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by mherdeg 13y ago
Yes, it's pretty funny that 90%+ of "contracts" in the US mobile phone marketplace are things the buyer would be much happier not to have.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
It doesn't make much sense to make the President's whereabouts specifically well known since they are already quite well known. If you really wanted to engage the folks involved in domestic data collection with a visceral sense of
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It's also economically in our best interest to keep feeding the pandas. We're contractually obliged to China to feed pandas in the National Zoo — if a panda dies due to American misconduct, we have to pay them $800,000. See http:
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I think of newspapers more as the "first draft of history" than the "official recordkeepers". One of the little pleasures of reading newspaper archives from a hundred years ago is seeing their vernacular and the particul
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Similarly the Santa Monica Pier from Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines — although it's not a perfect recreation.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I used to do a Google search for [mlb standings] and click through to the top search result. Now I just look at the onebox Major League Baseball standings results instead. I've also noticed the results of a search for [Olympic medal co
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Ha, yeah. When I'm in the US, I deliberately navigate to a European Google site (usually google.co.uk) in order to get their onebox flight schedule search results. I really enjoy seeing a full timetable of published flights for the w
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Love the hilariously precise attention to detail. Reminds me of the in-depth review of the secret Disney restroom, http://www.secretrestroom.com/ ( writeup at http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/
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by mherdeg 13y ago
If you're interested in this topic, I recommend you peruse the archives of LEAPSECS mailing list ( http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/ ), where experts have discussed some of the thorny issues over th
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Did Andrew Leonard get in touch with you while reporting this article? I don't see you quoted in his story.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
> I'm skeptical of the "lien holder gets the equity" claim because it doesn't work that way outside of DC or in foreclosure generally, so I'd be very surprised it it wasn't a misunderstanding on the part of
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Wow, the "Mini-Microsoft" blog is now nearly a decade old! Interesting that it doesn't get called out in the Times article, except implicitly by name in the paragraph at "A list of missed opportunities and disappointing
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If you like stories about people who make better "thought leaders" than "individual contributors", consider also Florence Nightingale, whose hands-on work during the Crimean War contributed her hospital's having the
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Heh, yes, the smiley face there encodes something like of ", although of course I know that in the 'real world' people can't just ignore product requirements that don't make sense, and hopefully people will challeng
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Yes, I decided to ignore that constraint because it doesn't make sense :). The article suggests performing "server-side membership testing, which is O(1)", but I think this is a bit too much — you can do even easier server-si
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Gosh. For some reason, the "right answer" I expected to see was "do not try to validate the address; just send the e-mail and handle the bounce if it fails". There is a whole other layer which is very good at handling in
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by mherdeg 13y ago
There's also a counterintuitive "always choose row 3" option, where you make yourself more likely to be downgraded but also more likely to be offered a travel voucher under United's fairly generous distance-based compens
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Are you sure about "last year"? I thought the bug was assigned CVE-2013-1775 and discussed in late Feb 2013.
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I feel like aircraft substitutions are more likely to happen for operational reasons (the A320 they wanted to commit is unavailable because of mx/wx, most likely, and instead of taking a delay, they pull an A319). Some carriers do seem
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I really like the "one way street" sign in this blog post because it reminds me of our first trip to Germany, where we were bemused at the incredible number of roads Munich had all named "Einbahnstraße".
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by mherdeg 13y ago
No design is perfect. For example, the current United boarding pass does not anywhere print the name of your class of service! If you're trying to access a Lufthansa lounge with a UA business-class boarding pass, you will have some t
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by mherdeg 13y ago
In case anyone is curious why there's a comment about the headline, the original headline was ""Facebook's "Transparency Report" cannot be viewed without a Facebook account"" and the new headline is &
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Do you happen to know — what happens if you try to decline to enter the full-body-scanners at AMS? Does Schiphol also have a "pat down option" like the TSA offers? Thinking of other European countries, in the UK, signs at Gatwick
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I would write to LAWA about this (even though they will just refer you to the appropriate contact at TSA & you'll get a black hole with no reply). It's not cool to wait >30 min for a "male assist".
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I asked JetBlue about this (via Twitter…) and they said ( https://twitter.com/JetBlue/status/370659852546109441 ) ""@mherdeg The govt agencies can speak for themselves. We stand by our crewmember's
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Cool stuff. What's your opinion on the keyczar tools ( https://code.google.com/p/keyczar/ )?
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I like the idea of hundreds (?) of people obsessively consuming obscure media and discussing it in a Web forum, mostly because I thought it was a nice plot device in William Gibson's 2003 "Pattern Recognition" with "the
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Happy to see that they've kept redirects in place, in particular the all-important http://grauniad.co.uk .
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The Bing folks are very competent and extremely sharp — they just clearly have different priorities. Back when I was with the company, I brought this concern to the internal search feedback team's attention once or twice a year.
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Interesting that they'll combat child abuse but they still haven't changed their attitude towards [suicide]. A Google search for the term [suicide] gets you a onebox search result with a phone number you can call for help, plus so

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