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by emmett 18y ago
Taking more irrelevant classes is probably harder (as I said), but because it's harder it is also more impressive and thus looks better on your resume (as rms said).
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by emmett 18y ago
http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites-what-they-are-why-theyre-c...
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by emmett 18y ago
This is almost certainly a "css sprite"...a compression method for web graphics.
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by emmett 18y ago
Biology is worthless as a major; as long as you take the pre-med requirements, they don't care what your major is. Granted, Biology requires a lot of the same classes, so it might be easier to be a bio major if you're already pre-med, but t
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by emmett 18y ago
You say it "can't be measured", but of course it can be. Say there are 10 million people in your demographic; then your vote makes your demographic 0.0001% bigger and shifts it correspondingly slightly towards your political position. That'
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by emmett 18y ago
I just picked that as an example to illustrate the point; feel free to substitute "old people and young people" for any two groups of people, and "social security" for any other issue.
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by emmett 18y ago
The point is that your vote adds a (very small) incremental value; the sole value is not that it might decide the election.
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by emmett 18y ago
Which is why, of course, most parties spend most of their time preaching to the choir: turnout decides most elections.
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by emmett 18y ago
A vote for the loser does not count for nothing. It makes you an active political entity worth courting. Do you know why social security is inviolate, and no one from either party will ever do anything to stop payments? Because old people
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by emmett 18y ago
Depends on whether there are cheap hotels in the part of the city you want to stay in.
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by emmett 18y ago
You're thinking like a guest, not like someone listing a room. It's pretty obvious how it's different in that case.
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by emmett 18y ago
I saw all the "this is useless" comments on TechCrunch, so I thought I'd look up what that community thought of "twttr" when it launched: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/ "I do not understand the utility of addin
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by emmett 18y ago
Bush is No True Scotsman, apparently.
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by emmett 18y ago
Are you working on your startup full time? The cost of a single person working on a startup is at least $30k/year, even if you cut salary to the bone.
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by emmett 18y ago
That would be "not at a startup", I think.
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by emmett 18y ago
This is exactly how oldschool MUDs were implemented; Steve Yegge has actually written a more modern version of exactly the same thing. It's a great idea, but not a new one. You'll want tons of hooks you can customize interactions with as we
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by emmett 18y ago
Basically, there are normally rules preventing most of the offensive players from receiving a pass; by switching the starting formation they make everyone eligible and explode the number of possible passes they can make. It's an extremely c
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by emmett 18y ago
From the Alexa top 20 global ( http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&la... ): Yahoo - users before revenue, success Google - users before revenue, success YouTube - users before revenue, undecided Microsoft - revenue bef
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by emmett 18y ago
Google and Yahoo are both obvious successes. Amazon is another. One Google outweighs hundreds or thousands of failures. You can't dismiss them as merely "anomolous" - among the biggest internet companies most of them followed this strateg
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by emmett 18y ago
I exactly agree that they're anomalies...but they're by far the most profitable anomalies. Almost all the top websites grew users before revenue! High variance, high payoff. It is certainly safer to start small and grow revenue first; it's
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by emmett 18y ago
We send a verification email when you sign up; we just don't demand you click the link before you start using the website.
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by emmett 18y ago
It adds a cost to creating a user account. Sometimes, you actually want that. Also a user with a valid email address is worth more than a user without one; even with dropoff the value could be worth it. That said, we don't do it at Justin.t
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by emmett 18y ago
The grow-users-before-revenue strategy has several spectacular success stories: Google, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, etc. etc. That's not to say it's the only valid strategy, but it's certainly a valid strategy. In fact, it probably
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by emmett 18y ago
I wouldn't make a distinction. Your work is worth something, charge for it!
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by emmett 18y ago
You fingered the pitfall. Late comers get the same valuation, so you give up the ability to pressure people into investing now for fear that they'll lose the chance. On the other hand, we did a rolling close on a round and it worked fine fo
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by emmett 18y ago
30 or 60 day free trial, and after that an infinite-use key available for $X. That's what convinced me to buy TextMate and many other software products that I use.
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by emmett 18y ago
Nothing! But many right wing policies are pushed in the name of EBM; in practice it's been used to cut down on medical options for the poor. Everyone should of course be for applying scientific evidence to medical practice.
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by emmett 18y ago
I'm sure there's some of that too :). Twisted really is awesome; we've been super happy with it. A little sad they wouldn't take our memcache get_multi patch (they said we hadn't written enough tests for it).
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by emmett 18y ago
All I know is, this post made me check out Google WebMaster tools, and using the tool he pointed out I found a whole set of invalid links people had made to my site that need to be redirected. So it was valuable for me.
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by emmett 18y ago
There are, of course, a few doctors who reject the very idea that mere scientific evidence should be able to tell them what to do. But in general, most doctors want to provide the best care they can for their patients, and that includes sci

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