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by esw 9y ago
I had the same experience with Verizon. I told them that I loved Fios, but I was moving to an area without service. They didn't give me any grief.
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by esw 9y ago
Can I ask how you found your broker?
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by esw 10y ago
I really hope they do, but be aware that this date keeps changing. The last time I checked this page, it was spring 2016.
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by esw 10y ago
There's a board game called "Robot Turtles" that's designed to teach programming concepts to kids. I was initially pretty skeptical, but our preschooler loves it.
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by esw 10y ago
I'll just add that even if you are able to perform superhuman feats of parenting and coding simultaneously, you will eventually get burned out. I was able to handle both for quite some time, and I've now stretched myself so thi
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by esw 10y ago
I saw it in the theater as a BBS-addicted kid, and I remember being just completely blown away by his setup. I'd never seen an 8 inch floppy before. Here's a rundown of his gear, for anyone who's interested: https:/&#
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by esw 10y ago
We've been with Rackspace since 1999, but I'm getting concerned about the future of the company. Can anyone recommend a comparable managed host for Windows?
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by esw 10y ago
The context seems to have been lost in the shuffle. Here's what I was responding to: >I have a brother that works in a pretty normal job earning $42,000 per year (not an outsized salary in the US), he pays $27 per month for his heal
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by esw 10y ago
>he pays $27 per month for his health insurance through his employer, and it's a nice plan. This is really an outlier. The US average for employee premiums is $104/month for individuals and $392/month for families.
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by esw 10y ago
I spent the last decade living in a struggling city, and I was actively involved in city government. In my city, it was a case of limited resources more than anything else. There were something like 300 miles of roadway, but only enough m
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by esw 10y ago
My house was built in the 1780s, but is well-insulated, has modern wiring and plumbing, etc. If you have a well-maintained home, the age of the structure is mostly irrelevant.
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by esw 10y ago
I'm self-taught, and I've been playing guitar for 25 years or so. If I hadn't picked it up as a teenager, I doubt I'd have gotten as far with it. I was obsessed with reproducing the sounds I heard on records, and it
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by esw 10y ago
This probably varies by genre, but I've found that if you add "pdf" to your search, you'll often find high-quality handwritten sheet music, sometimes with tablature. I've also found scans of out-of-print music book
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by esw 10y ago
The same is true of other older BMWs. I've owned four, and my E30 was still the best.
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by esw 11y ago
Yeah, I was really confused as to how a 67 year old could be the founder of Visa.
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by esw 12y ago
Snowfall aside, I think most New Englanders will still relate to 1978 as a more severe winter given the number of fatalities.
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by esw 12y ago
Honestly, everything is more difficult when you have kids - showering every day, for example - but the flip side is that it's a total procrastination killer. There are no more wasted days, or lost hours. I work harder and more effic
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by esw 12y ago
Agreed, and it's so subjective. I was a long-time Apple keyboard user (I had the flat chiclet board for years), and struggled with whether a mechanical keyboard would be too loud, or the extra key travel would bother me. I ordered a ke
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by esw 12y ago
I sincerely hope that this post is an awful joke, because the way in which you're talking about your girlfriend is appalling. If this isn't a troll, then it sounds to me like your girlfriend agreed to be a part of your project be
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by esw 12y ago
Great. Your website says, "Response times from our Support team are fastest from 9am-6pm ET, Monday thru Thursday. Support requests submitted outside those times may receive delayed responses." How is the "delayed responses
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by esw 12y ago
3D printing reminds me so much of the early days of personal computing - it was an expensive hobby for techies, the equipment was hard to configure, and the everyday (practical) uses of the technology weren't immediately clear. But li
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by esw 12y ago
I absolutely love this: > Are Pinegrams really made from pine? They're actually made from domestic Maple plywood, but the MapleGram domain name was already taken so I had to settle for PineGram
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by esw 12y ago
You're right. I issue refunds all the time, and this should be no different.
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by esw 12y ago
Their site was up and running, receiving traffic for the duration. >Would you get your money back if you called up the cable company and said, hey sorry I didn't watch TV for the last 12 months, so I'd like my money back please
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by esw 12y ago
It's a month-to-month service, so they're asking for a refund on 12 billing cycles. The TOS is clear that there are no refunds for services rendered. I try to be as accommodating as possible, but this just seems absurd.
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Dealing with unreasonable refund requests
3 points by esw 12y ago|15 comments
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by esw 12y ago
I wouldn't, no, but it may be something you can sell to veterinary offices as a service they can offer to their customers. I suspect they'd want to thoroughly vet it, though (no pun intended).
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by esw 12y ago
Ditch the free plan and make it a subscription service. Make it clear that some data can't be automatically extracted, and charge a per-page premium for manual extraction. If you don't want to do that work yourself, farm those j
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by esw 12y ago
Honestly, I don't install or save anything on work computers that isn't related to work.
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by esw 12y ago
I was actually referring to the font, but now that you mention it, the graphic is very similar too.

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