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by mdip 11y ago
Since I grew up in the United States, learning 12 in our multiplication tables (which was also required) had a lot of value. Being able to multiply by 12 makes handling inches/feet conversions a mental operation and that's someth
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by mdip 11y ago
I write software in C# so I took on building an extension to make my life a little easier by allowing different background colors to be applied to methods in classes (Visual Studio) based on the kind of method that they are: https:/&#
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by mdip 11y ago
Too true. Every time I've had a guy out to install service I've given them one laptop to get connected to the service. When they're done, I hook up my router and put the laptop back in the cupboard. I've been using th
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by mdip 11y ago
There's more than a few problems with this particular assessment as it relates to "what we pay" and what kind of service we can expect for that price. On the cost side, I suspect the cost of support, service and customer acqu
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by mdip 11y ago
There are pretty significant differences. Prior to the latest version, the women's product has been much larger (they're pretty similar now, except for the blade assembly). The blades also included a larger rubber pad on both
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by mdip 11y ago
I'd imagine the same can be said for trying on clothes. The more clothes are tried on, the more they are worn out, resulting in loss. Part of this problem, though, is the company's fault. To this day I can never make sense out o
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by mdip 11y ago
A lot of folks have pointed out that there is likely no conspiracy among the companies to attempt to screw women out of money. They're not identical products, there's economies of scale at work, etc, however, I believe there&#x27
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by mdip 11y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head on the demand/supply issue. I have two daughters, one likes pretty much everything my sons do, the other likes more traditional girly things (we don't encourage or discourage which toys
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by mdip 11y ago
We figured this out a long time ago with "body wash". I was always a bar-of-soap kind of guy and when I was sent out to purchase toiletries for the family, I did a quick price comparison and made an "executive decision"
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by mdip 11y ago
If by average consumer you are referring to "average purchaser of light bulbs", you are referring to a market that the Philips Hue products are not yet in. The average Philips Hue customer is an early adopter who was willing to sp
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by mdip 11y ago
they'd still get mad at Philips when a third-party bulb breaks I don't disagree with you -- a subset of customers are going to be angry regardless of warnings, they only go so far. But the issue at hand is how best to deal with
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by mdip 11y ago
A point brought up in the replies to their forum post warrants repeating: They claim that they were concerned about the quality of their brand being eroded by third-party bulbs that didn't reproduce the same quality experience that fir
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by mdip 11y ago
I'm glad to see they've reversed the decision. It was the only reasonable choice they had with such an immature market that could have them dethroned as the leader very quickly. Their reasons for lock-in made no sense. For a p
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by mdip 11y ago
I completely agree. And I'm surprised that any department within the company saw this as a good idea. It was an obviously bad long-term idea, which makes me wonder if they think of this product as a business they plan to be in for th
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by mdip 11y ago
There's two problems here: 1. The costs they're incurring supporting non-hue compatibility might very well increase. Lighting is something people think they universally understand -- if it doesn't work when they expect it to
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by mdip 11y ago
I'll never understand why companies make such customer hostile decisions. I can't see any upside to this and I can't imagine what the discussion looked like when implementing this decision. My (admittedly cynical) guess is
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by mdip 11y ago
Also agreed - I found the best solution for me was a cheap Amazon Fire tablet and three large strips of velcro. It stays firmly attached to the side of the fridge with the cable running straight down beneath the cupboard routed over to the
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by mdip 11y ago
I realize this is a fully appropriate legal response but there's the not-too-subtle component of "who has the power in this particular conversation". If I am approached by a person, any person, who has a holstered gun and an
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by mdip 11y ago
So, based on reading the comments (and I tend to agree), the issue isn't that HFS+ is bad because it supports Resource Forks, many file systems support similar concepts. The question becomes why is OSX storing font data in the Resou
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by mdip 11y ago
I'm a remote worker who took a new job this year. I'm going to operate under the assumption that you're a remote worker applying for a job that involves working with in-office folks since that wasn't provided in the ques
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by mdip 11y ago
Interesting read - there's a lot of back and forth between the so-called SJWs and the anti-PC crowd and it's becoming reminiscent of every generational battle I've listened to in my life. Every adult has screamed about the &q
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by mdip 11y ago
I can probably guess they ran into several issues with their desire to make their erasable/writable CDs compatible with normal disc players as one of the principal reasons that they didn't make it to market. I'm more curious
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by mdip 11y ago
The best times in my career were shortly after I started out and right now. The worst were several parts in the middle. In the beginning I had started out at a telecom that was quite stable (around 1997). I was 19, it was my first "r
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by mdip 11y ago
Love it. I ran into the awful performance of the Get/SetPixel methods doing some work with font rendering a while back. The solution I chose ended up similar to the StackOverflow post on linked on the page but it made the code unmaint
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by mdip 11y ago
I used to feel the same way, but I've come around a little bit over the years. I've worked on projects where a portion of the work was augmented by an offshore participant. It works when the specifications can be produced easily
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by mdip 11y ago
I'm not sure software outsourcing ever worked (but after reading the article, I'm fairly sure that title was picked for aesthetics rather than serving as a thesis statement). I had this discussion with a friend who was charged wit
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by mdip 11y ago
I found this a little problematic: FAROO indexes only pages which are located in the Internet, but no Intranet pages or HTTPS protected pages If it simply can't see HTTPS pages, it'll leave a large chunk of the internet invisibl
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This USB stick will fry your computer(grahamcluley.com)
1 points by mdip 11y ago|0 comments
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by mdip 11y ago
I'm not surprised by the low number (9%) who felt a little bit of guilt installing ad blocking technology. If you feel guilty, you probably aren't using a blocker, hence the low number. I feel no guilt, personally. I began using
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Agencies Say They Need Access to Americans’ Emails Without a Warrant(nationaljournal.com)
9 points by mdip 11y ago|1 comments

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