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by zippergz 9y ago
Ask your parents to explain cryptocurrency. It's not about wall clock time. It's about milestones.
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by zippergz 9y ago
Interesting concept, but as mentioned in the article, the severely limited list of destinations really limits the utility.
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by zippergz 9y ago
I don't have any watches with lights (mine are all mechanical; a few have glow in the dark features), so that's not something I ever did in the past. How is it different? I don't know how to describe it really. But as someone
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by zippergz 9y ago
I love my Apple Watch, but it's worse at telling time for me because the screen isn't always on. I can't just glance at it casually, I have to move my wrist in a very specific way to make it wake up.
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by zippergz 9y ago
I think that's a great point, and definitely hard for a huge company like P&G. But for a small company, it can be easier, because when your volumes are low enough, it's often very easy to directly see sales uplift in your top
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by zippergz 9y ago
I almost feel like there are two factions. I'm pretty similar to you. I have clicked on ads a handful of times, but it's very rare. However, I have worked in jobs where I had visibility into the metrics, and I have seen internet a
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by zippergz 9y ago
By the way, the California law does not ban texting. It bans ALL use of a cell phone unless it's in hands-free mode. "California’s distracted driving law prohibits all use of a handheld wireless device while driving, unless the mo
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by zippergz 9y ago
I don't entirely disagree. Screwing with the radio while driving can be distracting no matter what kind of radio you have. But on my current car, I control the radio with click wheels on the steering wheel and a small display right in
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by zippergz 9y ago
Yes, that's one of the biggest things I've always disliked about the Model S when I've been in them, but at least it's not the only way to do things.
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by zippergz 9y ago
Again, maybe it's just me, but I think touch matters because with physical dials I can find them by feel and manipulate them without looking away at all. I'm sure as you become more familiar with the touch screen, it gets easier,
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by zippergz 9y ago
Southern California.
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by zippergz 9y ago
Am I the only person in the world who thinks that having a touch screen as the primary interface in a car is a horrible idea? Why is it illegal to mess with our phones while driving but it's ok if it's a built-in touch screen?
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by zippergz 9y ago
The reason I use Redfin is because of their technology. Their site, apps, and (probably most importantly) alerts are massively better than what I've seen from any other brokerage. Sure, someone else could build the same thing, but thus
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by zippergz 9y ago
There are a lot of nice things about Seattle, but I moved away after over a decade because I found that almost never seeing the sun was making me incredibly depressed. Moving to a place that's sunny has improved my quality of life even
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by zippergz 9y ago
It seems like a lot of people are trying to solve your problem, but I'll just answer the direct question as a data point. Yes, I am still having a good time on Twitter, and I have been since shortly after it launched. It has definitely
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by zippergz 9y ago
I defended Waze in this thread, but frankly it's absurd to me that someone would argue that a process which requires several taps on specific parts of the screen (like reporting a stopped car) is the same level of impact as other GPS a
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by zippergz 9y ago
I hate the interface, but I find that it does a better job of routing me around bad traffic than Google Maps does (even though it supposely takes Waze data into account), and MUCH better than Apple Maps. So I use it every day for my commute
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by zippergz 9y ago
Yeah, I had that bug too (or another one that caused similar behavior). Great fun. Edit: I realize my comments may sound a bit unfair. I don't want to come across as saying "they had a bug in their software, so they suck!" I
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by zippergz 9y ago
Another issue is that, at least in my experience, the upgrade experience can be a bit fraught. Especially if you're using packages. I've been using FreeBSD intermittently since somewhere around 1997 or 1998, so I'm not a comp
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by zippergz 9y ago
My experience is that the "whatever reason" to remove features is that they're a pain to maintain (often in ways that aren't obvious to the end user) and only a tiny number of people use them. It sucks for the people who
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by zippergz 9y ago
Maybe your experience differs from mine, but getting lots of applications has never been the problem. Finding the handful of those applicants who can actually program effectively is the hard part. I'm consistently stunned by how many c
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by zippergz 9y ago
I think this is highly dependent on the company. I've worked at a few of the top few tech cos as both an engineer and a product manager, and I don't recall working closely with anyone who came from consulting, although there are p
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by zippergz 9y ago
It's probably a coincidence, but just this weekend for the first time ever, I noticed my YouTube streaming at visibly lower quality (my provider is Cox). It happened all weekened, intermittently. Nothing else seemed slow, and numerous
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by zippergz 9y ago
I feel like there must be something I'm missing here. Isn't providing health care the core purpose of a hospital? Why are they outsourcing that? Outsourcing might make sense for ancillary stuff (e.g. running the cafeteria), but I&
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by zippergz 9y ago
I don't know. I could easily see myself being the type of person who would have a lot of fun (and get a lot of fulfillment) during a bootcamp, but be bored out of my mind shortly into my first real job. I get a lot more enjoyment out o
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by zippergz 9y ago
Yes, this breadth-first description is a good way to characterize my reason for having lots of tabs (though I don't have nearly as many as some people here say they have). One additional factor is that I think I was trained to do that
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by zippergz 9y ago
Not true of two big (and expensive) ones I use: Adobe and Autocad. I used to upgrade every couple of versions. This has ended up costing me way more. But I still pay it because I need the software. So I guess they win...
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by zippergz 9y ago
I have a few of them. I like them, and haven't encountered any issues with them. I also had a first gen and didn't have any problems with that. That's not to discount that other people did have problems, or the fact that it&#
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by zippergz 9y ago
The only thing I'll say is that it is not safe to say that Prime Day was "a bust" based solely on packages being sent through USPS (which is what it sounds like you have insider data on)....
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by zippergz 9y ago
Interesting. I have both, in several of the same rooms, and I find that I use Sonos all the time and almost never use Alexa. But I think I'm the oddball in the world, because I find voice control (I have both Alexa and Siri in my life)

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