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by noer 10y ago
I got a snotty reply from someone at Twilio when I suggested it might be an April Fool's joke on Twitter. Amazon prime buttons were announced on 3/31/15 or 4/1/15 (I forget which date it was) and I remember a bunch
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by noer 10y ago
For years the operating procedure for Seamless/Grubhub/Delivery.com orders was a form that would be faxed to a restaurant, the restaurant would communicate that order to the kitchen (either by it's own POS system, writing the
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by noer 10y ago
And yet the farebox recovery ratio is only 51%.
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by noer 10y ago
You can turn that hotspot off on your own device: https://www.xfinity.com/support/internet/disable-xfinity-wif...
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by noer 10y ago
I feel like I've read the same article about the decline of the Gros Michel, the rise of the Cavendish and the eminent extinction of the Cavendish at least once a year for 10 years.
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by noer 10y ago
1. There is a weird regionalism in the outer boroughs of New York City where the grocery stores don't hire someone to bag groceries. Either the cashier does it (which I think is totally normal) or there's someone who isn't pa
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by noer 10y ago
>> It is a lot of fun... especially for a developer who usually lives in a web browser... to be able to call a phone number and hear the result of your code. That really is the key. I've built some stuff with twilio simply becaus
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by noer 10y ago
>>knowing the Twilio API and looking at this design I think someone could build this in about a day. I don't want to shit on the idea, but with the amount of "build this thing with twilio" content twilio puts out, the b
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by noer 10y ago
This is probably a much better way to do it. One of the food delivery company does it this way (I think it's grubhub/seamless). Three questions before you're given an option to review: 1. Was the food on time? 2. Was the orde
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by noer 10y ago
I should caveat that I'm not a professional developer (I code things occasionally during the day for work, but my job isn't to make things with code). It's something that I enjoy learning & making small projects with, but
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by noer 10y ago
I was "interviewed" like that once. I found it incredibly unsettling. It devolved into three politely introducing ideas while trying to outdo the other two in discussion while three people watched silently from across the room. I
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by noer 10y ago
The warehosue & showroom are in different locations, miles apart.
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by noer 10y ago
Similar story, in Chicago near a few Amazon warehouses. The stuff I get is pretty evenly split between UPS, USPS & Amazon Logistics. I don't think I've ever had a FedEx prime delivery that I can remember. One thing to keep in
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by noer 10y ago
I think it depends on some combination the jurisdiction, university & location. It's absolutely enforced where alcohol & alcohol related crime is a problem.
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by noer 10y ago
It's worth noting on the SES explanation it says: >You could use it to send a newsletter if you wrote all the code, but that's not a great idea. You actually can use a self hosted solution like Sendy to send marketing emails &a
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by noer 10y ago
It's an opinion piece and says as much in the intro.
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by noer 10y ago
The thing I always think when I read articles like this (and this one from the NY Times about Senators & Email [1]) is that they don't use email because they don't have to. They have jobs that come with many assistants & a
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by noer 10y ago
I know very little about the technology in self driving vehicles, but why was the driver/monitor of this truck allowed to sit in the sleeper compartment and not in the drivers seat like the uber self driving cars in pittsburgh?
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by noer 10y ago
Aren't railroads much more efficient at transporting freight than trucks are?
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by noer 10y ago
Here's another guy that tried it as well: https://medium.com/@SteveSasman/how-i-used-abused-my-tesla-w...
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by noer 10y ago
It's not that bad, it's an imgur link and the only thing objectionable about the image is an abstract version of pepe. That said the content of the post is pretty unbelievable. TL;DR: a 4chan poster claiming to be an intelligence
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by noer 10y ago
A lot of the time, when I hear about an IoT product (such as this tea kettle or the wifi enabled bathroom Scale my coworker told me about) I think, "Just because you can doesn't mean you should"
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by noer 10y ago
Yeah, I guess that was my question. I know they can come from other areas, but when I've taken commuter rail to the suburbs, there are always a few taxis waiting, but never enough to handle the traffic of people who need to get home, i
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by noer 10y ago
Didn't see this as I skimmed the article but: What happens when people return? The train lets off a bunch of people at once that need rides, but will there be enough uber drivers to meet the demand?
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by noer 10y ago
>I think it doesn't matter if Chevy, or BMW makes an electric car I think you're wrong here. Tesla makes electric cars that actually look like fossil fueled versions of the cars that they make. The Roadster looks like a regular
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by noer 10y ago
it never occurred to an 8 year old me how game genie worked and 25 years later, I had sort of forgotten about it. It, like the Virtual Boy and the camera/printer peripheral were a few game boy accessories that were totally ahead of th
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by noer 10y ago
500m users is different than 500m active users, plus I wonder how many people use yahoo for fantasy sports and nothing else
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by noer 10y ago
Two of the cons listed aren't totally correct: > You don’t have a WYSIWYG editor so you have to use Markdown or similar languages to write your posts. You can use a service like siteleaf to add a WYSIWYG backend to jekyll > You
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by noer 10y ago
I don't know, it seems like a lot of this guy's problems are totally within his control. I sort of assume he's the only income source for his family, but also has an expensive hobby he doesn't want to give up and also wa
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by noer 10y ago
Using a .pizza domain and using "Hot & Ready" in the tagline might make the casual consumer think these are logos made out of pizza, or are on pizza with cheese in the shape of a logo, or would have to do with pizza in general

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