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by ben1040 14y ago
It seems like the strategy (especially given the revised privacy policy) is to converge every other service so that you're using G+ no matter what. Google Contacts is now focused on circles, circles show up in Gmail, and you can control Goo
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by ben1040 14y ago
I kept a paid account there from 2002 until late last year. My circle of friends was pretty active on LJ and didn't bail out to Facebook until 2009-2010. One thing I remember about when LJ was independent was that they intentionally kept a
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by ben1040 14y ago
>It's just a shame that the owners couldn't make money that way, and seem to be focussed on an entirely different demographic. Maybe it was when Six Apart owned them, but for a really long time it looked like LJ had given up on trying t
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by ben1040 14y ago
I can think of a few ways: 1) Siri integration. "Let's watch the Cardinals game." "What movies are on HBO tonight?" "Facetime with my mother." 2) Convergence with other iOS devices/tools. iMessage/FaceTime on your TV. AirPlay mirroring.
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by ben1040 14y ago
That's another case I saw it. A year and a half ago I bought a cruise ticket from Holland America, and next thing I know I'm seeing Holland America ads across the internet. At the time I thought they were just doing an ad blitz, because i
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by ben1040 14y ago
I had no idea retargeting even was a thing, until one particular ad kept repeatedly showing up. When my grandmother died last year we looked up the website for a cremation service to find their phone number. Then for the next week or so I
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by ben1040 14y ago
As an American I had to use TinEye to find out that this image was of the Deutsche Post logo. Then I realized it was a horn, and understood the connection. But only because I had once seen this faux historic mailbox in a SkyMall catalog or
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Reddit IAmA with Pebble Watch founder(reddit.com)
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by ben1040 14y ago
The most obvious thing about Dell's ignorance-promoting product page for the XPS13 (the differences are only defined in marketspeak) is that there is still no SSD available: Says right there on the page you linked that the $999 base model
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by ben1040 14y ago
>I can't name a single person who ever used "Legacy Filevault"; that's the "encrypt your home directory" thing from Leopard. I tried it a few times. The saying "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" hit home for me th
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by ben1040 14y ago
Also, it seems Apple enhanced last year's iPad; new ones are starting to show up with a newer 32nm CPU with better battery life: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5789/the-ipad-24-review-32nm-a... 15-30% more battery life is nothing to sneeze
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by ben1040 15y ago
>"You chose to use Perl but don't know what a hash is." Do you have any questions for me? This reminds me of someone who once told me they knew C and were proficient at it, but they just "didn't get pointers and I don't use them."
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by ben1040 15y ago
It struck me that "unlimited vacation days" also seems like a way to make sure that when people quit, you don't have to pay out a vacation dump. And if you have a team of workaholics who never take time off, then those payouts could get bi
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by ben1040 15y ago
Slicehost (now under Rackspace) sent a very cryptic email a few weeks ago saying users needed to "migrate" their servers, but gave no reason why. Then this mail went out on Friday: We are writing to update you on the migration you recent
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by ben1040 15y ago
Yes, an iPhone has never been unveiled at a WWDC. Except for the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4 at WWDC 2008, 2009, and 2010, respectively.
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by ben1040 15y ago
https://www.google.com/settings/storage/ The pricing changed today. It is considerably less attractive now. It looks like I'm grandfathered into $20/year for 80GB, but if I wanted to go up to 100GB the pricing is now $4.99/month.
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by ben1040 15y ago
I initially planned to pursue an MS in computer science after undergrad, and had gone so far as being accepted into a program, and attending classes for nearly the entire first semester. I bailed out at the first semester when I considered
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by ben1040 15y ago
That's not the original AltaVista page - as mentioned by the disclaimer in the screengrab, altavista.com was not related to DEC or the AltaVista search engine. At least when it first opened, it was altavista.digital.com. And that confused
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by ben1040 15y ago
I had to do some work on an S3-backed project while out at sea on a cruise ship a few months ago (let's save the discussion about working on vacation for the 501 developer thread). Thanks to git I was able to spool up my commits and then pu
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by ben1040 15y ago
>The problem is this will likely spook many people - "how does this website know my street address?" I requested a car insurance quote from Progressive, and the first form in the process asked for my name and street address. After that
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by ben1040 15y ago
I wonder if Ron Johnson (the guy behind the Apple retail concept) could have turned around Best Buy, had BBY picked him up instead of JC Penney. The Apple store philosophy seems to be "We think most people will be delighted with our product
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by ben1040 15y ago
The first few hits on a google search for "instagram cancel" indicated you had to write in, but then I found this. http://help.instagram.com/customer/portal/articles/95760
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by ben1040 15y ago
I just canceled mine five minutes ago with this form: https://instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/
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by ben1040 15y ago
I am on Verizon and will not switch away (grandfathered into unlimited data, and AT&T coverage at my house is the pits). Back in November I wanted to get an iPhone 4S. I was not upgrade eligible, so I'd have to pay full retail price. I
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by ben1040 15y ago
There should be no difference. "Out of the box" and after a reset, the phone is a blank slate and won't work until it talks to Apple. Part of that activation process involves getting a token back that instructs the phone how it should be l
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by ben1040 15y ago
http://www.scribd.com/facebook/d/78445521-Role-of-Social-Net... This looks like it could be the paper in question.
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by ben1040 15y ago
>You must have had fallen out of touch for a reason, hadn't you? This is exactly what made me realize it was OK for me to drop Facebook. I was unreasonably worried that I would again lose touch with these people who were my friends back
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by ben1040 15y ago
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...
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by ben1040 15y ago
Also of note: according to the rules, it's open to Americans as well as Canadians: http://mintchipchallenge.com/rules
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by ben1040 15y ago
Immediately made me think of this classic blunder: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/business/stinging-office-m...

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