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by ben1040 15y ago
This is a perfectly cromulent business model This gave away the April Fool gag right in the second paragraph, but still had me laughing. Good work.
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by ben1040 15y ago
The salesman seemed really nice and things went well with him. It was my understanding that he mainly only sold Scion vehicles and he had drank their koolaid in terms of how they wanted to sell the things. That is, "the price is the price
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by ben1040 15y ago
Last car I bought was a Scion, and they also have the no-haggle policy. One night I was browsing dealerships' inventory online, and spotted a model I liked. Called the dealer the next morning at 8, was driving my new car at 10. The only p
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by ben1040 15y ago
This got me wondering about how I could provide my passwords to people if something were to happen to me. Not even so much for Github or the like but for my online banking, credit cards, etc so it would be easier to wind down those affairs.
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by ben1040 15y ago
If the only way to sign in is with Facebook, then I guess I'm not signing in. Edit: I realize you may have done this because it makes it easy to just quickly slurp in your friends' birthdays through the Facebook API. But I am willing to do
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by ben1040 15y ago
I got the same thing on the night of March 23, three messages from "brain cool IQ." Verizon can't tell me yet if there is a charge incoming or not, because they can't seem to see charges in between bill cycles.
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by ben1040 15y ago
I got one of these texts two nights ago. I was unsure whether to reply with "stop" because I worried it would further legitimize things, but I did it anyway. I went to a Verizon shop to see if they could look at my records to see if I got
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by ben1040 15y ago
And then you hit your teen/tween years and push back against everything your parents gave you or stand for, including that Facebook account.
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by ben1040 15y ago
Actually I might be way off with the iPod... Naw, you're pretty much spot on. It took a few refinements to get traction, and that all happened about two years after it launched. The 3rd gen iPod came out in early 2003, and was the first
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by ben1040 15y ago
I like the domain for "MacOS X Leon."
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by ben1040 15y ago
I might consider moving the "Try it on this page" button up to the top, or making the "try it on your site" feature not require a login until you're ready to save your tour. A lot of webapps today have conditioned me to just click the big "
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by ben1040 15y ago
$50 increase, every year, but it was a 2-day conference. So add 50% to account for it being 50% longer, and you get $300. Seems to make sense.
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by ben1040 15y ago
The last two years, Google has said "There are no plans for giveaways." And of course, attendees actually got about $1000 worth in stuff in 2010 (Droid phone, EVO, Google TV), and $1200 worth in freebies in 2011 (Galaxy Tab 10.1, Chromeboo
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by ben1040 15y ago
Yeah, there were more than a few instances when I would try to attend a session and got turned away at the door because the room was at capacity.
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by ben1040 15y ago
I just hope they have a presale for prior years attendees like they did last year. Last year they opened registration 2 weeks early for people who had attended I/O since its inception, and then one week early for 2010 attendees. Buying an
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by ben1040 15y ago
Prezi certainly seems to take Tufte's "chartjunk" to a ridiculous new extreme. The crazy transitions distract the user from the content, and make it almost impossible to really go back and review things after the fact. I missed a local And
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by ben1040 15y ago
A week or two ago I got a LinkedIn friend request from a recruiter who used the message to tell me about how I should get in touch with him. He clearly used the friend request mechanism to skirt around the LinkedIn rules about having to pay
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by ben1040 15y ago
I preordered an iPad 3 and plan to sell my Galaxy Tab 10.1 as soon as the iPad shows up. The integration with Google Talk and Gmail is a plus for Android, but Android on a tablet seems to still suck for usability otherwise. Additionally bat
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by ben1040 15y ago
As someone with a couple apps on the Market, I wish I could also issue promo/gift codes for those apps (iTunes lets you generate promo codes). I could send someone the APK file, yes, but then they'd need to sideload it. And, they wouldn't g
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by ben1040 15y ago
A few days before the MacBook Air announcement, references to a MacBook Air appeared in Adium's server logs. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/01/macworld-ars-macbo... Given how Apple is so notably obsessed with security around new p
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by ben1040 15y ago
This outcome is actually better than what AT&T previously has been doing. At least now unlimited users on the grandfathered $30 plan can consume the same amount of data as the 3GB/$30 metered plan, and only get throttled after 3GB. Up u
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by ben1040 15y ago
The Apple tablets are priced the same, but don't come with a mandatory 2-year cellular service commitment. When you buy an iPad with a cellular modem built in, you can establish service whenever you want and cancel it whenever you like. Whe
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by ben1040 15y ago
I've been a Prime member for about five or six years, and for a while I shopped there the same way you did (sat down and spent time on a "shopping trip" to pile up the cart to make it "worth it"). The tipping point for me was in early '09 o
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by ben1040 15y ago
Amazon Prime has definitely lowered my "impulse shopping" threshold. One Friday morning last summer, I decided to do some work around the house that weekend, but I didn't have a big enough ladder. A couple clicks later, I have a 22 foot ex
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by ben1040 15y ago
Plenty do. The idea with that guideline is that it resembles the first screen the user sees, but in a "vague" manner - that is, maybe it just has the title bar and empty table view with no data filled in. The idea is to give the user the i
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by ben1040 15y ago
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." --Dijkstra I think half of my CS curriculum in college was done as pencil & paper assignments. Logic, algorithmic analysis, and the like. You learn enou
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by ben1040 15y ago
I think the creepy feeling comes in that you don't realize the merchant is profiling you. At least not until they tip their hand a little too much (like sending you an entire booklet of nothing but maternity stuff). You get a Safeway club
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by ben1040 15y ago
I don't see why Apple don't invite the developers of high-ranking iOS apps to an early-access program in order to keep their best apps up to date, and not invite anybody else to the beta. Because every publisher, not just the "blessed" on
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by ben1040 15y ago
Did you use the coupon, or did you pay real money for your AdWords ads? I ran AdWords ads with real money to advertise my Dropbox referral code, and everything went dandy (cost about $20 in ad credit).
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by ben1040 15y ago
This was an issue for the Nexus One and the Nexus S, but not anymore with the Galaxy Nexus. The Nexus S comes in two GSM versions, one that would only do 3G on T-Mobile's AWS band, and one come in a version that would do 3G on AT&T's 3G

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