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by redler 10y ago
You're in the original free Google Apps for Domains program, grandfathered. As the product has evolved, these grandfathered accounts have come along for the ride, at times with new G Suite features disabled behind a "try our paid
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by redler 10y ago
I agree, but I wouldn't characterize polish as "marketing". Polish includes design cohesion, build quality, choice of materials, a philosophy of engineering in service of the user experience (consider the comment elsewhere in
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by redler 10y ago
It doesn't have to be an actual functional ceiling -- just a customer-facing cost ceiling. Things don't have to really "freeze". Each service could have some defined "suspend" mode that attempts to minimize Ama
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by redler 10y ago
Good point. Turns out, the "prime" in "Amazon Prime" is a verb.
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by redler 10y ago
> Besides, liberated from corporate taxes, they'd have more freedom to increase wages. Are corporations desperately brainstorming to find ways to pay their employees more, only to be foiled by freedom-impinging corporate taxes? &
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by redler 10y ago
In a state like Wyoming there are about 190,000 people per elector. In California or Texas it's more like 700,000. The fundamental unit of a democracy should be the citizen, not the square mile. (Cue responses that it's not at all
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by redler 10y ago
While scientists will express their opinions of the data and findings of a study, the scientific method is not an op-ed piece. The great thing about science is that a study comes with a thesis, a description of assumptions, a discussion of
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by redler 10y ago
The actual Tacitus quote doesn't really serve your argument. It's "The more corrupt the government, the more numerous the laws." -- you've got it backwards. Complexity is one thing (although it should be obvious tha
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by redler 10y ago
Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
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by redler 10y ago
This is not unlike how an opposing party will criticize a bill based on its number of typed pages. The thump of a couple of inches of paper on a podium makes for great and reductive theater. It's likewise naïve to consider the number
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by redler 10y ago
There's a near future in which USB C will be as ubiquitous as A. It's the first standardized, reversible, durable, and versatile adapter -- and it's not Apple's invention. Apple is willing to annoy the margins to ensure
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by redler 10y ago
Apple wants to maximize profits, sure, but they also want the stickiness and network effects of an ecosystem. Which means building a large base of perpetual users to whom they can expose app stores and sell services. So planned obsolescence
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by redler 10y ago
> I can't use any of the TV station apps like NBC, etc, without already having a cable subscription, which basically misses the point True, but you can blame the existing contractual relationships among the cable providers, networks
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by redler 10y ago
With the touch bar, you could now have buttons (virtual, of course) with those labels and functions.
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by redler 10y ago
That's such a strange approach. The've marked you as a "hire" but not even discussed a range? Given how long this process sometimes takes, and that good people will have multiple offers (and typically an already comforta
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by redler 10y ago
"Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink." -- Martin Lomasney In a business context, I try to route substantive communications through email (or, if internal, through systems like Slack
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by redler 10y ago
What if it's an engineered molecule?
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by redler 10y ago
I've never seen this behavior with my own devices, and cursory searching turns up similar results. Certainly I could be wrong, so can you point me to any references that describe the "proximity not required" behavior?
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by redler 10y ago
Those codes come across as actual SMS messages to the associated phone number. It appears on your laptop only when the phone is near enough to it that the "continuity" feature is engaged. You should be safe from this threat as lon
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by redler 10y ago
One straightforward example would be feeding some kind of dashboard. Imagine a time-consuming query using a complex series of CTEs to build up or filter or reduce a very large set of rows, then running a bunch of "final" selects t
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by redler 10y ago
The lenses are very close together, so any 3D effect would be very subtle except perhaps in close-up/macro situations.
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by redler 10y ago
The real submission here should be a thought piece along the lines of "what the hell is going on over at the Economist?", providing this link as evidence of its decline.
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by redler 10y ago
You italicized "valuable features" and I understand why, but I think the trouble spot is actually the word "all"; your parenthetical about adding no value merely begs the question. I'd argue that, indeed, some val
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by redler 10y ago
The problem with this is that it imposes a membrane on the process that is only permeable to work that contains a shippable piece of user-facing software. It presupposes that all work can be divided into such pieces. And since that's n
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by redler 10y ago
Another way to look at this is that the crazy optimists who are the worst estimators never return (themselves eaten by predators, run out of water, hypothermia) or return empty handed, lowering their reproductive success. The optimists who
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by redler 10y ago
If it's been years, how do you know which of the 1700 are the relevant ones? Are you tagging or transcribing them? Seems like this would be a good use case for even moderately accurate transcription of the audio files by software -- th
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by redler 10y ago
An increasing number of terminals now reject the swipe, with the screen stating something like "this card has a chip, please insert and wait". Cashiers are starting to ask, before you swipe, "does your card have a chip?"
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by redler 10y ago
> ask this guy to confirm if he was indeed that William Johnson I think they now ask recipients of new endorsements to confirm before they're posted. So asking for a confirmation on something as potentially damaging as a news link s
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by redler 11y ago
When you say Telegram servers store plaintext "by default", does that imply this is not also true of their "Secret Chat" feature? That mode appears to behave as if it's exchanging keys and doing end-to-end encrypt
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by redler 11y ago
And lines of credit, leases, loans, insurance policies, corporate credit cards... One real-world indicator that your company is beginning to succeed is reaching the point that personal guarantees are no longer required.

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