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Medical diagnosis codes for billing treatment for space-related injuries(graphicsweb.wsj.com)
2 points by ben1040 15y ago|0 comments
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by ben1040 15y ago
If it was "do you have the time" then as long as they had the time, people would feel fine taking sick time, even if they weren't sick. Or even worse, the policy at my employer - within a given year you may take up to five of your accrued
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by ben1040 15y ago
Seriously, this forced march from Slicehost to Rackspace Cloud has been an absolute trainwreck and I've been meaning to move all my services away to Linode as soon as I can find the time. Maybe during this long weekend.
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by ben1040 15y ago
http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/faster-google-vo... I thought Google Voice has been doing this for nearly a year and a half. Maybe not using the same C2DM framework you and I can use, but it certainly seems like they are usin
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by ben1040 15y ago
It's even worse than just a Soundex of your last name, the entire number is derived off your name and DOB. http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/dl_us_shared.html
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by ben1040 15y ago
I can only speak for myself but I stopped obsessively checking Slashdot (which had been a habit since 1998) around mid-late 2006 when Digg/Reddit had started getting momentum and interesting stuff was showing up sooner there since content w
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by ben1040 15y ago
Based on my month with a Chromebook, the only thing lightning-fast about it was its bootup. It was pretty choppy at rendering pages, while Chrome on my desktop was in fact lightning-fast.
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by ben1040 15y ago
This is spot on. I really regret having bought a TiVo Premiere due to blind brand loyalty. It's been 15 months since the Premiere was released, and the software is still as half-baked as it was when they first shipped. The thing randomly l
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by ben1040 15y ago
I have only 3 followers, and Charter has done similar things for me. They have three shifts worth of folks who monitor the brand on Twitter and reach out to people who have things to say, both good and bad. In fact I generally only keep a
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by ben1040 15y ago
... which would seem to provide a $240/year incentive to just use iMessage, or twitter, or any IM system. Assuming your conversation partners can keep tabs on what system to use. Your Android pals can't iMessage you, and using Google Tal
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by ben1040 15y ago
>McDonnell says that while there is no police training specific to determining whether a photographer's subject has "apparent esthetic value," officers make such judgments "based on their overall training and experience" and will genera
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by ben1040 15y ago
If the book is unencumbered by DRM, then yes, I agree it'd be fair. Otherwise there's a certain hit to the utility of an ebook versus a printed book and the price needs to reflect that. I can't lend it to a friend (let's face it, Amazon's
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by ben1040 15y ago
I know I have bought less ebooks since the agency model came into play and a lot of paperback books on Amazon suddenly became three or four dollars less than the Kindle version. I certainly haven't stopped buying them altogether, but when i
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IBM backs out of NCSA Blue Waters petaflop supercomputer project (theregister.co.uk)
3 points by ben1040 15y ago|1 comments
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40% off Pragmatic Programmers books this week(media.pragprog.com)
125 points by ben1040 15y ago|38 comments
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by ben1040 15y ago
Some of the most rewarding courses I took during my time in college were writing courses, in both fiction and poetry. Definitely, it helped refine my grammar and composition skills. But the creative writing courses really provided a lot of
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by ben1040 15y ago
The biggest "user interface" feature I noticed wasn't the buttons -- it's that there's velcro, and lots of it, everywhere. Well done.
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by ben1040 15y ago
Yep. Some more discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441535 It sucks, but I can see the reason why they just blanket block EC2 rather than trying to find any more nuanced way to identify scrapers. If I were running scrapi
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by ben1040 15y ago
This reminds me of the drive-through "pay-it-forward" chains that spontaneously appear from time to time: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004084452_w...
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by ben1040 15y ago
I use this, but it can be a little annoying now that some sites like StackExchange block EC2 netblocks (I guess because they have lots of juicy content ripe for scraping). Yelp is another one that comes to mind that does this as well.
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by ben1040 15y ago
Relevant: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9078938/Blockbuster_s... Blockbuster got sued for automatically publishing people's Blockbuster activity to their Facebook news feeds, via the ill-fated Facebook Beacon service.
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by ben1040 15y ago
I've been using a Samsung Series 5 for a couple weeks (I have the 3G model which is priced at $499). After having tried this out, there's no way I would call it worth $499. Maybe I'm just spoiled from my MacBook Air but the Series 5 is heav
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by ben1040 15y ago
Maybe someday they will refresh their Android app. The existing one is an ugly trainwreck.
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by ben1040 15y ago
I produce less code, but better code. Usually if I stay up really late, whatever I worked on after 1 or 2AM ends up being a throwaway. At that hour the logical abilities in my brain have gone to sleep even if I haven't. I'll come back to
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by ben1040 15y ago
This has been a lifesaver for me, since I like to come home from work and poke at side projects until 11pm or midnight a couple nights a week. Since I started using F.lux, I actually feel tired at that hour of the evening and fall asleep wh
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by ben1040 15y ago
All my /usr/local remained intact on upgrade. I believe this was the standard behavior with an upgrade install on previous OS X releases, and it got moved out of the way when you did an "archive and install." I couldn't even find an option
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by ben1040 15y ago
Why is HTC being sued and not Android - Because HTC is an corporate entity that makes money off Android - Android isn't a corporate entity on its own - who would they sue if they wanted to sue Android? Google develops Android and markets
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by ben1040 15y ago
I saw this post and thought "Man, I should do this in my town," because my local transit authority makes no effort at making it easy for people to take the bus. Then I looked at the route names/numbers and realized you are in my town! Th
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by ben1040 15y ago
I've been seeing so many Euro HN'ers gush about Spotify for so long. So I can't wait to give these guys my money, at least for a month to try it.
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by ben1040 15y ago
AT&T just introduced free mobile to mobile calling to anyone on any network a few months ago, with the catch being you must subscribe to an unlimited SMS plan to be eligible. They are going to find ways to get people to pay for an SMS b

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