umsm

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   by umsm 13y ago

   Agreed! It will take time (at least 2 years) to determine what it should do and the direction that it will head.
2. 302.▲
   by umsm 13y ago

   I dont think you looked hard enough. :) The late 90s to about 2004 most good domains were being registered. Now we have to settle for foreign TLDs.
3. 303.▲
   by umsm 13y ago

   I almost agree with you, but I put all reserved words (including ON) on a new line.
4. 304.▲
   by umsm 13y ago

   Some people value their privacy so they don't use social apps.
5. 305.▲
   by umsm 13y ago

   Why declare to the world your next phone? Buy whatever makes you happy and use whatever you like using. These discussions go nowhere quickly. IMO, you will be switching back to apple.
6. 306.▲
   by umsm 13y ago

   Let's talk about privacy: Does it exist? Is this something to worry about?
7. 307.▲
   by umsm 13y ago

   If you don't need email notifications, then it's not a problem. One nice feature from gmail/yahoo/outlook/etc.: temporary email addresses that forward to your email. This would solve the problem. Or, maybe alternative notification methods a
8. 308.▲
   by umsm 13y ago

   Upon a password reset submit, check if the hash(email_submit) exists, if so, email the password reset instructions to the email_submit address :)
9. 309.▲
   by umsm 13y ago

   So, if after one year, they introduce a new car (technically better) and you wanted to upgrade to that newer car, how much would that cost? Let's say that car is given to you as a loaner and you had 8k miles on your car. Is the value of you
10. 310.▲
    by umsm 13y ago

    Wow, I wonder how this will fare for the company 1 year later. This car is very tempting with each day that passes...
11. 311.▲
    by umsm 13y ago

    Key condoms!
12. 312.▲
    by umsm 13y ago

    You may have electrical problems (or any number of other problems) that may effect your judgement of CFLs. I was just saying: An "instant" on and off light will affect your vision differently than one that (for example) dims slowly for a fe
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    by umsm 13y ago

    You're paying for the brand, that's true, but not $25k of that is the brand. You have to consider the materials, manufacturing process of individual pieces, labor, marketing expenses, service, etc. Generally: Companies try to give you the b
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    by umsm 13y ago

    I would consider a mid-range lexus as a regular luxury car. There are extremes (anything over $120k: Bentley, Maybach, etc.) but those are out of the reach of the masses. My point is this: If a Tesla would be a petrol-powered vehicle, how m
15. 315.▲
    by umsm 13y ago

    I don't think he was referring to the math involved (even though he wrote it) ;)
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    by umsm 13y ago

    This made me curious too... What is the cost breakdown of a Tesla car? What part(s) do we need to improve to lower the price to that of a regular luxury car?
17. 317.▲
    by umsm 13y ago

    Agreed. You can be penny-wise but dollar-stupid. Many times, these "bargains" you scour the internet for usually cost more in the end. For the few times it doesn't, oh well.
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    by umsm 13y ago

    In my opinion, when a company does this to you, you should leave. Immediately. This is a problem and we need to look for solutions. Why should I continue to support a company that doesn't care? Wouldn't you rather pay a little more and have
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    by umsm 13y ago

    Home Depot has CFTs on sale for less than $3 for a pack of 4. A few months ago, they had a sale: 4 bulbs for $1 :D Needless to day, I bought a box full of them.
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    by umsm 13y ago

    If a bulb slowly becomes brighter, it's easier on the eyes.
21. 321.▲
    by umsm 13y ago

    The point is to take your money to be "the first"... akin to camping outside the apple store?
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    by umsm 13y ago

    This isn't accurate. The infrastructure is setup once they started billing people. I think the support side is what will eat at the profits... a million $20/month users can be very demanding until they figure out what they're doing.
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    by umsm 13y ago

    You're assuming that everyone that enters the states received a visa. This is very far from the current state of affairs. Although I don't know exactly how the author came into the country, there are countless ways to sneak in.
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    by umsm 13y ago

    I'm surprised that DreamHost is listed at over 29%...
25. 325.▲
    by umsm 13y ago

    I think everyone is over-reacting... He clearly states that they're thinking about it just like everyone else...
26. 326.▲
    by umsm 13y ago

    I wonder how true this is. The older a tech is, the cheaper it is to build and easier to refine.
27. 327.▲
    by umsm 13y ago

    I think it's because their iphone 4S was so good that most people weren't willing to "upgrade". It's getting hard to justify buying a new phone every year considering the great advancements made to them in the past few years.
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    by umsm 13y ago

    > they're stuck with new, bad habits to unlearn. I think the point of this is not to optimize for the sake of optimization but to solve a problem. People have problems and they look for solutions. They try anything that can help once al
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    by umsm 13y ago

    Wow, I was floored at how slow Symfony is... I have a feeling it's ORM that's killing these frameworks in the DB portion.
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    by umsm 13y ago

    By definition: "[DDos] is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.". When I see "DDoS" I always thought it was malicious...