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by vitd 11y ago
But that's not at all what happens. First, the plumbing company buys ad space from that morass of companies in the article's diagram. Then the add distribution network decides who sees the ads. And in the specific case we're
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by vitd 11y ago
But wouldn't it make sense to only do that if the return actually happens? It's not like Amazon doesn't know whether or not the item has been returned.
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by vitd 11y ago
Note the asterisk, though. Apparently a few shows are contractually obligated to include ads on Hulu, even with the "commercial-free" option.
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by vitd 11y ago
TiVo is still around and handles OTA just fine, as I understand it. (I use mine with cable and never watch anything live.)
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by vitd 11y ago
> Lack of refactoring support for Swift is currently baking my noodle, Yeah, I hear the refactoring tools are great, but they don't work with C++ either, which is what most of my source-base is. >as is the lack of a supported plu
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by vitd 11y ago
I just have to ask, given your name, are you from Gozo? I visited once about 7-8 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it!
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by vitd 11y ago
But it's not just ads. I don't want Google Analytics putting cookies on my machine and then tracking every other web site I go to. It's a privacy issue as much as an annoyance at ads.
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by vitd 11y ago
The "called in error" rate is not pretty rare. It's quite high in my experience. There are a number of reasons: 1) People who owe money often put fake phone numbers on forms so they can't be contacted. They will sometime
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by vitd 11y ago
While that's true, I've never seen a system that will randomize the spoofed number on every call. We regularly see the same number show up on our caller-ID for weeks on end. In fact, in one case the "I'm calling from Win
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by vitd 11y ago
I agree completely. I used rover.com once to find a pet sitter and found a great one. I don't need it anymore. Furthermore, they're doing the typical thing that businesses resort to when they're desperate. They're asking
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by vitd 11y ago
Good luck with that. If you look on a site like Stack Overflow at questions about even languages like C and C++, you'll see developers confusing Xcode with their language. With a name like "Visual F#" it must be 100 times wor
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by vitd 11y ago
Yes. A friend of mine is currently doing this. They used a fake name and paid with a pre-paid Amex "gift card". They had it mailed to a P.O. Box. I believe they may have used VPN and private browsing while ordering and looking at
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by vitd 11y ago
Here are some things I've done recently that seemed useful: 1) Rather than ask them to code something, give them some code and have them review it. I opened up a browser and went to code review.stackexchange.com and picked one in the i
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by vitd 11y ago
One concern I have is that they'll just move this one step further down the road. For example, I believe that you can get the address of a function like dlopen() by manually loading the bundle and looking up the function name (via some
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by vitd 11y ago
Seriously? I got through the first page and a half of smarmy pop-culture references and couldn't figure out what the heck the author was talking about, so I just stopped reading. More power to you if you understood it!
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by vitd 11y ago
I'm confused. They included instructions for updating Firefox and Chrome (web browser clients) to remove support for the older cipher suites. I was asking if there was a way to do the same for Safari.
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by vitd 11y ago
When you say "According to someone who works there" does "there" mean at 23andme, or at the 3rd party company?
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by vitd 11y ago
That was my first thought, as well. However, it did say that the FBI agent had a warrant to collect his DNA through a cheek swab and that he would have been compelled to comply had he refused.
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by vitd 11y ago
Anyone have a way to fix up Safari on OS X 10.11?
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by vitd 11y ago
One thing that helped me was to move. That's obviously a big step. I was unmarried at the time, no kids, and knew I wanted something different, so I found a job in a new city and just packed up and moved. If that's not in the card
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by vitd 11y ago
This sound about as useful as a man page. For me it often goes like this: "What's the command that shows me file system usage again?" > man -k file system usage result = 5 pages of matching commands, often poorly formatted
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by vitd 11y ago
One thing that appears to be happening is that some companies are selling information about which users are going to medical sites like WebMD and what they're viewing. I'm concerned that my insurance rates will change because I lo
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by vitd 11y ago
That doesn't tell you things like, "man it smells musty in here. I bet there's a leak somewhere!" or "when I'm downstairs and my spouse is upstairs, the noise when they walk around is unbelievable!"
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by vitd 11y ago
Personally, I think my media consumption has been increasing. I stopped listening to commercial radio over a decade ago because the ads were too annoying and frequent. I stopped watching live TV for the same reason and started using the DVR
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by vitd 11y ago
Do you have proof that this type of fraud is occurring? We hear this a lot in the United States about our welfare programs. They find one or two "welfare queens"[1] and claim that the whole system is fraudulent. It turns out that
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by vitd 11y ago
My experience is that the credit card company will contact you if the merchant contests your side of the story or if they are going to give you your money back. I've been on both sides of a chargeback. Though, it may depend on the spec
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by vitd 11y ago
You can look at other fields like classical music to predict what will happen. They have very high quality content, but the public isn't interested in it. As such, many orchestras are going bankrupt and closing down. It's unfortun
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by vitd 11y ago
Wendy Carlos is trans-gendered, so I'm guessing the name of the production company was a reference to that.
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by vitd 11y ago
Ha! I never noticed that Wendy Carlos' album was produced by "Trans-electronic Music Productions, Inc." As a kid I never made the connection.
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by vitd 11y ago
I have to wonder if this is just hype for the upcoming remake: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2058673/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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