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by crikli 16y ago
I scanned the article, rushed to judgement about the context, and totally missed that part. Basically I was that guy on the internet I complain about.
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by crikli 16y ago
The opposition was vehement, yes, but limited to strongly worded letters from (mostly) small general aviation companies. No Boeings, no American Airlines, no 'big guns' with be-suited lawyers to make the FCC wake up and smell the jet fuel.
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by crikli 16y ago
I'm a licensed (technically "certificated") private pilot and this is article is bullocks. Aviation, both general and commercial, relies increasingly on GPS integrated avionics to navigate the rigidly defined airspace that instrument rated
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by crikli 16y ago
The situation is one of the designer's own creation. If the client never paid anything up front, that's just bad business practice. If the designer delivered and launched the site without having yet collected a dime, that's more bad practi
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by crikli 16y ago
Great response. Googling around led me to order this book on the matter: "Mining The Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets" It's a bit old but looks interesting...sadly not available on Kindle. http://www.amazon.com/M
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by crikli 16y ago
Reading this article raises a question that I ask as devil's advocate (mostly): why do we need to get into space? I can think of three reasons: 1) We need to put up comsats. 2) Military superiority 3) Because we can and it's cool. To the fi
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by crikli 16y ago
TL;DR version of this TL;DR version: We use rockets to get to space because getting as good at other methods is too expensive.
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by crikli 16y ago
I explain it like this: It's 3rd and 4. You have two running backs. Running back A averages 8 yards a carry with a standard deviation of 6. Running back B averages 5 yards a carry with a standard deviation of half a yard. Which guy do
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by crikli 16y ago
Who?
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by crikli 16y ago
Huh. I thought that was April 15th.
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by crikli 16y ago
She's in a totally different industry, but the things interior designer Maria Killam talk about transfer neatly to software consulting. She also talks about handling price objections and presents a very good value sell.
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An Interior Designer on Consulting Fees(colourmehappyblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by crikli 16y ago|2 comments
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by crikli 16y ago
Hope that posting one of my own blogs posts isn't taken as tacky self promotion; I'm in the midst of navigating a tough situation caused by my failure to detect a fake "Buddy Hat." I'd like others to benefit from my mistake and avoid a sim
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Earn Your "Buddy Hat"(chrisrikli.posterous.com)
1 points by crikli 16y ago|1 comments
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by crikli 16y ago
Hah, you can tell it's a bunch of engineers on here, all coming up with "better" solutions instead of using the tool. :D
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by crikli 16y ago
I would posit that Wordpress is the wordwide leader in 'crappy PHP software.' (And I'm not a PHP hater, my company writes 90% of our stuff in PHP, and WP works great for blogs and brochure sites. But it's nasty underneath that pretty UI.
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by crikli 16y ago
I'm ok with having a distributed team; in an ideal world we'd be able to get together physically more than we do. But if there's an amazing talent in Seattle or someplace else really far from where I live I'm not going to let geographic se
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by crikli 16y ago
I think that's contingent on your business model and the maturity of your company. I can only speak to my biz: most of our revenue is service (although we're trying to migrate to product). So we have three primary "departments," if you wil
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by crikli 16y ago
My belief is that hiring decisions are the most important ones I make, so I want to know the people I'm hiring and I want them to know me. This is going to sound cheesy and it's not one-size-fits-all, but it all comes down to cultivating r
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by crikli 16y ago
I think this works if you're a one man shop...once you hire employees, though, things change. A lot. You have to keep your business running because your devs have trusted you with their family's financial well-being; you have a responsibil
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by crikli 16y ago
It's really hard, especially during the first couple years, but my only perspective is as a bootstrapper, I think funded people maybe have more flexibility (or maybe not? I dunno). My experience is that you just have to force yourself to st
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by crikli 16y ago
The two months notice part wasn't real clear in what you wrote; that definitely alters the context of the post. And I agree 100%: two weeks vacation is just dumb. People have families, kids, friends...that stuff is more important than work
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by crikli 16y ago
We were; in fact we just hired a developer that starts next week that I'm hyper-geeked up to have on board. The dude is so much smarter than I am. It's awesome. That said, shoot me an email and we can get a dialogue going. I'm not sure w
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by crikli 16y ago
I mentioned this in another response, but I believe this issue really has more to do with who you hire, how well you pay them, how you treat them, etc. It's more about the execution of philosophy, not the composition of and adherence to po
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by crikli 16y ago
I get that; that's why we define a "vacation" by the amount of time one of my guys is going dark. If you're going dark for two weeks, that's a vacation. If you're going to be scuba diving and only checking emails nightly, that's just redu
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by crikli 16y ago
I've implemented a "get it done" based vacation policy at my company. I.e., as long as my devs are getting the work done, I couldn't care less about their seat time, physical location, state of dress, etc. Hell, if you're on a beach in Ca
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by crikli 16y ago
Three points: 1) If someone else is doing it that's good, in fact preferable. You are probably not the only person to have had a given idea, ergo if someone else is making money at it you probably can too. 2) Focus on the building core o
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by crikli 16y ago
A client of ours has eight WP blogs on Bluehost; none of them were affected.
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by crikli 16y ago
Using WP as a CMS is like trying to use a Honda Civic to pull a boat through the mountains. Yeah, you can probably bolt on some parts to get the job done, but eventually it's going to end up a big smoking pile and you're going to have to
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by crikli 16y ago
If that's what's holding a person up they probably don't have the necessary risk tolerance to be an entrepreneur.

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