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I prefer the subscription model, as long as the total expected cost is not too far out of line for the service. $5/mo for every tiny utility is too much. However, before the rise o…

I live in an area where cable/fiber is not an option, and have been using T-Mobile Home Internet for a while now. People in other locations will surely have different experiences, …

I live in a semi-rural area and work from home in tech. I am within range of LTE towers, but only T-Mo will serve my area and the connection remains spotty even with a $1000 signal…

I live in a semi-rural area and with no cable/fiber/dsl options available. In my experience, most home internet offerings from the big mobile carriers will throttle you fairly quic…

Same here, we just deployed a test instance running the upgraded code. No issues in our existing dashboards so far, and our initial testers are liking the speed improvements a lot.…

These sort of rates were real in the past, but regulatory changes have decreased them dramatically. In general, much less than $0.01/mi at wholesale rates.

One common exploit if only one user account is hacked is to set up a forward to a specific high cost number that receives a lot of traffic. There are carriers who aggregate these r…

Make sure you understand the basics of the new domain extremely well. You don't need to know everything in depth, but every piece you do know needs to fit together in your mind. As…

I could very well be wrong, but it is not my impression that Vietnamese are very prevalent in tech.

Short codes are managed per country, but within the US just about every true mobile operator should have the ability to work with the same US short code. If they don't support a gi…

In general, it's a bad idea to wear gloves when working with spinning tools. If the glove snags the wrong way, it can pull your whole hand into the tool.

Today after fighting with Kibana all morning, I decided to tweak our scripts to build Grafana dashboards against our existing ElasticSearch data store. Very fast to get up and runn…

The second half of this is particularly important. Apple keeps iOS desirable to an enormous number of end users who are willing to spend money on apps. They benefit from this by se…

Sichuanese Cuisine is very good. La Bu La in Bellevue is also good. Dough Zone is worth trying if you like DTF, but not as good imo.

There are certain things such as race and gender which are protected classes. It is illegal to discriminate against someone based on these attributes in various ways including empl…

A storage server and network to put those drives into which would give similar functionality to EBS would have significant costs and require some degree of management.

I use Slack in my own company, but often use Skype with companies that I do contract work for. Searching your conversation history in Skype is terrible. Slack really does this well…

I think you may want to consider focusing more on concrete goals, and what funding will provide to backers. For example, see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django…

It was the same with my family when growing up in Hawaii. Based on the responses in this thread, it seems to be more prevalent in areas with Cantonese populations.

If you're looking to make espresso drinks, going too cheap will be an exercise in frustration. Cheaper machines have limitations you need to work around and make it harder to get c…

I'm curious which products you would recommend for bug tracking. If they have testcase management, even better. I run a managed hosting company that hosts a fair number of Atlassia…

For people whose main complaint is watery coffee, but are not opposed to pod systems in general, try Nespresso. I find them a lot better than the coffee I have had from Keurig and …

The original quote was "but that does _not_ mean I think its fine to watch porn" (emphasis added).

Perl has a CSV driver for DBI: http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/DBD-CSV-0.41/lib/DBD/CSV.pm

This is probably not what either of you meant, but until 2005, it was illegal to import sichuan peppercorns. This resulted in a lot of dishes missing a fairly important taste, even…