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by chaz 13y ago
Big fan of HONY. Here's a short news segment on HoNY on ABC News that's worth watching: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/humans-york-photog-vir...
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by chaz 13y ago
There's a massive gap between the tools that are given to [business] end customers vs the APIs. If I'm savvy enough to propose complex processes or ask nuanced questions but not savvy enough to write code against an API to get it
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by chaz 13y ago
Is anyone day trading bitcoin? i.e., buying and selling multiple times a day based on small-ish fluctuations of the market?
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by chaz 13y ago
"... and not enough time on growth and distribution." Look at the numbers posted, and even if they cut back heavily on their expenses, the subscription revenue was not where it needed to be.
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LastPass 3.0 Is Here: New Design, New Features(blog.lastpass.com)
9 points by chaz 13y ago|4 comments
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Google's Eric Schmidt Lambasts NSA Over Spying(online.wsj.com)
3 points by chaz 13y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
I don't understand the elitism that happens around here about where content is located. It's fine to say that you don't use regularly Quora, LinkedIn, Facebook etc because the signal/noise ratio is bad or it's not s
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by chaz 13y ago
I was originally concerned that switching up to 1920x1200 was going to show artifacts from subpixel rendering, but that's not the case at all. Text still looks very crisp. Highly recommended. 2D scrolling isn't great at the highes
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Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible: Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It(theatlantic.com)
79 points by chaz 13y ago|79 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
The ribbon is not designed to be an edited toolbar with a single row of just 10-20 functions. It's a wholesale replacement for application menus. Every new function and feature should have a placement on the ribbon, or else how would y
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by chaz 13y ago
I love the Ribbon. It's fantastic for grouping like functionality together and, most importantly for me, it provided just about every single function with a sequence of keyboard shortcuts. Pilot enough spreadsheets or produce enough de
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by chaz 13y ago
If you enjoyed this, you might enjoy Typing Maniac. There's a stand-alone version ( http://www.mindjolt.com/typing-maniac.html ) but also a Facebook version ( https://apps.facebook.com/typing-maniac/
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by chaz 13y ago
In Rails 4, User.count and User.all.count both do the same thing: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "users" In earlier versions, User.all.count executes: SELECT "users".* FROM "users" because it is pulling bac
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by chaz 13y ago
AppleCare still sells well without a legal obligation. People tend to be risk averse, and prefer to pay a little bit now to avoid paying a lot later.
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by chaz 13y ago
People will still want and demand car insurance. Stuff still happens, and I want my car and injuries paid for. So they'll still be around. It may be a smaller industry, but it won't kill them.
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by chaz 13y ago
The only people that are going to use this new feature are people who already use LinkedIn a lot. In which case, they already know your IP addresses, since you're likely using LinkedIn from work, home, and mobile anyway. So if they&#x2
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by chaz 13y ago
I've only returned a few items over the years, and I've spent a lot of money with them. I tried to return an $11 product last year. They just refunded me the money and told me to keep it. I had a $35 product stolen off my doorstep
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by chaz 13y ago
Honestly, reviews everywhere run the risk of being fake. Amazon, Target, YouTube, App Store, Yelp, Zagat, etc. Caveat emptor. I do read the negative Amazon reviews, though. I'm also finding myself looking at their customer-submitted ph
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Dwolla Realtime: Instant payments, no credit card fees(realtime.dwolla.com)
2 points by chaz 13y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
Lots of them are available. I haven't used any of these, but you may want to give one of them a shot: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/mail-parcel-forwarding-services...
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by chaz 13y ago
There's a third project, the Digital Attack Map. All three were announced together yesterday: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-free-expression-t...
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by chaz 13y ago
Healthcare.gov is far more complex than a repo, which is why I care more about the process. The data integration process is/was staggering, with 55 contractors/agencies involved (according to the NYT). That screams trouble all ove
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by chaz 13y ago
Thanks for the insight.
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by chaz 13y ago
Care to share an opinion on who does it best? Or least worst?
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by chaz 13y ago
The biggest difference is that you have to have a Skype In number, which is yet another phone number to give to people and for them to have to manage. Plus, it costs $5/mo. I like the one-time charge to port my number to Google Voice,
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by chaz 13y ago
> virtually no new features or improvements in the past four years Lack of MMS is a big one. No group text messages, with no notification to either the sender or the recipient that it was simply discarded. Aside from that, what are some
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by chaz 13y ago
I just called in to activate this plan (I'm already on a prepaid TMO plan). I couldn't get it on the phone, but the CSR told me that I could order the activation kit from walmart.com, call in, and activate it using the code from t
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by chaz 13y ago
UL 217 requires that silenced alarms can only be done so for a maximum of 15 minutes. If someone's home and burned their dinner or forgot to open the flue, is 15 minutes so bad?
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Fab CEO Forfeits Salary, as Site Narrows Product Focus in Wake of Layoffs(allthingsd.com)
1 points by chaz 13y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
Likely just lulled himself into a false sense of security. He believed his own story that his precautions were sufficient and effective, and that he could just walk amongst the public and never be caught.

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