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Don't believe me? Fine. Pretend your little echo chamber is the whole world. I have better things to do with my time.

Stop trying to make Firefox happen. It's a rapidly dying browser. I see less than 10% of the hits on the sites I manage from FF.

Sometimes it's better to be paid than right. (Especially on your first few jobs)

The data is misused in just about every way. From colleges using it as a student id number to people committing crimes with it.

Things like aid and whatnot should really be isolated and broken off to prevent mass collection dbs.

Getting flagged for a Danger 5 quote? Someone just lost all their nerd cred.

So, yeah, body swap. I guess the war continues :)

So to speak.

Why do they need pixel tags for tracking, and why don't they support DNT? No 'new' website should put up with this. I'll cut some slack to the 2010 and before era sites, since they've got a lot of legacy to work with.

Pixel Tags. In addition, we use "Pixel Tags" (also referred to as clear Gifs, Web beacons, or Web bugs). Pixel Tags are tiny graphic images with a unique identifier, similar in function to Cookies, that are used to track online movements of Web users. In contrast to Cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, Pixel Tags are embedded invisibly in Web pages. Pixel Tags also allow us to send e-mail messages in a format users can read, and they tell us whether e-mails have been opened to ensure that we are sending only messages that are of interest to our users. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a user. We do not tie the information gathered by Pixel Tags to our users’ Personal Data. How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals. We do not currently respond to "do not track" signals or other mechanisms that might enable Users to opt out of tracking on our site.

When they came to me with tough questions, we would learn together. It was fun, and they seem to have turned out ok.

The watches seem to start around 350 euros

I'll take a look on amazon :)

I just want a system that will work properly without them. Not 60FPS on Ultra settings in <game> work, I mean boot and function as a normal user's desktop.

Right now, it looks like a very bad way to harvest logins. (IMO)

I brought it to HN from a different angle. Most photographers crop and downsample to help them establish proof of copyright (since they don't have negatives). With 4K screens becoming commonplace, it seems like they're about to lose that arms race.

In this case, both Windows and Linux are used for huge server farms. MacOS not so much. Apple probably doesn't spend the energy optimizing this sort of thing since it's less likely to cause trouble for them.

LOLCode is still my favorite though. I wrote a prime number generator in it for fun :)

My first Nintendo came from that Sears Christmas Catalog :)

As a kid, we'd spend literally hours pouring over the Sears Catalog to circle christmas/b-day gifts (each kid with a different color pen), and we'd actually fight each other to get to it first.

That culture doesn't really exist anymore, and Sears really didn't adapt to it. Amazon would be the modern version, I guess.

Interesting to know about the display of the notifications. I was wondering how cleverly they did that, and if it was a check box. Sounds like it needs to be a checkbox or something.

I had one right out of college where the office (on energy efficient lightning) looked like some cubicle version of hell. A person in the elevator on the way to the interview mouthed "run away" to me, and really creeped me out.

I got the job, but literally couldn't even handle a full day in that cave-like godawful place.

How does it hold up "out there" in the real world? Is it too focused on the suit/office crowd?

Been badly burned by Garmin in the past, but maybe I'll take a look. They seem to be competing with Suunto, but without that ridiculous iOS only thing.