mrtron

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by mrtron 15y ago
Don't underestimate how huge this is. It is directly competing with where daily deal sites are trying to evolve to, like Groupon's Rewards. http://www.groupon.com/merchants/rewards Most Groupon clones are trying to quickly roll out reward
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by mrtron 15y ago
It isn't just a status symbol. That cheapens what Apple offers. My father was a mechanic who bought tools from a specific supplier that was regularly 3-5x more expensive than generic tools. The reason? They would last 10x longer and work
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by mrtron 15y ago
The magnets would have to be so strong they would be dangerous to work with. The easier way is just weld rods on to pull a dent out with, and then chop the rod off. There are several dent pulling tools that work this way.
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by mrtron 15y ago
Ya, would just require a default settings per texture. Maybe the quick and dirty fix is the left half grey light, the right half grey dark?
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by mrtron 15y ago
iPad is a new product line and need to reach mass appeal. Apple is betting a lot on a form factor that has repeatedly failed. They need to sell a high volume of units, not sell a few high end units. Maybe in a few years there will be an '
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by mrtron 15y ago
Interesting outcome. I think this is the first time I have seen someone 'take a stand', take some huge heat for it in the court of public opinion, and then have the intended effect.
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by mrtron 15y ago
Off topic but unsure where to post: How do I reach facebook with a security problem that I don't want to post publicly? Is there an email address or can someone contact me? (email in profile)
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by mrtron 15y ago
He keeps staring at the camera, I almost wonder who is paying him to be there making those actions. I would bet a 6 pack of beer he is a paid lobbyist.
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by mrtron 15y ago
Not only can you switch instantly from Google to Bing, you can do the same with the indirect competitors such as yelp. Yelp claims Google is hurting consumers because often Yelp's results are better than what Google displays as their own Lo
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by mrtron 15y ago
I said it specifically to include other countries than China. I was living in Taiwan for a while, which uses the same Mandarin name for McD. And in other asian countries McD is far more popular than Subway.
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by mrtron 15y ago
This reminds me of a post I wrote a while back about McDonalds in Kuala Lumpur. 2 of their main combos were KFC style chicken. http://troysimpson.co/branding-why-i-ate-mcdonalds-in-kuala-...
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by mrtron 15y ago
I think it is deceiving to compare apples to oranges this way. Coca-cola is highly popular due to its branding across the board, not just the Chinese name they chose. McDonalds is left out, but is just translated to 麦当劳 which sounds as clo
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by mrtron 15y ago
I used spaces before and prefer mission control. I also have an external monitor so I am not sure what he is talking about it not supporting a second screen.
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by mrtron 15y ago
Why would OEMs license a dead OS over android? It would have to be a better ecosystem than android which I don't see happening after hp dropped it themselves.
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by mrtron 15y ago
Regulated companies use Postini commonly for compliance reasons. Lots of big financial firms are customers.
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by mrtron 15y ago
I disagree - I find the stack overflow model much better than a wiki. In practice the search on SO is much better than a wiki because of how the questions are phrased. Using your how do I (x) example that is how the SO title would be phrase
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by mrtron 15y ago
Keep in mind your question is quite broad like asking how to get started into programming. You will get conflicting opinions on economic models and theories like you would on programming languages and algorithms. The mainstream press provid
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by mrtron 15y ago
It would be relative to where you signed the agreement wouldn't it?
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by mrtron 15y ago
Keywords are used by a majority of advertisers in my large sample.
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by mrtron 15y ago
Correct. If I ever catch myself surfing to a website from my laptop, it gets bookmarked for my iPad and blocked in my /etc/hosts.
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by mrtron 15y ago
I permanently blocked all from my laptop and only surf from my iPad now. Works great for me.
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by mrtron 15y ago
Agreed. I have a reasonable amount of monthly bandwidth use that is unavoidable because that server distributes content to few dozen semi-offline touchscreen kiosks.
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by mrtron 15y ago
Let me explain why this is incredibly annoying for a long term (read: selfish) customer. I have a ton of apps running on my old slices. A client pays monthly for the one slice and it really doesn't look like it will cover costs with the s
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by mrtron 15y ago
I wonder what the odds are this is a planned suppression of their stock price.
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by mrtron 16y ago
Online gambling is legal almost everywhere - how does the FBI have the ability to do this?
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by mrtron 16y ago
And employee incentives isn't threatening customers into being social like the title implies.
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by mrtron 16y ago
If the water did spread, it would also dilute the radioactivity. So not really a concern.
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by mrtron 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_A_round Angel funding. Many companies raise XXX,XXX this way, and it is considered pre series-A.
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by mrtron 16y ago
Congrats on the growth guys - keep up the good work. I have suggested your service to IT folks at some financial firms that are deprecating physical pagers.
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by mrtron 16y ago
Nice! I would have it default to a nice looking pattern first to show it in use. Then a clear button would be useful. And finally I agree the drawing is annoying - just have them draw over things with white that they don't want! (have th

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