wbrendel

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by wbrendel 11y ago
The BEKANT is definitely hit-or-miss when it comes to reliability. The motors on mine died just over a month after purchasing it, and some searching at the time revealed it to be a pretty common issue. Luckily IKEA has a generous return pol
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by wbrendel 11y ago
This article doesn't come across to me as angry, not at all. I would say Marco is more disappointed than anything, especially knowing how good some of Apple's other cloud services can be: contacts, calendars, push notifications, a
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by wbrendel 13y ago
Whatever made you think that was the case? Probably because public companies frequently use this as an excuse for their immoral business practices. Examples? Basically any health insurance company in the US.
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by wbrendel 14y ago
The new date picker certainly looks better than before, but I think the plus and minus buttons are a little confusing. Not sure what will happen when I click plus above November. I assume it will change to December because 11+1=12, but I co
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by wbrendel 14y ago
I went from HSPA+ on a Galaxy Nexus (AT&T) to LTE on an iPhone 5 (Verizon), and the difference is very noticeable, at least in my area of the US. HSPA+ was alright but still felt like a cellular data connection. LTE feels just like I'm
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by wbrendel 14y ago
The iPhone 5 has LTE and an aluminum back. Edit: Not being snarky. Just a minor correction.
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by wbrendel 14y ago
Those are good arguments, but are those benefits worth the millions of dollars we spend on these obviously flawed machines? It seems like overkill. Print some ballots with larger print and some in whatever languages are common in your area.
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by wbrendel 14y ago
What's wrong with paper ballots again? Serious question. In my area (northern MA), voters are given a ballot with a bubble next to each of the candidates' names. You use a marker to fill in the bubble next to the candidate you want to vote
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by wbrendel 14y ago
64GB iPhone 5 here: 57.3GB usable storage (89.5% of advertised).
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by wbrendel 14y ago
Sounds like you did have experience: stuff you had done independently. More and more that's becoming a requirement to get a good job out of college, at least in certain fields. Combined with your ability to speak intelligently about that ex
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by wbrendel 14y ago
First, this looks like a nicely done app. Serious question though: Who is doing serious development work on their iPad? Is this for the PHP developer on the go who needs to make a quick edit to a file on their remote server while riding in
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by wbrendel 14y ago
No BBEdit option?
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by wbrendel 14y ago
You can force quit the app, and it will relaunch to your list of games.
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by wbrendel 15y ago
Counter-Strike was what really got me into programming too, in the form of several small programs that added some neat functionality to CS and other HL mods. As a high school student it was pretty amazing to have tens of thousands of people
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by wbrendel 15y ago
Devil's advocate here. What about all the content producers and services that rely on advertisements for the bulk of their income? I'm afraid the result of this law will be a drop in online advertising, or at least a drastically lower price
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by wbrendel 15y ago
This just doesn't seem like the sort of presentation you should use Prezi for, that's all. The zooming and swooshing and panning and spinning and turning and ... distracts from what I care about: the content. Don't get me wrong, Prezi can b
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by wbrendel 15y ago
Is this a blog post about Java GC or an excuse to use Prezi? I can't tell.