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by ben1040 9y ago
The Brewers Association recently put out a new label insignia that independent craft breweries could use, to signify they're actually an independent operation. I can see why they do it; my grocery store recently saw a huge influx of ne
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They did $51 billion in network revenue and $43 billion in home delivery pharmacy revenue in 2016, and their revenue mix has been trending more toward the pharmacy side over the last few years. https://www.sec.gov/Archives&#
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Orbitz also played with how they rank search results. After finding Mac users were likely to spend 30% more on a nightly room rate, they started putting higher priced rooms at the top when Mac users searched. http://www.npr.org&
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Google definitely started invoking the "unfair advantage" policy when lots of people started buying Adwords ads for their own Dropbox referral codes.
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Of note: the Mayo Clinic uses the process mentioned in the article for the final disposition of donated bodies. https://www.mayoclinic.org/body-donation/biocremation-resoma...
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Reminds me of an electric organ a friend had. It was totally analog and dated back to the 60s or 70s. The volume control knob abruptly stopped working; the organ was stuck at maximum volume. He opens it up to discover the volume control sim
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>the more Machiavellian debaters attempted to gain an edge by overwhelming their opponents with as many arguments and as much supporting evidence as possible. This was because if a team “dropped” an argument by its opponent—if it did not
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They don't get instant access, though. As a developer I already have to support both Google's flavor of Android and Amazon's flavor of Android, with their own separate implementations of IAP, push notifications, etc. I'd
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Nextdoor does something that makes the postcard completely useless -- if you don't respond to the postcard, they'll put you in a queue for your "neighborhood leads" to approve: https://help.nextdoor.com/c
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Outbrain is the source of the "from around the web" advertising links at the bottom of news articles. They're generally just ads for diet pills and the like, disguised as other news stories. Other similar vendors of the same
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I've also seen it geotag things based upon the content of the image alone. I went to the photo store not long ago and had dozens of rolls of negatives scanned, from a vacation to Europe 20 years ago. I uploaded them into Google Photos
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You don't even have to be that old to remember this time. I went to a well-known university and they used SSNs as student ID number until roughly 2001-2002. The first half of my university career, my SSN wound up on every Scantron shee
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Fisher Price PXL-2000(en.wikipedia.org)
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>The app author also has the ability to release a new app if the features warrant. That's easier said than done. You can't really do this without losing your customer base, links to your app in the store, sign-in tokens, etc,
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I prefer to apply this analogy to the situation with how users expect updates into perpetuity in exchange for their 99 cents. Developers that try to fund continuous updates through a small annual subscription fee (like Dark Sky on Android,
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The "cord cutter" term is a little odd because you're still probably buying internet from the cable company; you're just not buying their video services. When I first signed up for cable, Charter Spectrum had me on a pro
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I'm on remote job #4 right now. Here's how I got each. Job 1: Referred by a friend who worked for the company. She joined the company about 5 years prior, after being cold-emailed by an internal recruiter. Job 2: Friend referral
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>While plugging in my phone to Android Auto is easy, there is still the time required to allow your phone to transition from WiFi to LTE Tip: open the Android Auto app on your phone while you're unplugged, go to the settings menu, a
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This page has a table of OEMs/devices that, as of the end of May, were fewer than 60 days behind on patches. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/06/2017-andro... To me, the takeaway from this is th
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If your Android OEM has pushed the July 2017 security update to your device, you're patched. https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01#broa...
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From Chrysaor to Lipizzan: Blocking a new targeted spyware family(android-developers.googleblog.com)
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>boatloads of testing In this case, quite literally so.
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This isn't a net neutrality thing, it's the breaking of a relationship that AT&T and Yahoo has had for 15 years. AT&T email addresses were once Yahoo accounts. Now they're not. SBC, prior to acquiring BellSouth and A
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At a prior employer of mine, you accrued 12 sick days per year, up to a maximum of 120 in your bucket at any given time. If you were ill, you were permitted to use as many of your accrued sick days as necessary. In any given calendar year
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Because I often forget how much I have on my card, and tapping my card is easier than logging into the web portal.
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There is this Android app that allows you to read your transit pass to check the balance. It's pretty handy with a Clipper Card, for example. http://codebutler.github.io/farebot/ That said Chicago seems to have t
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One nice thing is bluetooth pairing. I bought a pair of Bose QC35 headphones recently. There is an NFC tag embedded in the headphones. I just had to tap my phone to the headphones and hit an "accept" button on my phone, and they
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It's reasonable if the severance is equal to the pay you'd get over the term of the non-compete. They don't want you working for a competitor for a year? That's fine, if they pay you a year's salary. However, in my
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I had a friend who got RIF'd from a software company, and their offboarding paperwork included a 1 year noncompete that tied their severance as the consideration. Essentially, "we don't want you working here, but we also don
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My wife and I are in the process of packing up our house to move, and we are cursing our five year old kid's collection of Lego right now. This was perfect timing for a good laugh from the title and an interesting read. Thanks!

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