wallywax

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by wallywax 13y ago
And $3.99/item 1-day shipping, which I find comes in handy quite often.
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by wallywax 13y ago
And Nigeria and Romania.
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by wallywax 13y ago
E-commerce that deals with physical goods does have a time delay, so I think you're really trying to say that it's not a good fit for digital goods sales rather than that it's not a good fit for e-commerce...
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by wallywax 13y ago
It's not just cheap internet access that has slow upstream. I have the second from the top tier of service from the fastest ISP in my area (a major and very affluent suburb of an extremely large US city) and my upstream is only 2mbps.
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by wallywax 13y ago
The "LinkedIn is useless" meme that seems popular here really baffles me, to be honest. Yes, there are many LinkedIn features that I don't get value from (including the news feed and endorsements). But I've found it invaluable for the one c
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by wallywax 13y ago
For a while (not sure if they're still doing it), they were checking IDs for multi-day ticket holders at Disneyland in California (no fingerprint readers there). It slowed the lines down massively. I've been to both parks many times, and th
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by wallywax 13y ago
They do it to curb sharing of multi-day tickets, which is prohibited by their terms & conditions. It's a relatively quick way to check that the person who first used the ticket is the same person who returned with it, rather than someon
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by wallywax 14y ago
> This means a project written and signed off circa 2011 requires mandatory engineering costs just to continue running in a functioning and supported fashion. Funny (?) thing is, as an engineer at Google, stuff like that happened to me
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by wallywax 14y ago
Could be. My account dates from 2006, and my userid is sub 50k.
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by wallywax 14y ago
Hmm. Perhaps that explains why I got an email from them saying my account was compromised. Specifically, it said "Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We've reset
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by wallywax 14y ago
Totally agree. My home automation system (a pretty extensive Control4 installation) works completely fine when my internet connection is down (except remote access of course), and that would be an absolute requirement for anything I'd insta
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by wallywax 14y ago
It's amazing. If that's what you want. If you want kids, have them. That's great, I'll be genuinely happy for you, and I'll come to their birthdays, graduations, and weddings. We don't want kids of our own, and are very satisfied and fulfil
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by wallywax 14y ago
I do this, and another "silly" thing I do is when I copy something to the clipboard, I often hit cmd-c three or four times quickly. I don't remember why or when I picked up this habit. I imagine maybe at some point I had a system or program
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by wallywax 14y ago
Fast food ads do not use plastic food, at least in the US. Yes, it is carefully styled, but it is real food.
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by wallywax 14y ago
Speak for yourself. My happiness went up massively when I finally left Seattle for California. And my feeling about that hasn't changed over time.
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by wallywax 14y ago
The press room site is not their main site, and I believe is not even run by Facebook. Many companies outsource their investor relations and press websites. None of Facebook's primary site is running ASP or anything Windows-related (they us
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by wallywax 14y ago
I can just imagine the HN article when someone tries to delete his Facebook account because he disagrees with some new feature, and they won't do it for 48 hours. I've been on the receiving end of "DELETE MY ACCOUNT!!!1!!1" requests, and I
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by wallywax 14y ago
I worked at Google for a long time and never encountered anyone with the title "architect" or with a similar job role.
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by wallywax 15y ago
It seems to fluctuate. I don't track it closely, but I know that there have been times I've bought machines and the memory from Apple was close enough in price to OWC or Crucial that I just went ahead and bought it from them for the conveni
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by wallywax 15y ago
That screenshot is NOT from 1995. It has a reference to zShops, which didn't launch until 1999.
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by wallywax 15y ago
Vic reports to the CEO, so Larry is the only "honcho" above Vic.
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by wallywax 15y ago
During the interview process, it is not clear which bucket you're being dropped in. Or indeed even that there are two buckets. This may have an impact on whether someone would accept an offer or not.
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by wallywax 15y ago
I have a laptop with SSD at work and an almost identical laptop at home, except it has a hard drive. There are unquestionably a lot of operations that the SSD makes much faster. But in normal day to day use, I can barely tell the difference
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by wallywax 15y ago
Are things really at a state where 35k is considered an impressive salary for a journalist in the US? I know programmers are spoiled, but I was kind of shocked at the implication that that was thought of as big bucks. Sad.
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by wallywax 15y ago
Programming in your spare time is much less attractive when your employer claims to own all the code you write.