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by zippergz 10y ago
I'm a car enthusiast, and I was a manual transmission purist for many, many years. But then I had to be honest with myself, and admit that the VAST majority of my driving is commuting in traffic. And that driving is much less annoying
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by zippergz 10y ago
I take it you don't spend a lot of time on car forums. People complain about this kind of stuff all the time.
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by zippergz 10y ago
How does the service you're responsible for work when DNS stops functioning?
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by zippergz 10y ago
Those cost of living things never make sense to me. Housing isn't the only cost in our lives. When I want to buy a car, computer, cell phone, or vacation, they cost exactly the same whether I live in California or Georgia (ok, sales ta
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by zippergz 10y ago
I'm less worried about the creepy factor, and more about the nuance that I think would be hard to encapsulate in a user profile. There are a lot of complex factors that go into a decision. It can't be boiled down to "I always
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by zippergz 10y ago
The number one "family tech support" question I get these days is "why doesn't my internet work?" Usually meaning it's too slow, drops out, or doesn't work in certain parts of the house. Often they've
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by zippergz 10y ago
Even when price is no concern to me, I am pretty picky about the exact arrangements. Which seats at the concert? Which restaurant, what reservation time? Which airline and seat on the plane (for the also common travel example)? Etc. Yeah, I
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by zippergz 10y ago
Dismissing a company because one engineer there is bad at interviewing seems potentially short-sighted. First, you're getting a single data point. And second, how the person operates in interviews quite likely has nothing to do with ho
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by zippergz 10y ago
> It is amazing to me that people care so much about what other people think; they want to be told what they should and should not like. This is an amazingly uncharitable read on the reason that food critics exist. How about this version
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by zippergz 10y ago
I have a single unifi Ac pro covering 3700sf and four bedrooms extremely well. (Two stories, not 3700sf on one level).
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by zippergz 10y ago
Admittedly I haven't tried the newest models, but my experience with Linksys hardware and either ddwrt or tomato was pretty bad. Run for a couple of days and then require a power cycle. Seemed like a hardware issue.
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by zippergz 10y ago
I hate the camera bulge, but I've had an iPhone 6 since they first day they were available, and the camera lens is still in pristine shape with no case, and no particularly special care.
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by zippergz 10y ago
The button on the keyboard literally says "control" or "ctrl" on it. How could that possibly not be easier to figure out than "^" or "C-"?
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by zippergz 10y ago
I use FreeBSD+ZFS rather than FreeNAS, but it's the same idea. I store all of my photos and videos, all of my music, and all of my movies. The music and movies are served via Plex and Sonos to various parts of the house, and I use Ligh
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by zippergz 10y ago
For a single datapoint, my iPhone 6 running iOS 10 on AT&T does not seem to get an IPv6 address (it does on my home network, but not on AT&T LTE).
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by zippergz 10y ago
> 1. call the merchant that charged the fraudulent charge, and attempt to get them to void it. This was literally as pointless as it sounds. For any merchant who knows what they're doing, this is FAR from pointless. It's much c
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by zippergz 10y ago
I think expecting business to know what they want is a mistake. I'm not much of an agile true believer, but as a former developer who is now "management" (shudder), I have never-ending frustration when teams expect full, pe
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by zippergz 10y ago
I'm probably one of the biggest cat lovers you'll ever meet, but I don't see a problem with this. It's his yard, so he has the right to decide who hangs out there, and a lawn sprinker is a relatively humane (yet effectiv
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by zippergz 10y ago
I've used Photons for a bunch of projects, and they're great. They do sometimes get into weird states that require a reboot. And I'm not a huge fan of the web IDE, but there are workarounds (and sometimes I just bite the bull
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by zippergz 10y ago
+1. I absolutely do not miss seasons in Southern California. On the contrary, I'm much happier when I (almost) constantly have great weather.
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by zippergz 10y ago
It seems to me that this rule is beneficial to the companies, which I think is the right side for YC to err on.
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by zippergz 10y ago
Credit card attached to the registrar account expires/gets canceled and the reminder emails go to an email address no one is monitoring.
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by zippergz 10y ago
This is true, but not everyone wants decision making power. Some people want to be promoted simply for more money, or to feel a sense of progression. While there are flaws to this approach, it's nice to let people continue to get more
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by zippergz 10y ago
Of course, if you get a job at any of the big names, they'll make you sign papers saying they own everything you invent that's related to anything they do (which is just about everything in tech for the top companies). I don'
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by zippergz 10y ago
The big tech companies are VERY standardized in their compensation for new grads. I guarantee you that at the one I know in the most detail, the base salary for a new grad is a bit over $100k. Add bonus and stock, and it's pretty easy
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by zippergz 10y ago
I lived in Seattle for almost 12 years, and I only found 2-3 months a year to be what I'd call "great" weather (or even good). My life and mood have improved dramatically since I moved to a place with more sun and fewer cloud
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by zippergz 10y ago
I have at least 15 packs of those blades in my house. I finally got around to canceling...
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by zippergz 10y ago
The annoying one on iOS is how often it makes me re-enter my Apple ID password. In a modal, of course, so it's impossible to bounce out to 1Password to copy the (very long and complex) password without dismissing the modal first. Somet
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by zippergz 10y ago
I have done some (small-ish) projects with API Gateway and Lambda. Lambda itself is pretty nice. The API Gateway is a pain, and has a lot of rough edges. Especially if you need to do anything other than standard JSON in and out. I’ve spent
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by zippergz 10y ago
Bank of America still offered this last time I checked, but the stupid thing required Flash so I never bothered with it.

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