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Wow, poor guy.

As a side note, it's frustrating how email ceo@company.com is fast becoming the only way to get real customer service. I'm a T-Mobile customer and recently had a billing issue that required me to interact with their customer support who were thoroughly unhelpful and just added to the frustration. I had heard about the tactic of emailing John Legere so I did, and sure enough the issue was sorted out promptly by a US-based exec response rep. I was happy to get everything sorted, but the fact that customer service reps apparently didn't have the power to fix a relatively straight-forward issue still frustrates me.
Online, yes. In person at a branch, no.
Stop presenting it as a tech/muchprofit product, make it like wires. Also kind of Google webm.

ps: also, and it's a bit off topic, slightly; you said non genericity is how they make profit, maybe (just a thought) it's not the only way. People seems frustrated and disenchanted by printers; it's a cool device if you allow user to take control and not obscure everything in the alleged purpose it's to make it easier. Potential new applications, usages; better ergonomics and repairability, longer lasting things, that's something people would pay for. The trend is around cool device + quick renewal but high freqs are harmful IMO companies should invert this business model.
Well, you know what I mean. You need someone that will actually help when there's a problem beyond selling you more services.

For major companies, this stuff is easy to find out, thanks to people sharing their experiences as in that Reddit post. There's entire websites dedicated to countless horror stories of Paypal locking out small business funds arbitrarily with no recourse. Google is infamous in never responding to their customers.

If you're going to base your entire income on it, then do a day or two of research. Try and find stories from people who have had serious account issues: stolen identities, suspended accounts, you name it. Call and talk to people at the company and ask them what their policies are.

If you get Amazon on the phone and ask them, they'd tell you their phone support team won't help if your account is suspended. Make them go on record. If they lie, you have a solid legal case to bring forward.

It's okay to take some risk if you have a backup plan. Okay, Google shuts down my business e-mail account. But I have all messages downloaded daily, and I can switch tomorrow to this VPS e-mail server I set up. That's fine.

It's not okay to be so cavalier if an account suspension will cost you your home and require you to lay off two employees.

Again, I'm not trying to rag on the poor guy this happened to. Hindsight is always 20/20. I'm trying to warn people against getting into the same situation he found himself in.
Sometimes PDFs store actual character data (like vector graphics), and sometimes they store static images. Last I checked (admittedly a few years ago), Word conversion only works on the former. It didn't do OCR or anything so dramatic.

If only some PDFs will work for them, they wouldn't accept them at all.
The implementation possibilities limit or expand the product idea.

Also the implementation is the product, and the product is most of the business. They are not separate things.
The more that I played with the docker, the more I realized that its use cases are far more limited than people will advertise. Several project leads that I've worked with knew what doctor was based on the description on its website, or some product review blog.

The majority of my time spent assessing dockers viability, was in convincing my bosses that this product did not solve the problems they were trying to address.
Since Pond is hard to search for, [link attached][0].

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I definitely didn't want to say they are bad.

For me, personally, the switch from Windows was rough. Not because I consider any of them to be superior, but because the way things are rendered is just so different.

A more compact font (the 'Condensed' part) helped me a lot.

So many other things (window animations, shadows, straight borders,...) I really love. And the compact font is the finishing touch for my untrained eye.
English isn't "the" official language, it's one of the official languages. And, by a wide margin, you're better off knowing Cantonese.
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>> "if you're not embarrassed with the first version of your product then you've launched too late."

Carmack said it as well: Michael Abrash and I once had a discussion kind of justifying ourselves. We said, "Well, if we shipped on time, we probably weren't ambitious enough."
In the end all we are is an account number and money provider to Amazon. If they piss off 1000 small vendors or customers it is 0.000001% of their business and thus makes no sense to care. I work for a business where the customer is treated well (not your usual technology company at all, but everyone knows who we are) and it does cost a lot of money and effort to treat each one as important. But we do charge a lot for this and have an enormous count of employees and that makes it much easier to be customer centric. Companies built pure on leveraging technology to make things happen and only profit as a business by ignoring the human element can't or won't or don't (care). We support this type of company because we save money or gain convenience and even to us customers we are willing support them anyway, which tells them what matters.
The systems I've seen and worked on, I can easily believe see this happening. My view is that this level of 'wtf' is pretty common for our profession, sadly.
They temporarily lost my luggage before... I would much rather have it with me. And it is much quicker then going to the carousel, especially if you choose a seat close to the exit.
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Come on.

(thanks ;)
I'll admit I've never considered what a position that puts you in, but it makes sense. Especially if you have employees, that's incredibly vulnerable. I suppose I figured if you were doing enough business with a company you'd reach a level of support indicative of how much money you're generating for them. Just like many banks have specialized agents for fiduciary level money.
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This kind of thing is standard for storage device returns. When your Western Digital drive fails under warranty they expect you to send it to them whether you are able to scrub the bits or not. Some of vendors allow you to pay a "media retention fee" to avoid sending the failed drive. I know that HPE does.
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I too had good experience with paypal on both ends (payer and recipient).
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Beyond the pen and pad - I have so many note pads already and struggle to keep any sort of structure to them.

I'd like to be able to track product ideas, side-project ideas, lyric ideas, video ideas etc. and flesh them out when I feel motivated.

Is there a good way of keeping track of these in a structured way across my apple and android devices?
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1.incarlah sesuatu yang mustahil

2.bersenang-senanglah di dunia maya dan di dunia nyata

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And then they travel and use a different device with a different keyboard layout and suddenly they don't know how to type ß anymore.
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"When contemplating a smart home, there is nowhere better to start than developing smart rooms on wheels." would require some explanation.

Even considering that Apple is looking seriously at wearable is debatable. You need to include the airpod as a wearable so that you have something else than the rarely updated Apple Watch.
Next on the docket:

1. Basic Air Fee. If you are obese, you pay more since you breathe more.

2. Regular Seat Fee.

3. USB/Power Adapter fee. Charge per watt-hour.

4. Under seat storage fee.

5. Bathroom Usage Fee.

6. Pre embarkation cleaning fee.

7. Post embarkation cleaning fee.
All 100% project code - even interops and COM object creation is pure F#.
What I don't like on resume generators is the fact that what they say about being "unique" and "impress" is the exact opposite from what will happen if suddenly everyone will start using them. All CVs will be the same eventually....
taxes. oh wait, it's already the case.
But the original question was whether the signature check should happen after applying the patch instead of before, and the answer is clearly "No!". You can and should clearly do both, but if you'd have to decide either-or, always verify first, as early as possible.
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Sure, but I imagine that many of the people skipping the overhead locker are people who are only bringing a small bag
+1 for Argos. I've started using them wherever I can, after Amazon failed to deliver 3 orders this year. The first 2 orders were refunded, the third wasn't, because the package was signed for (but by someone with a completely different name, and they didn't record the house number it was delivered to). Emailed them many times. They won't even reply to the emails or call me now.
My experience with Paypal has been great as a buyer, bad as a seller.

I personally know someone who had their account suspended because apparently Paypal doesn't like emulators -- something not stated in their terms of service. When this happens, they lock you out of your funds. No warning, no notice, hope you didn't need those funds to pay bills.

Your experience may have gone well, but even a cursory Google search for "Paypal sucks" returns 1.5 million results. That doesn't inspire confidence in me. If I instead search for "Stripe sucks", I get 970 results, and most aren't related to the credit card processing company.

I would never offer Paypal as a way to buy things from a small business I ran, unless it was large enough that I could afford to lose a month's revenue from them.

AT&T, at least in the non-essential personal utilities space ... yeah they are complete garbage as well. I paid for the three-month DirecTV Now plan. The service has yet to work on any of my PCs. They do not support the service by phone at all. Their online chat has been busy all 20 times I've checked it. They don't respond from their Twitter account. They direct you to a forum to post about your problems, and then don't respond to issues there. They refuse to issue refunds.

I don't know what I would do if I needed commercial internet service. Probably go for having open accounts with multiple service providers.
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WTF, job ad as npm package?
...if talking to third-world poor is your goal?
I use a wiki, but that's not all that great to use from a mobile device. Maybe something like Evernote?
The problem is that very few people start out relying on services like Amazon. They're a normal small business and then decide to try and sell some excess inventory through Amazon as an experiment. It goes well so they sell some more. 12 months later they've hired 5 people to deal with demand, the original business has withered, ...
You're coming at this from the perspective of a buyer. From a seller's perspective, Paypal can be incredibly infuriating and lock funds from you with little to no immediate recourse or options.
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When I visit Google News and click a link I don't expect a paywall, I expect to read the news.

I also have never disabled an ad blocker because one site said I should in order to read their content. Another bad user experience.

I understand in both instances its their right to put a paywall or demand a removal of ad blocker but when aggregated by others, sites like Google News, the expectations of users are different and therefore, these sites should not be included and get traffic that for the most part, get nothing but a quick click to close window or a back button.

If the click doesn't match the user's expectation, you're doing it wrong.
This guy has an interesting approach with YAML for the content, LaTeX for the template, and pandoc for compiling: https://github.com/mrzool/cv-boilerplate
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I assume you have never travelled long haul with small children.

It's in everyone's interest for children onboard to have access to entertainment, food, diapers, comfort objects, and clean clothes. That all takes space.
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This exactly. Not to mention they (United) already charge $20 to check a small bag. This nickle and diming sucks.
Before Marshmallow it would refuse to auto-update apps if they added a permission. It would just show you a notification about the new permission and whether to accept/decline the update.
I really wish Google would let us download pre-compiled native blobs on fast WiFi connections. Downloading is by far the fastest part of app installation / update for me, the time spent recompiling the bytecode can measure in the minutes for some apps.

Even worse is the forced-recompilation of every single app for the tiniest system patches, which can take upwards of an hour.
Considering how checked baggage is thrown around I'd rather keep photography gear in my cabin baggage and have lenses unbroken, thank you.
I have mixed feelings. I hate the nickel and diming, but ever since they started charging for checked bags, the boarding / deplaning process has been a nightmare. So if this speeds up boarding, it could be a good thing.

The other thing that they could do, which would garner good will, and speed up boarding/deplaning would be to offer a checked bag for free to everybody. But I bet they are contractually locked out of that, as a free checked bag is a perk offered by most airline affiliated credit cards.
I try not to use the overhead compartments and will check a bag if it all possible because I don't want to be a part of the chaos.
Absolutely.

They are no doubt the best printers in your company's facility. Most printers for enterprises are garbage now without a service contract or managed print deal.

For personal use, the brother laser devices <$100. Are the best bet. Simple, reliable and most of the things that break are either field replaceable or you can ditch the device.
What service do you use? Sounds like an interesting (and fairly unique) approach for this purpose.
I've had terrible experiences with Amazon this year (though nowhere near as bad as this poor guy) and it took me an entire day of repeatedly phoning their support lines and forcing my way through to a manager until I found someone who would actually use a bit of initiative.

In my case, I had something like a 50% failure rate of Prime delivery orders. It was at the point that every time I'd buy something with a delivery date of tomorrow, I'd get it 3 days later after it was dispatched from Germany instead. The drivers who did turn up have now been banned from delivering to our apartment block, as they would ditch all the parcels outside or with security instead of delivering them. Standard customer support wouldn't refund my Prime subscription because I had apparently used it 66 times in 3 months, which must mean that they must count MP3 plays as uses, as I only ordered 12 parcels in that time. Thankfully I did eventually get hold of someone who took the time to check and see that I've been buying from Amazon since they launched in the UK, and had been a Prime member since that launched too, and she promptly refunded me the membership. It took far, far too many managers to get to that point, however.

The general customer service seems to have deteriorated in the past year. Prior to that I always had great customer service from Amazon. I've now largely switched away to ordering from elsewhere. eBuyer gets me my parcels within a day on free shipping, and they're pretty competitive on price. I always ordered from Amazon because the CS was good, but they've lost me as a customer for now.
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I've been saying this a lot, and hopefully I don't get downvoted because this is too "political", but...

Essentially, Amazon is no longer a business. It is infrastructure. Every citizen should have the right to complain if something goes wrong. There could be a little office in every bigger city where you pull a number and get to talk to a real human. And if the dispute isn't settled, you should be able to take your case to a real court.

Note I don't want to expropriate anybody. Congratulations Jeff, you won capitalism! Give the man a billion and make him Secretary of Shipment or something. But the whole structure he created has become so important, that it should be subject to the same scrutiny that a wing of government would be (should be)... parliamental control, transparence and accountability, separation of powers, etc..
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Airlines are so stupid. They are basically going to force all the families to Southwest with free bags. Southwest needs to market the crap out of this so people know.
This is smart. Start by developing the smallest and most essential solution to a problem, get feedback, and incrementally improve the solution.
The market took care of that. It's called Brother!
It is worrying how more and more people are reliant on running a small business tied to a tech giant. It could be selling on Amazon or eBay, driving for Uber, selling apps through Apple or running a website with Google AdSense. All these companies treat their sellers as entirely disposable, and if their algorithms look at you the wrong way you're out.
Except the worst returns are closer to -100%, the median is closer to -30% and only a small fraction are positive.

Also, your example was 7 firms with the median being 1% and a positive return.
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Or just shamelessly ripping off intercom's product is another quick way to iterate and test your assumptions.
It's because they are afraid of substances like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone_peroxide

Note that that stuff is an explosive that contains no nitrogen, so it can't be detected by common explosive detectors.
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I never do anything business related with our personal Amazon account. I have an LLC with its own bank account and Amazon account for anything business related, and this kind of stuff is why.
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Why is a phone the gold standard for support? If I have to talk to someone on the phone, it means I have exhausted every other possible method to resolve my problem, and I am furious with the company for making me talk to an idiot in real time.

What I want is an issue tracker that has responsive, accountable, people on the other end. That's my ideal support experience. Phones are the worst case scenario.
This has got to me one of the most nagging sites I had the displeasure of visiting
United isn't the first US airline to do this. I believe Spirit, Allegient and Frontier all charge for carry-on luggage -- but you can get flights for $20-40 one way, if you buy direct. You get what you pay for though...
I have run into this kind of automated bureaucracy several times in the last decade. It is both infuriating and frightening.

My mortgage was sold to a new company that had a weird computer-directed policy that rejected my home owner's insurance. They then flagged me as not having insurance and charged me over $1,000 for providing insurance. I spent hours on the phone speaking with people in India who absolutely would not send my proof of insurance up the chain of command. It wasn't until I was able to find the CEO of the mortgage company and contact her directly to explain my situation that it was finally resolved... for six months when the automated system rejected my home owners insurance again. I eventually had to refinance the home to get out from under this soulless company's grip.

Institutions like the Better Business Bureau used to protect consumers from this kind of abuse, but the complaints I have registered with them have achieved nothing. If I was poor, this situation would have financially ruined me. I would have missed mortgage payments, my home would have been foreclosed on, and my credit would have been ruined for years.

I highly recommend the science fiction film "Brazil" to anyone who wants to see the dystopia this kind of automated rules-enforcement could create. "Brazil" is the book "Nineteen Eighty-Four" but the totalitarian government rules with a system of overwhelming bureaucracy. The problem here is that it is the Capitalists who are the oppressors.
I had a problem with ebay once and they suspended my seller account because I didn't get them documents on time and they said they weren't going to suspend my account. So, I got so angry I canceled my entire account and wrote a huge rant in there comment section of the cancel about know wonder they lose users left and right and pretty soon they won't have any left. and explained how there process was wrong. and it worked. they reinstated my seller account.
> Median is a value of a specimen that...

Correction: median doesn't have to be a value of a specimen.
"Task Manager is a fundamental tool to understand the runtime state"

IIRC, the taskbar and tray are meant to communicate that at all times. But trays were easily overrun as people installed more and more background software on a single PC. Modern taskbars too have become so crowded there are groupings and virtual taskbars for the virtual desktops.

One cause is software unnecessarily running at all times. Another is people do more with their PCs than in times past.
Google has the opposite goal. Since their primary income is ad revenue, they have absolutely zero incentive to improve the experience for ad blockers. As long as your goal is to deny both paying for and seeing ads for content, don't expect anyone to make your life easier, because you're leeching off everyone else.
Don't know man. Lived in China for years and people that made it to the US, tended to stay there. You just have to look at the lines that form in Shanghai in West Nanjing Rd for student/tourist visas. Of course there is a lot of people that also return, but the people I knew, just went into the banking sector and ended up depending on family connections more than education itself.

As for the cream of the crop, I can tell you I saw a couple of guys that were really outstanding in the startup scene, and one was from the Max Planck institute in Germany and the other was from a Chinese university (and not precisely Tsinghua, Fudan or Jiao Tong).
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with the recent google stunt where they blocked 200+ email accounts, I have been planning to move over to some other paid email service and replace all of the google products that I use. The only thing I cant replace is the android and I need a gmail account for it to work :-/
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Ryanair announces crazy schemes like some of those, which it has no apparent intention of actually implementing, apparently just for the publicity:

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/17/travel/ryanair-money-savin...
I always wished they had charged for overhead instead of checked. Yes, there are some conveniences to carry on but as you note it really breaks down when everyone decides to use it