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by everdev 8y ago
tldr; > Quick decisions are more likely to lead to a blunder, but after about 10 seconds or so the likelihood of a blunder flattens out > More difficult positions are more likely to lead to a blunder. And skill levels have a big impac
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by everdev 8y ago
Yes, it's "valuable consideration" usually included in the sale price. It doesn't have to come in the form of a monthly payment or a salary.
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by everdev 8y ago
You can still enter into a legally binding non-compete in California resulting from the acquisition of a company or IP.
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by everdev 8y ago
Are you doing these projects for fun, future profit, knowledge? Whatever your answer is right now doesn't seem to be sufficient motivation. We all get the same time during the day but we all prioritize our day differently. You're
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by everdev 8y ago
That's what I did when I grew to 20 and part of what increased our revenue but decreased our profitability. The article talks about the challenges of managing managers and my experience lines up with what the author describes.
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by everdev 8y ago
> groups of 8 work well; by 20 they're getting hard to manage; and a group of 50 is really unwieldy I made more money at my web agency when I had 10 employees than when I had 20. I kept growing the business through inertia and the t
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Investors ask how the Bezos divorce will affect Amazon(reuters.com)
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by everdev 8y ago
Neither is: > ORDER CUSTOM LIST OF JOURNALIST RELATED WITH YOUR BUSSINES 89$
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by everdev 8y ago
I think it's the difference between what comes first, the work or the luck and what's the dominant force. If you study hard and get good grades, you might find yourself in a position where someone needs to hire for a role that you
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by everdev 8y ago
I think it's awesome a company cares enough to respond to dissatisfaction. Sometimes written words can land differently for different people, but I think it's a bit harsh to judge someone's attempt at help because they assume
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> Scientists believe FRBs emanate from powerful astrophysical phenomena billions of light years away, but they have yet to determine their origin. Are there any leading theories?
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by everdev 8y ago
Web agency owner here. There is a surplus of beginners due to a surge in tech bootcamps. If you're in the bottom half of talent it's a race to the bottom of low cost. If you're top 25-50%, you'll probably have consistent
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by everdev 8y ago
In the early 2000s, my business classes were breaking down the inefficiencies of large scale brick and mortar businesses and forecasting their digital takeover. The big surprise for me was how long so many of them have held on. It seems to
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by everdev 8y ago
Happiness is an emotion, it comes and goes. Even the premise of "are you happy?" is missing the point. Are we talking about feeling happiness twice as much as feeling sadness? 4x, 10x? Sadness can come from things outside our cont
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by everdev 8y ago
My sites are usually simple enough that I use a tiny Node script and EJS templates. Here's a tutorial: https://blog.dmatoso.com/build-static-site-generator-nodejs-...
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by everdev 8y ago
Netlify for free hosting. Static site generators for HTML and vanilla CSS/JS. Sometimes Vue and Material.io if it's a larger SPA.
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by everdev 8y ago
As you transition to management don't stop coding. You might not have time at work, but make time (20hrs/month) after work or weekends to learn the basics of a new skill relevant to your work. IMO, developers get annoyed at having
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by everdev 8y ago
A few years ago Google released a video about controlling Gmail with gestures, as an April Fool's joke...
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by everdev 8y ago
And how much of the internet is powered by digital advertising? The web will look a lot different if that bubble bursts.
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by everdev 8y ago
0ad is an open source RTS engine and game with it's own units, gameplay and map making that are similar to AoE, but it is not a clone of AoE. https://play0ad.com
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by everdev 8y ago
Blue collar jobs aren't low paying due to lack of skill or value, it's due to excess supply. In the bay area we have plumbers who charge $150/hr, the same rate I charge for coding, due to a low supply of plumbers. The catch i
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by everdev 8y ago
> Sestan acknowledged that surgeons at Yale had already asked him if the brain-preserving technology could have medical uses. Disembodied human brains, he said, could become guinea pigs for testing exotic cancer cures and speculative Alz
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by everdev 8y ago
School and work hours is a very similar problem to the metric system. Even though there's a more efficient system, the switching cost is significant in that you're out of sync with all those that don't make the switch, or don
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by everdev 8y ago
Yes, but it matters who gets those discounts. If you took a prior action to earn the discount no problem. If it's assigned randomly, no problem. If Costco charges $1k for a bagel and gives it away to everyone for free except insists on
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by everdev 8y ago
The example above is Facebook charging a single person $1k/year while not charging other people. That's called price discrimination: https://econsultancy.com/what-is-price-discrimination-and-is... It would be a sl
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by everdev 8y ago
Yes, it's called price discrimination: https://econsultancy.com/what-is-price-discrimination-and-is...
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by everdev 8y ago
The latter is a true hypothetical as US law prevents charging different rates to different users for the exact same product/service.
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by everdev 8y ago
It makes me wonder if there's a distance so great in the observable universe that light from an object would spread out so much that it couldn't be recognized as an object. I'd imagine there are distant stars ejected from gal
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by everdev 8y ago
> Simply block out a few minutes each day to be alone and do nothing at all. By doing so, you’ll tap into your inner genius and uncover the most effective ways to take action. Sounds like a productivity hack to me.
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by everdev 8y ago
> You cannot read such a book, you run through it to see the problem worked out I read dozens of Christie novels in middle school. Somehow I kept getting hooked by the obvious question: "Who did it?" and gobbled up the book unt

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