benvanderbeek

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by benvanderbeek 2mo ago
This week I found a book called “let’s go all around the neighborhood” and read it to my 3 & 4 year old sons. It’s from 1982. A girl and her mother walk around doing errands. Mailing a letter at the post office. Buying shoes at the shoe
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by benvanderbeek 3mo ago
Plane trips and long car rides are screen free with my 4 young kids (3-9) but that’s more about gluttony for punishment than principle.
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In a post-truth world truth-seeking is more important(iai.tv)
68 points by benvanderbeek 11mo ago|60 comments
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Synth Kit - littleBits(littlebits.cc)
1 points by benvanderbeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
nuCourse ( http://nuCourse.com/careers ) Garden Grove (Orange County), CA Wholesale distributor of mobile accessories. Hiring developers and non-technical positions. #152 on most recent Inc 500 (fastest growing private companies in US). Gre
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
Long Beach, Calif.: 2 (meprobamate and phenytoin). [1] I'm drinking an anti-epileptic and an anti-anxiety. That sucks. [1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-drugs-...
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
The problem isn't the lack of workarounds. The problem is that we have all departments - Purchasing, Marketing, Operations/Warehouse, Sales, Finance, IT - working with sku's in spreadsheets. Every single time, every single person needs to k
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
My company's part numbers are in the form 00-0000. After enough conversations about how to convert back to this format from the date Excel changes it to, we've finally just decided to change our sku format. A rolling change though, so we'll
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
Postini setup process and support are a joke. You can call someone who tells you to look at a help file, and the help files point to help files, which have no screenshots, and reference menu and navigation options that don't exist. Also ask
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
Bing Liu is one of the researchers working on this. I've discussed Amazon review fraud detection with him. http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
I have an iPad 3 and a Chromebook. I like and use the Chromebook much more, because of the built in keyboard. I know plenty of people who would hate using a Chromebook and much prefer their iPad for everything. To each his own.
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Will Paid Reviews Bite Amazon Back?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by benvanderbeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
"you can choose the left or the right lane of the conveyor belt to the butcher house." I am going to use this phrase, thanks.
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
Regarding the unhelpfulness of online reviews, my company has problems with manufacturers/sellers writing 5-star reviews of their own product listings (ASIN's) on Amazon. We've begun (manually) data mining 5-star reviews to identify whether
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
My friend works for ALEKS. I agree it's a very solid approach.
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
Amazon review fraud is rampant, and with enough effort, they'll do something about it. I've worked w/teams there who, over time, develop very complex queries on the back end, and use these to remove sellers who violate policy. There are all
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by benvanderbeek 14y ago
Last paragraph: As for what the app will do moving forward: "We will no longer send data from the meeting notes section of your calendar event. There will be a new 'learn more' link to provide more information about how your calendar data i
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I love that it was "too many times" - how many is too many? After the 3rd time seeing Asshat on a large screen you decided to go clean? ;)
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Makes sense, thanks for connecting the dots while my imagination was not working.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I apologize for my lack of imagination, but what does this mean? "We’ll be able to print food for hungry people. We’ll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal."
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
This part of the final paragraph summarizes it well. "[St] Augustine tells the parable of a pirate captain who is captured and brought before Alexander the Great. The emperor says "How dare you terrorize the seas"? The pirate captain replie
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Are there layman-friendly tutorials on these OS-level steps to ensure full control of encryption? If it remains a matter of editing and recompiling an operating system, the masses have no hope of reestablishing that control.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
"A stud finder or old man that knows how to knock on the wall and tell where the studs are." Would you just search Craigslist for the old man? Sounds tricky.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
"corporate leaders (e.g. You)" I'm honored, and confused, that you would consider me a corporate leader. Like I said, I see your point. And if you look at my comment, it was in the form of a question, not an imperative.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Don't worry, the meds give me a thick skin ;)
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I'd probably need it less if I actually did exercise! :/
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I'm going through a very difficult time in my personal life and meds have been a crucial supplement to other forms of therapy. They would be much less impactful if the underlying issues weren't being addressed though.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
So the civil answer to my question "why not just avoid keeping weird stuff on your phone?" is: "I keep naked girlfriend pics on my iPhone. I don't think that's weird, but I don't want someone to see them." I see your point. I apologize for
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Great idea. I'll mention that. He was coming at it from a somewhat arbitrary expanding-skillset approach, wanting to get his feet wet on the web side of things. I was explaining to him the difference between a creation that "looks" a certai

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