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by ticks 14y ago
The problem is, there's often too much of a focus on design. Apple's power supplies for their laptops are really expensive, yet they offer limited interchangeability for the cables, so if a plug fails (due to the design) then most people en
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by ticks 14y ago
The good thing about QR codes is there's lots of capacity. Hashtags would become more complex and longer as additional locations are included, whereas QR codes look the same.
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by ticks 14y ago
I don't know, seems more childish than nerdy to me. Being nerdy is being enthusiastic about something, whereas all this Ninja stuff is like escaping from the real world and hiding in your childhood imagination.
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by ticks 14y ago
Presumably the "crapware" is subsidising the price. Using the term "crapware" is a bit loaded and borderline swearing, it just doesn't seem like a good technical term to use - even though I don't like the stuff myself.
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by ticks 14y ago
If someone's complaining about the size of a monitor as a reason for leaving then there's a good chance that it isn't the monitors! People don't like burning bridges when they leave a job, so they are highly unlikely to say the real reason
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by ticks 14y ago
Hate to say it, but I suspect that showing photos will put some customers off because the products don't look substantial enough. I realise that there are overheads and that your service is presumably aimed at people with a high enough disp
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by ticks 14y ago
Website owners don't like CPC because the advertisers try to push branded ads that don't ask for a click (essentially free advertising). It was only with the advent of Adsense that CPC became acceptable due to super efficient targeting, and
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by ticks 14y ago
BitTorrent moves the bandwidth load towards the street-level networking gear, which is expensive to upgrade because there's lots of it. The copyright lobbies just give them a convenient excuse for getting rid of the problem.
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by ticks 14y ago
Those high-carb diets were probably useful several decades ago, especially in countries that suffered from the world wars. I think it had good intentions but due to those commercial influences, the advice wasn't adapted to fit modern lifest
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by ticks 14y ago
$30 million sounds like a lot for promoting a brand for free on one platform.
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by ticks 14y ago
I have only recently started looking at the Raspberry Pi, one thing that struck me was the use of SD memory for storage... I have used USB sticks to boot Linux before and they only lasted a few months of continuous use. Perhaps I'm missing
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by ticks 14y ago
Probably means highbrow rather than class level - you can be lower class and still appreciate high culture. Though I personally don't get Quora - unless it's some sort of faux research department for one of the big tech companies (i.e. dest
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by ticks 14y ago
I mostly see his name popping up in works by Curtis and similar writers, which makes me wary by default.
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by ticks 14y ago
In relation to point one. Everyone is biased no matter how hard they try not to be, at least with Portillo you know what you are getting and can treat it with a pinch of salt.
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by ticks 14y ago
It's one of the reasons for gravitating towards open source and specialist firmwares. These sorts of devices are too sophisticated to be trustworthy.
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by ticks 14y ago
I think what outsiders don't realise (due to this hype) is that most of the CCTV isn't linked together. The majority of it is privately run by local businesses and households - it is used after a crime is committed to provide evidence of sa
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by ticks 14y ago
All news channels are skewed one way or another, RT is no different. I suggest that it's a step up from CCTV though. Either way, if you plan to watch a rolling news channel, watch as many different ones as you can.
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by ticks 14y ago
I just like everything to be upfront with no hidden costs, rather than having the social pressures of paying for other people's employees. For example, would I receive a lower level of service than new customers if I returned after not tipp
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by ticks 14y ago
Not being from the States I really don't like tipping, I guess at least with this system it gets rid of the variables, like is tipping expected? How much is acceptable? etc. To me, tipping is just a sign that a business isn't charging enoug
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by ticks 14y ago
I think the UKs main problem is alcohol abuse, which has a tendency to fuel violence - thankfully the violence is mostly limited to pointy things due to guns being banned.
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by ticks 14y ago
Several months is also a long time in tech. An opportunity for FB to reconsider the deal? After all, it seems like it was arranged on a whim.
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by ticks 14y ago
One thing to bear in mind is that Opera employs "web openers" who will lobby and actively help Google to support the browser (so that "try me" link may not be as superficial as it looks). That said, blocking IE is silly.
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by ticks 14y ago
Even then, lifetime subscriptions were rendered useless in the UK when TiVo dropped support for the original product and teamed up with a cable company. So it was neither a lifetime subscription for the hardware nor the customer.
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by ticks 14y ago
Just a side note. I noticed that when you quoted the first line, you subconsciously added the first two contracted "is" words. When I read the text, I found the first line difficult to read due to the contractions. I wonder why they did it
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by ticks 14y ago
I cannot comprehend why they even thought about allowing the use of a reward scheme on an unlimited product. Reward schemes are there to increase the purchases of one-off products, whereas you want to deter unlimited customers from abusing
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by ticks 14y ago
There are quite a few forums out there that do seed swaps/parcels for established members. You can often get rare varieties for very little cost, while passing some of your own collection on for others to grow. It is probably something to t
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by ticks 14y ago
I agree, but I am not so bothered with that these days... you can set permissions within FB so that anything an app posts will only be seen by yourself.
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by ticks 14y ago
One thing I notice about public transport - especially the London Underground and double decker buses in general - is my head often touches (or is very near) the top without wearing a hat. So, I am not sure how the story holds up. Unless pr
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by ticks 14y ago
Over the years, I have come to realise that even the third normal form is perhaps too much of an overhead for web apps. I guess that's why we have all these modern alternative DBs.
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by ticks 14y ago
Having attended several conferences and paid for the tickets, I can only conclude that they aren't worth the price. It's a good excuse if you want to travel far or if your employer is paying though. Those that benefit most are the speakers,

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