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by ben1040 14y ago
A few years back I changed jobs; under my previous employer my allergy shots were fully covered under insurance, and I wanted to determine which of my new employer's plans might cover them. At the time I was getting allergy shots on a weekl
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by ben1040 14y ago
Maybe the story around it primed my reaction, but the terseness struck me a little differently. "Every minute I spend writing this email is another minute you will spend waiting for the response, and a minute less you will have with your fr
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by ben1040 14y ago
Stop telling people about that DMV branch in city hall! It's one of the best kept secrets in St Louis.
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I'd say that "mainstream" was rapidly changing at that point, given that Apple had debuted the iBook with 802.11b back in 1999. On the other hand, Apple didn't exactly reflect "mainstream" nearly as much in 2000 as it does in 2013.
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They even made sure to include the arrow in their Arabic translation (including having it point in an appropriate direction if you read right to left): http://i.imgur.com/8PTzYjW.jpg
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by ben1040 14y ago
That no-forking requirement was a function of Acer being a member of the Open Handset Alliance. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/google-blocked-acers-...
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by ben1040 14y ago
I had never even heard of 9Gag before until now. It definitely looks like this decade's iteration of eBaum's World, except instead of "borrowing" Flash games from their original creators, it's skimming images from Reddit.
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Resources every Android developer must know(bongizmo.com)
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This is great. I cracked up at this, and this particular one is also likely to be the only Onion content that is not only age-appropriate for my toddler but also educational.
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Supreme Court upholds first-sale doctrine on items sold abroad(washingtonpost.com)
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And keep your bootloader locked. It's nice that you can do this on many devices but you probably shouldn't if you care enough to encrypt your data. They used fastboot mode to boot a custom recovery image to perform the cold boot attack
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If you've got a staff ID and a paystub I imagine you're good. Definitely bring a paystub if your ID doesn't have validity dates printed on it. A friend works for a university and his ID alone was insufficient as it just had his name and p
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Yeah, I was kind of hoping for some sort of early buy-in opportunity for the Glass Explorer group but I guess no such luck (unless they clue us in between now and EOD Tuesday I guess). I'm going to be bummed if I can't get a ticket and ther
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I believe that's new for this year. 2011 was a total mess as the registration page was just a ColdFusion site run by their event management vendor, and they were clearly used to medical conferences and the like that don't get the same swif
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by ben1040 14y ago
>Further that is irrelevant regardless given that the pre-sales isn't to some sort of "loyal since 2008" group But there is a presale aimed at exactly this group. They've had the "I/ON" group (aka "loyal since 2008") since 2010, if I re
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by ben1040 14y ago
I have to imagine the more-than-two rule is at the airlines' request. With more than two clubs, you're likely going to bring them in a full-size golf bag and they don't want those onboard for space reasons.
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by ben1040 14y ago
According to the TSA news release, they're also allowing novelty baseball bats. http://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/files/assets/pdf/tsa_permit... I wonder if some Louisville politician lobbied for this change: http://www.flickr.com/photos/
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by ben1040 14y ago
This reminds me of something we had at my office about 15 years ago because people were complaining their workstations were slow. In reality, their workstations were just slow machines; standard issue box for most people was a 70MHz Sun SS-
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by ben1040 14y ago
You don't need to set up sync. Go to the Chrome settings page, and under the "Users" heading, choose "Add New User." Then you can pick an icon, that appears up in the browser's title bar. That icon helps you remember what user you're brow
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Maybe they died, if we're talking about fixed station video phones that tried to emulate what George Jetson had. Those were DOA for decades. Or maybe technology (better bandwidth, front facing cameras in laptops & mobile devices) just
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Of note: what happens when a pumped storage reservoir fails. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_S...
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They were threatening to do that for last year's meeting, and then backed out on it. There was no test. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-io-2012-extend... In the meantime, be sure to brush up on your coding skills. They’ll
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by ben1040 14y ago
I've been to I/O the last three years and I've found it to be worth the price of admission, even if you ignore the free stuff they've given out. The sessions are streamed or filmed, but if this stuff is your bread and butter professionally
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>I don't know if this is a Silicon Valley thing or what, but the idea that someone would basically do a day's unpaid work on projects they know nothing about with three different people is just about the most foreign thing I can think o
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Ever been in the WU tunnels (not just the big one between Duncker & January halls)? Pretty expansive system right under students feet that most have no idea about :) I've not been in the tunnels, but in my undergrad I spent a lot of t
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by ben1040 14y ago
Just a friendly FYI since you're new: around here we don't sign our comments. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by ben1040 14y ago
I'm guessing at least some of it came from Glass. This clip from Fashion Week last fall was shot on Glass and part of it made its way into this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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"Mr. Draper several years ago developed some Internet-security equipment and started a company. Some clients were interested, but the company foundered when one of its executives, a fellow raver, made off with much of the money from invest
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Aha, that's what I was missing. I didn't realize from the app description that it was a randomized message, and I thought it was one device's user sending a message to the other.
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by ben1040 14y ago
Elance and sites like it are crazy uncharted territory for me. Are there really folks who run bots to scrape Elance, put in a bid for the minimum budget price (someone did bid $750, according to the min/max spread on there), and hope they g

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