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by meej 14y ago
That's not the argument I was making. I would much prefer that NYT make it harder to get in, and not assume their customers are idiots.
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by meej 14y ago
Nor is it my first thought. But, nobody's asking me to pay to use the lawn in that case, so I don't find it a particularly compelling analogy. If the sign said something like "Please pay $1 to use the lawn" I might find it similarly insul
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by meej 14y ago
I've recently heard good things about Hover. https://www.hover.com/ I'm still using Dotster. They're not awesome, and they're not the cheapest, but they've never done anything that would make me want to leave, either.
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by meej 14y ago
To this day I am still surprised at how easy it is to circumvent the paywall. I find it a bit insulting to my intelligence, to be honest.
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by meej 14y ago
Those two months are the best summer you'll find anywhere. When I moved to SF, I missed them dearly. SF summers are terrible, and I found three of them more depressing than seven rainy winters in Seattle ever were. I'll also take nonstop
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by meej 14y ago
Yes, this. An old roommate of mine who was a Seattle-area native called it "spitting drizzle". It's like an agressive fog.
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by meej 14y ago
No it doesn't. Seattle has some of the best summers anywhere; it's one of the city's best-kept secrets. July and August are gorgeous. The relentless gray of which you speak is true of months like December and January.
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by meej 14y ago
Indeed, the first thought I had upon reading Dash's article was, "Kottke was right". http://kottke.org/07/06/facebook-is-the-new-aol
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by meej 14y ago
one of the best things about my office is that there are no phones on desks.
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by meej 14y ago
This makes a lot of sense to me, and might explain what's going on with the puzzling uses of "fire drill" I've witnessed in recent years. I almost want to say that there's been a shift in jargon going on, because I feel like I hear people
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by meej 14y ago
Hm, ok. That's not been my experience. For example, I have definitely heard it used in Operations contexts to describe broken shit that needs fixing now -- things that are real problems and not drills. "Drill" to me implies preparation f
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by meej 14y ago
Agreed. What I notice at my current employer is that trying to avoid pulling people into meetings results in what I call "Development by game of Telephone", where software requirements become rumors passed between employees. (Even when requ
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by meej 14y ago
I have long wondered how the phrase came to mean this, because when it happens, it's never a drill.
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by meej 14y ago
I've never quit Twitter for more than a week, but I don't hesitate to unfollow people when I decide I am tired of their tweets, and I don't engage in silly behaviors like following back indiscriminately. I do similar pruning of the RSS fee
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by meej 14y ago
All kinds of products from Haier are available on Amazon. For the appliances, it's one of the three brands that qualify for Amazon's professional delivery and installation service.
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by meej 14y ago
Reading some of those reviews, it doesn't appear that people are complaining about the number of conversions, rather they don't understand why you included unit conversions that don't make sense in the context your app claims to target. Wh
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by meej 14y ago
IEEE publishes their content digitally via Qmags. http://www.qmags.com Their iOS app is custom-branded, but still Qmags-powered. I wonder why more publishers don't go this route...
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by meej 14y ago
daily currant is a satire site.
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by meej 14y ago
Actually, for Sony, it's not novel at all. The power and territoriality of Sony's engineers is legendary. I used to work for a wholly-owned Sony subsidiary in the US, and getting any of the engineering groups in Japan to use our company's
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by meej 14y ago
I already posted about this upthread, but now I'll post with a link: http://www.squattypotty.com
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by meej 14y ago
Squatting is the anatomically correct position for a bowel movement; it straightens out the kink in the colon and makes the whole process more efficient. It's also supposed to be better for bowel health -- leads to less straining and fewer
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by meej 14y ago
Hmmm, I had to turn off the LTE on my iPad two days ago because I hit my limit 10 days prior to my monthly renewal. I upgraded to 6.0.1 last week, but I wonder if this bug explains how I managed to chew through my data plan faster than eve
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by meej 14y ago
"computer" originally meant "a person who performs mathematical calculations".
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by meej 14y ago
I am pretty sure both of my little brothers each had at least one Ken doll, at least one Cabbage Patch Kid, several Care Bears, etc... all kinds of toys that would be considered more gendered today. The eighties, man, they were a different
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by meej 14y ago
Thirty years ago, when I was a six year old little girl, I had these: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=400-1 http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=402-1 They were my favorite. It never occurred to me that they were for boys, and I don
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by meej 14y ago
Hyperreal was an integral part of a lot of the local scenes in North America, too. Ishkur, who is something of an Internet rave culture celebrity, known for his guide to electronic music, guide to rave culture, and his rave captions projec
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by meej 14y ago
Consolas and Monaco.
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by meej 14y ago
My previous employer would get interns from the UCB Extension international diploma program. Since the students were not US citizens, the internships were unpaid, by law. But they were mostly placed into PM-type roles and such. The compa
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by meej 14y ago
The antiterrorist think-tank Quilliam says this is not true. The attack was planned and was not related to the protests. http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f0e249d1af58faacc207ffae...
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by meej 14y ago
Thank you.

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