ben1040

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by ben1040 16y ago
This works great. Also, I've found that at least for my cable company (Charter), a mere mention on Twitter will get them to contact you and solve the matter quickly over email rather than going through their call center nightmare.
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by ben1040 16y ago
From this post, it sounds like they only took the stick from the Jack Welch approach (firing the bottom 10%) and not the carrot (rewarding the top 20% for doing well and coaching the middle 70% to improve).
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by ben1040 16y ago
It also makes me wonder why OpenTable hasn't tried this already as an upsell to their existing restaurant clients, since I'm sure they still deal with walk-ins and are looking for something classier than a vibrating/talking drink coaster.
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by ben1040 16y ago
Hoping Textaurant takes off. I was at a restaurant last night where they gave me one of those awful pagers. Not only did it vibrate though, it also repeatedly shouted at me, "Your table is ready." It was disruptive and surely annoyed the
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by ben1040 16y ago
This was the best advice I was ever given before taking a job that had me traveling 4500 miles a week. If I didn't do the challenge, I would have left 50,000 bonus miles and a bunch of upgrade stickers on the table. At the time it was free
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by ben1040 16y ago
According to this, Android's numbers also include other devices with cellular modems built in, like B&N's Nook. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/16/steve-jobs-confirms-a... So I'm guessing that "activation" just means a new device
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by ben1040 16y ago
The N1 has a similar Broadcom chipset (BCM4329), and although the FM radio functionality is not enabled on the stock N1, it's been enabled in recent Cyanogen builds.
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by ben1040 16y ago
From the terms: IF YOU CHOOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GIFT EXCHANGE AND YOU DO NOT SEND A GIFT, YOUR TWITTER.COM USERNAME WILL BE POSTED PUBLICLY. I didn't go any further, but didn't see this anywhere else but in the terms page. Are you goi
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by ben1040 16y ago
I can certainly see how Prime has gotten Amazon to get people shopping in newer product lines. Before Prime, Amazon was just for books. Now, I've bought books, a few computers, DVDs, a whole set of golf clubs, a 22-foot stepladder, a lawnm
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by ben1040 16y ago
I'm guessing the issue is that the physical layout of the terminal is designed under the assumption that everyone arriving on an international flight is connecting to a domestic flight, and CVG was not their final airport. In that case, th
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by ben1040 16y ago
You're not doing it wrong; it's a little infuriating that they can't just let you download an incremental update.
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by ben1040 16y ago
Nice, that just saved me $70/year on MobileMe. I had been using it only for the phone locator feature, and using Google Sync for everything else.
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by ben1040 16y ago
I'm that type of person, which is why it bothered me and it even sticks in my mind at all now. The reservation that was canceled would have tipped me over the threshold to get a cashback reward, so I let OpenTable know and got my points. Th
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by ben1040 16y ago
Not long ago I placed a reservation through OpenTable, and a couple minutes after we had been seated, I got an email from OpenTable telling me the reservation had been canceled from the restaurant's end. Now I wonder if this was an honest m
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by ben1040 16y ago
It's worth noting that since this article was published (2008) the TSA has begun scanning boarding passes at the checkpoint (at least at some airports) and confirming the name that appears on their screen is also the name on the boarding pa
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by ben1040 16y ago
john@jdoe.net is what I'd use, or if you have an uncommon last name like me and it's available as a domain name, john@doe.net and a blog at john.doe.net.
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by ben1040 16y ago
Unlike the author, when I was telecommuting I was never able to be effective while working in my pajamas. When I would wake up I'd go down the hall to the office and read the first 5-10 new mails in my inbox to give me something to ponder w
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by ben1040 16y ago
Same here, and another good motivator for me was also to be very, very sure to commit your changes very often. Sometimes when I get really overpowered by one of these problems I tend to throw that out the window and it adds to my frustratio
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by ben1040 16y ago
Between dumping cable and using an ad blocker in Chrome, the only political ads I saw this past election cycle were the occasional billboard. It was absolutely blissful. Here's hoping ad buys on Hulu continue to remain so expensive that po
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by ben1040 16y ago
That also generated a couple parse errors in my brain until I think I figured it out. I'm guessing what they mean is the user must be logged into Live in order to play the game (requiring the Xbox to be online), however the game itself cann
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by ben1040 16y ago
Or "lp0 on fire"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
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by ben1040 16y ago
I rarely sit in my living room, so why should I pay for tv service that I can only use there? I canceled my video service and bought a cable modem so I don't have to pay a rental fee that's equivalent to buying a new modem every year. There
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by ben1040 16y ago
Here's the paper in Nature for those who are interested. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/full/nature0...
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by ben1040 16y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they did a second round of these for Android developers when the Market becomes available for Google TV as well. They're really going to have to push hard to get developers to make good 10-foot interfaces. Increas
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by ben1040 16y ago
A few years ago I ran a website for a local community science fair. We'd get about 200 schools participating, and they have to register online before they can send kids projects to the fair. 190 of the 200 go off without a hitch. But I al
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by ben1040 16y ago
Or you can spread that $520 it over 20 months without interest, pay that on your monthly bill, and still get the no-contract price. A G2 is $199 with the 2 year contract and $499 with no contract. My understanding from their website is tha
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by ben1040 16y ago
Yep -- looks like it's got a push listener running in the background, even though FaceTime isn't running. $ ps ax | grep FaceTime 5317 ?? S 0:00.38 /Applications/FaceTime.app/Contents/PrivateFrameworks/IMCore.framework/ima
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by ben1040 16y ago
I am pretty sure that the carriers don't discount rates for non-contract phones. T-Mobile is the only US carrier that does -- the smartphone plans are $20/month cheaper if you bring your own phone or buy at the no-contract price. They als
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by ben1040 16y ago
If anyone from GazeHawk is reading this, they totally should be using iPhone 4 owners to generate heatmaps of mobile sites like they do already with desktop users.
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by ben1040 16y ago
Does Fox have a business model where ISPs pay for Hulu and then their customers get it bundled with their internet access? I'm sure Fox would love to have something like this, but right now this isn't how Hulu works. It's paid for by adv

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