If I don’t have cash, then I don’t usually order delivery. I’m tipping in cash or on the card after I sign a receipt not on an app.

Not only getting a shitty tip from me, but I’m also going to think twice about ordering from the place. Make it inconvenient for me to get my food, and lose my business.

This... I had one of the roads to my house closed for 4 months last year and any time I ordered delivery I’d mention that and provide the best alternate route... only to get a call that they couldn’t get to me.

Based on all the documentaries I have watched online, you really missed out.

I can totally believe that. Us delivery dudes can be just as problematic, as this job is not always taken seriously by those that do it. I missed reading one message about not knocking one time and I feel bad to this day, remembering the WTF look the customer had while I smiled in his face, not realizing the mistake…

my door is in an alley, and the uber eats address is a bit off, but close enough. i always send a message in-app to the driver the says ‘door is in alley, reads AAA’ (it doesn’t read AAA, but this is for descriptive purposes). 10 times out of 10 they don’t read that message and get lost, then call me, and then when i…

At first I was going to say, “it’s not a big deal” and just pick it up from the door while holding back a % of the tip.

But that’s because I haven’t ordered delivery in a long time and I just realized that...yeah, I’m only doing this because I don’t want to get out of my sweatpants and my 72-degree apartment.

Unless you cannot buzz someone into the building from your apartment and have to physically go to the door to let them in, a delivery person not willing to complete the transaction at the apartment door is automatically forfeiting a sizable chunk of their tip.  

If I wanted it delivered to the street, I wouldn’t have given you my apartment number, and if I had wanted to put pants on, I wouldn’t have ordered delivery.

I also called my friend Christy, who lives in a sixth-floor Manhattan walkup, who has no friends that visit her.

I did. It’s 23 vs 27, and a couple of those (Measure, Files) didn’t exist in iOS 10. But that’s nitpicking. My point is this phrase, “...the only solution for many of Apple’s primary iOS apps was to cast them to a folder and forget about them,” is factually incorrect. A better framing of the article would be the…

I think we should go the other way, and ditch Standard Time altogether.

does Trump know that? I’m surprised he hasn’t issued an Executive Order reversing it.  

It’s meant as an extension of that system, and as part of the test in October there will be the cellphone alerts followed by a radio/TV broadcast. Both will say something like “This is a test” (the FEMA site has the exact wording).

All jokes aside, how is this different from the existing “Emergency Broadcast System” for TV and Radio? Since the new “Presidential Alert” will go to “all cellphones and smartphones,” what’s the criteria for when it should be used and can it be localized? For example, as tragic as the superstorms have been in the past…

Protip from a librarian: Put your kindle in airplane mode and you should be able to retain the checkouts past their due date.

People used to say things like “...as unlikely as it sounds, Sears could go tits up one day...”

It’s not hard to strip the DRM out of Amazon books. Get Calibre (free, open source) then find Apprentice Alf’s Tools.

What’s also not mentioned here is that (at least with Amazon), you get free updates on your ebooks. I know that no one’s every given me a free updated hard copy of a book I’ve purchased.

“Alexa, remind me to strip the DRM from all of my Kindle purchases tomorrow.”