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by gerbal 12y ago
I was recently talking to a founder about his small startup. They had initially hired a Marketer to help build audience and publicize their product. But what they discovered is that they weren't ready to have a dedicated Marketer. With
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by gerbal 12y ago
I told TimeWarner I was moving to Manitoba to get them to stop hastleing me to move my service to my new address.
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by gerbal 12y ago
+5/+1 more like. The sea will rise, but it's just a question of how much.
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by gerbal 12y ago
Encourage her to get out now. Every sign suggest those insurance rates are only going to increase. And while property values might be increasing at the moment, it's only a mater of time before the insurance rates become so onerous she
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by gerbal 12y ago
But can it compile to Javascript?
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by gerbal 12y ago
I don't think the default Xubuntu theme has ever changed. Which is kind of a shame, but also kind of good. It's very consistent and makes some users who don't care about eye candy and hate change happy, but it scares off some
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by gerbal 12y ago
There is a linux Open Source QT based project that is quite similar [1]. Or, if you have xscreensaver installed you can just run the following: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -text -fast -bs -program bash [1] https
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by gerbal 12y ago
54% of the US workers make less than $30,000 a year [1]. at a $14.50 minimum wage, the income floor for a full time employee becomes $30,000. You're telling me that a substantial income increase for >50% of the US working population
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by gerbal 12y ago
This argument isn't about people starting small businesses, but rather about millionaires patting themselves on the back for being wealthy. Many of whom think of themselves as job creators because they have a maid and a gardener while
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by gerbal 12y ago
First off, most of what follows is anecdotal. I've worked at a couple of mom-and-pop businesses. Most of our customers at a couple of the places were people working at or just above minimum wage. Were our customers to have their income
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by gerbal 12y ago
I had good luck resetting my sleep patterns with regular exercise and Melatonin supplements. Melatonin makes it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep in a way that promotes rest.
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by gerbal 12y ago
Provided it has temperature tolerances in excess of 1000° F.
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by gerbal 12y ago
Building alternative high-volume modes of transportation is more effective than building larger roads. Adding more lanes is useless from a urban planing point of view because it doesn't alleviate congestion.
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by gerbal 12y ago
The original project[1] was a very simple 500 line implementation of Minecraft. There is a fork[2] of that project with 8000 lines of code and many more features. [1] https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft [2] https:&#x2
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by gerbal 12y ago
One way to start is to have employees you can trust. And delegate tasks to them. If they are worth your time as employees, they will take initiative to do the things you can't or don't think of. If you find people who are willing
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by gerbal 12y ago
I didn't mean that Apple doesn't make good products. They make pretty damn good products. But the products are only part of Apple's marketing strategy. Much of what has made Apple successful is the idea of what a Mac, an iPod
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by gerbal 12y ago
Hey, if it keeps you from returning the product or avoiding a merchant, it has worked.
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by gerbal 12y ago
One of the flaws of many advertising strategies is that it assumes the main flaw of the market is imperfect information. However that requires a rational consumer. And Consumers are not rational. Selling ideas is as important as the good it
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by gerbal 12y ago
For medium scale purchases with many interchangeable competitors, this may be true. But for cheap impulse purchase and for high-end commodities, brand still matters quite a bit. Apple and Samsung are two great examples of higher end compani
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by gerbal 12y ago
Or they are trying to do the thing BMW and Apple do where they are trying to make you feel good about a decision you already made.
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by gerbal 12y ago
>Food stamps exist not out of genuine compassion for the poor, but because those in power know very well what happens when starvation becomes too widespread. someone needs to cc that memo to the right wing American Oligarchs.
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by gerbal 12y ago
You could get a gigantic bunch of film & television subtitles. Almost every movie ever made and every TV show in the past 30 years has pretty good subtitles available from a variety of online sources. Using common Python NLP techniques
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by gerbal 12y ago
On other pages it does hamburger icon properly, so, presumably, it's an issue with that page.
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by gerbal 12y ago
She should move almost anywhere else. In one of the most expensive parts of North Carolina, a one bed room appartment rents for ~$600 a month, and $30K isn't a lot, but it's enough to live reasonably comfortably.
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by gerbal 12y ago
How is this an MMO?
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by gerbal 12y ago
Or no one wants to teach because of low pay compared to equivalent professions, huge classes, and deteriorating working conditions.
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by gerbal 12y ago
This smacks of a firm being raided by private equity funds. Leverage, debt use it to do a stock divident to the owners (Private Equity firms), launch an IPO, use the IPO funds to finance more debt, keep the company above water long enough t
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by gerbal 12y ago
I had assumed GoDaddy was already public. Seems like the sort of company that would have gone public ages ago when it was still growing aggressively.
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by gerbal 12y ago
A cool policy would be allowing European regions to gain independence from their larger state incumbent on devolution of some powers to the EU.
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by gerbal 12y ago
I have a hard time trusting a product when it's promo video shows someone mashing random keys pretending to type.

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