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by adrr 14y ago
Apple fanatics have similar brain patterns to religious people. No amount of logic and reason will sway them. I recently had discussion with a bartender who was asking about my rubber case that was on my iphone. He didn't like it beca
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by adrr 14y ago
NYTimes paywall cost $40m. Heard bank software refactor can easily exceed 100m and take many years. I've personally seen 25m project fail and the code thrown away. Its not uncommon especially when you have 3 to 4 "support" people per de
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by adrr 14y ago
Its made in the US with parts from US suppliers. Be interesting to see if US consumers will pay premium for that over other devices like the AppleTV.
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by adrr 14y ago
When wiring our datacenter, buying bulk ethernet cables, you'll find a bad cable every 100 or so cables. Still beats the failure rate of making cables yourself.
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by adrr 14y ago
As far as I know, every country has Private Copying Levies on storage mediums. This however doesn't legalize casual sharing.
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by adrr 14y ago
If it was that easy to get additional income, they would have done it. They probably have a bunch of MBA types with fancy spreadsheets that came up with the pricing strategy not mention Amazon's pricing 5x to 10x additional sales over the
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by adrr 15y ago
There is no barriers to entry for programming. All the good tools are free, there's free hosting, there's free learning materials. You can get a full working product out the door without spending a dime.
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by adrr 15y ago
Yet i don't see any fellowships for males who want to be nurses. Nurse practitioner is higher paid profession than engineering in regards to median salary. It also rated the #4 occupation when using job security,salary etc as the metric
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by adrr 15y ago
I use Transmit and Amazon's s3. Not the best but works well for storing photos. Cost me about $1 a month.
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by adrr 15y ago
Its more like a commercial airplane being seized because one of the passengers smuggled drugs. I think its reasonable to assume that during the life of a commercial plane, a passenger will eventually commit a felony(smuggling drugs/contraba