dgrant

Love Liftosaur, it's the first and only app I've ever used and I wouldn't still be lifting today if it wasn't for this app.

I think the verb tenses were not perfect... I think he just meant: why did they build only 1 in the first place? They could have built N instead, at a lower cost per unit.

Hi. I used to work at Teradici. It was always interesting that Pixar went with VDI because it meant the CPUs that were being used as desktops during the day could be used for rendering at night. Roughly speaking. The economics made a lot of sense. A guy from Pixar came to Teradici and gave a talk all about it. Amazing stuff.

Interesting contrast with other companies that switched to VDI where it made very little sense. VMware + server racks + zero clients compared to desktops never made economic sense, at the time. But oftent here is some other factor that tips things in VDI's favour.

Sounds exactly like me. I work very late at night as well to make up for the day where I have to check on the kids a lot as my wife works away from home.

How much of a difference will these make? Trying to decide if it's worth my time.

You're right - high level integration tests (end to end) are important, and most would argue that they are more important. If you had to choose one type of testing only, that would be it.

Unit tests are also important, as you said.

Could this be used to generate XML?

Could I use this to generate XML?

I agree, this bothers me as well; the mansions seem to get way more press than they deserve.

What gets under-reported is:

-the non-foreigner/non-Chinese/locals that are hanging on to 2-3 properties -the person who can now afford that $1 million condo because they just sold their smaller condo for $500,000 and netted $250,000. -the fact that interest rates are at the lowest ever and some years ago amortization periods were pushed up to 40 years and down payments of 0-5% were allowed.

> I was in a small circle on the floor of people who had just smoked some amazing herb before the talk.

This is a thing at software conferences?

A very smart friend of mine on Facebook with lots of ties in the tech industry described Balsillie as "Canada's Donald Trump."

He says "I’m not a partisan actor, but I actually think this is the worst thing that the Harper government has done for Canada." The worst?

He says "It’s a treaty that structures everything forever – and we can’t get out of it." Forever?

Later in the article we find out,

"The deal must be ratified by all 12 countries, and then it would come into force six months later. It would require a parliamentary vote in Canada. Alternatively, the treaty can also take effect if it’s ratified by half the countries representing 85 per cent of the zone’s economy. A country can withdraw any time, on six months’ notice."

So not only can we get out, but it's not forever if you can get out. So Balsillie is full of $hit, alarmist, and possibly still butthurt over losing out to a patent troll that RIM never took seriously enough.