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Someone once described the difference between working with Cisco and with Huawei as being (and I'm paraphrasing) with Cisco if you have a feature request or bug report, you'll submit it through to your account manager, it will work its way through the Cisco machine, and eventually it might get added/fixed. With Huawei, if you spend enough they'll just give you someone to develop whatever it is you want. That came from someone with a ccie so I guess they have some level of interest in making Cisco sound more organised, but it would explain why Huawei have issues like this

I stopped trusting the wire cutter after they shifted from recommending a $40 knife to a $145 as their best chefs knife for most people

Mine is about 70% US car dealerships and I'm not American. I guess they've been buying up some low quality contact lists

Except that's not what happened in the specific example given - it was a strategic decision to spend a billion dollars and multiple years to replace an old system that processed transactions in daily batch jobs with a modern system that can do transactions effectively instantly - which is exactly what the parent post was arguing should occur

While most of your points are valid, you've misunderstood the last quote. CBA didn't fire people and then need to pay a billion dollars to fix something. They specifcally did migrate to a modern system - they completely replaced their entire legacy core banking system with a brand new one.

fishing vessels: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Malvinas/

I've found that there's a number people who are afraid to come out and say they didn't like Cuba, it's a very unpopular opinion. I spent two weeks there as part of a 6 month trip through North and Central America, and before I went, everyone said they loved it. Since then I've found I've spoken to two or three people who have said they were glad I told them I didn't like Cuba because they didn't either, but everyone else loves it. Obviously this is a small sample size, but I found it interesting.

Personally I thought that Viñales particularly, and Havana to a lesser extent, to be the most touristy places I've ever been. Of the three main streets in Viñales, almost every building was either a Casa Particular or a restaurant catering to tourists. In downtown Havana, the number of Canadians/Australias/Kiwi's/Europeans was incredible, more so than anywhere else I went in Central America.

Almost every daily activity was more difficult in Cuba than anywhere else I went (probably because of the embargo) - restaurants and supermarkets were constantly out of stock, exchanging money was an hour long ordeal...

That being said, if I had my time again, there's nothing I'd change, it was definitely a unique experience

His next sentence explains his point - the food you get at Cuban restaurants is nothing like the food you actually get in Cuba. Most of the food in Cuba is simple and quite bland

looks like the decimal was in the wrong spot in the ounces

But both countries’ products -- and all of Blue Moon’s products world-wide, for that matter -- share one thing in common: nowhere on the packaging is there any indication that the beer is a product of MillerCoors, the second-largest brewer in the United States.

It says quite clearly on the back label on the australian bottles that it's brewed by Coors

and now NZ customs is seeking blanket authority to force people to give them passwords at the border

anecdotally, I've never intentionally clicked on a google ad, but there's so far been 2 ads on facebook which directly led me to a purchase

if someone can afford plate armor, they can probably afford a decent ransom

edit: beaten to it, that's what i get for loading a whole bunch of tabs when i first get into work...

i built a pc for a family friend around that time... i'd spec'd it with a different drive, but they showed it to the IT guy at their work who recommended seagate. 6 months later the drive stopped working, and it had to be shipped to the other side of the world to be reflashed

Australia right now?

inflation 2.3% [1]

my interest rate : 4.02% [2]

[1] http://www.rba.gov.au [2]: https://www.ubank.com.au

its right there in the article: Dates, times, and durations; Percentages; Number formatting

the number of times i've opened a csv to find that excel has tried to determine the dates, and decided that the year thats being referred to is 1914 instead of 2014...

medium is confusing, it was actually written by Quinn Norton. also female, so your point still stands

i loved the idea, but stopped using it around the time of the name change - for some reason the login stopped working for me in Opera, and that was enough friction for me to give up on it

edit: missed the "unlimited" bit, i agree if you're buying an "unlimited" service, there shouldn't be an artificial cap

why not? if I only want to use a small amount of bandwidth per month, why should I pay the same as someone who uses 10 or 20 times as much? (I don't only use a small amount, but that's why i sprung the extra $10 a month to go from 500GB to unlimited)

having grown up with segmentation on both speed and quota, i struggle to understand why there's such opposition to the idea

on mobile (android), it was absolutely awful, every few scrolls it took over my screen and started automatically playing a video. if i wanted to watch the video in your article, i would press play, don't force it upon me

8 times? the median house price in Sydney just hit 800k. The median wage is 57k. I wish house prices were only 8 times the median wage...

parking under my building in the Sydney CBD is ~$85 a day, and checking the Sydney airport website, a days parking is $105

$40 a day is a pittance

I dream about renting in Melbourne - i can get the equivalent of what i'm renting in Sydney for easily 2/3 of the price I'm paying now

You hit the nail on the head there - the price of a house is what a bank is willing to lend you. I can't see how someone can justify paying 620k for a rundown 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment.

The second interest rates go up, or the price of properties come down, all of these people who are mortgaged to their eyeballs will suddenly find they can't afford to keep them, and the collapse is going to be terrible.

I'm impressed - it suggested New Zealand as #1, and Australia as #2. Raised in Australia and New Zealand, with kiwi parents.

I find it really easy to tell people who are native german speakers, based on learning german for years, and having had grammar drilled into me. I dont think there's been a time when I've picked up on it, and been wrong

despite being 150 years old, from what I've heard about BBVA, they seem to be making a real push to be innovative. They've fairly recently moved all of their staff onto Google Apps which is an interesting move.

The way I see it, someone has looked at their online/mobile banking, and said "what can we do better here? what are other people in the industry doing?" and seen the way Simple operates, and the general satisfaction of their customers.

It'll be interesting to see what happens from here

some models of the vaio pro come with a pcie based ssd. i don't think they're that rare

"hi relevant standards authority, you're not working fast enough for our liking, so we're doing what we wan't and if you don't like it, too bad" if this was anyone but google, there'd be a shitstorm...

a quick look on google maps revealed that the flying fox at my intermediate is still there, admittedly it's not as high as most in public parks that i remember

this article is the first i've heard about the policy change, and i have multiple google accounts...