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Comment Waiting on that relative date of birth (Score 3) 114

I tend to pass on these personal info for free stuff trades. I'd really like to know why we still ask for exact date of birth rather than a relative date of birth. The only time you'd need exact date of birth for a general inquiry is if the person's age was within days of a age-restricting threshold. Can't we just enter our year of birth or year/month and consider that sufficient?

Comment Ditching Chromium soon (Score 2) 377

because I'm tired of it eating up all my RAM. I'm pretty tired of these browsers forcing me to upgrade hardware to handle the performance and data footprint that they sell as "fast" and "feature rich". What is it worth if my perfectly stable old machine can't handle it?

Comment How to kill advertising. (Score 1) 241

This is how it's done. Nice job, Telenav. You're paving that yellow brick road to the emerald city that is the death of advertising. We'll all click our heels and be back to rural, disconnected, black-and-white Kansas in no time. People will be leaving the Internet and all sorts of media outlets after this move. We'll wake up and realize there's a world around us and then perhaps small businesses will flourish.

Comment Personal contribution (Score 1) 422

can lack a bit when you don't have that visual awareness of who you're working with. That's what I've been told by our management. Delivering as a team becomes an abstract concept because that physical presence isn't there to solidify the importance of your work to the team's success. Perhaps our millennial generation will resolve this because it's a more understood concept. I imagine it takes effort for some people to wrap their minds around remote teamwork.

Comment I want full transparency (Score 1) 478

Show the cost on these all access subscriptions. I'm done signing up for services that say "free trial" but don't state their actual cost. Sure, I can dig into the FAQ or fine print and find their annual fees, but if I can't see the cost up front, without digging around, then I'm not going to sign up for something that's a pure time sink wasting even more of my time by hiding their costs. This isn't a necessity like Internet service (who are also guilty of this practice). Why do we still live in a world where this is accepted? Phone plans have largely done away with these deceptive practices, so why do we still let other industries do it?

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