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by ajtaylor 15y ago
It's definitely a game. One that's rigged (and not in your favor), but you better do your best or you might not get a second chance.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Patrick has some great advice. I'll add my own anecdote: earlier this year I had an interview which required taking a plane. I decided to wear my suit on the plane, and it was an entirely new experience. I can't put my finger on exactly wha
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I did the typical American thing and started mowing lawns when I was around 13 or 14. At first I had a single 20" push mower and had one or two lawns. Then I used our family riding mower. After I had built up some clients I took out a loan
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
At $work we signed for the Premier agreement. We're paying more than $10k/year but it's still reasonable for the benefits it gives us. There are ways to keep your map views down when they aren't essential to the page. :)
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Probably, since the new JS Maps v3 API a key is no longer required.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
At $work in Australia, we went through this a couple months ago. After an initial quote that was beyond ridiculous, we worked out a much better deal with the local Google reseller. In addition, to help keep map views down we stopped uncondi
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
As a new customer of SendGrid, I'd be VERY interested in this. More specifically, I'd like to learn about possible integrations with Mailchimp and SendGrid. Sendgrid is super cheap and allows me the ultimate flexibility in email customisati
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I'm not in the US, and I'm a white Caucasian, so it won't be any help to Amit. But when the Australian Red Cross phoned me up this morning to set an appointment to donate blood I also told them I wanted to get registered as a bone marrow do
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
For years I though Bezos was crazy and that Amazon could never, ever repay all the billions it had raised/spent. I was so, so wrong... I wouldn't bet against Bezos.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Thanks for the pointer to Trello. What an amazing yet simple tool! I immediately have a ton of uses for it. Thanks to the google account integration I had a new board in literally 10 seconds. Wow...
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
The GoogleWebmasterHelp has some great videos on things you can do to help improve your site rankings. They may be common knowledge to the folks here, but I think they will be an great source of knowledge for non-technical business owners.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I remember seeing mention of "A20" in old BIOS settings, but I never knew what it did. Today, I know: it enabled access a 64k RAM region.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Perhaps it's only obvious to me, but unless a corporation has great products that customers want to buy, the long-term shareholder value can only fall. Customers buying a corporation's products is a prerequisite to profits at said corporati
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
"Sony rootkit" should be more than sufficient to satisfy you.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Thanks to the above comments for all the links! I'm about to start on a new project at $work, for which I think those postings will be very useful.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
That is a great point. At $work, we're about to revamp how we do ratings. The idea was to only consider positive feedback, but maybe we should figure out how to include negative feedback too. But that brings up the question of how to avoid
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Autocompletion is _the_ primary reason I switched to Chrome. It Just Works, even going so far as to learn it should switch from maps.google.com to maps.google.com.au when I type "maps". It wasn't too long before the AU site went from the se
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Works great with Chrome 14 on Lion. The rotatable 45 degree satellite views are wicked cool.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Having the time to take off, and also the cultural push to take it all, makes a huge difference in productivity from my perspective.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
My experience with TPG has generally been very good. I connect at 17-18Mb/1Mb and consistently download at 1.0+ MB/sec. Usually 1.4MB/sec, though I've seen it drop to ~800KB/sec. Given that your plan is 60% more than mine, I'll gladly pocke
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I've never had to use vacation time for conferences, but then again I only go to one conference a year. Here's hoping my Aussie employer bucks that trend!
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Europe and Australia have forever ruined me with their standard 4 weeks of vacation time. I can't fathom ever going back to anything less.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Wow! Thank you for sharing your amazing story. It's very inspiring.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
That's certainly how it works for most Australian ISPs. And the off-peak times only run from about 02:00 to 07:00. I'm lucky enough to have an unlimited ADSL account with TPG, or my quotes would be a couple hundred GBs for the same cost. Lu
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I must have freakishly large hands, because my thumb has no problem covering any part of the screen on my Galaxy S II. My vote is with @ansy about keeping aspect ratios the same.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
When implementing Sendgrid, I think I spent about 30 min reading over the DNS setup docs and 30 min actually creating the records. I'm no sysadmin, but I thought it was quite easy. Also, they have a free account which allows you to send 200
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Hear, hear! At $work we started using Sendgrid last month, and it's worth 10x the money we pay every month (Silver level is $80/mo for 300k emails). Our usage will be ramping up over the coming months, and I feel so much more secure knowing
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
It's only open source for open source projects. I would be using at $work, so a commercial license is my only option. Way back when, I remember the "discussions" that took place when ExtJS backed off from it's original true open source lice
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I'm in Sydney, Australia.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
This is indeed good news, but I made the switch to vim a couple of months ago.

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