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by dsil 18y ago
You still need to be smart to be a good salesperson, and what this article is claiming is that you can't really compare grades at one highschool or college to grades at others, but the SAT is one universal test given the same way across the
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by dsil 18y ago
In other news, US could see large anti-recession next year. The press has no idea what the market is going to do.
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by dsil 18y ago
Desktop operating systems.
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by dsil 18y ago
Well, even if you don't keep it in the cloud you don't really know if its 100% secure. And if you do "know" its 100% secure, you're wrong. So its just a choice of who you trust more - google, your own company, some other company, etc
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by dsil 18y ago
We have buses, which do help a good deal.
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by dsil 18y ago
Actually, you can polish a turd: http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd... Just saying.
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by dsil 18y ago
Originally from Cincinnati, now in Silicon Valley
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by dsil 18y ago
I think its smart for Dell to move into the mobile business, but stick with what they do best, make the cheapest commodity phone on the market, have it run android, and profit off people replacing it every 6-12 months when it breaks.
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by dsil 18y ago
I think Google is getting a raw deal in this argument. This author and Doug Bowman talk about human designers being needed to make decisions about shades of blue and number of pixels for dividing lines. In most cases thats fine, but if yo
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by dsil 18y ago
Nobody has mentioned it yet, but this seems most relevant now considering how much people make the same claims about lack of business models (and refusal to use the most obvious ones) for Twitter and Facebook. Sacrificing short-term revenue
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by dsil 18y ago
The only thing you could really assign as Apple costing you for a delay, is the amount of money you would have made on your app during the time before you ultimately got accepted. Whether you spent $600k or a weekend building it has nothing
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by dsil 18y ago
In this case, the first of 5 pages is nowhere near 20% of the story.
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by dsil 18y ago
Oh no no, I meant most sites...twitter could be making thousands of dollars a month, probably tens of thousands. But they're going for acquisition/valuation of hundreds of millions of dollars. Ads would slow their growth, if only a bit, b
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by dsil 18y ago
In nearly all cases you won't make enough money to increase your burn rate at all. When you're focusing on growing your user base, its not worth it to lose a few users and generally make your site a little less usable and appealing for $100
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This shows great creativity and initiative. I'd hire his wife.
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by dsil 18y ago
They chose the worse of two evils.
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by dsil 18y ago
Yeah this sort of direct sales may be good for yelp and good for businesses who participate. The point is its bad for USERS of the site, who many of us are. If true, then seeing no bad reviews, or a bunch of good reviews might be meaningl
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by dsil 18y ago
Meh, good comments tend to rise to the top without orange names. And with threaded comments it doesn't make much sense to jump around to orange users, so I don't see much point.
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by dsil 18y ago
Slow down, take what spare time you have and learn django or ruby on rails. Go through some tutorials, struggling and learning as you go. By the time you graduate you'll be so much more powerful, and glad you did.