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by medell 14y ago
There are several reasons they excel, but when I did a Harvard Business Case about them the main factors were the supply chain innovation due the ability to move quickly and keep less inventories + not having to hire expensive designers by
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Where does this fit in with the forgotten Google Tasks, if at all? (Tasks is hidden under the "Gmail" drop-down). http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2011/01/top-tasks-for-google-ta...
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If this future comes true, maybe the situation will reverse and there will be a 2.5% cash handling fee instead of the fee some companies currently charge for credit card transactions :)
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2011-07-20: Announces Google Labs will be shutdown 2012-07-03: iGoogle will be "retired" on 2012-11-01 2012-12-06: Google Apps no longer free I'm not liking the direction they're going as I use all of the above frequently (including signing
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I worked for a company with 25,000 office employees worldwide and can say that they won't be leaving Microsoft anytime soon for this reason. They were using IE6 all the way up until 2010, finishing the deploy of IE8 two years after it was r
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It was a good response, but I still don't agree with what he did. I don't think there is any other way to take a "tip" reminder, so like the other comment says there are better ways to communicate this. I did not know that coffee preperatio
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Barista writes "Tip :)" in coffee, Twitter war, begin(twitter.com)
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Part of the problem is human psychology where people do not rationally put a value on the time spent commuting. For instance say you are offered job A at $60k/yr and the commute is 30min. You also are offered job B at $75k/yr but the commut
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Overhead like labour, commissions, free delivery...
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What I take from this post is that the author is seeing a growing ego problem, with makers using too much time and energy broadcasting their accomplishments instead of letting their work stand for itself. However this ego problem has always
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by medell 14y ago
Yes that is part of the whole scam which I learned a lot about during my last mattress purchase. SleepCountry has a catalog cross referencing the types of mattresses from other companies that are very similar if not exact matches to what th
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100% agree. But if you must buy a mattress go to SleepCountry, they price match anything.
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The Tallest Man on Earth & Cat Power! Like it already :)
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I'm in Canada and this worked for me, $2.99, and is now on my Kindle. Some other Kindle book prices dropped in price as well.
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+1 for Parov Stelar & Belleruche. Check out 8tracks for some ElectroSwing playlists.
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I second the wow. I love how quickly you've made it for someone to get started using the tool. Bravo!
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Nice post. One hypothetical case it could end up serving the worse design more often is if you had times of the day where your users behave very differently due to time zones, i.e. Europe vs North America. Say you have a sports site and tes
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by medell 14y ago
Agreed, in FF the Gotham font-faces are blurry but fine in Chrome. Icons are not sharp either. Hit the "View the full curriculum" and the background dot pattern is not the best choice.
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Similar tone to an excellent article about last year's hockey riots in Vancouver from an angle most of the media did not take. It's by no means an excuse, but I agree most of the troublemakers were youth from the suburbs disenchanted by man
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by medell 14y ago
Great share, thanks!