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by ben1040 16y ago
Amazon Prime has shifted my buying habits to where I go there first for even small things like personal care items I would have otherwise bought at, say, Target. I used to travel 4 days every week and so my weekends at home became extremely
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by ben1040 16y ago
>Because of its rich case system, Latin has fairly free word order. This makes it much easier to parse programmatically From seeing this, I couldn't help but think of the Perl language filter Lingua::Romana::Perligata by Damian Conway.
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by ben1040 16y ago
I think the ebook purchasers are getting a raw deal, but not because of production costs (though I think we all know it doesn't cost 12 cents to print and distribute this book). An ebook has less utility compared to a physical book; if I fi
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by ben1040 16y ago
>Android does not have this. If I go to "Applications > Settings > Running Services" on a stock 2.1 Android phone I get a list of running tasks with their corresponding package names. Tapping one of them terminates the task. I
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by ben1040 16y ago
I can't speak on behalf of the grandparent poster but my gripes are not at all with the N1 hardware itself -- in fact the N1 is quite possibly the best put together phone I've owned. My issues are with Android and how it still feels rough
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by ben1040 17y ago
I can't stress enough the persistent part of the "persistent mailing list." I worked as a remote employee in a group where we had half the team (couple dozen folks) in an office in Toronto, and the remainder of us scattered about in remot
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by ben1040 17y ago
I put my account in the delete queue a few days ago. I shouldn't have to keep an eye on HN and Valley blogs to find out that they've tweaked privacy settings again and more of my information is "public." Getting out is a whole lot easier
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by ben1040 17y ago
The ITA tool is pretty awesome from the mileage runner standpoint, although this is kind of a niche market. I've used it for searches like, "find me trips between point A and point B that involve three segments on the outbound and two on th
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by ben1040 17y ago
One thing I really liked about Northwest was that just before they were bought out, they had redesigned their boarding passes to print all your flights on one sheet. Seems Delta has chosen not to run with that, though. The old NW boarding
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by ben1040 17y ago
There's a US edition as well: http://theweek.com/home
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I did come across a number of negative reviews by users who had limited activity on the site. I guess this is an effort to block "hit-and-run" negative reviews. The downside to filtering out reviews by "less-established" users is that you r
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by ben1040 17y ago
I looked around at some of the filtered reviews for restaurants I frequent. For the vast majority I couldn't find anything wrong with them other than that they were penned by users with less than 5-10 reviews. I can understand why they don
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by ben1040 17y ago
I can't speak for the grandparent poster here but for me, the killer difference between the N1 and the iPhone is that the browser is far, far faster in the N1. The rendering speed of the N1 amazed me the first time I pulled up a page. It a
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by ben1040 17y ago
I'm somewhat encouraged by the way that cervical cancer has been approached as a model of prevention. We've seen huge declines in death rates because of effective screening and management, and hopefully the HPV vaccine will push this even
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by ben1040 17y ago
I wonder how long it will be before they offer a combined option that includes an iPhone developer certificate and access to prerelease software on both platforms. Surely they'd want developers to feed both ecosystems by building great Mac
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by ben1040 17y ago
I've had similar experiences with the 1MX shirts. They do seem to vary; I had one shirt that was great, and I had another that would get gnarly wrinkles just from having a laptop bag slung over my shoulder for a few moments. I also found th
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by ben1040 17y ago
Each game rule also is missing a corresponding 50 page spec document that, considering a Senior Space Invaders Functional Analyst's bill rate, cost $30K to write and revise.
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by ben1040 17y ago
A couple years ago I had to sign a similar agreement at a previous job. The problem with mine was that the company was a fairly large one which had completed numerous acquisitions in the last decade or so. Every little company they acquire
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by ben1040 17y ago
If only I could play "canyon.mid" with Media Player...
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by ben1040 17y ago
We have pay-as-you-go in the US, but not in the same way as it is in Europe and Asia. Here, convenience stores don't sell loose SIM cards that you can simply pop into your own phone and add whatever value you'd like. The US carriers seem t
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by ben1040 17y ago
I would never use this at home, but it has worked great for me while going out camping. I can toss one of these cans in a lunch cooler, and the next morning breakfast is nice and quick with a skillet. No need to have mixing bowls and whate
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by ben1040 17y ago
Enterprise is actually moving into the hourly space, with a separate brand called WeCar. Works exactly like Zipcar (reserve online, pay for gas with a fleet card, hourly rentals, every car is a hybrid). A coworker of mine uses it and love
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by ben1040 17y ago
I hope that more moves in this direction will eventually bring down the price (to zero) for wifi access in airports and hotels. I'm sick of the "most of our customers have expense accounts and don't care, so we'll charge $10-$20 for access"
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by ben1040 17y ago
I've had much, much better service by having my computers repaired by the local indie Mac shop. They generally were a lot more responsive and friendly, and they did the repairs on-site and billed it back to Apple. Plus I didn't have to mak
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by ben1040 17y ago
Another possible angle is high performance computing as it relates to biological data. Today's DNA sequencing instruments can kick out tens of millions of data points. These can be mapped back to where they belong on a genome and then from