I remember when google was doing that and there were people exploiting it for both fun and profit. On the "fun" side, a bunch of 4chaners were intentionally poisoning the results with swear words.
I only very recently picked up chess and spend most of my time playing against the computer. lichess's computer plays really, really weird at low levels, not human-like at all. Chess.com's computer plays a bit more…
Same here. I actually still had an unopened can and a stack of labels I had peeled off bottles when I moved out of my parents' house and ended up chucking them all in the trash. I kind of wish I still had the can to…
I actually liked it back in the day, but it basically reminded me of what it would taste like if you mixed every soda in a soda fountain.
if .5 is completely random, what does it mean that I got it down to 0.4781666666666667? I may have gotten it lower than that, but got tired of taking screenshots. Eventually I ended up back around .53
I never had an issue with gmail blocking my mail server, but I was getting flagged as spam by AOL every sixish month because my server wasn't sending them enough mail... The company I work for resells an antispam…
I bought a Garmin Vivosmart a few months back now, and that's basically what it provides. It vibrates when I get calls, texts and other notifications on my phone, and tracks my steps for the day. It's also pretty…
You are right that this is generally true for my cats, unfortunately, one of our cats will periodically go outside the box for other reasons. For two cats, we have three litter boxes that are cleaned daily, new litter…
I know personal experience doesn't exactly count as rigorous scientific study, but I do have one light in my house that I literally never turn off in my kitchen. No automatic switch or anything, it burns 24/7/365. It…
Just this summer, I had a request with a very specific deadline from a client. I was about to go on vacation, and the deadline was for about a week after I was going to be back. I communicated to the client when I would…
OK, in that case, what if I took my camera equipment to a park, got it all setup, and hid in the bushes, hoping someone would use my equipment, that I setup, to take a picture. You, seeing the camera equipment, become…
They're shipped with a USB port because they just have a standard computer motherboard. Everything in the ATM that makes it different from the computer you're sitting at right now is just a peripheral.
I'm vaguely surprised they bothered to cut a hole to do this. When I was working on ATMs, none of my clients ever bothered to have they ATMs uniquely keyed. I had a keyring of about 30 keys that could open pretty much…
I'm guessing you were downvoted because you aren't really contributing to the conversation, but are instead actively trolling with that post.
This wasn't always the case.
These examples really won't give a good idea as to whether or not you're micromanaging. micromanaging would be you insisting on being included on parts of the design and implementation process that don't really require…
The DNS control panel was really my big reason for sticking with GoDaddy for a long time. I gave namecheap's DNS control panel a shot. It's acceptable, but nowhere near as nice to use as GoDaddy's Someone was suggesting…
One of my clients is swapping all of their sales people out of their windows laptops and into MacBook Airs because the sales people just need office and a web browser and the airs are far more impressive looking. I have…
According to the page: 33 percent of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college. 80 percent of U.S. families did not…
They are cut from regular carrots, but as the story indicates, the farms mostly responsible for baby carrots changed their growing techniques to make carrots skinny and as long as possible. Perhaps the change in growing…
Another difference that I haven't seen anyone talk about yet is the fact that while in both games, as you progress, you get different types of ammo, in CTC, you can switch between the different types of ammo at will,…
I work with a large number of professional creatives, including copywriters. They're all pretty well aware of copyright laws. This story might make sense if his "copywriter" was his 16 year old cousin. Also, I'm going…
A lot of schools charge admission to watch the sporting event, so even though the kids don't earn any money (and many times have to pay to play) the school makes a fair amount of money from the sports. The better the…
gah! You made my head a'splode with the involuntary reaction I have any time anyone mentions universal login. I really dislike the idea of being forced to use any one service in order to access multiple different…
Very entertaining, but it doesn't really alleviate my concerns about putting Google in control of all of my data... It's not Google specifically, it's more the fact that it's not really in _my_ control...
I remember when google was doing that and there were people exploiting it for both fun and profit. On the "fun" side, a bunch of 4chaners were intentionally poisoning the results with swear words.
I only very recently picked up chess and spend most of my time playing against the computer. lichess's computer plays really, really weird at low levels, not human-like at all. Chess.com's computer plays a bit more…
Same here. I actually still had an unopened can and a stack of labels I had peeled off bottles when I moved out of my parents' house and ended up chucking them all in the trash. I kind of wish I still had the can to…
I actually liked it back in the day, but it basically reminded me of what it would taste like if you mixed every soda in a soda fountain.
if .5 is completely random, what does it mean that I got it down to 0.4781666666666667? I may have gotten it lower than that, but got tired of taking screenshots. Eventually I ended up back around .53
I never had an issue with gmail blocking my mail server, but I was getting flagged as spam by AOL every sixish month because my server wasn't sending them enough mail... The company I work for resells an antispam…
I bought a Garmin Vivosmart a few months back now, and that's basically what it provides. It vibrates when I get calls, texts and other notifications on my phone, and tracks my steps for the day. It's also pretty…
You are right that this is generally true for my cats, unfortunately, one of our cats will periodically go outside the box for other reasons. For two cats, we have three litter boxes that are cleaned daily, new litter…
I know personal experience doesn't exactly count as rigorous scientific study, but I do have one light in my house that I literally never turn off in my kitchen. No automatic switch or anything, it burns 24/7/365. It…
Just this summer, I had a request with a very specific deadline from a client. I was about to go on vacation, and the deadline was for about a week after I was going to be back. I communicated to the client when I would…
OK, in that case, what if I took my camera equipment to a park, got it all setup, and hid in the bushes, hoping someone would use my equipment, that I setup, to take a picture. You, seeing the camera equipment, become…
They're shipped with a USB port because they just have a standard computer motherboard. Everything in the ATM that makes it different from the computer you're sitting at right now is just a peripheral.
I'm vaguely surprised they bothered to cut a hole to do this. When I was working on ATMs, none of my clients ever bothered to have they ATMs uniquely keyed. I had a keyring of about 30 keys that could open pretty much…
I'm guessing you were downvoted because you aren't really contributing to the conversation, but are instead actively trolling with that post.
This wasn't always the case.
These examples really won't give a good idea as to whether or not you're micromanaging. micromanaging would be you insisting on being included on parts of the design and implementation process that don't really require…
The DNS control panel was really my big reason for sticking with GoDaddy for a long time. I gave namecheap's DNS control panel a shot. It's acceptable, but nowhere near as nice to use as GoDaddy's Someone was suggesting…
One of my clients is swapping all of their sales people out of their windows laptops and into MacBook Airs because the sales people just need office and a web browser and the airs are far more impressive looking. I have…
According to the page: 33 percent of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college. 80 percent of U.S. families did not…
They are cut from regular carrots, but as the story indicates, the farms mostly responsible for baby carrots changed their growing techniques to make carrots skinny and as long as possible. Perhaps the change in growing…
Another difference that I haven't seen anyone talk about yet is the fact that while in both games, as you progress, you get different types of ammo, in CTC, you can switch between the different types of ammo at will,…
I work with a large number of professional creatives, including copywriters. They're all pretty well aware of copyright laws. This story might make sense if his "copywriter" was his 16 year old cousin. Also, I'm going…
A lot of schools charge admission to watch the sporting event, so even though the kids don't earn any money (and many times have to pay to play) the school makes a fair amount of money from the sports. The better the…
gah! You made my head a'splode with the involuntary reaction I have any time anyone mentions universal login. I really dislike the idea of being forced to use any one service in order to access multiple different…
Very entertaining, but it doesn't really alleviate my concerns about putting Google in control of all of my data... It's not Google specifically, it's more the fact that it's not really in _my_ control...