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>But Sen. Welch also noted that brick-and-mortar shops are also being used as display cases for products later bought online. "When a consumer can walk into a store, try out a product and then go home and buy it online without paying sales tax, Main Street businesses and downtowns lose," he said in a statement.

In my experience, sales tax does not account for the price difference, in most stuff I buy. What does account for it is the insane markup. Try buying an HDMI cable at bestbuy, then compare to the $1.50 at monoprice.com

odesk can be tougher than it looks. I landed a couple of ruby / rails based gigs for $50/hr there, but then the work dried up, and all I could find were lower per hour jobs, and sketchy pay when project is completed jobs (without a complete spec).

http://seobook.com/ http://seojuicer.com/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/ (sometimes has seo content)

they do not tell us how many GB is too many

yes, hook it into geoip, (something like maxmind)

JRuby is actually for projects that have a lot of existing java code. If you're programming ruby and all your existing code is in ruby... it's not necessarily a win, unless you happen to need a particular Java library for performance reasons.

A lot of the time the full website and the mobile site are not the same backend / system. That said I share your frustration

You should always worry about losing it, traditional spinning disk or not. That said, my SSD is doing just fine, but I still have a full backup of it.

what's interesting about this is that you now have a new virus... the virus scanner itself. They are difficult to uninstall, take up CPU and RAM, much like a real virus

maybe it should be "facebook for every OTHER phone"

It's more about negotiation tactics than being taboo. Employers don't list salaries on job ads.

from what I understand, they type the url into google search

So the problem is that you can't prevent others from using it?

beatpanda.com is available, better go ahead and buy it

what you saw was probably github pages, it's not really innovative, it's actually built into the site

yes, you can cache pages locally, and update when internet access is available

It seems like it would use more resources to tailor their service to every country's laws and keep it up to date.

The most efficient (least resources) route of compliance is to add a 13 or older checkbox, and disable anyone who doesn't check it.

We have checks on monopolies here in the US. The only problem is that often the people checking on the monopolies are the same people who run the monopolies.

I agree. The only choice we have now is cable vs netflix.

The bit about the NDA is a little ridiculous.

Apple wouldn't be able to politely ask people not to blog about their stuff.

wget has switches to replace http with file when saving a website to disk

quote: Positional arguments require mentally lining up the 7th argument in your function call with the 7th argument in the function signature, and so on.

If your function has 7 arguments, consider refactoring

I am happy with the Dell u2410 (connected to a 15.4" laptop). I also run spaces (on a mac), so I have a total of 8 screens.

You can also deposit checks at UPS stores... You give them a check and your debit card, it funds show up immediately (mobile deposit takes some business days).

USAA's online banking is open to everyone.

It's their driving insurance and some other products that are not.

It's a risk yes, but I've been using it this way for about a year and encountered no problems.

I'm thinking of TIMTOWTDI, and that perhaps many people don't know about defadvice.

I did this once... about 4 years ago. I found that I became a very uninteresting person. I worked and had no hobbies.

Now I have more stuff, but not so much stuff that it restricts me from hanging out with friends. I think it's more important to not buy stuff that will take away your time, or increase your obligations.

Try out git-svn

I keep a local copy of old git repos on my harddrive. I backup my harddrive religiously. Provided you don't have giant repos, this works well

it's important not to have BAD design. It's not important to have THE BEST design