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by doctorwho 13y ago
If a kid being bullied/harassed doesn't speak up and it doesn't happen right in front of the teacher, how is the teacher supposed to know what's happening? Kids lose interest and get depressed all the time, it could be b
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by doctorwho 13y ago
When the first edition of CC hit the shelves the big thing on the internet was usenet and that was basically the only place to talk/fight about the stuff CC was talking about. The web was too new, the content to sparse and dialup was s
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by doctorwho 13y ago
Let me fix that title for you... Do whatever makes you happy (without taking reality into account) is a lie (well, not a lie, just a wee bit stupid and naive). Like people who go to university with NO IDEA what they want to do when they get
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by doctorwho 13y ago
Politicians make unions and "bullshit jobs" possible by creating the incentives for companies to hire people they don't need. Unions then make it impossible to get rid of the deadwood. In the case of pure government jobs we&#
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by doctorwho 13y ago
Check out http://www.startupbook.net/ “This book is aimed at developers who want to launch their startup with no outside funding. It’s for companies started by real developers solving real pain points using desktop, web and
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by doctorwho 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau... The counter assumption, that correlation proves causation, is considered a questionable cause logical fallacy in that two events occurring together are ta
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by doctorwho 13y ago
"Payment upon all 4 app variants' successful submission to all 4 platforms' app stores using our accounts." So if your idea is rejected by the Apple App Store then there's no payment? That payment clause alone will
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by doctorwho 13y ago
It's going to come down to what kind of business the Irish company carries out on behalf of the parent company or whether the Irish company is the parent. There are so many ways the relationship could be set up and figuring it all out
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by doctorwho 13y ago
If you took this seriously you are probably wearing a tinfoil hat and you also believe that it works.
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by doctorwho 13y ago
8/10 piss it away quickly on new hires, new offices and "marketing". The other 2 piss it away just a little slower than the other 8 to give the illusion that they might eventually become profitable or survive to raise another
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by doctorwho 13y ago
Anyone who attacks the victim, dismissing it as no big deal, should be forced to experience the EXACT same thing themselves. I bet that would change their tiny little minds in a hurry.
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by doctorwho 13y ago
Imagine a race of technologically advanced religious zealots. Now imagine that their god has tasked them with converting everyone in the universe and kill any who refuse. If you're having trouble, just imaging a Catholic Space Crusade or an
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by doctorwho 13y ago
Regardless of sarcastic intent, stop and think for a second about how you'll feel when someone DOES register one of those domains. If your site becomes popular and you don't own all of them, which domains would impact your business the most
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by doctorwho 13y ago
If antimatter fell "up" wouldn't it be forced away from black holes and annihilating itself when contacting normal matter being sucked in?
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by doctorwho 14y ago
They're comparing apples and rocks here. China has over 1.3 BILLION people. The entire population of the United States is just a shade over 300 million. How about a plan to retroactively tax countries for their past (estimated) use of all f
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by doctorwho 14y ago
We should not be surprised to find strong relationships between the universe we observe and the formal system we invented to describe it. Mathematics is not static, we are constantly extending the formalism to explain new things we discover
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by doctorwho 14y ago
No methodology is going to be perfect in every situation. Take what can (if anything) from every new methodology you encounter and mold it into something that works for you and your team. The key concept I took from the lean movement was "c
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by doctorwho 14y ago
The top down approach requires you to have deep domain knowledge to build a successful product around your idea. The bottom up (lean) approach starts the same way but is based on measurable feedback. In both approaches, you still start with
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by doctorwho 14y ago
I'm a type 2 diabetic. The medecine I take affects my blood sugar. The "medecine" that protects me from my medecine is sugar and can be bought anywhere. It's medicinal to me regardless of what any moron TSA agent might think. If my flight i
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by doctorwho 14y ago
If the dealer's way is "better" then why do they need laws to enforce it? Another example of an entrenched business fighting to maintain a legislated monopoly by buying off the legislators. Capitalism fail!
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by doctorwho 14y ago
I know the guy whose patent kick started what later became Uniloc. It wasn't the patent in question here. It was a real innovation. I've worked with Uniloc and they were generally a nice bunch. I've defended them in the past when they were
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by doctorwho 14y ago
How much energy would they get from burning $1 bills that they've collected over the years from all the Pabst swilling hipsters?
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by doctorwho 14y ago
Recognizing you aren't qualified to gauge someone's experience is a crucial first step, now take the next one. A "cheat sheet" of questions isn't going to help you either. Find an senior Windows developer you know/trust and have them talk
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by doctorwho 14y ago
$10K is not serious and you're most likely going to lose it. That's not me being a jerk, that's me being realistic. Statistically about 8 out of 10 funded companies are going to fail. VC's make their money by playing the numbers. They need
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by doctorwho 14y ago
Walk in. Buy something. Ask them.
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by doctorwho 14y ago
1366x768 and every other pixel specific resolution can die in a fire and should be ignored by everyone. Design for aspect ratios and pixel densities and stop creating problems.
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by doctorwho 14y ago
"The reality is that even if I went and got a job and started making payments, I'd have to remain employed for decades to even make a dent." Uhhhh, yeah... that's how loans work. Borrow a lot, pay for a looong time. Compound interest is usu
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by doctorwho 14y ago
The stench of entitlement is so thick you can cut it. Be glad you graduated at a time when interest rates are low. Some of us graduated when rates were over 15%. Do you know what we did? We got jobs and paid them off. Do you know what we di
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by doctorwho 14y ago
Regardless of raw profit, Amazon will remain a viable business for as long as there are products that people want. ANY products. Apple will remain a viable business only as long as they create NEW products that people want.
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by doctorwho 14y ago
Sometimes you don't have a choice but to get into a fight. In that case you would be right. Aaron had a choice. Raise awareness by educating the public about flaws in the law and work to change them OR raise awareness by provoking a fight.

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