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by mertd 14y ago
I don't know if this changes anything but I think recently they moved up in the pecking order to be sister companies with CN. However banning competitors outright vs banning competitors that spam are two different things.
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by mertd 14y ago
Wow all things you've listed is what I love about Kayak. It is fascinating that a simple task such as flight search can lead to such fragmented user preferences.
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by mertd 14y ago
> but if I say, restrict the results to "departs before 11am", it will filter out something that leaves at 11:05am. What is wrong with that :)? Set the threshold to 12PM if the 11:05 flight is OK with you. Hipmunk confuses me because I
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by mertd 14y ago
Monthly bike pass is surely cheaper or comparable to whatever he is paying for parking. I solved his problem.
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by mertd 14y ago
Excuses... I don't even live in NYC and yet it took me 1 minute to find a better option: take the ferry (bikes are allowed). http://goo.gl/maps/ssB0 . I bet on a good day you can cycle this route under 30 minutes including the ferry ride.
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by mertd 14y ago
After completing "Future Technology #532", spamming nukes is the only interesting thing left to do in the game.
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by mertd 14y ago
It seems like we have come a full circle to use travel agents in some form again.
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by mertd 14y ago
There's been a good amount of research implying if not stating out right that an intense workout of more than an hour does more harm than good. This is an extremely generalizing statement. Could you please provide citation(s)? For exampl
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by mertd 14y ago
Things like secure boot make me worry about the future of Linux as well. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/desktop-os/2011/09/23/microsoft-...
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by mertd 14y ago
So if you increase sales during certain hours, does that mean you make some sales that you otherwise would not have made or are you just shifting customers around different time slots?
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by mertd 14y ago
Probably depends on the accuracy of positioning and real time 3d modeling of the environment. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't down to the centimeter level yet.
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by mertd 14y ago
What is wrong with mentally adding 15% to everything on the menu?
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by mertd 14y ago
Except your pull handle looks like it is on both sides, and the big flat surface regardless of the shape of the handle communicates "push" to me.
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by mertd 14y ago
OK, by now we all know that GP meant expected number of fatal accidents.
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by mertd 14y ago
One of the kids in the video says "[In college], I was challenged in things I am not interested in, but not in thins I am interested in." That's the whole point. Stepping out of your comfort zone may even be the single most important life
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by mertd 14y ago
because "in theory" that's where it closed yesterday.
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by mertd 14y ago
That looks like a fat finger typo: $4000 instead of $40.00
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by mertd 14y ago
That is a feature. You don't want your mobile device frivolously syncing every single file that gets changed. Most don't even have the capacity to hold all your Dropbox quota.
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by mertd 14y ago
Looking at ( http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/app_store_apps?id=3781-to... ), I'd say 100 floors, Rope'n Fly, Sponge Bob.
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by mertd 14y ago
I discover far more music via online streamers (Pandora, Grooveshark, Last.fm, Stereomoood et. al) than I ever did through conventional channels. Furthermore, feedback collection is trivial. Very few of the actual listeners would ever bothe
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by mertd 14y ago
Well here: http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/225826214141508-draw-so... 5M users is still 33% of 15M (their peak) no matter how you plot it. It is a fad mini game without too much depth and little repeat value. Trend is not surprising
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by mertd 15y ago
http://betanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Tablet-foreca... This graph is apparently from the Forrester report quoted in the article. How does one come up with this? So in 2015, Windows8 (9?) will all of a sudden gain some good trac
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by mertd 15y ago
I have another suspicion about the validity of the metric. Maybe people in bigger metros just buy more "stuff". For example you can't buy a subway ticket in Ann Arbor.
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by mertd 15y ago
I have the feeling that a significant number of the payers are not aware of the fact that there is a decent chance of the hypothetical product never seeing the daylight. If not, it will almost certainly be delayed. When one or two of highl
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by mertd 15y ago
That seems about right: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/uploads/2010/07/coca-cola-la...
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by mertd 15y ago
Titan is mentioned in the article. According to the author it is targeted towards a more causal gaming audience and not intended to be a WoW replacement.
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by mertd 15y ago
The training data is pretty funny. I suppose he collected it from an online TWSS thread.