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by charleso 16y ago
Yes, I did read the article. Then I re-read it before commenting since I found the advice in that section to be so surprisingly bad. I did not make up my quoted comments. I pulled them right from the posted article and used them in contex
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by charleso 16y ago
I think his advice on outsourcing marketing, sales and support to an off-shore virtual personal assistant is profoundly dangerous. When you've just launched, you have no idea what parts of your product are truly helpful to your customers an
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by charleso 16y ago
Why not implement the keygen using public key cryptography? Wouldn't that eliminate the possibility of a reverse-engineered keygen right off?
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by charleso 16y ago
RankChecker is still showing me different site positions in the Yahoo and Bing search results. Shouldn't keyword rankings be identical if Bing is powering both?
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by charleso 16y ago
As another former Canada / U.S. transplant I agree there is a difference, but it's less extreme. It's almost intra-national, really. The 'culture shock' between Toronto, Ontario -> Montgomery, Alabama won't be much different than if yo
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by charleso 16y ago
So the 'successful business' which sprang from nowhere over the past year doesn't actually exist? The whole 'relocate to China to save a few bucks' craziness didn't really happen? That would explain a lot, as this emerging story reads more
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by charleso 16y ago
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Your company is young and your period of profitability is relatively short-lived to date. It seems unwise to have taken a business which appeared to be working well and overhauling it complet
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by charleso 16y ago
Here's another tip for sharpening disposable razor blades using a pair of jeans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Kxiom83Js Basically, you're using the denim as a strop to rub off the debris which accumulates on the blade (which appears t
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by charleso 16y ago
You've described the core of the problem: Everyone feels entitled to their entitlements, but nobody in the U.S. seems willing to pay for them. 'We the people' elected folks to 'decide how our money should be used'. That's the job of elec
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by charleso 16y ago
Aren't most of these 'tax increases' simply an expiration of the huge tax cuts made under the previous administration as a temporary measure? If I recall correctly, those cuts were strongly criticized at the time as being unsustainable and
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by charleso 16y ago
Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), actually. For a vague, SPOILER-ish description (the book's cover often gives it away anyhow): A group of teens build a moon rocket, but someone (wonder who?) is there to meet them.
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by charleso 16y ago
Oh, but it is! I just viewed a few Google ads sponsored from South Africa, increasing the big G's revenue by some vanishingly small amount.
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by charleso 16y ago
5BX isn't 'wacky'. It was designed by the RCAF to ensure airmen could remain in top physical condition without the need for fitness equipment. Consistency is at the core of the program and it ramps up slowly to build good daily habits with
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by charleso 16y ago
This program is really superb. I used it for a year or so to get myself up to my target level and then started going to a gym to train on weights. If you want to start getting in shape but feel too shy to go to a gym just yet, start with th
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SpaceX signs largest single commercial launch deal ever -- $492 million(spaceref.com)
87 points by charleso 16y ago|34 comments
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by charleso 16y ago
Clickable links for article on return: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1402 Mission homepage: http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/hayabusa/index.sht... The rescue plan as of 2007: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/jsp_
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Tell HN: Hayabusa asteroid mission returns thanks to engineering hacks
2 points by charleso 16y ago|1 comments
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by charleso 16y ago
You're right. 'Foolish' was a poor choice of word. When pairing mineral resources with a chaotic government like Afghanistan's, I can't help but picture kleptocratic scenarios like Nigeria, Congo or the like and that's what brings 'foolish
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by charleso 16y ago
The world has a severe shortage of opiate-based pain killers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid#Global_shortage_of_poppy... Opium poppies grow well in Afghanistan and farmers already know how to cultivate and prepare it for shipping in
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by charleso 16y ago
My first thought was "This is much slower and uglier than Bing". Since Bing's results have been comparable to Google's for the searches I make (so there's really no difference between the two for me) that's where I've been today. For one d
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by charleso 16y ago
If, on top of your mortgage interest, you add in property taxes, property maintenance (2-5% annually?), brokerage fees and the gains foregone in purchasing property rather than bonds, is it still good advice?
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by charleso 16y ago
I was more-or-less with him up until the "Don't Rent" advice. By his own admission, purchasing a condo and riding it up to the very top of the largest real estate bubble in history netted him only a 1% return. Any other market at any other