ndaiger

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by ndaiger 1y ago
I also use the $5/month plan, and the few times I have exceeded the 300-search limit, Kagi simply renews my monthly plan early. For me it's just happened a few times towards the end of the month and I was happy with how they handl
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by ndaiger 2y ago
I have been using Acorn since...wow, 2009! After the first $49 purchase, I spent another $15 and then $19 on upgrades over the years. It's very effective. The interface is extremely familiar if you're used to Photoshop, and it&#x2
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by ndaiger 4y ago
What they actually tend to do is have someone in management call to congratulate you and invite you to discuss banking products. I know this from personal experience.
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by ndaiger 5y ago
I agree the name is pretty terrible for a mass-market company because everybody associates it with price, but I believe the origin was due to the fact that they offered direct sales of products that were previously only available "to
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by ndaiger 6y ago
The 14th amendment to the constitution would seem to disagree with your assertion.
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by ndaiger 6y ago
You can make it work with iTunes Match. It will upload all your music (it's not just filename or metadata matching, apparently it uses audio fingerprints). Then you can play your own stuff without needing an Apple Music subscription. I
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by ndaiger 7y ago
Great customer service, too. Punch in your account number and you get a smart human immediately. No scripts.
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by ndaiger 7y ago
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-pillow-for-side-sleep... I use the Xtreme Comforts Shredded Memory Foam Pillow recommended; when I replace it I'll probably buy the upgrade pick mentioned in the article just
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by ndaiger 8y ago
I live in Los Angeles near a lot of the construction going on for the new subway line running down Wilshire Blvd. My neighborhood (Carthay) has been getting a lot more cut-through traffic. There are days that seem particularly "Waze-y&
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by ndaiger 9y ago
I use Blue Apron sporadically; it can be a good thing on a busier week because it removes both menu planning and shopping while still letting you make home-cooked meals (take-out more than once a week or so gets really old). It can also be
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by ndaiger 9y ago
At https://chunkhost.com about 25% of our revenue per month has been in Bitcoin since 2014. Since the price spike it's actually increased to more like 40% (from new accounts, not old ones switching away from credit cards or
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by ndaiger 9y ago
In the last 18 years or so I've been reading kottke.org, I don't think a single day has gone by without finding something delightful or fascinating. It's the best site on the internet.
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by ndaiger 9y ago
I don't use Apple Music either. I just dislike the idea of not owning something so near and dear to me. It works OK for me after turning off the "Show Apple Music" option in Settings->Music. The only really annoying bit le
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by ndaiger 9y ago
They're not really that cheap to rent, although they're competitive with bike share prices. If you, say, used one to get to & from work on a commute of a few miles you'd break even on buying your own scooter pretty quickl
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by ndaiger 9y ago
The law requiring wearing a helmet makes no sense to me. I think Bird is great. The helmet law seems to have something much closer to a Vespa in mind. And while a Bird can move along at a good pace, it's slower than a bicycle at speed.
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by ndaiger 10y ago
That's a specious argument. You linked to short, mild a speech on the House floor from 2005 encouraging primary home-ownership as a means of investing, and a Fox News report about responding positively to a question about hiring a qual
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by ndaiger 10y ago
Sendgrid allowed attackers to social engineer control of my company's account and intercept password resets, despite an explicit warning from us a week prior (we received a chat transcript of the failed attempt and let them know that i
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by ndaiger 10y ago
I remember "Please Let Me Die" very well...watching it in a biomedical ethics class caused me to faint (for the first and only time). Twenty-five years after his accident, Dax is adamant that he would still want the same thing un
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by ndaiger 10y ago
The promise of Coin is that you don't have to carry anything else. It is a fantastic idea. However, unless it worked at least 95% of the time, it's useless, because you have to carry at least one backup card. My experience with th
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by ndaiger 11y ago
That's a whole other problem with surfing! Surfing regularly is a terrible hobby. Time-consuming, expensive, cold (depending on location). Wetsuits are annoying. Waves are crowded. People are jerks. People are dangerous. The ocean is
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by ndaiger 11y ago
Like other small subcultures appropriated for their "cool factor" by the mainstream, there is a lot of internal policing for poseurs: people who don't know or care about the values or history of the subculture, and cheapen it
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Security Hole in Sendgrid(chunkhost.com)
181 points by ndaiger 12y ago|92 comments
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by ndaiger 15y ago
An interesting example from the past is the LiveJournal "Express Lane": http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=74 I wasn't a LiveJournal user, but saw one of Brad Fitzpatrick's excellent scalability talks years ago. I thin
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Do Social Media Make Protests Possible?(foreignaffairs.com)
1 points by ndaiger 16y ago|0 comments
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by ndaiger 16y ago
This reminds me of the recent New Yorker article debating the social value of Wall St.: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_...
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by ndaiger 16y ago
Here's a response to the hullabaloo from an attendee of the interview: http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.p... It's not very flattering of Deborah Solomon.
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by ndaiger 16y ago
Yeah, me too. And when I've called customer service, it has always been fantastic. I've never felt like the rep has just been reading a script.
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by ndaiger 16y ago
This bothered me too, but you can re-enable it. Put about:flags in the address bar, and at the bottom is an option for adding back the "click to play" setting.
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by ndaiger 16y ago
The author wrote the only novel I'm aware of that really illustrates what it's like to debug software. It's called The Bug, and I'd recommend it much more than I would this Salon article. http://www.amazon.com/Bug-Ellen-Ullman/dp/140003235
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by ndaiger 16y ago
By "hippies" I presume s/he meant people working on open source.

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