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by rg 13y ago
And the overhead projector was used in a lighted conference room, so that people could see the presenter and one another and consult papers, and black-on-white was easier to read. The style of light-on-dark came from 35mm slides in 35mm pro
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by rg 13y ago
Classic Microsoft in its high-productivity period was strictly private offices for everyone, solid doors and almost all with outside windows, soundproofed so each office could have its own music without requiring headphones, with deskspace
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by rg 14y ago
Such agents are common in the US, they are called "brokers". Brokers are especially good in negotiating with multiple dealers, and getting the exact car you want from the dealer with the lowest price by getting dealers to swap cars. Servi
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by rg 14y ago
Apple had an insoluble problem, and they failed to fit the iPad Mini into a man's suit, sportcoat, or blazer inside chest pocket. Apple iPad Mini width (Apple specs): 134.7 mm Man's jacket inside pocket (size 41R): 124.0 mm Goog
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by rg 14y ago
Also, Chrome on Nexus 7 has a lot of "accessibility" options, so you can size the default reflowable text to your comfort, which reduces any need to manually squeeze/expand. (Nexus 7 is dramatically superior to a New(3) iPad.)
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by rg 14y ago
Kindle Paperwhite newly implements two-finger pinch (smaller font size) and expand (bigger font size). On the way to carrying out the font size change, it pops up the font-size select window, then closes it. It's possible that you accident
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by rg 14y ago
No, that's not the right history. Caltrain is the remains of the old Southern Pacific commute lines; the SP brought people FROM the peninsula INTO San Francisco to work during the day, and back to their peninsula bedrooms in the evening.
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by rg 14y ago
Non-competes are totally unenforceable in CA as a condition of employment. If you sell your startup to an acquirer, the contract can include a non-compete subject to fairly strict conditions of reasonableness.
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by rg 14y ago
"If anyone could drive a cab, the profession might only barely pay a living wage, ..." That isn't the case in London, widely thought to have the best taxi service in the world. There, anyone can pass a demanding standard examination and ha
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by rg 15y ago
Brooks particularly had in mind IBM's System 360. One of its goals was to have a single architecture span an extremely wide range of performance. So there were many models (e.g., 360-20, 360-65, 360-90) with a couple of orders of magnitud
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by rg 15y ago
Spam, ignore.
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by rg 15y ago
Kindle app on Android phones also uses single tap to page; it's extremely convenient (compared to the old Kindle with physical buttons which I also use). Touch for paging is certainly no worse than the old buttons, and--really--the keyboar
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by rg 15y ago
*"The system knows that women generally favor stories about Brad Pitt, but after some real-time analysis, it can quickly realize that men are far more like to click on a Brad Pitt story that involves a sports movie."* This
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by rg 15y ago
The website is exceedingly poor--sorting by distance doesn't work, bits of template text are not even filled in and it's obvious the information is generic. The website is the opposite of "love and passion for helping seniors".
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by rg 15y ago
Yes, but don't use the non-functional US postal service. UPS or FedEx work fine. There's a reason why knowledgeable shippers (such as Amazon) use the USPS only for rural parts of the US, and use private couriers exclusively for the coasts
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by rg 15y ago
Google for "The editor authors the newspaper hired liked laughed."
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by rg 15y ago
Not so true about the UK. In my building in London, one unit was being quietly sublet for holiday-type use, in violation of the contract, and when complaints from the residents' association were not heeded a court order put an end to the i
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Influx of workers drives up rental rates in San Francisco and San Mateo County(sfexaminer.com)
3 points by rg 15y ago|0 comments
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by rg 15y ago
Windows Live Mail, included free in Windows 7, does a perfect job of backing up a Gmail account, including sent mail. Configure Win Live Mail to pick up via POP3 all Gmail every couple of hours and save it (copy 1), then every night backup
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by rg 16y ago
Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit (1987-1992) built out a long and thin building at 2460 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, in this way, using central hallways; every person had a private office with a door and an outside window looking out at th
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by rg 16y ago
Here's a description of how MS Word and MS Excel were actually used to create 4,600 parameterized web pages, complete with samples of the Excel and Word documents used: http://www.horniman.info/DOCUMNTS/HOWTO.HTM Scroll down to section 6,
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by rg 16y ago
Yodlee's own free consumer webservice is outstanding. https://moneycenter.yodlee.com Once you enter your accounts, you see every transaction from yesterday aggregated in one place every morning. It's smart about categorizing expenditures
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by rg 16y ago
"... people who consume more omega-3 fatty acids enjoy lower rates of inflammatory gum disease (periodontitis). "... the study linked moderate intake of fish-derived omega-3 DHA to a 20 percent reduced rate of periodontitis. "Periodontitis
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by rg 16y ago
In the US, recently a number of small overnight delivery services have consolidated into "regional" overnight carriers, thus offering delivery areas large enough to entice large shippers without requiring national coverage. In California, f
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by rg 16y ago
See xkcd: http://xkcd.com/810/ "But what will you do when spammers train their bots to make automated constructive and helpful comments?" "Mission Fucking Accomplished."
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by rg 16y ago
Actually, UK buildings typically contain at least three different standard sockets and plugs--the big ugly ones (with a supply of four different fuses needed), a mini version of that design commonly used for table lamps and floor lamps, and
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by rg 16y ago
hit the 3D button -- "not supported on Chrome"
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by rg 16y ago
Contracts like you suggest are common and working today in other cities. When I bought a condo in central London, my contract with the association of all other owners in the building specifically forbade short-term sublets, and forbade any
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by rg 16y ago
Yes, and still mostly down an hour later (SF).
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by rg 16y ago
This is really worth a look. My experience was very positive; it took only a few seconds to compute, and the decisions about what detail to suppress were made very insightfully. (This was for an address in San Francisco--streets were sele

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