boyband6666

10 ms·

61.
by boyband6666 8y ago
The problem is you are a small provider, and they are a megacorp. There are alternatives for them (all the other small companies), and the corporate terms are say 90 days. No small provider has the leverage to say no. The terms also just ar
62.
by boyband6666 8y ago
LOL As I was reading the complaint about net 90 I was thinking about GE and the unheard of 120 day terms. I'm glad it isn't just me.
63.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I really enjoyed reading a candid perspective of the process, but think there's more that can be done. You almost need a second page 'GumroadTunes' where I can browse all the products. I strongl
64.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I just googled for the thread I remember reading, and it is namebright that is apparently linked to them: https://www.scottphillips.com/post/2010/buying_a_domain_from... This is the thread where someone mentions t
65.
by boyband6666 8y ago
hugedomains, as mentioned above for being one of the worst, do this. They own their own registrar/are part of the same company / some convoluted ownership structure (namecheap LLC I think)?
66.
by boyband6666 8y ago
They really are the worst. I got in touch with them to buy one, as unfortunately they had one that I needed for business (speculatively registered on their part). When I asked how much they wanted for it, they then doubled the price to $100
67.
by boyband6666 8y ago
There are a lot of reasons I like running, but the one that hasn't been entionet yet is that races have a defned beginning, end, and outcome. I work doing analysis, which is never truely independent of the last one. Projects go on for
68.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I fully agree with you. I always take my running kit when travelling, and when a meeting finishes will tend to leave my bag, and go an do an hour in the local park in the light. Trying to arrange to meet one friend is hard enough, many? Nea
69.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I'm doing Boston this year, it's a flight from the UK. In total It'll be $2000. ... my race to qualify was £40 entry, petrol (£25?) and £3 parking (I only put 4 hours on the meter from when I arrived to give myself even more
70.
by boyband6666 8y ago
Yeah the $3k figure I can believe, but then again Chicago is one of the World Marathon Majors. There will be another marathon aroudn Chicago that'll be <$300 all in.
71.
by boyband6666 8y ago
Phones, Tablets, Mac computers, Cars, iTunes Music, App sales, Headquarter building, Share price, tax strategy. There are a lot of things that take up bandwidth of senior management. We've all seen many companies where something doesn&
72.
by boyband6666 8y ago
Fully agree. This is exactly what I've been trying to do :-)
73.
by boyband6666 8y ago
Was there not also a point where a new MBP with USB-C only, and a new iphone wouldn't even be able to be connected out of the box?
74.
by boyband6666 8y ago
Looking at it, yes Box works that way, but G Drive does not without some kind of third party integration, and even then for limited storage: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/webdav_services My system does seem to
75.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I've yet to meet anyone who has had magsafe that didn't think it was brilliant. I'm also assuming it's now patentented so nobody else can make something similar. I did find it annoying however (in a precursor to Apple be
76.
by boyband6666 8y ago
It will still take up senior management and board time. THis is something recognised accross corporate governnce - see recently GSK spinning off it's over consumer health and the counter portfolio of drugs, to focus on what it's c
77.
by boyband6666 8y ago
Genuine question - why make zotfile and not adding things to Zotero directly? After all it is open source. Zotfile adds a lot of useful things that feel like they should be in the main program, not optional extras. I'm not a programmer
78.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I think you meant to say "when my paper is rejected, I can trivially change the format of references to whatever the publisher of my second choice journal wants without any effort" ;-)
79.
by boyband6666 8y ago
My library is about 4gb, and will probably hit 6 or 7gb in the next year as I make sure I have a copy of all papers in it. I'm already paying for G Drive however (previously I had One Drive), and would rather have one bill, and everyth
80.
by boyband6666 8y ago
Easy to leave? They are good about that. Respect the filesystem? Erm, again we're in the world of the murky where it probably is possible with Zotfile, but out of the box, it wants to rearrange them in to folders like 'MN8YD'
81.
by boyband6666 8y ago
So I work over a home PC, work PC, and a laptop. I'm already paying for limitless Google Drive, so want to use that. It kind of works, but is not a simple option - you have to set certain directories to sync, and not others (otherwise:
82.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I didn't realise there was a full time team as well. As I said I am grateful it exists, and advocate for Zotero to be the preferred option for nearly all opportunities. It is fair to say though that it isn’t as well resourced as others
83.
by boyband6666 8y ago
Zotero has improved a lot, though sadly it still has a way to go on the user experience of Mendeley. My main gripes are - The way that it still doesn't play nice with cloud services (syncing the directory and its just a matter of time
84.
by boyband6666 8y ago
So it was not developed originally as an Elsevier product, they bought it around 2013 I believe. By all accounts until this, they've also been fairly faithful with the way it's been managed and updated. It is certainly more shiny
85.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I gave this a try, but sadly it came up short. For writing a single paper of MSc Thesis, it might work. However it just doesn't seem suited for handling a large number of references for a variety of projects, which get called on freque
86.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I use Windows. Most of my work is in R, with reports written in Word. Everything is basically cloud based (Slack, invoicing, GMail, etc).
87.
by boyband6666 8y ago
This generation was the one that made me finally give up on MBPs, and now I'm even more glad. The lack of 8th gen intel, removal of magsafe (an innovation they were previous, rightly, proud of), lack of actual touchscreen, and ever inc
88.
by boyband6666 8y ago
I switchd to a HP touchscreen. Sounds like a gimmick, but it gives you a much faster way of working for big buttons (new mail, etc) Check out the Spectres for quality and value. I've been impressed.
89.
by boyband6666 8y ago
That was my take also - when eating 5000 calories that a lot of it is pure carb 'fuel', yes it's a low protein %, but probably a similar protein amount (in grams) to a standard diet.
90.
by boyband6666 8y ago
Regisered just to respond to this one :-) Working as a junior analyst at a large pharmaceutical company we had a tender document arrive due in 2 weeks for a massive amount of money. Being generally super keen I was given the brief 'c

More ›