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by atourgates 15y ago
You know, as I read through the comments on this story, I'm struck that the concept of accessibility is quite personal. I'm pretty sure I've seen every single one of Stephenson's books been called his "most accessible" somewhere in this thr
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by atourgates 15y ago
No reason? Only if you don't care about your energy bill. Running a 60W light bulb for 6-hours a day for a year costs - in California - $18.25. Multiply that by, I donno, 5 bulbs in your house and you're spending $91.25/yr on your lightin
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by atourgates 15y ago
I don't argue that early CFL's had big problems, but I'd seriously encourage you to try again. First, they're quite cheap. Assuming you don't need dimmable CFL's, you can get them for less than $1/bulb. With my utility's incentive program
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by atourgates 15y ago
It looks like a great tool. I was actually looking for something like this the other day, and disappointed with what I found. I write for a living, and I've vacillated between a few different distraction-free writing tools. Writeroom http
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by atourgates 15y ago
I can't figure out if at allows seeding backups. E.g. - backing up your first massive backup locally using an external drive, then moving it physically offsite and beginning the sync online. That seems like a fantastic feature to me. That
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by atourgates 15y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head. For people like you, who want to be able to plug their phone into their Linux box and access their data - Android in its current state is a fantastic operating system. For people like the author's mo
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by atourgates 15y ago
I would imagine that homeowners being terrified of having their homes trashed by guests would also cut into their revenue stream, and, if the "97% of airbnb guests are wonderful people" bit is true, the premiums should be fairly negligible.
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by atourgates 15y ago
It's not shocking that a for-profit college was more motivated by getting happy graduates through their program than by enforcing academic honesty. But, this speaks to the larger issue of for-profit education as a whole. As a whole, this s
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by atourgates 15y ago
And while it's purely a semantic distinction, as a consumer, I feel far better about getting 10% off the menu price at restaurants for paying cash, than I would feel about a 10% surcharge for paying with my credit card.
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You're absolutely right, but, like (I suspect) many people, I knew better, but hadn't taken the time to implement unique passwords before the Gawker security breach. It basically forced me to act - and now I'm better for it.
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by atourgates 15y ago
Am I misinterpreting your comment? You said, the hackers "lowered people's trust in massive corporations [...] which is not good in any respect." It seems pretty clear to me that Sony is most decidedly not deserving of consumer's trust - an
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by atourgates 15y ago
Or - to extend your metaphor - if Loren was applying to work at a physical security firm, he'd be better off saying, "I'm a security nut, so much so that I installed an amazing security system at my house, with lasers and a shark-pit and wh
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by atourgates 15y ago
Yes - and remember - the law in question, the Magnuson-Moss Act - simply governs that a warranty can't be contingent on only using OEM equipment. E.g. - Apple can't say, "Your warranty is void unless you use Genuine apple drives, purchased
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by atourgates 15y ago
I was deeply in love with WebOS on my 1st gen Pre. But - like you noted - the hardware was disappointing, and the Pre 2 should have been the Pre 1.5. Even a year after switching to the iPhone 4 - there are still things I miss about my Pre'
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by atourgates 15y ago
I think there are many applications where it's fantastic - but at least one notable exception: Engadget. Engadget's commenting system has always been its weakness. The site has (I blieve) the best gadget reporting on the internet, but its
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by atourgates 16y ago
I'd like the option to create labels for my alarm, to remind me exactly what it is that I'm forgetting.
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by atourgates 16y ago
A strangely perfect fit. I use both Survey Monkey & Wufoo daily at work, and consider both of them to be fantastic tools, which both could both use some love on the visual customization end. Survey Monkey's visual customization is limit
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by atourgates 16y ago
Thanks for stealing my idea. Jerk.
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by atourgates 16y ago
Without hijacking anything, let me take a stab at "SEO is called black magic" issue. The best luck I've had demystifying SEO is to boil it down to its essential principles, which I see as: * Creating Useful Content * Developing Links from H
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by atourgates 16y ago
Yep. I've been trying to replace mail.app with sparrow for the past 2 weeks. Sparrow's ui is mostly fine - but a bit frustrating at times. I find occasionally I miss new messages - something that never happened in mail.app. But, it really
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by atourgates 16y ago
Considering the rash of "OMG the police barged into my house, shot my goldfish and raped my star wars collection" type stories I've been hearing, is it safe to assume that the German police are quite a bit more sensible than their American
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by atourgates 17y ago
The panda seems quite serious.