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811.
by zippergz 13y ago
I agree with bronson about the uniformity of the blur. Also, the amount of blurring doesn't change enough as the distance changes. It's better than previous techniques that have just blurred the entire background the same amount,
812.
by zippergz 13y ago
It doesn't give me a headache, but to my eyes it isn't remotely convincing. There's no way I'd look at any of those example pictures and not realize the blurring was done with postprocessing.
813.
by zippergz 13y ago
If you can afford to retire several times over, it would by definition have to involve living in a less expensive place (otherwise you'd have the same tax issue). Being forced to downgrade housing quality and/or location is not an
814.
by zippergz 13y ago
Selling your car has hugely less impact on your life than having to move. It's not just an "emotional bond" with a house. It's your commute. Your kids' schools. Your friends. Your daily shopping routines. The cost a
815.
by zippergz 13y ago
I have previously worked with MarkMonitor. One big factor is that at the time I had a single dedicated person who oversaw our domains. I knew him and his manager, and they knew me. Everything related to our domains went through them. It&#x2
816.
by zippergz 13y ago
I use both LastPass and 1Password (in different contexts). I find 1Password more polished and nicer to use, by LastPass works fine too.
817.
by zippergz 13y ago
I have two cars with backup cameras, the first I got in 2007. I have never experienced this to be the case.
818.
by zippergz 13y ago
I assume existing Voice numbers will at least continue working/forwarding? That's my main concern. I have a few different Google Voice numbers I use for different purposes, and my wife actually uses one as her primary number (agai
819.
by zippergz 13y ago
Seven plus years ago I was investigating phishing scams that were, in real time, taking the username and password, trying it against the real server, and then prompting the user accordingly (in that case, kicking them back if they entered t
820.
by zippergz 13y ago
And as a Prime member, that's what I want. In fact, I will often pay more for a Prime-eligible item than I could get a non-Prime item, because I know it will arrive quickly, packed well, etc. When I buy items from third party sellers t
821.
by zippergz 13y ago
Did you find your Facebook ads profitable? We've experimented with them a lot, and have never been able to get a reasonable return on them. However, our goal has been driving actual sales of a product, not just getting Likes (as many a
822.
by zippergz 13y ago
PHPMyAdmin is too low-level for what I'd want. For myself, it's fine, but I can't just hand it over to users for querying, updating, adding records, etc. With Access or Filemaker it's easy to set up something that I can
823.
by zippergz 13y ago
This was announced in September: https://nest.com/blog/2013/09/25/calling-all-developers/ When that happened, I immediately filled out the form asking for more information. And I have heard not a si
824.
by zippergz 13y ago
For me it's not about getting real time notifications, but about being able to quickly see if I have any messages without having to keep a gmail browser window open all the time. I actually find that I spend LESS time looking at email
825.
by zippergz 13y ago
I can only speak for myself, but in the US I have never seen any need for it. I text or iMessage with my friends, and while I have had WhatsApp installed for a long time, I've never found something it does better for me. If I needed to
826.
by zippergz 13y ago
Mine has been running for a little over a year with no problems so far. It's not under very heavy load, though.
827.
by zippergz 13y ago
Do you have a cite for the Photoshop "Save As" problem? I've seen this mentioned multiple times as a reason to not upgrade, but I've never been able to find a first-hand report of it actually happening other than in earl
828.
by zippergz 13y ago
Oh... I'm much more of a LinkedIn fan than most here, and this sounded cool based on the blog post, but there's no way I'm going to let them have my email account credentials (or all of my email).
829.
by zippergz 13y ago
I always love the use of the word "useless" on this site. "Ok for presentations" means it has an obvious use: presentations. How can that be useless? I'd agree it can be better, but it's obviously not without a
830.
by zippergz 13y ago
I (and virtually everyone else in my neighborhood) have a multi-zone built-in sprinkler system. A garden hose timer isn't going to help me.
831.
by zippergz 13y ago
I feel exactly the same way. Could I save a bit of money by buying somewhere else? Sure. But it's not enough of a difference to matter in the scheme of things, and it's one less thing to have to worry about.
832.
by zippergz 13y ago
Yes. Ever since I got the thermostats, I've wanted add-on sensors for other rooms. The placement of the thermostats in my house is not great for setting the temperature in the rooms I actually care about, so it would be great to have a
833.
by zippergz 13y ago
I absolutely love my Nest thermostats, and I think they were worth every penny. I'd buy them again in a heart beat. So I have faith that this will also be a great product. But the problem is that my house needs two thermostats, but 12
834.
by zippergz 13y ago
This isn't possible for every service. For example, our company Twitter account. Twitter doesn't allow any way for individuals to have their own passwords and post to the account. We have a social media team, all of whom need to b
835.
by zippergz 13y ago
I don't use port knocking, and I'm not convinced anyone should. But something bugs me about this kind of discussion. There are two broad classes of attackers: targeted attackers, who specifically want to get into your system, and
836.
by zippergz 13y ago
When I've been lucky enough to fly private, they have not once said a peep about turning off my phone, which I'm sure they would have if they were legitimately concerned about safety. Of course, the service doesn't work at al
837.
by zippergz 13y ago
This is really killing my productivity today. I don't like being so reliant on email, but I work remotely, so it's a necessary evil. Having worked in operations for prominent companies, I sympathize with the gmail team right now,
838.
by zippergz 13y ago
I welcome improvements in the iPhone flash, because there are cases in which I'm forced to use it. But the biggest problem is also the hardest to solve: the flash is too close to the lens. A flash right next to the lens will always loo
839.
by zippergz 13y ago
Yes I know that, but I'm not convinced that the cost/benefit really makes sense for complaining. Back in my more idealistic days I did report a lot of abuse. But it's so rare for the recipient to actually do anything about it
840.
by zippergz 13y ago
Why do people think it's worthwhile to file abuse complaints about port 22 connections? If I wanted to file a complaint about every random connection to port 22 on one of my machines, it would be a full time job...

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