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by pfranz 14y ago
Doctors have no idea how much a procedure or test cost (and they don't care or want that burden)--that stuff is generally insulated by insurance. In my experience, they are vaguely aware of the price of different prescriptions (after insur
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by pfranz 14y ago
The original purpose of IP laws are an agreement with society that the author would get a temporary monopoly (including legal protection) in exchange donating it society after a reasonable amount of time. The alternative is keeping it a tr
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by pfranz 14y ago
I've used the BoA and it's fantastic for one-time purchases. Like another commenter mentioned, it's only good for 1 year and you give a global cap. It would be nice if it was more permanent and allowed for a weekly or monthly cap so you c
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by pfranz 14y ago
I always look for "a rat" in separate.
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by pfranz 14y ago
I used Glympse before Find My Friends was added to the iPhone for ETA stuff: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glympse-share-location-frien...
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by pfranz 14y ago
Slashdot used to stick random Futurama quotes in their http header. I'm not seeing it anymore. curl -sI http://slashdot.org
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by pfranz 14y ago
I was installing Arch on RaspberryPi and tried disabling root (since I had seen it done on other distros). Not long after I was fiddling with LVM. When I rebooted it halted on my fstab which couldn't find my VolumeGroups and required my r
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by pfranz 14y ago
I don't do much admin outside my hobby boxes. One guess would be, excluding the ability to enter a root shell, each sudo command is logged so you know who ran it. If the user is root, then it's harder to know what they did while they were
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by pfranz 14y ago
I've tried to use this system in the past, but found it to be a PITA. A lot of email systems won't let you use a +. The other gotcha I get is that they use the email address as a login token (Dropbox, for example). So you have to remembe
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by pfranz 14y ago
At the last place I worked our interview was split into 3 sections; Technical, Personality, and Critical Thinking (mirroring your three questions). While it wasn't a programming job, it was a support job with a wide array of third-party an
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by pfranz 14y ago
I'm quite surprised we expect insurance to cover routine medical expenses. We're still paying for them anyway and now there's a middle-man to hide the true cost and take a cut. It's still expensive, but catastrophic insurance the minimum p
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by pfranz 14y ago
There's a couple of issues specific to cooking and recipes that I feel are worse than other general information. Lots of home cooks and unvetted recipes use unsafe cooking practices--not cooking meat long enough or getting it hot enough (o
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by pfranz 14y ago
When I first moved across the country and needed to build up my kitchen supplies from scratch I was quite lost. I think I generally followed this nytimes article and was very happy with the results: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dinin
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by pfranz 14y ago
The suggestion of avoiding gen 1 products isn't to blame the customer, but warn them of trouble before purchasing. Whether you get a timely recall/replacement or the problem is ignored still means you have to go of your way to discover, tr
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by pfranz 14y ago
The article is basically correct on the details, but like you stated, it has a terribly negative and biased tone. It seems like his issue is more with the price and compatibility of SSDs than anything with Fusion Drive. I'm not too familia
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by pfranz 14y ago
Which online video lectures are you following?
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by pfranz 14y ago
Soon after the original iPhone launch Apple posted a letter apologizing for the price drop so soon after the initial launch. "We apologize for disappointing some of you..." http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/ Like Cook's letter
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by pfranz 14y ago
Since you mentioned using Time Machine, why not revert to a good state using that (instead of a re-install)?
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by pfranz 14y ago
List comprehensions are extremely handy. I'm sure it's probably hard to come up with simple examples without using something that can be done better another way, but the last few example could be done with map() and itertools.chain(). I'm
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by pfranz 14y ago
If he is late on delivering, I'm sure he would be in close communication with the client on the adjusted delivery date. This isn't the case for late payments.
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by pfranz 14y ago
Yearly subscriptions for a standalone app? I understand the motivation for continuous income. What's wrong with the old method of releasing a paid 2.0? Admittedly, it's a bit hairy in the Apple App Store world since you can't have paid up
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by pfranz 14y ago
Does this mean we can use Netflix on Xbox without paying for Gold?
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by pfranz 14y ago
The ease of disassembling OLPCs is intentional http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/5-year-olds-repair-olpc-l...
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by pfranz 14y ago
Your comment reminded me of a post I saw on here a few months back, a commandline interface for google apps (including docs): http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/