course the UK is natively English speaking.

Texas is without power at the moment.

My parents house in California had no electricity for over a week (Christmas through New Year's, and it was sporadic until about Jan 8). I think the state is still doing fine as a tech hub.

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Post by belval »

908B64B197 wrote: post #311
belval wrote: post #219

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No kidding, why is that guy trying to split Quebec from Canada? :(

Isn’t it… already the case? Culturally speaking, it looks and feel like a separate state. At least that’s the impression I got.

Oh yeah definitely, I was half-kidding. Quebec and the rest of Canada have a lot of very significant differences. We are probably more divided right now than we've been ever since the last referendum.

An example I love to give is the holiday "Victoria day" in Canada which is called "Patriot's day" in Quebec, celebrating the attempted revolution in Quebec that were brutally put down by the English in 1837-1838.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by gabrielsroka »

cardamomo wrote: post #313
gabrielsroka wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're on a mobile browser, paste this into the address bar: javascript:document.write(' ' + [...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => ({place: el.textContent.trim(), score: parseInt(el.nextSibling.textContent)})).sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score || a.place.localeCompare(b.place)).map(e => ` ${e.place} ${e.score}`).join('') + ' ')

That doesn't seem to work on Firefox for Android, sadly

It doesn't seem to be supported. Ironic that the bookmarklet was invented by them.

It works on Chrome for Android.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by tluyben2 »

dgellow wrote: post #239
tluyben2 wrote: post #141

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I remember vaguely being young and friday nights meaning something different than other nights... Meanwhile I'm (in Portugal) trying to fix a dependent type tutorial that bit rotted.

Idris?

No, I use Idris (2) quite a bit and am quite advanced at dependent types, however I was looking to go further and found [0] and a course using it, but that course uses a 4-5 year old version which has a lot of issues so I am fixing those. I already gave up running the project on a m1 (not really worth solving that issue as I have a x86 Linux machine anyway) so now I just puzzling to get all the stuff from the course to work.

[0] https://github.com/siddhartha-gadgil/ProvingGround

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