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Comment · 7 years ago
It would be hilarious if they were to sell a case for the card too hahah!
Comment · 7 years ago
This would certainly solve the problem where smart kids go to good but expensive schools, and then take on garbage consulting jobs so that they can pay off their loans.
Comment · 7 years ago
I would love to hear the kind of stuff everybody is using Raspberry Pi for. Is anybody using them in museums or for digital signage?
Comment · 7 years ago
He was joking. He probably got startled.
Comment · 7 years ago
Ha! Imagine how much a Deloitte-like company would've charged them for making that html page.
Comment · 7 years ago
I was in Lucerne, Switzerland in 2017 and during a morning jog by the lake, I saw a sign in English and Chinese that said don't feed the ducks. Later that afternoon when I walked by the sign, I saw a group of at least 40-50 tourists feeding the ducks next to the sign. Maybe people just let loose when they're abroad because the government is so strict when they're home?
Comment · 7 years ago
6 years ago I used to live in a rent-controlled studio apartment on the Upper East Side. There was a very old woman who lived alone in the apartment above me and one night I saw her eating out of the trash. New York is a tough place to be.
Comment · 7 years ago
The new logo makes them look like a boring, stuffy company that caters to enterprise clients. Of course they chose this branding, but maybe this is also what they deserve?
Comment · 7 years ago
I feel like a lot of my friends who are about to start a family or get married have started moving away from big cities like NYC, SF and LA. You just end up wanting a bigger place, a quieter street, and proximity to a Trader Joe's.
Comment · 8 years ago
Netflix is churning out TV shows at an astonishing rate, some are great, most aren't. This has lead me to avoid clicking on thumbnails that have "Netflix" written on them unless I've already heard of the show.

Netflix is good at making shows that are satisfying to watch, but hardly interesting or innovative. It's like ordering fast food. Hope they don't do this to their movies.

Quality-wise HBO is still the best.

Comment · 8 years ago
Why are businesses in large cities going cashless? Are there any sinister reasons for doing this? The article seems too harsh. I thought going cashless was mainly to speed things up during check out.
Comment · 8 years ago
The only way to ensure your wordpress sites don't break is to reduce reliance on plugins. A decent host like DigitalOcean doesn't hurt either. Squarespace is ok for simple sites, but once clients start requesting additional features it becomes a nightmare.
Comment · 8 years ago
The new editor looks slick, but it's kind of confusing when you start using it. It works for simple sites that you can build with things like the ones you see on Squarespace, but to use Wordpress like a real CMS you still need metaboxes.
Comment · 8 years ago
The first time I switched from IE to Firefox, and then later from Firefox to Chrome, were all because of speed. The latest Firefox releases do feel faster than Chrome, but it's not a huge difference. Security is important but I don't know if it's a "visible" enough feature to get people to switch to Firefox.
Comment · 8 years ago
Lately I've felt like New York is turning into a bit of a theme park. Everything is turning into a popup experience/temporary museum, a speakeasy, an overpriced fast-casual restaurant, a Wework or a luxury apartment building. The people around me used to sound like characters from "Seinfeld" now all I see are instagram influencers and couples who "oh my god, we love the city!".

Miss those days when you could get a $8 Bulleit Rye with a splash of club soda at bar that didn't have a 100 tv screens. I think I've become a tired old hipster.

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