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by smspence 13y ago
So you've never purchased anything from the internet before, ever? Honest question, not trying to sound snarky. I'm just wondering how else you could pay for something online. Paying directly with a checking account, by entering your rou
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by smspence 14y ago
lol, thanks for the math lesson. When I said "in this situation", I wasn't referring to your hypothetical situation where the alternative is to tear up sidewalk and run new power lines to the trash cans. I was talking about the article, wh
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by smspence 14y ago
In this situation, why would solar power alone account for ANY cost savings? They just replaced traditional garbage cans (that require no electricity/power at all) with compactors that run on solar power and send out an electronic message
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by smspence 14y ago
The article makes it pretty clear. Third paragraph: "...communications systems for real-time reporting on a bin’s capacity. By allowing municipalities to service the BigBellys only when they are full, they are saving hundreds of thousands o
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by smspence 14y ago
Seriously, most people you know change their email address more than once per year? Honestly, MOST of the people you know do that? I highly doubt that.
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by smspence 14y ago
You work at Valve? That's cool, and this may sound kind of dumb but oh well: you guys are my heroes. I am an engineer who does a lot of computer graphics programming and I have always looked up to you guys.
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by smspence 14y ago
I bet he wants $5,000,000 after taxes. Knowing that Uncle Sam will take half of whatever he sells for, he asks for $10,000,000.
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by smspence 14y ago
Wow, what website am I on right now? I can't believe these pedantic crap comments are on Hacker News.
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by smspence 14y ago
"I'd feel like I have to constantly jump between computers in case I missed an important email or some relevant news broke." Sounds like you really need to try this then. Seriously, don't let your "fear of missing out" cripple you. http:/
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by smspence 14y ago
I was wondering the same thing.... I was also wondering how he could NOT just get another iPhone for less than $1000? Seriously, if my iPhone died tomorrow, and I had no insurance, I could still easily buy one on ebay for like $300 or $40
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by smspence 14y ago
Put your phone on silent mode, and work until you don't feel like working anymore. Then check your phone whenever you feel like it. Your phone calls don't need to control you. You can just check your phone later and see if you have missed
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by smspence 14y ago
"If I plan on waking at a time, and I KNOW there is no clock to wake me, I nearly always wake on time." This makes no sense. Yes, around the holidays if you don't have to go to work, it's fine to just wake up whenever your body decides to w
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by smspence 14y ago
I think that's what he was getting at with saying "best you". Being the "best you" that you can be would presumably mean reaching beyond the "you" that you currently are.
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by smspence 14y ago
That's not what I am saying at all. Maybe I am just doing a poor job of articulating my point. All I am asking is for someone to explain to my WHY this is worth getting upset over? Here is one of my other responses on the matter, copy-pas
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by smspence 14y ago
I still do not understand the outrage over this. How would the new TOS actually negatively affect the users? What would ACTUALLY happen to them that is so horrible? Here is a hypothetical: 1. I post a photo of a dinner table at a restaura
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by smspence 14y ago
And... ? Can this person no longer post photos to Instagram now? What has Instagram done to this person that is so terrible?
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by smspence 14y ago
"...he's going to let strangers pay to wear our clothes..." How does this match up with Instagram's TOS in any way? I still do not understand what Instagram is doing that is getting everyone so riled up.
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by smspence 14y ago
The "creations" that people are posting are low-res cellphone pics of food and random scenery with a faux-retro filter added. Why so serious?
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by smspence 14y ago
But the comments here are just the exact same opinions/comments that you see/hear everywhere else from people who are arguing about gun control. Nothing valuable or new here at all.
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by smspence 14y ago
I love stories like this, because it shows what can be accomplished when you focus on something and just get shit done. He didn't mess around, he just said "I want to build a website", so he started building a website. When he came across
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by smspence 14y ago
The problem for me is that it NEVER just becomes background noise that I can ignore. It is just constant, never-ending distraction that significantly reduces my productivity.
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by smspence 14y ago
I would LOVE to work in an office like that. Mine is so noisy, it drives me insane and I cannot concentrate on my work.
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by smspence 14y ago
If you're wondering what personal and private information is in "iTunes Music Library.xml", couldn't you open it up and look for yourself? "What happens if a bunch of users have information in that file that they have pirated songs and the
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by smspence 14y ago
But then what would all the blogs complain about?
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by smspence 14y ago
"1 and 3 - that's their ages rather than their names" Maybe it's still too early in the morning for me, but I laughed at that way harder than I should have. Haha, thanks for that.
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by smspence 14y ago
I am using Firefox 15 on Windows XP. I had no problems whatsoever. I opened up windows task manager, and watched the mem usage for firefox.exe. Before navigating to that webpage, it was using 150 MB of memory. I went to the webpage and s
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by smspence 14y ago
...who cares? Do you have any thoughts or comments about the actual topic of the post? This is an article written by one of the most innovative, influential, and successful software developers in the world, giving a lot of interesting insig
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by smspence 14y ago
"the extra screen real estate will have a widget bar, showing things like the weather or stock price" I highly doubt it. That would be very un-Apple. I think there are a lot of legacy apps that will scale automatically to utilize the extr
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by smspence 14y ago
Since when does eBay scrape and serve up Craigslist ads? Has there been some news that eBay is going to start doing this?
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by smspence 14y ago
"...if she lists that couch on ebay as well she is technically in breach of craigslist's terms of service." No, I do not think that has anything to do with the new craiglist terms of service. The new terms of service just prevents other pe

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