homersapien

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by homersapien 9y ago
I've not used Blue Apron, but I recently cancelled Hello Fresh for these exact same reasons. Interesting business model, but I think Blue/Fresh will be out of business within the next year or two.
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by homersapien 10y ago
I'm a Coloradan and this doesn't jive with my experience. I wasn't surprised it passed. We believe in personal freedoms here, and there is perhaps no greater personal freedom than the right to choose to die with dignity.
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by homersapien 10y ago
It's not the least bit surprising that a company like Rolex would not sell parts directly to customers. I imagine that 99% of the time that would end disastrously, and they would have quite a lot of customers who haphazardly dismantle
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by homersapien 10y ago
Which is like saying that chainsaws suck because they don't stop you from cutting off your own leg.
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by homersapien 12y ago
Microcenter has the B+ for $25, but they are in-store only.
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by homersapien 12y ago
"I wish I had five of me..." So that the train wreck would have been 5x as bad?
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by homersapien 12y ago
Late April fools joke?
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by homersapien 13y ago
You're not alone. The effect is nauseating.
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by homersapien 13y ago
Please join me in straightening a Slinky in honor of a truly great actor and director.
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by homersapien 13y ago
SO is a mess right now. It is sort of amusing that the questions and discussions I find the most interesting are always closed as "off topic" or unproductive or whatever their language is.
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by homersapien 13y ago
Ghost: the super simple minimal blogging platform that requires considerable server experience to setup. Plus you get to write everything in Markdown! What's not to love?
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by homersapien 13y ago
That's pretty much the same experience I've had with my Z, though the random shutdowns mysteriously stopped about a year ago. My Z is now 4 years old, yet still is incredibly fast and responsive. Aside from the stupid fan it has
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by homersapien 13y ago
This is a solution looking for a problem. Same with Ghost, though. At least Ghost is ironic: a super simple blogging platform that requires fairly sophisticated skills to setup and manage.
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by homersapien 13y ago
Why doesn't Twitter simply quarantine the handle until some sort of dispute resolution is completed? Oh wait, Twitter doesn't "do" customer service, so forget about any sort of common sense solutions.
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by homersapien 13y ago
No, he changes his country of origin to C then books a round trip from A to B. It is sometimes cheaper that way.
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by homersapien 13y ago
Zero info on homepage = not interested.
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by homersapien 13y ago
It won't be long until the Feds have technology that grabs metadata from the tech in your car as you cruise down the road. I suspect their definition of "metadata" will be broad enough to include things like speed, rate of a
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by homersapien 13y ago
Wow...it is expensive to be trendy. My VPS with 2GB of RAM and 50GB of storage is $40 a year, and I can do whatever the heck I want with it.
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by homersapien 13y ago
Not hard at all. PHP is incredibly easy. Wordpress is very well documented, and the enormous community support (plugins) means that you can do quite a lot without having to get your hands dirty with the code. And believe me, that's
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by homersapien 13y ago
There's nothing quite like seeing "10K+" results loaded into a single, infinite page.
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by homersapien 13y ago
I bet that if you had asked AT&T and the like - before they got caught - if they gave the NSA warrant-less access to U.S. citizens' communications, they would have also said "no."
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by homersapien 13y ago
Why should PHP "force" anything? That's one of PHP's strengths: the ability to be everything from a simple dynamic webpage to a full blown app. That's like saying "I wish someone would make a hammer that onl
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by homersapien 13y ago
Anything meaningful I do on my mobile devices - photos, files, etc. - gets backed up to Dropbox. It's 100% automatic, and has been a real life saver. I also use it as basically a virtual thumb drive to "move" files between
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by homersapien 13y ago
At $0 subsidized you would be getting ripped off. You'd be better off buying a subsidized iPhone, selling it, then buying the G at full price (plus pocketing a bunch of $$ at the same time).
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by homersapien 13y ago
Their focus wasn't on the product, it was on living/working in SF. They could have saved a year's worth of AWS payments alone by trimming the fat that comes with wanting to be in a "hip" location.
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by homersapien 13y ago
PHP haters are hysterical, I mean that in the clinical sense. It is powerful, flexible, blazing fast (relative, I know), and arguably the easiest (or at least most accessible) language to learn. Its flexibility is what generates most of t
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by homersapien 13y ago
PhpMyAdmin has turned into an utter mess. I use - and most definitely rely on it - daily. But every version since 2.X has been a step back. The AJAX in the latest version is disastrous. Everything about it is slower than the older frame