brandonbica

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by brandonbica 13y ago
To me it looks like the biggest comparison is Apple TV (and Roku which I'm less familiar with). It's just an incremental version of the Apple TV for the Amazon ecosystem and to me that's the biggest disappointment. I would ha
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by brandonbica 13y ago
The primary use case of the power button is to power down the machine. Of all the times that the button is hit, how often is it hit with the intent of hitting the delete button? For me personally I would guess it's happened maybe once
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by brandonbica 13y ago
Is this just a replacement for the gap left when Tungle.Me was bought by blackberry? http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tungle Am I missing a key difference?
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by brandonbica 13y ago
The type of work that is being described is very typical of best of breed warehouse management systems. I agree that Amazon is a prop in this story as there a tons of other large scale companies that have the same types of systems. Maybe th
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by brandonbica 13y ago
In the US Amazon is already using robotics and recently purchased the company that supplied them. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-19/amazon-acquires-kiv...
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by brandonbica 13y ago
As somebody who currently lives in the Twin Cities I can vouch for both the upside and downside. So far this year the weather has been awful (we're about to get hit by a wintery mix for the next two days) but I think that's true for many pl
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by brandonbica 14y ago
I'm generally a fan of 37 Signals and the way they treat their people. I also don't have any knowledge about any of this other than what I come across on the internet. My current company doesn't have a set WFH policy, it varies by departmen
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by brandonbica 14y ago
More than likely, given the option to buy an ebook for $x or a physical book with the addition of the ebook for 1.5*$x, I would probably spend the extra money for the option.
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by brandonbica 15y ago
I can pretty well assure you that comcast customers deal with the same type of BS as time warner customers deal with having dealt with both. What surprises me is how different the level of service can be for the same provider in different r
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by brandonbica 15y ago
Maybe it's just me but I don't have any sympathy for these guys. I actually think The Social Network did more to sway my opinion of them than of Zuck. What's the difference in $ value that they're trying to get? And is the difference betwee
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by brandonbica 16y ago
Personally I like SizeUp better. Keyboard controls for multiple positions and layout combos, moves windows across spaces and monitors too. It even has border control. One of the first, most useful apps I found when I made the switch to my i