sarah2079

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by sarah2079 13y ago
The app store is so painfully slow even over wifi. It used to be much better before the switch to the screenshot-heavy layout. I like the screenshots in theory, but it is so slow that it makes browsing apps feel like a huge chore.
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by sarah2079 13y ago
This is a great idea. I once had a (US domestic) flight cancelled at the last minute because there weren't enough people on it, and all the airline offered to do was put me in a hotel overnight and pay for my meals while I waited for a
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by sarah2079 13y ago
Yes. And these are problems that need addressing. Especially when the people who are doing worse are not even the ones earning the low income, just those with the bad fortune of having low income parents.
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by sarah2079 13y ago
The FDIC limit is now $250k. It was originally raised as a temporary measure in fall 2008, but the higher limit has now been made permanent.
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by sarah2079 13y ago
These maps are really interesting, although I agree that whether they are actually measuring gentrification is debateable. I would have found the site a lot easier to use if there were a big map view of the whole country where you could sel
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by sarah2079 13y ago
Prop 13 helps to maintain the economic dominance of those who got here first though, which is why property taxes are often complained about in CA, even by those who tend not to complain about taxes.
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by sarah2079 13y ago
This isn't just your phone. I encounter this specific problem a lot on an iPhone 5 running iOS 6. (And it is just one of the many irritating bugs with mobile sites that I see regularly).
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by sarah2079 13y ago
1 & 2 agree with my experience, and I am very sedentary during work hours.
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by sarah2079 13y ago
This is very helpful, thanks. I was very surprised when I first learned that AMT will cause you to owe tax on your gains when exercising options, even if they are only on paper. (If the company is public or there is a private market, fine,
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by sarah2079 13y ago
Talking with Comcast on the phone can seem like talking to someone from another planet. When I moved last year and needed to move my service with me, I was instructed to just bring the Comcast box to the new place myself, and then call a sp
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by sarah2079 13y ago
This is an awesome idea. I would love the option to upload a short video clip instead of a gif though, and have it take 10 evenly spaced frames from the video. My nieces (ages 8 & 10) would love to use this to make prints of themselves
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by sarah2079 13y ago
I was able to get my GAE costs way down by focusing on minimizing DB writes. Some tips: - Instead of storing an array in the database directly, store it as a json string. storing an array uses a DB write for every array element. - Don'
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by sarah2079 13y ago
My insurance was billed $50,000 for my extremely uncomplicated vaginal birth. They didn't pay that much because of negotiated discounts, but that was the bill, and is what I would have been charged without insurance. (I live in the US)
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by sarah2079 14y ago
Yes, this is it exactly. I have never even bothered to price it out per liter, even if it cost a bit more it would be worth not having to lug bottles of carbonated water home.
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by sarah2079 14y ago
They are going through a resurgence, but from what I can tell it is mostly driven by people who want to make healthier carbonated drinks at home (like carbonated water + a bit of juice), not by people wanting to make a cheaper alternative t
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by sarah2079 14y ago
Yeah, I was disappointed that they mentioned the 96% female figure and then didn't discuss it at all. It was more an article about why there are still so many secretaries, not why they are still mostly women.
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by sarah2079 14y ago
Would you mind giving a quick summary of the types of screening you suggest?
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by sarah2079 14y ago
While I didn't like the page divider in this demo, I also don't like having to see the screen whir by when you hit the space bar. Having the page flash past in the same direction you are trying to track with your eyes is not comfortable for
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by sarah2079 14y ago
It drives me nuts that someone I hate created a book that I would very much like to read. I wish there were a way to buy this without supporting the king of patent trolls.
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by sarah2079 14y ago
My favorite jar opener is a rubber band looped around the lid. The fat ones from asparagus work well. I agree that measuring cups & spoons and oven mitts are a big oversight though, and the inclusion of the ice cream maker is just stran
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by sarah2079 14y ago
If you want another option for buying good quality stuff at a reasonable price, check out a restaurant supply store. I bought some of my pots at one, and really good quality SS 2-quart pot with a heavy bottom was about $25 new. I have never
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by sarah2079 14y ago
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/GenericKe...
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by sarah2079 14y ago
Yeah, in general the pattern for getting me to sign up for a site is something like this is: 1. Click links to a website that come up while searching for something or reading other sites 2. Notice that you are starting to see consistently g
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by sarah2079 14y ago
This part of the article jumped out at me as well. SF residents of rent controlled apartments beware! This is the perfect excuse for you to be evicted. Not sure if you actually need the whole fake customer scheme you describe though, I am s
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by sarah2079 14y ago
I have added ads to formerly ad-free apps, but I always, always make the ads conditional on whether the user is a new downloader or an updater in these cases. This is not that hard to do, and it is not worth upsetting existing users to get
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by sarah2079 14y ago
This doesn't seem correct. Has iOS revenue ever shown even the slightest hint of contracting in the past? Plus I saw a great revenue boost in November thanks to Thanksgiving.
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by sarah2079 14y ago
Once I called Wells Fargo to ask about a fee on my account that didn't make sense, and when I looked back later I noticed they had added a charge of $2 for the privilege of talking to them on the phone about the original suspicious fee. The
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by sarah2079 14y ago
I really like that I can trust Amazon to keep AWS prices reasonable. I have used both AWS and App Engine, and while I love App Engine for ease of use, the pricing changes still make me feel skittish about using it for big projects even thou
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by sarah2079 14y ago
English professors maybe not, but for a lot of departments professors have good business options that should give them similar leverage, and it doesn't seem to help them at all. Also at Stanford my impression is that a lot of the deans and
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by sarah2079 14y ago
Ah, the football coach argument.

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