It's a good card, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to everyone. For all but the biggest spenders, the Citi DoubleCash makes more sense because it also gives 2% but with no annual fee. Since you're paying the $89, you'd have to spend over $89,000 annually ($89 / 0.1% difference) to make the 2.1% worth it over the 2%.
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* That annual fee quickly eats into effective cash back after the first year. There are 1.5% cashback cards with zero annual fee; for that extra 0.5% to be worth $90 you have to put more than $18k in spend on the card every year.
I got one of these for the sign-up bonus (and I'd recommend doing so!) but I wouldn't hold on to it for a cashback card.
The +1 is probably the best option there is, you can +1 something even if you completely disagree with that is stated or think it's completely horseshit but you think that It's important enough for other people to see.
The whole like/dislike or up/down is really a big issue on many cases since people misuse that (not counting intentional abuse) and think that it's a way to show support or disagreement with an opinion.
Reddit has it bad, HN probably has it even worse since only a few downvotes will actually silence a comment, and too many times you see comments that do not violate any rules on HN and are actually quite well written that get downvoted because the opinion that is expressed in them might not be popular enough or PC enough, heck even if something is factually wrong it's sad too see the comment being buried especially when there are replies provide fix the factuality of that original comment.
I would not mind to see HN move to a +1 system and just leave the flag option for comments that violates the site's rules.
Aparrently the name is partly a reference to the tag:
>Why did Google call the new rendering engine Blink? Upson told me it’s obviously supposed to signify how the focus here is on speed and simplicity. Browser developers, however, also tend to have a tendency to have a bit of fun with their names. Chrome, for example, is all about making the “chrome” disappear as much as possible and Blink, he told me, is meant to remind people of the good old (and annoying) blink tag the Netscape Navigator introduced in the 90s. [0]
That was dead giveaway that they'd shut it down. We instead chose Parse for a project we were just starting, and it's worked out pretty well (except for the bugs they've been having the past week which don't allow us to create new columns or deploy).
If you want data sync capability and you prefer to run your own databases, Couchbase Lite is an open-source iOS and Android JSON database that syncs with Couchbase running on your servers.
T-Mobile simply doesn't have any data coverage outside of major metropolitan areas. If you're someone that travels outside these areas, you will be unable to use your devices for anything but calls and texts.
That's a big caveat that should be mentioned.
(If you never leave the Bay Area, for example, then T-Mobile is a logical choice. It works well for me 98% of the time here.)
Yes, there is free UMTS/HSPA/EDGE roaming on AT&T for post-paid plans (aka not the $30 100 minute/5gb plan) and there is a data limit. For my plan, its 50 megabytes, which doesn't seem like much, but AT&T throttles you to 128kbit/s, so you really have to work hard to get to that 50 megs.
Swiping from the edge of the screen is not always easy with a protective case on your phone, as it impedes your ability to do so. Pretty annoying problem that I haven't seen that considered in many places.
The ideal phone wouldn't need a protective case. This is a standard perpetuated by the sleek and thin aspect to flagship phones, and I personally think it's obnoxious. What's the point in having the world's thinnest smartphone if you're going to keep it in the world's thickest case all the time?
I'd prefer a phone that is built from the ground up to be secure without a case. My current phone is a Nokia Lumia 920, which can withstand some pretty substantial forces [1] without breaking and without needing a case. And sure it's thick compared to a naked iPhone or SIII, but it's thinner than those phones with a case that would allow them to withstand the same kind of impact. Why do people put up with buying a phone and needing to immediately wrap it in protective rubber and plastic to keep it from shattering? Don't put up with it anymore! Demand reliable hardware! How well it works with a case shouldn't be a determining factor.
If the battery is removable, like most android phones, you don't need the protective case. If dropped, the battery will come out and take a large force of the fall. iPhones do not do this and need the case. Then it became either trendy, needed for resale, or people don't know that their phone 'exploding' when dropped is a feature. For example, I have dropped my EVO V at least 20 times, onto concrete or tile, without issue.
If the Google Nexus 4 is meant to show the direction Google wants to take Android phones in, "most" android phones will not be robust for long. While the newest iPhone has done away with the glass back, the newest flagship phone from Google has a glass front and back and a non-removable battery.
While I agree with what you're saying, I think that a good argument in favor of cases is that when the phone finally DOES break, you're replacing the phone. But when your case gets all scratched up and broken, you just replace the case.
I wonder why it's a curated list then. If the pull is that the blogging tools are really nice then it seems counter intuitive to not allow people to pay some money to use it, and instead require them to be this cool to ride the svbtle-coaster.
(the style of those blogs as a reader is OK, I've seen better and I've seen worse. If a blog has good content but is hard to read there are plenty of ways of fixing it, so design is not a big deal).
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