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by bisby 10y ago
If credit card fees are $2,000 for every $100,000 of revenue (assuming 2% and all revenue through CCs), how is that different than 450$ for every $100,000 of revenue. This was not a 1 time dinner, it was "up to 0.45% of revenue will be
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by bisby 10y ago
Sometimes the reason doesn't need to be "good" in the sense that it's a great reason, but in the sense that it was the right decision. I worked as a engineer at a huge billion dollar company in a newly created slot. Ther
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by bisby 10y ago
could be a variety of factors. might be a small department, which means if you call back, thats another extended call for them, which is bad for the metric. better to get it solved the first time. Or it could be simply a place that doesn&#x
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by bisby 10y ago
Some places get "rated" by the length of the calls, not number of happy customers, or resolution to call ratio... just length of calls. Keeping it short, even if it pisses off the customer is better for keeping their job.
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by bisby 10y ago
Id agree with that. Sometimes people use it in ways even they don't agree with, but would agree that it's more accurate than just straight "closed source". Is source available "more open" than something complet
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by bisby 10y ago
Creating a phrase does not mean you get to define how the community uses it. The guy who invented gif doesn't really seem to get much say in it's pronunciation. In America, almost all people call tissues "Kleenex" regard
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by bisby 10y ago
This would make sense if they didn't have a non Flash option (like Twitch.tv for instance, although they just announced an HTML5 beta). But if they have a way to serve the video without flash, it just blows my mind.
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by bisby 10y ago
In high school, I participated in "WYSE - Academic Challenge" (Worlds Youth in Science/Engineering) which was test taking competitions for a variety of topics. You'd take 2 tests out of 7 subjects, and there were individ
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by bisby 10y ago
From just above: "Interestingly, more and more of my colleagues (and myself included) are moving house to their favorite places to live." How does pay vary with location changes? If I live in SF now, and get that pay, then move, d
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by bisby 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N6cOC2P8fQ day9 (an esports personality, with a math degree) tells the story of graham's number and how donald knuth invented up arrow notation for graham's number to be possible.
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by bisby 10y ago
There was a comment on the bitbucket a long while ago about "how to build for adium" but i no longer see that. :(
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by bisby 10y ago
If you prefer pidgin/adium: https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts Basically implements full hangouts into pidgin (connects to hangouts over "hangups" protocol rather than xmpp). It still has som
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by bisby 10y ago
Apparently the broadband out there is great. The issue isn't lack of satellites or speed. The issue is that when you have a Merlin 1D (or 3) firing directly at a mobile platform, it's going to shake violently. And when you have se
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by bisby 10y ago
sells very poorly compared to xbox one and ps4 and pc. in their current state (with missing ports and driver performance) that they sold any is almost amazing. As a linux gamer though, I'm appreciative that there are many games availab
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by bisby 10y ago
The point isn't to serve the volume that SalesForce has, the point is to serve yourself. If you have experience enough to prevent downtime or to handle it when it happens, then perhaps that is better than risking that to someone else.
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by bisby 10y ago
If it had 8300 horizontal, and 4200 vertical, the total speed would be the hyponetuse of a triangle made by those, not the sum. sqrt(4200^2 + 8300^2) gives me 9,302 kph, which is a bit more than a third of 26000 (.3578). That squared gives
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by bisby 10y ago
does tox have device syncing yet? I usually set my phone down out of reach when at a computer, but still need to receive messages on the go. I have antox and qTox both installed, but Im not going to convince other people to switch if it&#x2
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by bisby 10y ago
Someone should make a tool that creates mp3s having the metadata of other real songs for apple to match on.
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by bisby 10y ago
Yeah. I have an engineering degree but never really thought much about orbital mechanics. My first try at KSP I just overbuilt a rocket and aimed it directly at the mun. I missed. Quickload. Back on target, sudden realization that I need ab
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by bisby 10y ago
my dad always used to joke that the key to flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Which is surprisingly an accurate representation of how orbit works. I find that the biggest thing that is often mistaught/misunderstood is
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by bisby 11y ago
I would agree with this. Every client doesn't need this running, but having it running locally would be nice. I imagine, a business with many programmers all using this would get pretty cluttered with constant updates to this, but an o
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by bisby 11y ago
How long does it usually take for http://maps.me/apk/ to update? I like to avoid major app stores when possible, especially for open source apps (I'm not quite ready to build for myself for all the apps I use thou
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by bisby 11y ago
If you input your encryption passphrase on a keylogged device, your entire encryption userspace falls apart.
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by bisby 11y ago
We can also make digital lane markers, doing whatever the case may be. If we have future infrastructure built with autonomous cars in mind, they can easily be better in those situations too. The hard part of this we're trying to force
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by bisby 11y ago
I have some programs that it's ok if they are bleeding edge and unstable to get the most features. Some programs that is not ok. And if those 2 categories have a shared dependency (different versions of it), that becomes an issue. I wo
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by bisby 11y ago
I can't tell if I'm far above average in minesweeper, or if most people are bad. My best expert score is 72, and i average in 90-110 somewhere. Watching other people play... they go quite slow. Do most people play minesweeper very
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by bisby 11y ago
> The Start screen itself was designed to look simplistic, but using it was anything but. Microsoft shipped the first version with the built-in apps pinned by default, but no quick access to search or shutdown options I never had issues
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by bisby 11y ago
This has the one thing I really want in a case: removable panels. I bought a corsair obsidian 800d for 275$ back in the day. The top panel only has support for up to 3x120mm radiator mounting. I wound up with a 2x140mm radiator that has a s
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by bisby 11y ago
I believe this was attempted, but they were running an older version of openSSH that was only getting security patches. OTP was not being triggered if an SSH key was used. so it was either password + OTP or ssh-key alone. They opted to disa
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by bisby 11y ago
What happens if an ssh agent is used? pageant requests the passphrase and then leaves it unlocked. Or is this audit step set up so I can remove the key from my agent and then demonstrate that I need a proper password to get in?

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