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by ssharp 14y ago
Thee "best" and "worst" are subjective. You need to define criteria for what makes something the best. In Dustin's case maybe it was the total blend of style and function. But for many people, that isn't what makes it the best. The best may
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by ssharp 14y ago
I think you're just hitting on a case where cheaper stuff is substantially less useful than more expensive stuff. One of the issues with "The Best" was how poor of an example flatware is at doing that. Also, cost and utility are a sliding s
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by ssharp 14y ago
What you linked to would be referred to as "formal flatware". It's a totally different market than regular flatware. You're buying it because it has some intricate design or is made from some sort of expensive material. The pricing of it is
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by ssharp 14y ago
IANAL, but while I think it's nice that they give these sorts of freedom, this sort of "no rules!" attitude can become a liability as a company grows. When Jane gets told, "sorry you can't take 10 weeks of vacation this year", even though T
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by ssharp 14y ago
There is a link at the bottom of the page to: http://www.4president.org/ This site has archives of campaign websites, website features, and campaign ads. I think it's fascinating to see the paradigm shifts in web design indicated by these
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by ssharp 14y ago
One recent experience I had left a bad taste in my mouth. I applied for a position, did a quick screen interview, took a 2-hour online IQ and math test, did a one hour phone interview, and then did an in-person interview where I had to take
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by ssharp 14y ago
Hipmunk's visualization is a great way to show the flight times. I also love the tabs they use to open different searches. I live equal distance to three airports and can quickly compare prices at each.
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by ssharp 14y ago
Hipmunk definitely does one way, just don't fill in a return city :)
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by ssharp 14y ago
Part of the problem I have with Dustin's article are the examples. I think some are ridiculous. I spent about 10 minutes picking out flatware at the store 10 years ago and haven't thought about it since. The stuff looks the same as it did b
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by ssharp 14y ago
I think there are lots of factors to consider, but the electoral college limits, to a certain extent, the "ground game" advantage Obama had. This is making an assumption that Obama's ground game was scalable, because if we went on popular v
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by ssharp 14y ago
Silver's model isn't particularly advanced on election day. The further you get from election day, the more advanced his forecast is, accounting for various factors and ebbs and flows in polling data -- convention bounces, economic news, et
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by ssharp 14y ago
Maybe they would have done better on their own, but I was much happier to see them get swallowed by the NYT rather than a site like the Huffington Post, where the association would lose them much more goodwill. The things that annoy me with
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by ssharp 14y ago
I guess it's clear if your voting entirely on one issue, which is what the OP is about. For me, the alternative is a Republican candidate, who if he wins, has the potential to change the majority of the Senate, and has taken positions I do
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by ssharp 14y ago
I think it's irresponsible to say "don't vote for this incumbent because he/she supported SOPA" without offering any explanation on the alternative candidates' positions on SOPA. It seems probable that some portion of the opponents might al
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by ssharp 14y ago
I'd rather get 1/1 on a bet bookmakers are laying 1/4 on than make my confidence more visible :)
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by ssharp 14y ago
This is a great use case. My sister-in-law gave her mom her Facebook account login so she can see pictures of the grandkids without having to sign up for a Facebook account. This would be so much better.
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by ssharp 14y ago
The margin between the the social buttons and the text is too narrow. You can still read the content but it's distracting.
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by ssharp 14y ago
There appears to be a huge gap (maybe sweet spot?) in WP hosting. The lower end is well covered by companies like WP Engine, Page.ly, and ZippyKid. The high end is covered by Wordpress.com. Somewhere in the middle, and probably closer to th
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by ssharp 14y ago
Enterprise software sales techniques are often mocked but they're clearly producing results. If you're an enterprise buyer, you don't care about a hip look and getting through the sales process as fast as possible, like many small customers
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by ssharp 14y ago
Campers (and I'd imagine RVs) are much the same. Once they hit 15-20 years old, as long as long as the interior is decent and you keep them waterproof, they won't really lose value. Replacing components like the fridge or water heater is pr
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by ssharp 14y ago
It's pretty obvious that more and more things are converging to the phone. We've already seen how modern smartphones have markets like the point-and-shoot camera and portable music player. It makes sense to carry around one device that does
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by ssharp 14y ago
You would do just that. I doubt, however, this website is targeted at the Hacker News crowd. If my inlaws wanted to get rid of their landline and get individual cell phones and needed their old number to transfer out, they wouldn't port the
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by ssharp 14y ago
I don't understand why the author seemingly understands and uses opportunity costs in his argument against college, but ignores them when advocating that people learn poker. Poker is a means to earn some money. Along the way, you pick up so
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by ssharp 14y ago
College is proven way to improve productivity and lifetime earnings. And it's scaled fairly well. And unlike poker, it's not zero-sum. "In fact, apart from very specific cases, I think that school is a bad thing, not worth doing even if it
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by ssharp 14y ago
I started thinking about a similar concept a few months ago. When researching if to connecting various things in your life to some sort of central, network connected, interface already existed, I wasn't entirely surprised to find out there
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by ssharp 14y ago
I've been using Bootstrap more and more for mostly one reason: it's responsive grid. I'm sure there are alternatives, but it required very little effort to find Bootstrap and it does what I need it to do effectively. The other features are
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by ssharp 14y ago
$10 for one-hour delivery and $4 for three-hour delivery seems extraordinarily cheap, given the someone is actually going to a grocery store, buying this stuff, and delivering it to you. If those are the actual operations, it appears like i
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by ssharp 14y ago
If this is going to be a competitive feature from Microsoft, they need to get it in the hands of as many people as possible.
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by ssharp 14y ago
I worked in a call center the summer in between high school and college, and the company I worked at was very cognizant of the various laws. This was before the federal no-call list was enacted, but I'm positive they strive for compliance w
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by ssharp 14y ago
Here is a Matt Cutts article saying that it doesn't really matter: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

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