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Re:The Theological Problem Behind Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:23PM (#36605737)
"faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"
Re:Ask HN: Hourly billers, do you bill for only focused work? on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:17AM (#33611098)
You should only bill for time spent on client work, unless stated in the contract. When I did consulting, I worked over 40 hours to bill 40 client hours, because there is always some company overhead that isn't related to customer work.

The 40 hours you see billed regularly is maybe to avoid triggering overtime/excess hours clauses or norms.

Re:Modula-2 Compilers on CP/M on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:08PM (#32828874)
Both Pascal and Modula 2 (and Oberon) were designed by the same person.
Re:Raft Consensus Animated (2014) on Thursday August 18, 2022 @01:29PM (#32512522)
Thank You!
Re:Freeshow: A Free and Open-source ProPresenter alternative on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @05:54PM (#32502204)
Seems a reasonable experiment to me. Beyond the base install it contains a collection of useful apps and setting preconfigured for web filtering.
Re:“Code” 2nd Edition Now Available on Monday August 08, 2022 @06:51PM (#32392109)
Most residents of Greater Vancouver can get it via Burnaby Public Library
I must mention Factor, which is a modern concatenative, stack-based programming language. It turns out Forth was just the first concatenative language discovered/constructed.

https://factorcode.org/

Re:Ask HN: Who Is Hiring in Canada? on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:28PM (#31029199)
SAP is hiring in Vancouver
My patent attorney used to tell me: "Patents are like nuclear weapons. I want to be on the side that has the most."
Bush and Obama are still called Mr. President by some people.

See https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/47505/what-is-t...

My understanding was all the debt was beyond the statue of limitations anyway.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:00PM (#25786011)
Great name!
Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:27PM (#25004574)
Hard to compete with Canada and the language is the same in most parts.
Re:Htmx – high power tools for HTML on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:58PM (#23342524)
The // means use network, while / means use local file, so I think we need both.
1) The Pilgrim's Progress, and 2) The Holy War - John Bunyan
Re:John Oliver buys $15M of medical debt for $60k (2016) on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:40PM (#21285641)
The debt was out of statute, so probably not taxable.
Re:Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:32AM (#17617786)
user: kpatrick Thank You
Re:Ask HN: How do I get a Linux admin job with no degrees? on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:45PM (#15867466)
What religion forbids a cs degree?
Re:Little Wars – a game by H.G. Wells on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:00PM (#15553088)
I second M44.
I don't think the ability to appear in a closed room is necessarily walking through walls, and I don't think it was a function of the resurrection, rather that it was a miracle. Similar miracles of transport are recorded for angels, Philip, and Enoch.
Re:Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:46PM (#15195083)
Try Wawanesa insurance out of Regina.
OP might want to check the tax implications of this e.g. Joe Louis.
Re:Alternatives to Tableau? on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:10PM (#15030244)
SAP Analytics Cloud (which I work on), combines BI, Planning and Predictive.
Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:49PM (#13700379)
Will console get multiple tabs support eventually?
Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:31PM (#13700228)
what feedback app?
Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:30PM (#13594478)
Guessing the battery died and the clock reset throwing off a https parameter. Happens to my daughter's tablet when she forgets to charge it and then she can't connect to https sites without resetting the clock.
Re:Dropbox Paper on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:13PM (#13527523)
Apache Wave https://incubator.apache.org/wave/

The spiritual successor was OpenSocial gadgets, also now gone except in some corporate spaces.

Re:Canada's immigration website crashes on election night on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:28AM (#12906719)
Was in Reykjavik in June one year. It was cold, light and stunk. The cost of food was high.
Re:DemocracyOS on Sunday March 22, 2015 @01:56AM (#9245772)
I'm actually pitching a similar idea to a major corporation.

Here is a reading list if you are interested in the subject. There have been (at least) four conferences on the subject of online deliberation.

https://www.loomio.org/

http://wikis.evergreen.edu/civicintelligence/index.php/ELibe...

http://odbook.stanford.edu/static/filedocument/2009/11/15/Ch...

http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ncn/

http://online-deliberation.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_deliberation

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=134286...

http://www.virtualagora.org/

http://parliament.sourceforge.net/ftf-paper.pdf Parliament: A Module for Parliamentary Procedure Software

http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/IS/archive/henry/RobertReport.pdf Prakken, Henry. 1998. Formalizing robert’s rules of order: An experiment in automating mediation of group decision making. Tech. Rep. REP-FIT-1998-12, GMD.

IBM also has a patent pending on this.

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