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And $3.99/item 1-day shipping, which I find comes in handy quite often.

And Nigeria and Romania.

E-commerce that deals with physical goods does have a time delay, so I think you're really trying to say that it's not a good fit for digital goods sales rather than that it's not …

It's not just cheap internet access that has slow upstream. I have the second from the top tier of service from the fastest ISP in my area (a major and very affluent suburb of an e…

The "LinkedIn is useless" meme that seems popular here really baffles me, to be honest. Yes, there are many LinkedIn features that I don't get value from (including the news feed a…

For a while (not sure if they're still doing it), they were checking IDs for multi-day ticket holders at Disneyland in California (no fingerprint readers there). It slowed the line…

They do it to curb sharing of multi-day tickets, which is prohibited by their terms & conditions. It's a relatively quick way to check that the person who first used the ticket is …

> This means a project written and signed off circa 2011 requires mandatory engineering costs just to continue running in a functioning and supported fashion. Funny (?) thing is, a…

Could be. My account dates from 2006, and my userid is sub 50k.

Hmm. Perhaps that explains why I got an email from them saying my account was compromised. Specifically, it said "Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a …

Totally agree. My home automation system (a pretty extensive Control4 installation) works completely fine when my internet connection is down (except remote access of course), and …

It's amazing. If that's what you want. If you want kids, have them. That's great, I'll be genuinely happy for you, and I'll come to their birthdays, graduations, and weddings. We d…

I do this, and another "silly" thing I do is when I copy something to the clipboard, I often hit cmd-c three or four times quickly. I don't remember why or when I picked up this ha…

Fast food ads do not use plastic food, at least in the US. Yes, it is carefully styled, but it is real food.

Speak for yourself. My happiness went up massively when I finally left Seattle for California. And my feeling about that hasn't changed over time.

The press room site is not their main site, and I believe is not even run by Facebook. Many companies outsource their investor relations and press websites. None of Facebook's prim…

I can just imagine the HN article when someone tries to delete his Facebook account because he disagrees with some new feature, and they won't do it for 48 hours. I've been on the …

I worked at Google for a long time and never encountered anyone with the title "architect" or with a similar job role.

It seems to fluctuate. I don't track it closely, but I know that there have been times I've bought machines and the memory from Apple was close enough in price to OWC or Crucial th…

That screenshot is NOT from 1995. It has a reference to zShops, which didn't launch until 1999.

Vic reports to the CEO, so Larry is the only "honcho" above Vic.

During the interview process, it is not clear which bucket you're being dropped in. Or indeed even that there are two buckets. This may have an impact on whether someone would acce…

I have a laptop with SSD at work and an almost identical laptop at home, except it has a hard drive. There are unquestionably a lot of operations that the SSD makes much faster. Bu…

Are things really at a state where 35k is considered an impressive salary for a journalist in the US? I know programmers are spoiled, but I was kind of shocked at the implication t…

Programming in your spare time is much less attractive when your employer claims to own all the code you write.