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> I remember thinking that math classes would be far more interesting if we were allowed to hand in a program to solve the class of problems they were asking us to manually and repeatedly solve, and to bring that program to the exam

With programmable graphing calculator that's sorta possible. At least, I've done it a few times.

Alas, it was most often banned from exams because "I can't see what you have done there to get that answer".

Also, most of the class ended up using my program for a specific class of problems we had to do in maths. In retrospect, I probably caused some harm by getting my classmates to be that lazy during exams.

> It reminds me of what Microsoft used to do: embrace, extend, extinguish.

I guess they still do it on the enterprise level. But they have fallen behind in terms of consumer ecosystem.

You are right.

Maybe I'm biased and a tad emotional. I was expecting more from Canada.

And the Juicero effect.

Correct. The 16 years old bit is for the driver license where, in north america, 16 is the minimal age to get it.

It should be pretty easy to filter out, given that there will be a very strong correlation between length of the drive and rating.

Passenger rating does matter when it comes to how fast you are getting your ride.

Uber drivers have fair wages, considering they are working in a saturated market and competing with people with the qualifications of a 16 years old teen.

There are a lot of people with these qualifications.

I think it has to do with the traditional app model slowly being phased out.

There is a huge saturation of apps on every major platform and it's getting harder and harder for new devs to get enough userbase that way.

It represent a backward country as these cases should never have happened in the first place.

Also, the operation was lead by pretty much all of Canada's telcos. It's not an especially competitive market.

Doing any kind of business in non-USD currency is itself not a great move.

At least I'm pretty sure they (the cable companies) won't be able to use anything they got there in court.

But let's be real for a moment, that man, if he sues, will get absolutely nothing in return.

Still, it's about time Canada starts getting real laws.

This and the people held hostage without AC or water in a plane for 5 hours+ is a proof at how backward this country really is.

When I was about 6 or 7 there was a complete section of my math textbook which contained informations and example on the BASIC language. We, of course, never read those chapters in class but I did anyways while bored with the actual stuff the teacher would say.

It would use a very simple and systematic flowchart representation to model control flow. The great thing about it is that once you understood < > = (also taught in the class) the whole program could be readable.

I think I was the only one to read it and pretty much got the feeling it wasn't important as nobody, even the teacher, payed any attention to it.

> A lot of veggie imitation meats are low on fat and protein and extremely high on processed carbs.

Which makes them pretty bad, even worst for dieting.