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by chrisBob 12y ago
With cell phones it is different than the other applications. The easiest thing to do is create a fake tower that the phones connect to happily, but that has no connection to the outside world. Otherwise I think you just broadcast noise on
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Its actually worse than that. Preventative care is not guaranteed, but emergency care, at a hospital emergency room is. This way caring for someone with a minor illness or injury often ends up being more expensive because they can only get
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by chrisBob 12y ago
The right answer probably isn't to hire computer science people as Soldiers. At least not many of them. It is probably better to just contract out the occasional job where this is needed. It is actually disappointing how few officers c
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Not bad for a motorpool guy. The place that I remember really needing some programmers was on the MI (military intelligence) side. They spend all of their time looking for patterns in data, and in 2009 it was still mostly done by hand. Plus
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by chrisBob 12y ago
collegedata.com (what ever that is) says that the total cost to attend BU is $61k, and the average need based gift was $26k plus another $7k in "self help" for freshmen which I assume is a combination of loans and work for the sch
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by chrisBob 12y ago
In addition to scholarships, which are merit based, many schools also have good financial aid, which is need based. I think colleges advertise this poorly but it makes a huge difference. I am at Boston University now and while the sticker p
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by chrisBob 12y ago
My wife left a miserable job a few years ago. The work conditions were horrible, and her boss was verbally abusive, but she had tenure. It was hard for her to quit, even in this situation, but it turned out to be a great decision. Facing un
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by chrisBob 12y ago
What is your goal here? You say you want to "bring it alive" and that could be as easy as sharing your idea somewhere like HN. If you don't have a good budget for the project, or don't want to partner with a technical co
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Seriously: they are just trying to make money. If Verizon is so bad then why are they the biggest carrier? It is because they have the best network. I don't want to pay Verizon 10% of my take home pay, but I also want to have a signal
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by chrisBob 12y ago
As a first time phone maker it was probably easiest to work closely with one carrier so that the design team could work closely with a single certification team. I know lots of companies make phones now, but it is still a big engineering pr
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Thanks. Its the no-contract feature that I missed. That makes perfect sense and lines up with the way T-mobile prices everything right now.
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by chrisBob 12y ago
What does $27/month mean? Surely no one would pay $27/month instead of $199 up front.
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by chrisBob 12y ago
This is all about metal side imaging. The exciting part happens behind the metal, and requires you to image through a thinned wafer to see the actual transistors. IARPA has recently funded a good amount of research into this, so I am sure
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Has anyone else experienced issues where a business simply refused to make the purchase through a system like this? HHMI would not pay me through PayPal because they consider it 3rd party credit card billing, and I don't think any of t
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by chrisBob 12y ago
The used to offer a few low-end options to schools that were not available in the regular Apple store. This iMac is probably just opening that up to the general public.
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Is there a good way to deal with this? Even the curated Apple Store is full of clones. In this case claiming copyright or Trademarking the name would force at least a small change in the clone, but they could adjust the spelling.
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by chrisBob 12y ago
If you really want to scare some people you should point out that this is happening as we get ready for the US Marshal BTC auction, and could be related. I would be very reluctant to put 1.5M into BTC right now.
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Correct. And this is addressed in the article. The issue is that phones that are accidentally left locked and returned are junk. Selling a used phone is always good for business because most people will use the money to buy a new one. Buyin
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Apple found a way to make their customers (including potential government customers) happy, and at the same time they have reduced the number of used iPhones on the market. This is a win for everyone except people that want an iPhone but do
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by chrisBob 12y ago
I went with a financial advisor because otherwise I know I would just leave the money in a savings account, or even worse, spend it. Working with First Command was what I needed at the time to get set up putting some money into an IRA plus
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Are you using a paid bit.ly account? They have instructions on getting a list of all of the links you have created here: http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/articles/241695--paid... It also seems like it shoul
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Yes, but they could have issued 30m each to 5 different ISPs that are only half way through their allotment. If I want a fixed IP at my house or my school I don't get it from the internet address registry, I get it from Boston Universi
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by chrisBob 12y ago
I don't have a good feel for the numbers involved here. Things like this always report: "We are out!... only 4,000,000 or so addressed remaining!" Four million sounds like a lot to me. Some number of the IP addresses that are
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Is there a good reason for someone to want a high volume of NTP requests? How do the owners of these servers not share more of the blame for sending so much data at a web server? It should be straight forward to implement a protocol that ea
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by chrisBob 12y ago
The most interesting thing I saw on this was that based on HN I expected to see "Full Stack" developers way off the top of the charts, but it was comparable to most other jobs, and maybe paid a little less than enterprise or mobil
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by chrisBob 12y ago
I recommend starting with something small, perhaps even a simple game to get your feet wet. The build environment and the first time through the app approval process can be a little daunting, so starting with something simple might help. Yo
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Do you mind if I ask where you are from? I have noticed that Yahoo mail is very common in Asia, but I (almost) never see a @yahoo email in the US. Short term I think contacting yahoo support is the only solution. Long term I recommend spend
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by chrisBob 12y ago
Two of my favorite games at the moment use consumable IAPs, and I think it they have a good model. Real Racing 3, and Trials Frontier both offer consumable IAPs that mostly remove waiting, or a boring portion of the gameplay. One can compet
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by chrisBob 12y ago
My guess is that the restriction originated with pressure from advertisers. It is hard to determine if a user is actually interested in an add if there is an incentive for clicking and watching. I see that you report your advertisers are aw
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by chrisBob 12y ago
One of the most significant issues in the Boston Subway system will not show up on a chart like this one. Right now, one of the busiest stations in the T system is shutdown with a planned closure of over two years . Do you commute from the

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