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by jacurtis 5y ago
While Apple and Google are still trying to hold strong arguing that they deserve a 70/30 revenue split for their app stores, Microsoft's comes in and eliminates a revenue split altogether. This could have major ramifications for A
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Microsoft's New App Store Will Let Developers Keep 100% of Revenue(finance.yahoo.com)
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It also sounds like the beginning of a horror movie
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They push Apple Music promos from time to time. They also send notifications via the Apple Store app about new product releases. To be fair, they don't ABUSE it to the extent that it happens frequently. But they are still promotional m
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by jacurtis 5y ago
The new SRAM Eagle drivetrains have insane gear ratios that we couldn’t have dreamed about even 10 years ago. My new Mountain bike has a 5.4:1 gear ratio at its highest setting. Back when riser bars were popular we were happy to have gear r
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by jacurtis 5y ago
I own an F150 Platinum with the 6.5ft bed (most are only 5ft beds), and my truck won't fit in my standard size garage. It is simply too long.
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That is interesting. I wonder if that is why Ford got rid of their small pickup (The Ford Ranger) for several years from 2012 until 2020. It did come back last year, probably after meeting new regulation requirements.
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by jacurtis 5y ago
Large items are pretty easy to predict. You aren't going to buy a bathroom vanity, then rent a truck to take it home and then realize you needed two vanities. If you are buying wood you can measure the size of the wall. Estimate the st
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by jacurtis 5y ago
> The $20 is for the first 75 minutes. I guess I'm wrong, but I couldn't imagine a use-case where you're only going to need the truck for 75 minutes. The idea is that you drive the truck home, unload it, then drive the tru
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Yeah I don't think that Ford even makes a 2-seater anymore in anything other than their XL/fleet model. You can buy the "extended cab" in the XLT (the base trim sold to consumers), which is the 2 seater with a small benc
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by jacurtis 5y ago
If you live in San Francisco and drive a truck than you might be signaling. But if you own a Tesla you are just blending in. By contrast, here in Idaho owning a truck is just blending in. Owning a Tesla out here would be signaling. It is in
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by jacurtis 5y ago
Maybe you have different UPS trucks where you live. But the UPS trucks where I live are far bigger than pickup trucks. The drivers sit much higher, and the grill comes up just as high, or higher. There is also a huge variability in pickup s
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by jacurtis 5y ago
> Many modern pickups have a high front grill that is dangerous for pedestrians and designed to be intimidating I get what you are trying to say, but had to mention that all front grills of vehicles are dangerous to pedestrians. It'
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by jacurtis 5y ago
I moved to Idaho a several years ago and went through the same experience. I showed up in my Toyota Corolla and everyone kept saying it was a "cute car". This was just a normal car in Seattle. But here everyone was like, "oh
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by jacurtis 5y ago
This is like saying that you could replicate Instagram in a single evening, allowing people to upload pictures and post them to a feed. Sure, you could... but there is a monstrous gap between that and the real service that you are comparing
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by jacurtis 5y ago
I used the standalone option for 1Password for many years. They too allow the same thing. I would store my 1Password vault on Dropbox, which effectively handled the sync for me.
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by jacurtis 5y ago
I started using 1Password a long time ago (~10 years) when the only option was the standalone license option. It is a lifetime license for about the cost of ~2 years of subscription. They still sell and "support" this standalone p
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by jacurtis 5y ago
Bitwarden is a great alternative. But it must be mentioned that you need to be willing to accept the responsibility and burden of the operational overhead required to run it. I realize that most people tout self-hosted as a "benefit&qu
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by jacurtis 5y ago
You are confusing "usable" with "intuitive". You are both right. Drag and drops are incredibly intuitive for users. It feels natural to most people and is easy for many of them to use. But the parent comment is also righ
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by jacurtis 5y ago
> Business users looooove drag and drop. I've seen products burn a stupid amount of money to have it, and decision-makers insisting it was a must-have no matter the cost This just made me laugh because it is so true. I thought it wa
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by jacurtis 5y ago
This works if the sender of the shortened link wants to protect other's privacy preemptively. Then they could certaintly follow the link, log a single click, then grab the final url and share that. But the average person isn't goi
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by jacurtis 5y ago
> Or am i just being downvoted by people who don't want anybody to know that it's possible to stop this form of tracking? I think you are confused how this works. Because it would NOT be possible to stop this type of tracking.
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by jacurtis 6y ago
I might be misunderstanding the situation, but it sounds like the original captain knew what was going on and sacrificed Mohammed for his own freedom. I assume the captain has original responsibility in this case. The captain left the ship
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by jacurtis 6y ago
For a small company like that I would implement basic profit sharing. Set aside a certain percent of company profits (10-15% is fairly common) and those profits are distributed among the employees. The way you distribute it among employees
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by jacurtis 6y ago
Yep I think this is influenced by the potential/likely sale to Microsoft. The timing makes more sense. So to clarify for people who don't use Discord or don't understand the article. What Discord is announcing is that now the
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by jacurtis 6y ago
This is awesome news. I would expect that we would probably see normal Lambda functions eventually follow suit to the 1ms pricing model, or at the very least, something like 10ms incremenets. For those who aren't super familiar with AW
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by jacurtis 6y ago
Especially rechargeable batteries (that the helicopter uses), which not only discharge under extreme temperatures (especially cold), but also degrade in capacity over time. Maybe JPL has overcome those with some new battery tech, but extrem
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by jacurtis 6y ago
$500 would include a few images or something. But it definitely wasn't a crazy amount of work. Swapping out text and messaging probably came in closer to the $300 mark. We mostly were paying for expertise of email developers that we tr
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by jacurtis 6y ago
Like anything, this is a matter of perspective. The right team would find value in it. I used to manage a marketing team at a large e-commerce company and we spent tens of thousands a month in email design fees. We rotated through a group o
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by jacurtis 6y ago
Yeah it's mainly to discourage dislike trains.

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