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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
On the plus side: what are the odds that you both get locked out AND you desperately need your backups on the same day? They're both unlikely events. (You might want sync, but hopefully you won't need the backup due to a hard drive crash
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Well, if you guess enough times...
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Safe-to-spend is about your current obligations, and other stuff that would reduce your "really available" balance; there's more money physically in the account, in a true emergency you'll rob from tomorrow to pay today's emergency room vis
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
I have USAA, and yes, this is exactly what they do (for some payees; others are actually electronic). My bank statement treats it as a check, and they have scans of the checks written this way. It's a bit of a surprise, because I'm writ
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Yes, you can deposit checks by taking pictures. (I'm not the throwaway account above, but I do have a USAA account through my father-in-law, who's retired Navy. And yes, you need a US military connection to get an account there.) Personal
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Well, ABS is kinda expensive if you're buying it in spools from Makerbot: about $45/kg. That's around $5 per toy, if they're smallish, or around the cost of a toy you'd buy. It's not saving you money, anyway.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
And many sites specifically state that you're signing over the copyright as part of posting.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
When do you remove the feature entirely? Or do you just discourage users until, at some future point when a change breaks it, you don't get any complaints?
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
So if I'm using that app, I'd have to check the developer blog, or some "news" section, every week just to see if one of my favorite features might get axed? It sounds like a really annoying thing for a user.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Ouch, that may be a serious problem. Are all of the projects intended "for production"? That is, are there some projects that Pulse won't pay for even if they're completed successfully (internal stuff)? Now you're excluding all candidates
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
I had the same experience during a snowstorm in Seattle. My flight was cancelled, worse weather was moving in, and I just wanted to get to California for a family holiday. I got a ticket to San Jose---from Portland. Because I was willing
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
It's a diet, not cold-turkey. Maybe he'll develop some healthy habits, rather than ping-ponging between internet binge and internet fast. ....or maybe he'll extend his Internet Hour to his Internet Twenty-Three Hours, but it's still worth
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Perhaps a second timer, then, to limit your breaks?
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
The trick is the sales process: finding companies who are willing to give what amounts to a 75% discount. This is the part that's so expensive in Groupon, and what's eating into their profitability the most.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Of course home invasions happen every day. That's not the point. The point is that AirBnB directly put the criminal in her home, though of course they didn't realize that. I'll leave out the "is EJ lying or is AirBnB" question for now, but
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
I haven't downvoted, but I suspect the "she could have been broken into without AirBnB's influence anyway" is the anger-inducing part of your comment. I certainly don't like it.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
The total number of script-kiddies might go down a bit. Of course there's always going to be some gullible 13-year-olds who run scripts, but the idea is to have less of them. It's more of a statistical argument than an anecdotal one.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
CS student -> too much free time -> INTERCAL
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
I swear, "self-motivated" and "detail-oriented" are two of the most over-used descriptions in job descriptions. Now I'm not sure, when I see those descriptions, whether they're real, or if they're just boilerplate, or whether they're code
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
The discourse so far has been pretty polite, aside from that last crack about "lifting" the content. It would be fun to send it back, but the reasonable response is just to reiterate the previous points about there being no copyright hol
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Ouch. Accurate, but ouch. Bonus points: Eternal September in Congress, as we're always getting a new crowd of inexperienced people.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
The biggest problem is that Facebook is already a known quantity. As mentioned elsewhere, Lists and Groups can replicate most of the Circled functionality---but nobody uses them. They're not well-known, and users aren't about to start usi
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
So mature leader == ability to say something that will make everyone happy, but lacks concrete terms? I realize that part of leadership is keeping people happy, but is it really correct to consistently bury a little bit of content in a lot
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
IE 4 was better than Netscape 4, but the average user - the vast majority of not-terribly-technical sorts - goes with whatever's on the computer to begin with. Microsoft probably could have won the browser war (albeit much later, and less
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
That might be the point that lets Google+ succeed: you can sign up and interact with your friends immediately, and then when they join Google+, you get to do more. It will definitely help with the "I have an account but nobody else does" ph
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
The mostly-just-one-way-to-organize-it approach cannot be overstated here. XPath is neat, but iterating through parser results is still a pain.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
There's still the option of making a second (or Nth) Facebook account just for anonymous posting. Granted, that doesn't address the main problem.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
I believe the plural of antidote is "I'm not sure which snake just bit me, just give me all the antitoxins!"
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
It's about risk. Visa/MC/AMEX deals with people worldwide, which includes some crooks and thieves that are trying to scam them (and will continue to do so, under multiple identities). The coffee shop only deals with customers it sees pers
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by PotatoEngineer 16y ago
I suspect that even if the resources were owned by US companies, they still wouldn't mine them, for exactly the same reason.

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