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Customer support is super important when the product is immature. It keeps customers paying, and it produces a list of issues, clients can even help you prioritize them (at least if your clients are other businesses).

Yes, once that program has been working for 10 years, it's likely that any bugs are easily worked around, but while the software is in development, it's likely there are no work arounds and customer support can take a beating from the customer and try to make the customer feel better, this stretches out the timeline for fixing the issues.

There could be physical businesses who's sole responsibility is to accept applications for banks and verify identity. It probably make sense for TransUnion, and similar to get into this kind of a business - validation of id for submission of forms.

Obviously this would be more expensive for the consumer. I think if we can put a credit-freeze except for such applications in person, there would be people who go for it; I would.

That is the only topic my kid, who recently went to high-school brought up so far. She said her teacher talks endlessly about it, how everything is bad. I think we need to take a step back and think as to what it really means, and to whom. If we're talking about global scale, then sure, it'll be bad, but if we're freaking out our kids, you know the kids in the first world, well how bad is it going to be? We need to stop freaking the kids out and telling them they are doomed.

The whole season is to see typical courts and judges. This is just the most shocking thing that happened which I could tell in a short time, but there was some racism coming from judges, there is complete indifference throughout, they also speak of difference between paid and public defense attorneys.

I think it's best to not get fixated on that one event, and listen (if you listed to podcasts) to the entire season, which is apparently season 3, not 2 as I thought.

There's a podcast, by the name: 'Serial', in season two they go into regular courtrooms with non-fancy cases - fights, etc.

In one episode after the defendant has been found not guilty, the judge presiding over the case berated them for not accepting a plea deal, and wasting the court time. This is after the person has been found not guilty.

Some people have fixed expenses, besides cost of living and other normal expenses which depend on your location.

Isn't a planet just a big spaceship with things built in? You can dig inside it for things, you don't need to capture asteroids, planets can travel through space and have a protective shield - the atmosphere, and Earth is already traveling at huge speeds, which are at very least on the level with the fastest spaceships we can currently make. Sure guiding a planet maybe harder than a spaceship made specifically for that purpose, but all the benefits of having resources right underneath, and planets are a proven space ships, with billions of years of testing, no man-made spaceship can match that for billions of years.

It's the difference of getting the gold medal vs being in the Olympics basically. Both are great, gold is significantly greater though.

For all the complaints that google and facebook and others get for collecting all the info on you, the nice part is when you use them, they show you exactly what you want. A company that doesn't collect your search/view preferences just can't do that.

Sorry for late response. I usually take down notes, but don't always remember where I put them. They are usually organized into what makes sense, but if I later remember and want to go back to that topic, I may not remember where it was written down.

For example I may have an idea to do something, and that would be in google docs, but then I might have some tasks and put them into trello. By searching for the idea's name, I should be able to see both the original write up and the tasks in trello, and potentially any messages I wrote to other people about it.

I want to search for something in one place, and find it, no matter if it's in any of my gmail accounts, yahoo email, trello, git, google docs, my home pc or work pc anywhere. Basically, search though all my personal accounts.

Just to add to your '2)', some of those drugs maybe illegal in US, but legal in other countries, so you could probably now get cheaper medicine which isn't FDA approved.

don't most sites claim they own data? Like could you legally scrape reddit and make your own site?

I just booked a vacation on Expedia. What I really wanted was to find a list of rooms by price (airfare included) which can comfortably sleep 4 people - so I needed 4 actual beds. I tried looking at bigger rooms, but it looked like booking 2 cheap rooms was less expensive, but I'm still not sure if that's true. So basically you could see if you can accommodate large parties. Also, when I booked the rooms, I think it made me select one type, but in theory, i might have wanted one ocean front room and one without the view.

Are there any kind of FDA restrictions on that?

The point is if you buy a coffee and drink it at a little table in the coffee shop, and then leave, you may have spent 5 to 10 minutes there. But if you're going to set up your laptop and work 2 hours before purchasing another coffee, then you're taking over a space which could have served about 10 more customers in the same time span.

In addition to that, if you're there to work, chances are you're there by yourself. However other customers may come in groups, and that table can be used by the group. By taking over the table and having that group pass the shop for another place where they can drink/eat+talk, you're costing the shop a lot of customers.

don't like skype?

From what I saw based on my app (released over a year ago), installs lags, but reviews don't. I think installs lag only for a day, but maybe they lag for longer due to some factor such as a different country or a holiday/weekend

He's asking which technology you're using. For example you could say LAMP (linux, apache, mssql, php), or you could say .NET, or you could say python. Basically whatever you coded your backend + front end in.

I always vote 3rd party when available, because I know they won't win. It's a "none of the above" vote, where "above" means dems and reps.

This quote must feel like a punch in the gut to anyone who believes in that 3'rd party you voted for. They thought "look, we didn't win, but at least X number of people agree with us, we'll do better next time". They don't realize you haven't even looked at what they stood for, and it wasn't even a pity vote, it was a throwaway because you didn't feel like writing in Micky Mouse.

Honestly, if you don't have time to form an opinion for what each party (or at least main parties) stand for, then how will you have time to vote on each individual issue? According to this website: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics there have been over 10 thousands things those people have input one per year. (sounds insane to me as well)

You don't want to micromanage each little decision, and you can certainly make phone calls and show up in person to talk to some people in government to discuss things you do care about.

The point of the nation is some kind of laws as well as ability to enforce those laws. If you belong to this digital nation, you still will have your body in some type of earthly nation like US or Russia or Italy, etc. Therefore your body will be subject to local laws. For example if in digital nation you have the right to drink at 20, then US might still arrest you if you try to buy a drink (or whatever they do - deny?), and they will not buy into your claim that your nation allows you to drink. However if your body is in Russia, they might laugh at you if you turn yourself in for drinking at 20, as they (I believe) have a lower drinking age. None of physical nations are going to enforce or abide by the laws of the digital nation.

Nations must have not only laws, but a way to enforce them, and a way to protect their citizens from foreign nations.

There are many online communities, such as ycombinator and reddit and WoW, and people feel like they are a part of them, but they are not nations. You can certainly create a community where you pool money and educate your digi-zens (digital citizens), you can provide disaster services by perhaps sending food/drinks to them in case of disaster, but they will still have to follow local laws - you wouldn't be able to request countries to extradite them to you for example.

I'm in same ballpark, I have ads from which I made about $20 with 26k downloads (and 1.4k current installs), and I have in-game purchases from which I made 0. It seems some people really enjoy it, and give a good review, others post something like 'garbage' and give it a 1 star review https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mildspring...

Maybe it's obvious and should go without saying, but you should file for unemployment.

I wouldn't give the reason "they wanted someone someone more senior" on your interviews, their official reason is a lot nicer.

Your resume in the link says 'traditional resume'. Is that on purpose? I'd just call it 'resume'. If you have several, just put them in different folders, and call each file 'resume'. Not really sure it's important though.

Good luck.

Any good C++ codebases?

When people go to apple store, they probably already know the product and ready to spend, I am going to argue that Apple sales people are closer to convenience store clerks, than to real estate agents.

When someone looks at apartment, that's the first time they've seen it, and they didn't discuss it with their coworkers to death for weeks. I think just asking them for a check at that point is a bit more complicated compared to what Apple sales person has to do. Salesmanship will be important in explaining why the apartment is worth 4k, vs. whatever they think it's worth. Apple price is a one-time price for a few hundred, or at most a few thousand dollars. Each month rent is going to be more than an Apple gadget, coupled that with completely unknown product and the sales skill required becomes unparalleled.

There is obviously a difference between renting out 8k apartment vs. 4k apartment. Usually people can squeeze into a smaller apartment, usually in NYC they will be unhappy with tiny apartment as it is, and usually there are a lot of apartments they want to see before committing - it's not like Apple with only a few devices. Two apartments both at same price may be entirely different, and just because one apartment is lower price from another doesn't mean it is inferior, so it's harder to compare than electronic devices (for example apartment maybe higher in price for being next to a subway station, but if another apartment is right within walking distance of a person's job - it would be way more valuable to them, or perhaps it's closer to the correct subway line).

Is 1 out of 8 a realistic number for getting someone in NYC? do you have a source for it?

Regarding side costs - there are people who work as photographers for real estate. So if you want your listing to look nice, you may want to get one.

Take this with a grain of salt, I've never been a realtor. I have rented apartments only in NJ, and bought a house in NJ.

Doesn't it require 3-rd party software?

Also, to add, Steam doesn't check system requirements to even suggest that the game may not run on the PC. I had received a beta invitation and downloaded the game, before finding out it's 64 bit, sadly my PC still has 32 bit OS.

Steam lets you buy games from multiple publishers, and a lot of times they have very good sales. I wouldn't call Steam a company, isn't the company Valve?

I'm not sure about other companies, but don't they only sell their own games? And they get a bad rap for being a publisher, not as a game-store. They might not be a good game-store, because they don't have games from other companies, only from themselves.

You are right that Steam's policy is to not offer refunds, and that is a horrible policy IMO, because you may buy a game, but your computer may not run it (if you're on the border of required hardware for example). But ease of use and deep discounts probably are more important than the refund issue for most honest customers (those who aren't interested in finishing game in under 7 days and returning it). Android offers two hour refund policy, which I think would be good.

In my opinion it's hard to compare a store such as Steam to a publisher such as EA. Even comparing Steam to EA's store, I don't think EA's store offers games from other publishers, so it's still hard to compare. This means Steam has far more games offered, some with deep discounts.

I live in NJ, sometime last week I got a paper which shows exact layout of buttons there will be at election with all the names. So in theory I can practice at home pressing on buttons (I think the paper folds out to same size as the actual booth machine).

So it's pretty convenient. Of course I still have to go online to look each individual's positions, but there's no way to present an unbiased view of each candidate, at very least you will present them in some order, and even that matters.

I have a related question.

If I get into a car (especially one loaned for a day), shouldn't I be able to connect to the car with Bluetooth, and then have car settings for at least the radio come up on the phone? So for example if I want button1 to be station 123, all I'd have to do is sync those settings against phone.

I guess the question is, if I have a smart phone, why do I still need to use car-interface to set up buttons for radio? Why can't there be apps that remember settings and update them automatically. With such apps, you could configure your car to play kid-friendly radio when you drive kids to school, and your favorite channel on your way to work. You wouldn't have issues switching between your and spouse's car (different settings, and maybe they reset radio or dealer changed battery and reset radio).

(or maybe this is all available on better cars than I own)