benmorris

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by benmorris 8y ago
Rich brought to light recently how much of a mess the used Tesla experience (no longer CPO) is as well. There are two more videos, the situation is resolved after many months and Tesla execs intervening. https://www.youtube.com&#
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by benmorris 8y ago
Even a plugin electric hybrid would be a big in my opinion (30-60 mile range). We have owned a Volt now for over a year and it has been great. Since owning it we average 75 mpg. My wife can nearly drive to work and back on all electric.
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by benmorris 8y ago
Having bought and sold quite a few houses now I can say I won't go down the FSBO route anymore. I successfully bought my first house this way, but selling it was a train wreck. Not fun dealing with selling your own home at all. I e
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by benmorris 8y ago
I had a "plan" but it was still a leap of faith, leaving a 8-5 steady job with no income. My enabling factor was a good amount of savings and low debt. I had around 1 year of comfortable living to figure it all out. Staying at m
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by benmorris 8y ago
Assuming Microsoft ends .net framework at 4.8 that effectively ends new features. Although older code will keep working for the most part isolated that isn't the real issue. For example I ran into an issue last year where we had to r
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by benmorris 8y ago
We've had 2 children in the last 4 years and this concept was foreign to me. Our 2nd child we were billed for an out of network anesthesiologist at an in network hospital. Several thousand dollars in total, I called the insurance aft
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by benmorris 8y ago
This was a hard lesson to learn for me as well. It is something I strive for now though even running my own business. I maintain boundaries like strict work hours and try to keep my work away from my life outside of work.
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by benmorris 8y ago
These are underrated. I have the original Xiaomi and it works great. I sold my $700 Neato botvac connected and paid half for this one. It isn't even the best and can do our whole house with no intervention consistently.
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by benmorris 9y ago
We'll see how long this blame game continues. My guess is that it Spacex will continue launching rockets (as normal) and Northrop will keep getting Satellite contracts. The fuss will likely fade away if the satellite (or whatever it
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by benmorris 9y ago
On this launch it was Northrup Grumman that built the mechanism that connected to the 2nd stage.
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by benmorris 9y ago
Like I said they are neat tech for what you get. I've had mine for over 2 months now and some of them record 10-20 clips a day. When they are not recording they basically are using next to no power. The clip duration and re trigger i
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by benmorris 9y ago
It is a trade off. It isn't as nice as a wired system. My setup would have required multiple boxes and several extremely long difficult to get to runs. I had 5 blink cameras setup and fully working in about an hour. So it was worth it
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by benmorris 9y ago
I've had a 5 camera system for the last few months. It works well and didn't need any wires ran. The app needs some improvement, but overall a pretty neat product.
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by benmorris 9y ago
If you looked at all of this objectively it was clear it was coming. What is alarming we have not seen yet is one of the larger exchanges shady behavior become exposed (hello Bitfinex). I still think this is coming and will likely make the
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by benmorris 9y ago
Sure I could short Bitcoin, but it cost me nothing to speculate about a crash. I also make the assumption when I see the FOMO argument that the person has a stake in Bitcoin/Crypto Currency. Perhaps both of our assumptions are wrong?
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by benmorris 9y ago
I totally agree. I'm confident a crypto coin crash is coming to eclipse any we've had before. The combination of volume, transactions/second limits, and weak exchange infrastructure; when people want to get out things are g
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by benmorris 9y ago
I've lived this type of life for the last 5 years (solopreneur as you put it). Reading the other comments it seems like you don't have very strict boundaries of work time. You're getting a lot of good feedback. I agree wit
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by benmorris 9y ago
This looks more like a pitch for MailWizz, but I've found that sendy works well for me. http://sendy.co If you are comfortable setting up your own templates it does a great job sending and handling unsubscribes/statist
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by benmorris 9y ago
I learned some lessons 5 years ago when my initial plan was to do software development on my own after I quit my job. I have concluded a much more fruitful way to go is to develop your own product in a niche and pursue that. Perhaps even
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by benmorris 10y ago
I'm pretty stoked we are staying right next to Jeti park on spring break and are planning on watching this launch tonight from the beach. We've got to see one other Delta IV launch, but really looking forward to seeing this one.
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by benmorris 10y ago
To answer your question no we don't ship to China. Ripping off our main image was enough to recreate our product (poorly).
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by benmorris 10y ago
Amazon is turning into a mine field for legitimate sellers. I have a customer I work closely with to integrate their customer products into Amazon. They have a catalog of 3,000 stock parking signs listed on Amazon. We took considerable t
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by benmorris 10y ago
I've seen a lot of people come and go doing things like that. The vast majority may get a potentially large short term benefit but long term typically get penalized. Do report them as others have said if they are building junk sites.
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by benmorris 10y ago
If the bridge sites pass the test of being legitimately useful information rather than just spammy then I wouldn't consider what they are doing as black hat. This test is subjective or at the mercy of Google's current algorithm.
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by benmorris 10y ago
Yup looking at your site and saw Bloomington so I'm sure you do!
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by benmorris 10y ago
That is interesting, the later sounds like what they are doing, but not for sure. Either way it is working really well.
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by benmorris 10y ago
I'm fascinated by the economics of running fiber. A neighboring company from a few counties away has brought in a fiber backbone into the county. This was run via aerial fiber, they were pretty clear their objective was to hook up sc
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by benmorris 10y ago
Quickbooks Desktop - I've had a long history with it going back well over 10 years, the basic edition all the way to Enterprise. It is consistently a headache at wherever I was working at the time. I still to this day see businesses
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by benmorris 10y ago
If the package was worth 10k no way would I trust USPS with it. We ship out thousands of packages yearly via USPS and there is zero accountability for lost or damaged goods. We file weekly claims to get the $50 priority mail insurance val
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by benmorris 10y ago
I discovered my Dev server DB backups weren't working after reading this. I used to consider my dev server just a place where I tossed test code to mimic production, but forgot that my DB server running on it was the only copy of pote

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