curiousgeorge

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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
payment systems.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I don't know about English acquisition, but your timeline is way off for Chinese language acquisition, even for younger children brought to China. An aggressive timeline for adults in-country would be about 2 years to conversational fluency
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Classic Moser essay. I thought this would be a post about spoken languages as well, and would put mandarin at the top of the list as well. Since people are still hiring here (especially in tech related fields), I will happily take this oppo
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
quite seriously, customers.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Will simplify credit card processing for me if they go out of business. My merchant processor only supports mastercard and visa. "We don't take Amex... neither does anyone else."
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
exactly. funny to be modded down on a hacker forum for pointing out the obvious: the lack of free GUI development tools is a mark against doing GUI development in a specific language.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Qt is GPL.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
If you need a fast object-oriented language that can interact with most C software and libraries and doesn't need a fancy GUI, C++ is great.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Sounds like a great job. GIZA++ is an incredible piece of software and it sounds like they've got a great team.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Fantastic game. I actually thought Psychonauts was even better. Tim Schafer is a very rare gem.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
My girlfriend just spent 3 hours copying her contact info from one phone to the next. Facebook could easily charge people for exporting their contact info into other applications.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Don't sell it. Move to Thailand and manage it from there. You'll save money and have a better life. Seriously.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
How do you get efficient outcomes in monopolistic markets without government involvement? Where substantively do you feel more efficient government is problematic?
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I'm tired of the blame the unions meme. Honestly. If the cost of labor is too high invest in robots. The Japanese do it. Or stop building things at a loss, call it quits and go home. I know everyone loves Ron Paul on the Internets, but one
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Perhaps someone could share the idea. Video files don't work for a lot of (text-oriented) surfers, and it would be useful not to have to read the book to know if it is any good..
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
This is a great question.
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unless it competes with my business.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I think you can afford to worry less about CSS and other sorts of compatibilities at this point. Still important to make sure javascript doesn't break.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Use Google Alerts and Google News to track keywords related to your product. You'll pick up a lot of SEO spam with the former, but it's a decent way to make contacts with journalists writing on related subjects.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
James K. Galbraith wrote the best response to these harpies who - lest we forget - were advocating a Social Security privatization (read stock market pump and dump) scheme as little as a year ago. -------------------------------------------
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Traffic everywhere slows down over the weekends. I get some of my best work done over the weekend though. None of my competitors and potential competitors work. People are nicely surprised to find a new feature or two working when they come
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Better question is why you would sell short stock in a company that someone is known to want to buy?
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
AdSense helped boost our number of daily visits when we experimented with it, but we've had much more success getting traction other ways. Once we stopped advertising the boost subsided. We get better kick for the buck directly sponsoring p
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
If someone sued me and then wanted me to voluntarily enter into a contract with them, I'd assign a very large figure to goodwill regardless of the appraised price of the asset. If your friend is taking a mercenary approach, a good starting
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
If you're selling someone a company, surely you would just sell them the merchant account and company bank account as well, no? Did they sell the application but not the company?
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I don't think you're old, and I'm glad your start-up (yes, it counts) is a success. Perhaps you can elaborate on the lessons you learned and the differences this time versus previous times around in a blog post sometime. I'd be interested i
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
"Though it has paltry revenues and just 20,000 registered users, the company pays only $8,000 a month to rent its offices in San Francisco and has received $8 million from investors." $8 million? And all they can get is 20,000 registered us
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I use adsotrans.com for Chinese-English translation support. Collaborative translation support tools that don't screw around with grammar are great.
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If they can do everything you can do why are they talking to you?
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Tie it to milestones and accomplishments and make sure you have an opt-out clause if the thing falls apart with nothing to show for your work.You do NOT want to give permanent ownership of your labor in exchange for a loose promise to deliv

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