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Comment · 13 years ago
My understanding is that dumpster diving to get opened food is fairly uncommon. More often it is getting sealed food that was thrown out because it has expired, has damaged packaging, or in some other way is less desirable. So the food that you would eat from a dumpster isn't exposed and probably doesn't smell like a restaurant waste dumpster would.
Comment · 13 years ago
I am present and public on most social networks and my name is still not in this data set.
Comment · 13 years ago
The data for this for uncommon names seems really off.

My last name is uncommon, so the most popular first names shows 10 names, each at 10%, and my name is nowhere on the list. Searching on Google for my last name shows many results about a minor celebrity whose first name is also missing from the list.

On popular names this probably evens out, but for uncommon names I appear to not exist here.

Comment · 13 years ago
For anyone who missed this yesterday like I did, _why's site was updated yesterday but is now back offline.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5571387 shows the progress of figuring out what was happening.

Basically he was sending out print commands to print the book that is linked here.

Comment · 14 years ago
I've been wanting to add metrics to a small side project of mine for a while and was looking at Metricfire and Mixpanel.

This announcement actually is pushing me away from Metricfire. The project I am working on now will generate less than 100 data points per day, so paying $30 a month is really high.

For someone who will take advantage of it, the $30 looks like a great plan, but when they say it is for small projects, that just seems like too much for the very small projects like mine.

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
Good point, I forgot about that, I don't buy enough apps to deal with it much. I guess I might as well try it out then.
Comment · 16 years ago
Its out now, and I was going to try it like a lot of other people have said, but there is no way to try it for free. The cost isn't very high ($1.58 right now) but with Swype already I don't see a reason to pay money just to try it.
Comment · 16 years ago
It looks like the 2 different terms are contradictory. We may have to wait and see if they clarify whether you just have to pay the extra fees or if you are completely switched to a paid account if you go over.
Comment · 16 years ago
They need to clarify the terms, it is unclear if this minimum usage is free or if they will cancel your account if you go over. These are both in their agreement:

"You also will be charged AWS’s standard rates for any use that exceeds the free usage amount provided under the Offer."

"You will become ineligible for the Offer if, ... (b) incur fees for use of the service that exceeds the free usage amount provided under the Offer. ..."

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