jcwilde

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Comment · 6 years ago

Aha! I came across some odd Whiteclaw (alcohol) product placement on Unsplash, and I was wondering if “influencers” were trying to make a go of it on the platform, but that didn’t seem likely — now it all makes sense.

E.g. https://unsplash.com/photos/GMLfxktwWcM or https://unsplash.com/photos/RtdjA55Su2k

Comment · 7 years ago

"It Seems To Me" is my guess based on usage.

Comment · 7 years ago

I don't think you can compare full-time employment with an hourly contract directly.

The rule of thumb I've heard a few people use to convert from employment to contract is to multiply your hourly employment earnings by 2.5 to arrive at your contract rate. By that math, you're still under-earning outside of the downtown core.

Mind you, I'm not sure that conversion has ever fully rung true to me, but the general point of not being able to directly compare still stands.

Comment · 7 years ago

I fail to see how "per capita per square mile" is a useful measure.

_Anything_ measured in that way would show densely populated area vastly outnumbering rural areas, perhaps with the exclusion of things that essentially don't exist in cites, such as "number of farms per capita per square mile".

The measure appears to be concocted specifically for Lying With Statistics™.

Comment · 7 years ago

I would further argue that tech jobs in Hamilton/Mississauga (or other satellite/burbs) don't compete with Toronto-proper in terms of compensation. Which leaves you with 1-2 hour commute each way just to try to save a bit on housing, and still not getting the benefit of properly compensated tech work.

Comment · 7 years ago

This article seems to implicitly characterize it as a positive, but the lower cost of business in the Toronto tech scene is subsidized by low wages for tech workers.

As the article states, the talent and diversity of education is top-notch, but the compensation is yet to match—Toronto tech workers need to demand higher wages.

Comment · 7 years ago

An important additional component of the GDPR is that an individual can revoke their consent, and require all previously collected personal information be deleted.

https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/consent/

https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/list-of-data-rights/ri...

Comment · 7 years ago

No-content article with a glaring Amazon affiliate link... blah.

Comment · 8 years ago

Most writeups/HowTos for this problem cover all human skin colours with reasonable degrees of success (given how niave th algorithm is).

The article specifically mentions Hulk and Smurf porn easily defeating the filter.

Comment · 8 years ago

Is this not the holy grail?

Comment · 9 years ago

Corrected headline: "Lamborghini Unveils Borderline Science Fiction Plans for a Concept Car"

Comment · 9 years ago

Kira Systems | Toronto, ON, CA | Onsite & Remote, Full time & Interns | https://kirasystems.com/

Kira Systems is a fast-growing software company that uses machine learning to help professionals uncover relevant information from contracts and other documents. Our award winning software, Kira, helps make contract review faster and more accurate through combining powerful machine learning combined with an intuitive user interface.

Our stack is a Clojure-based reactive single-page web client code and a distributed backend to handle internal computations. We're looking for people with Clojure experience, or an interest in working with it.

https://kirasystems.com/careers

Comment · 10 years ago

Toronto, Canada | Kira Systems | REMOTE ok | Clojure/ClojureScript Web Developer

Kira Inc. is a Toronto-based startup using machine learning to automate legal work. We’re looking for a developer to work on our Clojure and ClojureScript web application. Our stack includes reactive single-page web client code and a distributed backend to handle internal computations. Our team is small, pragmatic, and inquisitive; we love learning new technologies and balance adoption with good analysis. To us, agile is a verb, not a noun, we adopt what works for us rather than strictly following a particular methodology. We prefer to hire near our downtown Toronto office, but also welcome remote applicants.

This position is focused on internal tools such as application analytics and internal integrations. It involves a bit of everything in the web stack:

  * Client-side UI code.
  * Server-side REST routes.
  * Platform and core APIs.
  * Document and report generation.

You should have knowledge of some of these. Most of all we look for those interested in learning.

Please send us:

  * cover letter — tell us why you’re interested,
  * resume/linkedin profile,
  * link to github projects or other work samples.

If we like the look of what you send us, we'll ask you to perform a short take-home coding test, and if that is satisfactory, we'll invite to an interview with the team.

Please apply online at https://kirasystems.com/careers#op-131123-clojureclojurescri...

Comment · 10 years ago

Although the information is clear, that can barely be called an infographic. It's basically a short text article overlaid on top of a 8-bit-style bitcoin "mine" operation.

Comment · 11 years ago

I would really love an answer to these questions.