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by ben1040 16y ago
On the other hand, when I had a travel-heavy job I relished time on planes because it meant there were 18 hours a week when I was in the air and absolutely unreachable by anyone. I'd land and end up with three dozen emails, but at least I c
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by ben1040 16y ago
Exactly, and their numbers even justify to me why this warranty is unnecessary. Repairs on an iPhone 4 for non-warranted issues like damage are $200, unless you break it into multiple pieces [1]. Unless SquareTrade's numbers show you have a
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by ben1040 16y ago
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_ac... In the last few months, Facebook has amended their help pages to be more clear that there is also a permanent delete option. It suspends your account for 30 days, then purg
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by ben1040 16y ago
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/405 We’ll provide product, technical and design resources to support new Y Combinator companies interested in working with us to build deeply social products, whether a website or an application o
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by ben1040 16y ago
One thing I wish is that there was more granularity to some of the permissions. I put together a streaming music player for a community radio station, and published it on the market. I want to be able to detect when the phone rings so I ca
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"Toxie," NPR's adopted 'toxic asset,' is dead(npr.org)
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by ben1040 16y ago
If you travel extremely frequently, like every week or every other week, the benefits save you quite a bit of time and make the general air travel experience suck a little bit less. For example, the priority security screening line for pas
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by ben1040 16y ago
A few years ago I had a job that had me flying 5000 miles a week. I signed up for AA's status challenge and qualified for platinum status in nearly a month. I think they charge for taking the challenge now (it was free then) but it's well w
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by ben1040 16y ago
I found that thanks to Blockbuster's late fees (I was habitually unable to return movies on time) I would spend at least $25 a month, and in exchange I usually was able to watch two movies. Sometimes I'd rent a movie and never even have tim
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by ben1040 16y ago
I was at a company that laid off a few dozen people on my team when things went south at the end of '08 (many more got the sack worldwide; I'm being intentionally vague on the company as it's irrelevant to the story). We were all remote em
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by ben1040 16y ago
I've got to give some props to the folks putting this on; last year's Strange Loop was "ok" but the lineup this year is seriously impressive and I'm really looking forward to it. This is awesome, and even more awesome that it's all going on
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by ben1040 16y ago
Not only this, but this seems like it might be against the Groupon terms of service to deny the coupon outright. According to the fine print on one of the Groupons I have, after the expiration date the coupon is still good as a voucher wor
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by ben1040 16y ago
On the other hand, maybe it's just about having an excuse to socially interact with your workmates in a non-work context? I have coworkers that I will go out to drink with and have over at my house on weekends, and I have coworkers I don'
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by ben1040 16y ago
My theory was that the point of the pinstripe look was to blur the line between the UI and the hardware it was running on. Mac hardware at the time had a pinstripe look, just the same. Today the interface has an "aluminum" look, as do toda
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by ben1040 16y ago
I'll grant it's a much better estimate than the previous "when it's done." Although, this might imply it'll be released unfinished...
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by ben1040 16y ago
That assumes the user is a willing participant in that matter and will give over the PIN. Suppose the user is a remote employee who's just been sacked -- the boss and IT are hundreds of miles away and can't just take the phone from him. Th
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by ben1040 16y ago
The mention about the records they keep (agents discussing the author's history of not answering questions) got me wondering what CBP has in their files about me and my movements across the border. At one point I read people on Flyertalk d
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by ben1040 16y ago
You know, while Apple's rejections seemed to be arbitrary at times, I was surprised that my reaction to reading this was that the vast majority of these rules are pretty sensible. A lot of them come down to "your app must not crash or be fu
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by ben1040 16y ago
The comparison between the iPod Touch and the iPhone is an apples-and-oranges issue, but there's clearly some psychology involved in the price difference between the $229 8GB and $299 32GB version. The $229 model seems to serve as an anchor
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by ben1040 16y ago
This is exactly why I like the iPad (although done right it could extend to any other tablet). With minimal browser chrome in the UI and minimal physical framing around the screen, you can just hand someone a web page as though you were pas
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by ben1040 16y ago
This changed with the 3GS, where Apple began issuing signatures for individual devices to authorize firmware installs. This procedure is also in play for the 3rd generation iPod Touch, iPhone 4, and iPad. The firmware install process inclu
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by ben1040 16y ago
If I’d known about the anti-suit culture, I would have worn Dockers and a polo shirt. I just wanted to convey that I took the interview seriously. Apparently the feeling wasn’t reciprocal. This isn't the first time I've heard of candidate
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by ben1040 16y ago
Having now developed apps for both iPhone and Android, the one thing I feel Android really lacks is a good equivalent to Apple's Interface Builder. Interface Builder makes it pretty easy to lay out a decent-looking app GUI on iOS and not ha
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by ben1040 16y ago
The Trader Joes return policy is pretty amazing. For the first 5 years I shoped there I never even thought to bring something back, but then once a few years back I felt the need to give it a test -- and honestly I couldn't believe they'd
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by ben1040 16y ago
This looks like a nicely polished product, the major barrier to uptake is going to be getting someone to use it as part of the syllabus. Difficult given that it will require the school to require everyone who takes the class to have an iPa
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by ben1040 16y ago
Often bars will offer a free beer to the mayor, and I've seen a few restaurants that offer the foursquare mayor a free appetizer when they buy a meal.
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by ben1040 16y ago
I bet a lot of people may not know they don't qualify, Google it, and then discover the news that they can't collect on unemployment insurance.
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by ben1040 16y ago
My guess is seasonal retail employees, who were hired just for the Christmas rush.
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by ben1040 16y ago
Does anyone actually use that trackball for anything other than text selection, though? I find it to be very helpful for scrolling when reading web pages in landscape mode.
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by ben1040 16y ago
Exactly -- without having swung and missed so many times, they wouldn't have hit so many out of the park, too. Gmail, Maps, Docs, and Reader all started out as these same sorts of embryonic projects that got critical mass and justified thei

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