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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Vonage served me very well for many years. I cancelled my service from them a couple of years ago, but purely because my circumstances changed. The were rock solid, courteous, and professional from start to finish.
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Heh - if only I was smart enough to be the founder of nest. :-)
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Thank you!
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Erm, I hope I haven't been hell banned if this refers to me. I have never worked for Apple, nor was I talking about them, in my post.
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
I have mixed feelings on this; on the one hand this is indeed a 'gossip news site' flavour article, and the reactions of the commenters in this thread largely follow the regular human response of 'burn the witch'. I&#x2
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
I had exactly the same revelation during a protracted encounter I had at $NAME_WITHHELD - huge admired company - after working there for several years, and coming into an ethical and legal conflict against my division director. It was made
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
I agree with this whole-heartedly. I was doing video conferencing on my iLamp in 2002, I worked remotely and globally since 1994, my Nokia phone paired over Bluetooth to my computer long ago, things are pretty certainly, but I'm not s
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
There is a strong belief in what is considered "right"; despite evidence to the contrary, "the system" is still very much in favour of enforcing an unenforcible law. In other words, it is demonstrably true that some woul
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Elite: Dangerous Newsletter #48(us2.campaign-archive1.com)
2 points by lordbusiness 12y ago|0 comments
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." -- Mark Twain Pro-tip, when people make such outlandish comments and call people idiots en-masse, (which I am amazed hasn't been flagged away), just
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Thank you, sincerely, for being forthcoming.
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
To be honest, this is arrogance on the employers part to the absolute extreme. Interviews are two-way streets. When I interview, I am as much interviewing the company, if not more than they are interviewing me. With the shoe on the other f
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Exactly. Some people work better when they're 'up against it' under a crushing deadline, or just don't take as long as the average person. Personally, I am able to achieve a lot more when I am under the gun, and often f
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Designers Code Differently(medium.com)
2 points by lordbusiness 12y ago|0 comments
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Not at all; the biggest difference was electric for cooling, though there were savings in natural gas heating too. I believe the biggest nest concepts to help were the clever fan operation (allowing cool air from the basement to circulate a
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
My nest paid for itself in the first 8 months of use. The difference in my utilities was that dramatic. And I was a person who had actually bothered to set his thermostat and thought I had a decent setup going. I'm not so interested
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Nest: What's in the 4.3 software update(nest.com)
27 points by lordbusiness 12y ago|9 comments
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
"US Company Fined for Exporting Math." This.
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Above market rates for office-based work.
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Then promptly described a rig that no climber would use in their right mind. :-)
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How Inbox by Gmail Onboards New Users(useronboard.com)
3 points by lordbusiness 12y ago|0 comments
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Crikey! As an avid rock climber reading this, I'm terrified for the author's safety. :-)
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Just to clarify, the "at runtime" is a bit misleading. It doesn't mean every single time the app function in question is called. It's a toggle done once, and you won't be asked again unless you turn it back off ma
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
For reference only, and I post this purely to illustrate why it's folly to pass judgement on what people and institutions spend their money on, your $250 could have fed the Chadian family of six from the below Time article, for over 20
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
I too consider email to be a perfectly working system and I have achieved "inbox 0" since I started using email in 1994. IBM drilled it into me that my inbox wasn't meant to be a 'pending' queue, and as such I shou
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I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011)(zef.me)
436 points by lordbusiness 12y ago|255 comments
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Montessori is built specifically on these principles, and is widely adopted [citation needed ;-)] by parents of gifted kids who struggle with the grind of the regular school systems. (At least, in the western world). Also, home schooling is
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
Constructive feedback since you've asked... :-) Please don't withhold hiring company names. Recruiters do this and usually it means they don't actually have a job and are just canvassing resumes. I don't wish to accuse
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
$400/day. Full time remote. (International clients). DevOps work.
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by lordbusiness 12y ago
I would suggest placing the question of whether or not my internet connection works in the hands of my ISP. I had a similar situation when I used a Linksys router; if Linksys had any problems at all with their cloud overhead infrastructure

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