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Re: The Best Smart Smoke Alarm

bratling — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:29:57 -0000

I am surprised and disturbed to see you recommend Kidde, because for years now The Wirecutter has recommended AGAINST any Kidde products due to their pattern of multiple recalls of smoke alarms and fire extinguishers:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-basic-smoke-alarm/#the-competition

The $12 million fine they paid for deceiving the Consumer Product Safety Commission does not inspire confidence that their company culture is actually about safety and quality.

With the combination of that track record, and The Wirecutter's own condemnation of Kidde, I don't see how you can possibly recommend their product here.

Re: The Best Webcams

bratling — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:21:49 -0000

I've been using Reincubate Camo for the past year. It's fantastic.

Re: Why All Printers Suck (Even the Best Ones)

bratling — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:16:55 -0000

Good rant. I've come to like Canons. I don't print photos often, perhaps every four to six months, but when I do I don't want to screw with the printer. Epson and HP both are guaranteed to have clogged heads. Canon always works for me.

Re: Why All Printers Suck (Even the Best Ones)

bratling — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:15:17 -0000

Based on your requirements of charging you what it costs, I recommend the $500 Canon Pixma Pro-10 or the $800 Epson SureColor P600. :D

Re: MINI USA January Year-on-Year Monthly Sales Rise 0.4%

bratling — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 19:22:30 -0000

Hey Gabe – the sales chart there is for BMW models, not MINI. Cheers!

Re: MINI USA Is Tweaking its Free Maintenance Program for 2017

bratling — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:39:26 -0000

Not the full wiper assembly. Just the rubber insert. They retail for about $6 each: http://www.minipartsmass.co...

Re: MINI USA Is Tweaking its Free Maintenance Program for 2017

bratling — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:31:54 -0000

Is there anything left besides oil & filter now? This must be the new "Minimalism" that MINI keeps talking about.

Re: MINI USA Is Tweaking its Free Maintenance Program for 2017

bratling — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:30:51 -0000

It's the wiper blades that really exemplify penny-pinching at its worst. The rubber blade costs, what, maybe a few cents wholesale, and a couple dollars retail. Replacing those is really cheap goodwill for customers, and it's visible, unlike oil & filters.

Re: Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere

bratling — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:03:20 -0000

IBM is a poor choice. They got out of the PC business and thus aren't in the consumer eye, but they still make big piles of money on professional services, software, high end servers and mainframes. Sexy? No. Profitable and sustainable? Yes. IBM is a great example of a company that cedes a market (PC hardware) to others and finds its future in a combination of its heritage (high end servers and mainframes) and new models (systems architecture professional services).

Re: Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere

bratling — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:55:53 -0000

Azure does have a lot of relevance to where Microsoft is headed. There are worse fates than providing ubiquitous, subscription based infrastructure to others. People often forget that Microsoft started out as a tools company, and added consumer products later. Tools are Microsoft's heritage, and under their new CEO, their future as well.

Re: Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere

bratling — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:50:39 -0000

thank you for clarifying. Your post made it seems that developing for windows phone was #3 "or perhaps even fourth".

Re: Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere

bratling — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:43:56 -0000

#3 is windows phone, after doing iOS and Android. It skips to #4 if the developer decides to do something else, such as a new project or even just improving the existing apps.

Re: MINI Reboots its MINI Connected App With Less Functionality & More Sophistication

bratling — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 15:09:41 -0000

Whither Spotify?

Re: Ditch the Sidebar on Your Website and Increase Conversion Rates by 26%

bratling — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:42:34 -0000

I see the sidebar is back this month. Are you still testing?

Re: Blog | Jun 4th, 2015 Groundwater Monitoring is Key for Coal Ash Compliance

bratling — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:23:36 -0000

This is a test comment, because tests!

Re: Is This the New AWD JCW Clubman?

bratling — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:53:52 -0000

Lease it. Give it back after 3-4 years. Then buy the one that has the bugs worked out. ;-)

Re: HipChat turns 3!

bratling — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:33:19 -0000

Still waiting on the real Mac client. Looking forward to it. (Or alternately, drop desktop clients entirely and go 100% web native on the desktop, using the Web Notifications API for notifications--notifications being the main reason I use the AIR client anyway. Save limited dev resources for web+mobile.)

Despite my hate of AIR apps (AIR=cr*ppy on all platforms instead of good on any of them) —I love HipChat. :-)

Re: The cost of selling Galaxies

bratling — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:56:08 -0000

Samsung does seem to have gone to great lengths to change its design to be anti-iPhone. A prominent pro-Android site even called out Samsung on it this past spring: http://www.androidpolice.co...

Re: How should we handle responsive images? | Boagworld – Web & Digital Advice

bratling — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:26:37 -0000

Hi. Just tested this on iPhone 5 + Verizon LTE in the US. Same size image either way.

Re: Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to it's servers

bratling — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:35:11 -0000

Oh, come on, SHA-2 isn't that bad. No collisions, very secure, decently fast.

Re: Macbook Air 2011 Review

bratling — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:41:52 -0000

The quality of comments here is just astounding.

Re: A Solid Photo Printer

bratling — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:35:20 -0000

Question: Has Epson finally beat the problem with the organics in their inks spoiling and clogging the print heads? I was a huge epson fan from the 80's into the early 00's, but about five years ago I went Canon. I only make photo prints a couple times a year. Epson's inkjets would work fine the first couple times, but after a year? Uncleanably clogged.

Re: Rats not responsible for black plague

bratling — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:52:37 -0000

[citation needed]
Interesting but how about a link to the source?

Re: http://html5boilerplate.com/commentarchive.html

bratling — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:49:48 -0000

How can average windows users even tell they suffer from bad typography? It's so bad to start with…

Re: SproutCore Blog - How SproutCore Makes Your App Run Faster

bratling — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:57:15 -0000

Well, it *is* optimized around consuming content. Why does that mean you can't create? Sheesh. :-)