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Elepsis

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About Elepsis

http://arcadiy.org | arcadiy at arcadiy dot org | @arcadiy

Since this seems to come up every once in a while: my opinions are my own and do not represent those of my employer (Microsoft).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #20409241

    Has anyone found anything remotely comparable for Android? I'd love to have a Soulver or Numi analog on my phone. I don't even need it to sync with anything.

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    Comment #15496609

    The 1 TB storage that you get with regular Office 365 memberships is the regular OneDrive service, not OneDrive for Business. It works pretty well with large accounts. Also, it's l…

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    Comment #15275210

    Given the USD ~1.64 TRILLION in assets Mizuho had in 2014, presumably this claim is beyond insane? Is there some mechanism to look up SWIFT transaction volumes by bank?

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    Comment #14125565

    Kazakh teenagers do from time to time write Russian or Kazakh in a very strange mix of latin letters, but most of them write in either Kazakh proper or in Russian (Cyrillic) since …

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    Comment #14001919

    OneDrive supports version history for Office documents but not other file types.

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    Comment #13858922

    I wrote two blog posts on this idea a few years ago, but alas no credible player has pursued documenting a standard protocol for this. Password managers are, probably pragmatically…

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    Comment #13264851

    The Atlantic actually remains about that cheap, particularly with their regular sales. I've never paid more than $1/issue. They, like many other magazines, seem to have moved to a …

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    Comment #12938837

    In the spirit of taking surprising statements at face value, here are some examples. - Having a kid? Now your whole extended family is available to give you help and advice, to bab…

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    Comment #11614909

    While I agree that if no one paid for PreCheck they'd probably stop the program, I think you're making a follow-on assumption which is "and then the security theater would get bett…

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    Comment #11512535

    This just isn't true in any way. Uber once upon a time was a bidder on Here Maps, which provided most of Bing's mapping data, but they lost to a consortium of German car makers (BM…

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    Comment #11460131

    Not that many people want to deal with "easy monthly payments." Which is why most small developers should be charging their subscriptions annually.

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    Comment #11459313

    On the other hand, products that don't have subscription pricing are compelled to continue to add hot new features in a never-ending race of convincing their customers that they re…

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    Comment #11306964

    Of course, Microsoft itself bought into many markets once upon a time. While Excel isn't one where that was the case, its sister app PowerPoint started as Microsoft's first major a…

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    Comment #11300752

    It's also pretty clearly a joke, per the Zenefits reference.

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    Comment #11038479

    I don't frequently wish the loss of a job upon other people, but I dearly hope everyone involved in producing that document was fired for it, because there is not an iota of substa…

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    Comment #10734122

    I'm not aware of lead generators in other businesses (with the exception of mostly-unsuccessful Uber-for-x startups like Homejoy) that set the pricing for the services to be provid…

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    Comment #10455517

    Sounds like a recipe to have most of your cancellations be via chargeback.

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    Comment #10355872

    You are starting from the inexplicable premise that these properties he rents out were somehow ill-gotten, and not the direct consequence of him saving significant amounts of his i…

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    Comment #10349489

    The active spam happening there right now is if anything a fabulous demonstration of just how terrible anonymous people on the internet tend to be, and how quickly potentially fun …

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    Comment #10308403

    It seems like you're suggesting that people are buying the small cans of Coke based on endorsements like this one, and then chugging three cans in one go to make up for the super-s…

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    Comment #10190219

    This is just mentioned as an aside in the article, but is this accurate? "Even now, the schools in Kansas City, Missouri, are effectively segregated, with almost all white children…

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    Comment #10190214

    Paid by whom, exactly? It's not particularly complimentary towards Google. It's not particularly complimentary towards any incumbents, either. Unless you're suggesting that the les…

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    Comment #10061081

    Which is of course the stock configuration on most modern luxury vehicles.

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    Comment #9928097

    At least to date, OS and Office revenue is somewhat dependent on those products' ship cycles. A recently released new version (or the end of support for an old version) generally d…

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    Comment #9919751

    If your solution to ambiguity of date input on a flight search website is to return flight options for either date, you will have a shocking number of customers inadvertently booki…