Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist.
by patio11 on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @12:36AM
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I seem to be causing a lot of parsing errors this week: despite being extremely satisfied with my upbringing, I think the fact that I talked to only 3 adults in 8 years is a symptom of a problematic mindset which has negative effects in our society. Hermetically sealing off teenagers in a child's world, where they perpetually lack responsibility for anything or authority to do anything, is borked.
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Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist.
by wtn on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @12:46AM
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Oh, the problem wasn't with your text--it was with the parser.
Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist.
by patio11 on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @01:23AM
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I deny the possibility of such a thing: I'm the professional communicator. If I get misunderstood then there was an opportunity for me to have phrased it better.
(Ditto for when Mrs. Smith thinks she was triple charged by The Googles for her software because she thinks one mail from me, one mail from Google, and one confirmation page counts as three charges. Not her fault -- my fault. I live and breathe e-commerce -- I should have made that more clear for someone who might only buy one thing online ever.)
Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist.
by follower on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @07:25AM
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> Ditto for when Mrs. Smith thinks she was triple charged by The Googles [...] I should have made that more clear for someone who might only buy one thing online ever.
An intriguing observation, how did you solve the problem?
Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist.
by ajju on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @08:54AM
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Presumably by reassuring the customer, in bold font, on the confirmation page and in the email from him, both of which he controls, that they have only been charged once.
Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist.
by follower on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @12:09PM
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My understanding is that people don't read--so I would actually be surprised if that was @patio11's solution. :)
Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist.
by ajju on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @08:18AM
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It is hard not to respect someone who treats their customers right AND treats fellow HN readers like customers, even when they are clearly in the wrong as I was.
I went to your profile and to bingocardcreator.com and appointmentreminder.org just to see how I may avail myself of such excellent service :) While I find myself not currently in the need for either product, I will be on the lookout for potential users for both.
Rock on.