Nilay Patel

VP at Backblaze. Formerly Veeva Labs, Selligy, Backblaze (yep!), Electric Cloud, MailFrontier. I'm a convertible guy; roof down even in the rain.

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@177MilkStreet Your e-commerce site won’t let me order and your customer support doesn’t work because I’m in an endless google captcha loop. Help.

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@WEMOcares I 4 wemo outlets and switches that support homekit. About once every 3 months, the devices will drop off homekit, but still be in the wemo app. What gives? Is there a quick way to fix this when it happens? All I can do is reset the device which is very disruptive.

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@CARFAXinc How long should I be expected to wait for fixes to provable clerical errors on my CARFAX report?? It’s been over 48 hours since I filed the reports. My car buyer is waiting and getting impatient. Help!!
Case 11819858
Case 11817449

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@DropboxSupport https://t.co/W6br8FKyi2
Sorry, it still doesn’t work.

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@DropboxSupport When you click “Get Dropbox Family” on this webpage, I get 404 error: https://t.co/W6br8FKyi2. See video.

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@DropboxSupport The URL was in my tweet. Anyways- it’s working now.

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@jdickerson John- what I love about you is that you are such a nerd. (That’s the highest of praises from me.)

Now the important nerd question- what motivated the switch from Evernote to One Note?

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@StuFFmc Easy - you just have to plug the pencil into the iPad and pair it. I do it all the time with the Pencil v1.

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@YevP @HiddenCash Try Zahreens. There is a new location in Redwood City. Also Palo Alto and Mountain View.

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@rakeshlobster @SteveKornacki The latency on an Apple Newton was better than that screen!

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@toddthomas All week. https://t.co/dGmUzREKIU

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@StuFFmc The electoral college winner-takes-all voting system ensures that only two parties can exist. Third parties are only spoilers. They can’t win at the state level.

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@thesweetsetup The link for the “WASD Key Tester” on this page goes to some random amazon page. https://t.co/5I0HQboeZF

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. @AmericanAir you canceled my outbound and return flight on a three day itinerary... And wasted 12 hours of my weekend. Now, that the baggage is lost, your baggage claim agent won't even look up my baggage ticket in your systems. Your customer service is making United look good

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@Cocoatech PathFinder doesn't start (icon bounces in the Dock forever *AND* your website is down at the same time? Coincidence?

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@priaribi I can't be the only one that makes it all the way to the bottom of each newsletter every day, can I? 😜

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@abperiasamy Unsuccessful writes upon system failure sounds fatal if that failure occurs after upload was completed. How would client know write failed "eventually"?

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@scully1888 Everything made by sierra online. Leisure suit Larry, space quest, police quest. And monkey island.

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@AjeyGore @tarundua81 One difference: they do cost different.

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@palavalli Quora. :)