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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
The pay-per-use gym is an interesting idea, but compared to the fixed-fee gym it creates a bit of a disincentive to get in shape. If going to the gym more often means that you'll have to pay more, you'll probably go less often.
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
I haven't used Win8, so maybe I'm completely off-base here, but from the article it sounds like removal of the Start Menu has made it difficult to do a lot of things without either typing in commands or memorizing special key combinations (
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
Stripe is $0.30 + 2.9%, not $0.50 + 2.9%.
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
Proof that time is now flowing backwards!
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All That Cloud: Amazon, Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Heroku, Jelastic(techblog.bozho.net)
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
" Under the simple pay-what-you-wish variation, 8.39% of people purchased a photo (almost 17 times more than before), but customers paid only $.92 on average. The final option — pay what you wish, with half the purchase price going to chari
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
Very nice. One tip: Don't require an email address to provide feedback and you'll get more feedback. A bug that I found in the tour for "Politics and the Big 5": The instruction bubble says: To run a different analysis, remove "Neuroticis
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
I have to disagree. Law is complex largely because politicians need to feel like they are doing something. They make changes so they can claim in their next campaign that they've improved things. They make changes to benefit their likely
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
I've found this website to be useful for seeing what an image would look like to a color blind person: http://www.etre.com/tools/colourblindsimulator/
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
This article isn't about bots. The 80% bot stuff was from a different article posted yesterday.
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
I hardly got anything done. I couldn't see the monitor through all of the tears.
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
I'll add some comments on their finance section: 1) REALLY need a way to graph "adjusted stock price" or "growth of $10,000" instead of just raw stock price. Otherwise, mutual fund graphs fall off a cliff every December due to payment of c
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
Is there some reason why they couldn't tell you in advance that there would be a problem with this student, rather than waiting until you got there?
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
I haven't been on OKCupid in years, so this info may be outdated, but they used to display a green/yellow/red dot to indicate whether or not someone usually responds when you initiate contact with them. Most women have red dots because you
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
More detail and full ruling: http://allthingsd.com/20120626/apple-wins-injunction-against...
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Oracle accepts $0 in damages from Google, moves toward appeal(arstechnica.com)
119 points by Bill_Dimm 14y ago|20 comments
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
Would it kill the people at testico.net to display a one-sentence description of what their site does? I had to view HTML source and read the meta description: "You can to put the icon you've created on your iPhone or iPad home screen, and
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
Insider trading in Washington has been so accepted that it wasn't even illegal until a couple of months ago: http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/04/11018553-o...
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
I found someone that copied one of our websites because they copied it so exactly that they included the corporate logo in the footer, which had a link back to our corporate website. I noticed the odd referrer URL in a click through to our
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
Good points. Just to elaborate a bit, the mediocre programmers tend to end up writing five functions that do almost the same thing because they don't have the vision to see how it all fits together and come up with a single, elegant soluti
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
About as close as we are to having election laws changed in the U.S. so that a third-party candidate would actually have a chance -- not close at all. The existence of a better/fairer alternative is irrelevant if the "slimy self preserving
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
My personal experience with Garmin (hopefully not too off-topic): I purchased a Garmin hiking GPS. Hiking GPSs, unlike the ones you get for your car, often don't come with maps. So, I purchased Garmin's U.S. Topo 2008 map, which covers th
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
Your blog really gives no direct info about who you are (I now see that things would have been clarified if I had clicked through to your twitter account), making it hard to tell whether you are truly independent or a marketing person for M
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
Maybe I am just being too cynical, but is there any way to prove that this actually happened, rather than being a viral marketing stunt by MeetingBurner?
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by Bill_Dimm 14y ago
I just did the search, and the MeetingBurner name does NOT appear in GoToMeeting's ad copy anymore.