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by cubano 12y ago
Isn't it common knowledge nowadays that simple luck plays a really big part of of succeeding as a start-up? I only say this because of a recent video series I watched from Stanford (I think) where the speakers, all successful founders,
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by cubano 12y ago
The first time I saw Aliens, I was on acid, and to me, in that state of mind, it seemed like the best movie ever created. I remember sweating a lot watching it, and all the meta-references that psychedelics enhance seemed to work perfectly
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by cubano 12y ago
> You're going to be happier and your comments more persuasive if you just ignore downvotes. This is super awesome advice, and I'm thinking of having a one-off t-shirt made with some sort variation of it.
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by cubano 12y ago
> It has many caring and dedicated people, who want to make the nation, and the world, better. I am 50 yo, and have seen 100's of politicians come and go over my years, and I can count on one hand how many I believe have these value
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by cubano 12y ago
> The right want people to think that capitalism is magic, because they don't even want redistribution, which mainstream economists believe is something the market cannot do itself, and must be done by the government. The "gove
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by cubano 12y ago
> If any of that were true, wages would be going up, wouldn't they? Is there any company that couldn't hire someone by paying higher wages? Why are developer wages absolutely flat? This is an excellent point, and to add injury
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by cubano 12y ago
> Once that is in place sufficiently, homepages for small businesses will become obsolete, as people rather search for a company/product on Facebook than on the internet as it is a much easier to do. While this may or may not be tru
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by cubano 12y ago
> If the founders are smart, they cash out and just start up a new business doing the exact same thing competing with whoever was dumb enough to buy them. Interesting, but I'm sure we all know that part of the buyout would, of cours
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by cubano 12y ago
But perhaps that price is all they could afford, and in that case, something is a lot better than nothing.
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by cubano 12y ago
Yes, but of course, my attitude is a part of my "person". Perhaps it is you who should lighten up a bit, my friend.
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by cubano 12y ago
> When was the last time you heard a Republican politician on the national stage raise an issue that was not obviously directed at their base, or donors? Do you seriously believe that it's only Republicans that pander to their base?
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by cubano 12y ago
You ad hominem attack aside, whatever wording may or may not be in the regulations will not matter near as much as how things will actually be implemented, and how these implemented changes will affect us all here on the web. For example, t
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by cubano 12y ago
Exactly. Disbanding the last-mile monopolies would introduce the market forces needed to fix almost all the problems that most people think need fixing, although the corporate plutocrats would quickly scramble to consolidate things again, a
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by cubano 12y ago
Nothing is going to happen in the next couple of weeks. There are going to be lawsuits galore that will hold up any significant changes to internet services for years.
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by cubano 12y ago
This is probably just me, but the fact that the page does not even load with Ghostery running is kinda a red flag, and makes me infer that the author is much more worried about his experience than mine.
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by cubano 12y ago
The idea that methadone is a "cure" for heroin addiction is beyond ridiculous. In many ways, it is more habit-forming then H itself. For almost all the addicts I've ever hung around with, it was nothing but a stop-gap to be
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by cubano 12y ago
Wipe away all the negativity from your thoughts and, more importantly, your resume. Focus only on you positive achievements. Sell yourself. Get on daily job mailing lists from ziprecruiter, indeed, dice, and postjobfree, and apply for at l
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by cubano 12y ago
> Hopefully you won't need those provisions, but even for a few hundred K, it's surprising what people will do or turn into. I've seen it happen for less than $1000.
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by cubano 12y ago
Well, put it this way..I was a "caged animal" for 13 months, and you would have no issues whatsoever with me around your loved ones, so the logic that the environment is making convicts (the preferred way to label "prisoners&
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by cubano 12y ago
I've been to state prison, not county jail, in Florida, for 13 months. They are loaded with people with whom you would want to keep away from your loved ones. Way more than 1%. I could tell stories, but what's the point? Just FYI
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by cubano 12y ago
I have just started a Go project for a core aspect of my business, so this information was well timed, for me at least, and gave me a quick overview of concurrency/parallelism in Go. I will be developing both concurrent and parallel th
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by cubano 12y ago
Fair enough...perhaps a tad bit of unnecessary hyperbole was thrown in for effect. [edit] see bdcravens comment for the idea I was trying to express.
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by cubano 12y ago
The whole point of the article was that, at this particular company, the employees only have to clock 32 hours a week at the place of business. My speculation had to do with believing that most IT employees, given this situation, would &quo
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by cubano 12y ago
tl;dr; Everything about Congress is utterly and hopelessly skewed towards corruption. Wow, surprise. No wonder approval ratings are so low.
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by cubano 12y ago
Wasn't there a thread recently here that discussed how everyone was expected to work 60-hour weeks by their managers or face heaps of wraith? So what is it...32 or 60? The only answer can be "it shouldn't matter!", if yo
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by cubano 12y ago
shareware.
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by cubano 12y ago
Peppermint is working pretty good for me these days.
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by cubano 12y ago
It is quite possible that they are simply milking the job and really don't know how to complete the tasks you are giving them, and default to "hey, let's set up a unnecessary vm because we know how to do that easily and it wi
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by cubano 12y ago
Man, do I feel old. Back in undergraduate school, we were taught to learn programming (FORTRAN) through physics, not the other way around. The idea that the process could be turned around really hammers home how much things have changed due
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by cubano 12y ago
> Phase III: The Desert of Despair I've been programming for 30+ years, and have yet to ever leave this phase. ;-)

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