BobbyH

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by BobbyH 17y ago
Doctor Vinnie Boombotz is Rodney Dangerfield's fictional doctor. (Rodney Dangerfield is a late American comedian.) Rodney had a famous joke that I will paraphrase below: Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I raise my arm over my head." Vinnie B
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by BobbyH 17y ago
How much weight did you lose on the trip? Did you also lose weight from the training? [This sounds amazing. I bet you got a lot of Forrest Gump jokes, though.]
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Amateur Finds New Earth-Sized Blot on Jupiter(thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by BobbyH 17y ago|0 comments
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by BobbyH 17y ago
If you take "hours spent doing something" as your yardstick, your girlfriend seems to your lowest priority (behind your startup and French lessons). Before you ask whether you should choose between your girlfriend or your startup, maybe you
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by BobbyH 17y ago
In case other people don't recognize "PTO", it stands for "Paid Time Off" (e.g. holidays).
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by BobbyH 17y ago
I would send a certified letter to your competitor notifying them that you will be filing a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaint, unless they transfer the domain to you by a certain day: * http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by BobbyH 17y ago
The author rightfully points out that many sites use IFRAME tags for ads, and that can slow down your site. However, the alternative is to use a Javascript ad tag. I've learned from painful experience that if the ad server doesn't respond t
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by BobbyH 17y ago
> I understand that QA rejected it if the coding style stated that 2 spaces should be used for identation. I reject your comment because you used two >> to denote a "quote" instead of a single >.
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Maybe a more precise way of putting this is "Power is the basis of your leverage in any negotiation, so start any negotiation by thinking about what power you have. The corollary to this would be that any power you are unwilling to exercise
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by BobbyH 17y ago
This is incredibly relevant to Davids who want to disrupt their way to victory against a Goliath. Key quotes: * "David can beat Goliath by substituting effort for ability-and substituting effort for ability turns out to be a winning formula
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Balsamiq Mockups ( http://www.balsamiq.com ) is an awesome way to make mockups. They also recently introduced a way so one mockup can "link" to another mockup ( http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=1181 ). You can use this for usability testing
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Yeah, I think you're referring either to Stevie Case, a "gaming grrl and Quake champion who became a developer and Playboy model" or "one fellow who took up game programming after he abandoned a shot at the ministry and become an exotic mal
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Commissions work only if they influence behavior in the way you want. In this case, you're paying the same percentage commission to your salespeople no matter if they answer an inbound lead or make an outbound call. It's thus rational for t
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by BobbyH 17y ago
What I'd really like is an Excel plugin/toolbar that uses this API to let me create a dashboard for my sites inside an Excel spreadsheet. Downloading 20 CSVs once a week (and pasting them into my spreadsheet) is labor-intensive and lame.
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Conversion rates are important to them because they buy expensive keywords via Google AdWords. Imagine this scenario: * say you have to pay $20 for an ad click on "SQL Server backup" * the conversion rate is 10% * with a 10% conversion rate
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How Twitter accelerates the damage-control cycle(latimes.com)
1 points by BobbyH 17y ago|0 comments
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How Not To Conduct an Online Poll(codinghorror.com)
3 points by BobbyH 17y ago|0 comments
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Try activating the IMAP/POP settings on gmail, then suck in your gmail emails into a desktop client that supports bouncing to spam accounts, c.f. http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/10/23/bounce-email-...
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by BobbyH 18y ago
I love sci-fi, but rather than recommend "sci-fi" books, I would recommend "speculative fiction" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction ), which is "a fiction genre speculating about worlds that are unlike the real world in vari
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by BobbyH 18y ago
This sounds like a multi-variable linear regression he did in Microsoft Excel?
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by BobbyH 18y ago
South Korea does have the power to regulate youtube.kr. This is because .kr is a country code top-level domain and the registry for .kr domains is the National Internet Development Agency of Korea ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Int
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by BobbyH 18y ago
Good point, but only employees must be paid the minimum wage. If you founded the company, you are not an employee because you direct your work. The IRS says an employee is "anyone who performs services for an organization is an employee if
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by BobbyH 18y ago
This article makes it clear: "In order to qualify as an unpaid internship, the requirement is simple: no work can be performed that is of any benefit at all to the company. That is, you can not deliver mail, sort files, file papers, organ
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by BobbyH 18y ago
Besides any ethical considerations about class-discrimination, unpaid internships are illegal unless the intern gets class credit, because it is a violation of minimum wage laws. Calling a job an "unpaid internship" does not revoke the mini
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by BobbyH 18y ago
I don't believe that this cupcake market example proces that payday loans introduces a negative externality. An externality only occurs if cupcakes introduced a harm or benefit to third parties that was not factored into the cupcake price.
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by BobbyH 18y ago
Payday loans may have a high interest rate, but if the cost of a payday loan is less than the alternatives, then it seems ethical to me. For instance, say a payday loan for $200 costs $30. That's translates into a high interest rate, but it