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by codexon 15y ago
That lesson doesn't apply to reselling commodities on Ebay. That is the entire point of my comment. The only rebuttal here is from someone who was using bulk discount arbitrage to make a profit. This is not a very good lesson to learn for t
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by codexon 15y ago
So you need to spend hours and lose money on Ebay to learn the concept of bulk discounts? Something that you could do by visiting any supermarket?
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by codexon 15y ago
The point is to sharpen your sales skills and realise that experimentation and refinement is the key to developing a good sales strategy. This is like saying the point in picking up trash at the highway will be refining your work ethic. S
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by codexon 15y ago
I think there is a lesson in there somewhere, perhaps you're just missing it. Please point out the lesson instead of a bunch of handwaving to save face for Jason Fried.
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by codexon 15y ago
This advice is horribly outdated stuff from the 90's. With Ebay and Paypal fees eating up at least 10% of your earnings, it is highly unlikely you can just resell iPods or anything else on Ebay and make a profit. "I love doing this, because
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by codexon 15y ago
Why are you shooting the messenger? I never said I liked football being glorified over other games. If you fail to get into the NFL, you can at least coach. No one is going to pay you to coach them Halo.
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by codexon 15y ago
I believe it could be hard-coded just like the reason why I am not even 6 feet tall coding away my health while people like Shaq and Yao Ming make millions a year for being 7 feet tall. Depressing? Yes. That's just the way life is. What is
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by codexon 15y ago
Because you can make a lot more money being a football player or coach. That's where the line is drawn.
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by codexon 15y ago
I noticed this problem in Windows along with huge memory leaks. I've switched to Firefox Nightly and this lag seems to have gone away. As a bonus, the browser feels as fast as Chrome and it takes several weeks more usage before needing a re
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by codexon 15y ago
The reason why it is so hard to become a doctor is because the AMA restricts the number of applicants and schools that can create doctors so wages can remain artificially high. http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/25/american-medical-associatio..
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by codexon 15y ago
I added Facebook like to a website that gets about 5,000 views per day. After a month no one clicked one, and it slowed down the website even though it was loaded asynchronously after the page was done loading. It took on average 500 ms to
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by codexon 15y ago
Just curious, is Japan a good place for serving Russia and Australia?
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by codexon 15y ago
They are invested in Go and Dart.
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by codexon 15y ago
People rightfully ask this question because it is not so obvious for almost every other field of study. Programming is one of the few subjects where it is possible to learn so much of it simply by searching online and practicing by yourself
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by codexon 15y ago
Bruce Schneier explains why that is not a back door. http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicros... So other than this, are there any other NSA "backdoors in everything from crypto systems, operating systems, to even back
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by codexon 15y ago
Just curious, what backdoors have been discovered from the NSA?
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by codexon 15y ago
a) How are they market specific? Stackexchange tries to target every possible topic that is popular, while Quora targets every possible topic. b) See above c) Is there any evidence for this? ChaCha also has comments. The badges seem to be a
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by codexon 15y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, how is this different from stackoverflow or quora? (Maybe they were pandalized too?)
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by codexon 15y ago
Or why not point out the obvious? Erlang is hard to learn. Anyone claiming to have mastered it in a couple of months like most fanatics here are (pardon my language) full of crap.
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by codexon 15y ago
I just got permanently banned from Adwords a month ago too. It took me 5 years to finally reach the minimum payout, and they banned my account right before the 2nd payout. I did not do any click fraud. The only other explanation I can think
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by codexon 15y ago
I'll probably get downvoted, but I think elaborate real-life analogies like this are more likely to confuse novices than help them. A better explanation in my opinion is to draw a diagram of a stack and showing that returning from a functio
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by codexon 15y ago
If I learned anything from reading Hacker News, it would be to never underestimate the fanaticism people here have with Gruber, Erlang, Haskell, Node.js, etc..
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by codexon 15y ago
Maybe they didn't think anyone would pay for it.
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by codexon 15y ago
Isn't the context clear? Do I really need to say "This error message is the whole content of the story?" Aren't you guys a little smarter than that? I received those downvotes the entire time the website was down.
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by codexon 15y ago
As oxtopus said, this is something I never hope to see on a trading site. Especially just for counting views. And really? 5 downvotes for saying that the link does't work? This community has really declined.
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by codexon 15y ago
An error has occurred. For detailed error information, please see the HTML source code, and contact the forum Administrator. Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction Query being executed when exception was thrown: UPDATE jforu
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by codexon 16y ago
Here's what the domain names look like, for those of us who's DNS hasn't propagated yet. http://50.17.223.71/
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by codexon 16y ago
Without verifying anyone's identity, couldn't the boss just flood the pool with low salaries?
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by codexon 16y ago
I tried Cherokee 1 year ago trying to setup a wordpress blog on a vanilla Ubuntu install. It just didn't work so I gave up and haven't looked back.
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by codexon 16y ago
Kansas City is the geographical middle of the US. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=kansas+city&oe=utf-8&i...

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