You can see plainly in one of the videos everyone running to the site of the bombing to help those in need; during 9/11 the same thing happened. Its only those people disconnected from the event (not everyone of course), fueled by vitriol from the media, who foster this irrational fear that ends up turning into xenophobia and irrational politics.
I think there will be some cool applications with this and a Rasberry PI. I'm floating around this half-baked idea of plugging Rasberry PI's into the light sockets of my home (since they're all central to the room [better for audio and microphone quality] and negates the need of running wire all over the place) so that I can have voice controlled computers in all my rooms and play music/make calls/automate my home/etc. Being able to ask the computer some random question and get an answer without having to go to my computer would be insanely cool to me :)
Try the Public Knowledge Project. You can contribute monetarily, by helping fix bugs in one of their open source software packages, or by finding one of the many open access journals that use their software and contributing articles or editorial support (note: I used to work for them).
Honestly, for personal projects, I just use the Apple Reminders app. It syncs across devices and is easy to get to/add to. For anything that is read by people other than myself though, I use Github issues or Youtrack.
I could never afford a real NAS, and I've used many DIY setups (linux boxes, mac boxes, with software raid) but I've settled on a WD MyBook for its pure simplicity. If you just need a file server and don't need tons of space (2TB is plenty for me) I'd definitely recommend it.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately -- What's most interesting to me is the implications for urban data modeling and prediction when the end user has full control of how the data is used. Remember that article a few weeks back about the fellow who used the new SimCity to model his town's traffic problems? Imagine if you had full control over the model and can tweak the city at any level you want, not just what the game UI allows you to adjust (e.g. feeding in data from a government API)? Urban planners could potentially get a lot of useful information from gamers playing around with variables in their city.
Another interesting idea could be turning a city into a sort of MMORPG where each user has control over a smaller section of the city (instead of the whole thing). If the user only pays attention to optimizing a small part of the city, interesting patterns could emerge in the overall model.
I'd like to see how more traditional websites (i.e., not web apps but more like company web sites) are being/could be transformed by meteor. I'd like an excuse to work with it at my company (a creative agency) but we don't build web apps and it seems like meteor.js would be overkill for such a thing (also, what is the state of CMS' built with meteor?)
I just took a pay cut for a new job and I'm loving it (however, the pay cut is more about the region I moved to having lower pay overall). If you spend 8+ hours a day in the place, you should really enjoy it. However, as another poster said, think hard about whether the new job is good for your future, especially if you are taking a less important position.
That works for personal use, but when sharing between multiple people KeePass will get locked up when multiple people have the application open at the same time (despite warnings people will keep it open for long periods of time). This means you can't write to the DB and can lead to corrupted databases. Its more work, but we moved to using Git to manage our Keepass DB.
Ooh, nice; I've seen this before too but forgot all about it. @ksokhan, maybe think of linking up the CDN URL's from cdnjs.com to your site? Your site definitely offers more as far as discoverability.
Would be great to have something like this also serve up the JS files via a CDN, and provide a JS-based loader (like require.js for remote scripts). Plus maybe dependency management?
Maybe they're just limiting their growth right now? I would agree that a dropbox revenue model in the future would be a lot better (especially considering how much they're comparing themselves to dropbox).
But what you say shouldn't be generalized to Canada; Gastown, which is probably the heart of Vancouver's tech scene, is spitting distance from the poorest postal code in Canada. Homeless people migrate to places like Vancouver and San Fran for their temperate winters and progressive attitudes.
Wait, so in previous versions, when you destroy a view, event listeners weren't destroyed? I haven't noticed any issues in my Backbone app but this seems like it could spiral into a memory issue.
I'll be waiting for this before I get a Fitbit. And excuse the imagery, but it seems you have to wear clothes in bed for the vibrate-to-wake feature to work with the existing versions ;)
Beautiful! If i still lived in Vancouver I'd come work for ya :) I would however recommend a responsive design considering you do mobile web development.
This is ridiculous. Going to college certainly shouldn't be taken lightly and if you don't have an interest in broadening your mind and just want to make money, then you'd be better off educating yourself or going to a trade school. But for people that genuinely have a love of learning and want to discipline their mind in ways they haven't thought (not to mention meet interesting and intelligent people inside and outside of their career), college can be a worthy investment.
From day one, by putting trust in your programmers to manage themselves and get the job done (of course with the help of web-based project management/bug tracking/issue tracking tools).
I did the move for school. In that case, it is very easy (and working after school is easy as well). For you, you'd probably need to find an employer sponsor your work permit. This is difficult unless you're highly qualified since they can find employees without the extra paperwork in Canada (and Canadian companies are legally obligated to fill slots with Canadians unless they can't find any, which is easy enough to get around but still a PIA for employers). Your other option is to have a canadian partner/family member sponsor you to move to Canada (not super complicated, but takes over a year). There are more options, such as 'skilled worker' immigration, but I forget the specifics. Basically you'll need to wait a long time (unless you can cough up half a million dollars for business class immigration). I am back in the US for a couple years but I intend to move back using my Canadian partner to sponsor my immigration (I miss Canada!).
Not much I can think of, other than Startup Weekends which are held here about twice a year. Speaking of which, most of the people there are business-minded folk so there is probably an opportunity for entrepreneurship meetups.
http://techhui.com is probably the best online community for tech-related stuff here. You might want to explore around there and ask the same question.
(Edit: I didn't really answer your question about business meetups beyond startups; But I wouldn't know much about that anyway since I'm just a developer)
Not really. There are monthly tech meetups (Wetware wednesday, which this month is held on a friday in a sort of local company showcase: http://wetwarewednesday.eventbrite.com/). There's not much of a startup scene because there are almost no startups. There's really not that much tech at all other than government/military. It kinda sucks, but hey, you're living in paradise :)