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by rbritton 16y ago
The best thing Microsoft could do is to innovate and do something no one's done. Everything they've done of late is in markets where someone has already done very well in, and they've done such a half-assed job of it that it's a guaranteed
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by rbritton 16y ago
Weddings also often require all-day commitments, which is a huge factor in pricing. I am a photographer and make about 60-70% of my revenue from weddings. This is one of two reasons why we charge what we do; the other is the massive whole
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by rbritton 16y ago
I disputed a $0.10 charge with my ISP and got it taken off the bill.
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by rbritton 16y ago
Verizon now forces you to subscribe to a data plan (at varying prices) on the majority of their phones. They only have a handful that do not require one.
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by rbritton 16y ago
Many businesses are still running Windows 2000, which can't upgrade IE past 6. In these cases, it's nearly impossible to get the funding for a replacement computer that can capably run a newer OS version.
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by rbritton 16y ago
There's a roundabout by my business that they put in about two years ago. There's also a large trucking hub that has to go through it to access the interstate. Whoever designed it didn't consider this factor when putting it in, so it's to
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by rbritton 16y ago
The glue on velcro tends to melt and become a very gooey mess in extreme heat too. It wouldn't work well in summer heat.
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by rbritton 16y ago
From a previous HN thread, here's the real reason at least for AmEx: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108650
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by rbritton 16y ago
MobileMe was free at first back when it was ".Mac". They changed it to a charging model a couple years into the service where it has remained since.
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by rbritton 16y ago
The // part isn't required for every scheme as the article implies. For example, tel:5555555555 is perfectly acceptable. The two slashes are even now considered a bad design decision originally: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8306631.stm
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by rbritton 16y ago
That article is very much a scare tactic. The actual stipulations listed in Visa's terms do not sound nearly as bad: http://usa.visa.com/merchants/risk_management/cisp_payment_a... While the use of PA-DSS validated payment applications
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by rbritton 16y ago
Every single submission for euraeka.com is just a passthrough for the actual article.
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by rbritton 17y ago
I would be far more interested to know how similarly "easy-to-read" typefaces fared. Does an androgynous typeface like Helvetica have a different result than one more aligned with a gender? Does one with sharp aggressive serifs like the C
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by rbritton 17y ago
The vast majority of the stopped escalators I've seen are because some idiot thought it'd be fun to hit the stop button.
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by rbritton 17y ago
In practice this works really, really well. I've used it quite a bit in my own internal stuff, but I'd love to see a wider adoption among other developers -- there currently aren't many applications with this support built in (including Ap
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by rbritton 17y ago
The cable and satellite TV companies are the closest comparison I can think of for an existing example of their dream model. And guess what? The experience is miserable for everyone except those raking in the money.
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by rbritton 17y ago
Our load time is penalized on that graph by loading some images asynchronously via javascript. It's a slideshow gallery, so loading them serially this way allows it to start playing faster.
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by rbritton 17y ago
Today's woot reaffirms this: http://www.woot.com/
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by rbritton 17y ago
$99 was for a student developer. You got one lifetime hardware credit with that membership type.
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by rbritton 17y ago
In most states they can expire too. http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_financial_services/00...
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by rbritton 17y ago
In my experience, it's less business-critical stuff and more "we don't want to pay for new boxes until the hardware physically dies"
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by rbritton 17y ago
In Washington State, it is illegal to drive in the left lane on a highway except to pass. They don't enforce it much, but I do know people that have been pulled over for that reason (albeit let off with warnings). As a result, it tends to
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by rbritton 17y ago
In my experience having worked with restaurants, websites, and menus, they most often have humongous Publisher or Word files. PDF is the easiest form to coerce the content into while still retaining some degree of the original formatting.
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by rbritton 17y ago
The pitfall I've run into when building CMS interfaces for the sales types is that they always want to do something you didn't enable it to do. The image always displays on the right, so naturally they want it on the left, and you end up h
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by rbritton 17y ago
There's a difference between the droning white noise of conversations not fighting for your attention and having people pester you directly because they want to ask you a question and have zero respect for your zone. Your coffee shop is an
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by rbritton 17y ago
They could, yes, but it undermines the fundamental basis on which the consumer PC industry is based: cheap, throw-away computers. Well-designed machines require precision and machining that adds to the cost of the computer, and with compan
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by rbritton 17y ago
Out of curiosity, do you have any idea what cell phone providers DO charge for these types of payments?
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by rbritton 17y ago
The credit factor is a huge portion of it. We've been in business for just over two years, and it's essentially impossible to get even a business credit card currently. We've tried multiple times in the last year and been declined each ti
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by rbritton 17y ago
http://freedns.afraid.org
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by rbritton 17y ago
Sounds at least a bit familiar: http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

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