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grsiteson Canadian dev working remotely (contract) for a US company. How to get paid?

Thanks! That's what I was planning to do, but the recruitement firm that would be paying me (and billing the client) is terrified of paying an invoice to a foreign firm, they are adamant about it. I might just have to go to the client directly, it's a company in the finance sector, I'm sure they can figure out how to send money to someone.

grsiteson Canadian dev working remotely (contract) for a US company. How to get paid?

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grsiteson Canadian dev working remotely (contract) for a US company. How to get paid?

Thanks a bunch! Yes, I had a feeling this was possible, but they are very hesitant to simply wire money across the border to an individual, because it might look like money laundering (!)

grsiteson Poll: Changing to Android after iOS7 Update?

There's no way I'm "upgrading" my iPad to iOS Barbie.

grsiteson Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

On the other hand, focusing on a small number of great products is what Apple always did under Jobs. The first thing Jobs did when he came back to Apple was jettison superfluous products and concentrate on what Apple was good at. Seems to me like he was giving genuine advice.

grsiteson GoDaddy is down

Turns out it's Anonymous:

https://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion/status/245218636187443200

grsiteson GoDaddy is down

Wouldn't it be funny if they forgot to renew their domain name and it got snatched? ;-)

grsiteson Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief

Better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven.

grsiteson Here is Godaddy’s statement in support of SOPA

I've heard many people mention namecheap and dreamhost as good alternate registrars that charge about the same as godaddy.

grsiteson Should you deprecate a feature untouched by 95% of users?

The other thing to consider is to ask whether the presence of this feature is obtrusive or bothersome to the 95% who don't use it. Does it needlessly clutter some user interface? If instead it is mostly invisible to those who don't use it, then there is little harm is leaving the feature where it is.

grsiteson IEEE: Pay $3000 and we'll remove your article's paywall.

Yes, that's essentially it...

grsiteson IEEE: Pay $3000 and we'll remove your article's paywall.

> Building a web app to allow researchers to submit their articles and have them peer-reviewed by other researchers would be an interesting project that could actually disrupt the industry.

True, but the chicken and egg problem prevents that from taking off: researchers submit to the highest impact journal they can get the article in, not the open access journals. Similarly, they won't submit their articles to such a service until it is already well established.

I'm hoping that bringing the problem to light will provide an impetus to evolve to a better system.

grsiteson IEEE: Pay $3000 and we'll remove your article's paywall.

No yet, but once it launches, you'll know. :-)

grsiteson IEEE: Pay $3000 and we'll remove your article's paywall.

I haven't found any, but I guess that's the problem: they're private.

grsiteson IEEE: Pay $3000 and we'll remove your article's paywall.

This kind of gouging soon won't be a problem anymore. I'm in the process of creating an online service (launch date sometime this summer) that will provide completely free full-text access to all academic journals in one fell swoop. Think Napster for academic research.

I won't give implementation details for now, and I'm still evaluating different domain names, but it will be called Acropolis.

Yes, I know it will create a legal shitstorm, but I feel it's a small price to pay for what is at stake. To hell with it. Academic research is supposed to be free.

grsiteson 50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users

This is not terribly surprising, and illustrates why Facebook and Twitter are completely different (and complementary) social networks.

Facebook for keeping tabs on people you know and who know you, i.e. symmetrical relationships.

Twitter turned out to be well suited for keeping track of people you know, but who have no idea who you are, because they are well-known, not you, i.e. asymetrical relationships.

grsiteson Solutions to graph algorithms for 99 Haskell Problems

If you havin' concurrency problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems and side effects ain't one.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

grsiteson Rate my startup - Slowcop - measure your website's speed

Oh and by the way, what do you use to losslessly compress PNG's to check for image optimization? Pngcrush didn't yield nearly as big improvements as slowcop suggested...

grsiteson Rate my startup - Slowcop - measure your website's speed

One little tip: many people use Google Analytics and there's no use listing "http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js under "Leverage browser caching" since we can't do anything about it and caching it would defeat the purpose anyway.

grsiteson Rate my startup - Slowcop - measure your website's speed

Very nice indeed! Increased page score on grsites.com from 92 to 96 in 5 minutes. More convenient than YSlow. Bookmarked!

grsiteson The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist

Sounds like the shotgun-collar trap in Saw III.

grsiteson Motorola sues Apple for patent infringement

So MS is suing Motorola, Motorola is suing Apple, Apple is suing HTC, Oracle is suing Google. Did I miss any?

grsiteson Microsoft workers celebrated Windows Phone 7 RTM with iPhone hearses

Maybe WinMo 6.5? I guess even Microsoft employees can't quite stomach that.

grsiteson Microsoft workers celebrated Windows Phone 7 RTM with iPhone hearses

At least Windows Mobile is no longer using IE6. Gasp!

grsiteson Segway by Honda

Yes, it seems like it won't go as fast as a Segway, so it will just make you look lazy.

"Do you have a knee injury?"

grsiteson Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews older than a week

Correct. I think I'll do that...

grsiteson At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X"

He works for the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin is his "boss".

grsiteson Domain Pigeon: Your Unintelligible Five Letter Domain Name Awaits

Great site! I just registered 6 domains, and then decided to go ahead with the $14.95 subscription for access to the full list. Definitely worth it! :-)