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bahman2000

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tl;dr: I asked homejoy to take my money and they couldn't.

I first learned about Homejoy in October of 2013 and immediately signed up for a recurring cleaning, automatic billing. Almost every time Homejoy called me to reschedule. I only had the same cleaner twice, even though I picked 3 different "preferred" cleaners. Finally, after about 12 cleanings, they didn't show for cleaning 13. Turns out that since October their recurring billing system wasn't actually billing me. So they cancelled my appointment without any notice. I was never told of an accruing balance, even though I spoke to them frequently because they called to reschedule so many times.

Atom 12 years ago

I believe the default crashplan setting is 15-minutely. It saved me and my from the described situation many times.

My dad had pretty much the same experience. He was not Jewish. He was not Russian (slavic/blond/blue-eyed) either.

Russophilia, xenophobia, cronyism and nepotism were rampant in the former USSR. A "prominent" Muscovite Jew (but otherwise a lousy student) would have been treated better than the most talented Uzbek/Kazakh/Tajik.

Chef 11 released 13 years ago

I like that chef also knows a whole lot about my nodes, db is searchable and recipes can use search results.

I can do things like: "all my webservers with RAM > N should have different httpd.conf settings"

i don't think it's unique to China

take a look at this POI on 4sq: http://4sq.com/rArZMj

It starts with a street view. If you zoom in a little, turns out the bar is out in the water! When you switch to Satellite view, the bar is where it is supposed to be, on the shore.