DufusM

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by DufusM 13y ago
The plan to pay for ETFs to switch from other carriers does not seem to make much financial sense. For a monthly plan of $50, it would take T-Mobile many years to break even on this initial cost and it is not clear if they will be guarantee
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by DufusM 13y ago
Your $30 plan must be grandfathered in. Their current deal is $50 for an "unlimited" plan that switches to EDGE after 500MB and $60 for a similar plan with a 2 GB limit (or 3 GB, can't remember which).
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by DufusM 13y ago
Agree, it could totally work for Amazon Fresh items, say, that are bound to be ordered regularly.
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by DufusM 13y ago
I hope it works too - it seems so cool. But I am not sure this is the big problem in this space. Current delivery time = 1 day for last mile + >1 day for warehouse -> local area This method reduces the last mile delivery time down to
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by DufusM 13y ago
hardik is actually a common Indian name.
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by DufusM 13y ago
You bring up a good point, which is what I keep wondering too - where do they go? Dropbox already has sync APIs [0] across both iOS and Android (and presumably desktop), which must be their big bet to get to the central cloud store that you
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by DufusM 14y ago
Facebook has an explicit program (hackamonth) to avoid limiting internal mobility - https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/hackamon...
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by DufusM 14y ago
Julie Larson-Green brought the Ribbon interface to Office and then to other parts of Windows. Her ability to bring change to something as stable as the Office UI and the Windows Explorer UI was seen as a good thing.
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by DufusM 14y ago
I agree there is a problem with the lack of knowledge, but I wouldn't assume that it is all regarding "shadowy private companies". A number of public privacy scares like the concern of Gmail reading people's email seem to fall into the same
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by DufusM 14y ago
While it is reasonable to assume a user's intent, it is also reasonable to assume a content publisher's intent to monetize their content. An advertising-funded web is the reality of today, unless Microsoft is proposing a radical change in t
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by DufusM 14y ago
From what I have heard from people who work in pharma companies in India, the main reasons drugs are cheaper when manufactured in India are: - not much R&D costs to design new drugs (however they do spend on designing the manufacturing
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by DufusM 14y ago
The article also quotes that this has changed in the last 7 years and adds more subtlety to the issue. "But in 2005, India brought its law in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules recognising 20-year patents, pushing up the prices
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by DufusM 15y ago
It isn't their fault alone. Lots of software has backward-compatibility breaking changes all the time. Maybe if all platforms ensured all existing applications worked correctly with every update, maybe by extraordinarily thorough testing or
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by DufusM 15y ago
I don't think those words are very practical. For example, 4 consecutive runs produced: shippon preannouncer half-hourly withgang egotize baffs chapter monolater photoengraver beachhead linguidental autoheader hazeled defloration exhumate
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by DufusM 15y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+proximity+sensor+bug Just to counter the "brilliance" part of your statement, there was an issue with the proximity sensor in iPhone 4 that took a couple of months to fix :) I think this bug matches p
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by DufusM 15y ago
Also, in your method, instead of guessing where 6 was to hit right after unlocking, you could also just use the backspace on the key pad. So to type in 1234, you could type in random key backspace random key backspace 1 2 3 4
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by DufusM 15y ago
Yeah, sounds possible. So do you see similar numbers from your campus to speedtest SFO as well?
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by DufusM 15y ago
I suspect too that there just might have been a fast link between the google and speedtest datacenters, maybe because google earlier rented part of the other dc. A 3 ms ping looks like it must be from a bay area dc to SFO. They should reall
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by DufusM 15y ago
I do not follow - isn't it all the more amazing that poorly paid, uneducated workers without proper salaries are able to achieve this? I would measure their performance by inserting random 'canary tiffins' over a period and measuring their
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by DufusM 15y ago
It will be very interesting to know if Pakistani military was completely unaware of his location until the US got this intel, or if this intel was obtained through a section of the military/govt who was somehow pressurized to give it up. Th
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by DufusM 15y ago
To combat these kind of issues, maybe the law should move to some kind of a majority of three decisions, each hearing being random in all possible senses.
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by DufusM 16y ago
Microsoft already tried their hand at it with Windows Live Mesh. Technically Apple's MobileMe is the same thing. The 'corporates' are already on it :)
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by DufusM 16y ago
Windows Live Mesh, an equivalent Microsoft product, has the p2p sync functionality in addition to cloud sync. http://www.winsupersite.com/article/product-review/how-to-li...
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by DufusM 16y ago
Windows is also a "bargain" when it comes to IT costs. Windows has an excellent track record of strong enterprise support, whereas I have heard from an IT dept that there are all sorts of headaches (and compatibility-breaking changes) to Ma
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by DufusM 16y ago
Technically, I agree, but using this same logic, the effects of _any_ major historical incident are so unstable and so varied that "it can be difficult to the point of meaninglessness to say a country would be "better" or "worse" without it
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by DufusM 16y ago
Matt Cutts' point assumes a very naive point of view, I believe. From his/Google's point of view, it is fairly disingenuous for Microsoft to use Suggested Sites data for Bing ranking - however, there's quite a few examples (from gmail's cur
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by DufusM 16y ago
It is a bit presumptuous to assume that India or S.A. would not have made progress or exchanged "intellectual" information without a country sailing over and lording over it for a hundred years. Disclaimer: I am an Indian.
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by DufusM 16y ago
Wow, journalists are pretty much like smug spies. It is disconcerting that I have to be constantly distrustful of people around me just in case they are interested in digging around into any of the organizations I belong to.
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by DufusM 16y ago
What I find surprising is that insecure email and wireless had existed for quite some time before this. Almost all IMAP/POP/Gmail used to flow over regular HTTP. It is only recently (read, last year) that a lot of major email traffic has be

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