gexla

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by gexla 11y ago
You aren't going to get your hourly rate for 40 hours a week if you put in a 40 hour work week. You need to do marketing to bring in new clients and you probably should be doing this daily. This also includes things like building your
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by gexla 11y ago
Deploying a "carrier killer" would require the stomach to deal with a U.S. response.
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by gexla 11y ago
Procrastination. Get it done or get out of the way and someone else will get it done. If you look back and nobody else did it, congrats, it wasn't worth doing anyways (validation for your procrastination.) There is no cure for procrast
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by gexla 11y ago
Without having done the pricing, I'm betting that the laptop plus external graphics card might not be much more expensive than a low-end laptop + "good enough" gaming system. Going super high-end is going to be expensive eith
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by gexla 11y ago
If I wanted my editor to do everything for me, I would switch to Emacs. On the other hand, scratching my itches (some which others probably thought were silly) is what got me here.
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by gexla 11y ago
> I have always got advice that be confident. This is what you need to focus on. You need to be confident to sell. We are always selling. You had to sell to land your job, maybe you can look at what you did right there and use that as so
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by gexla 11y ago
There may also be inequality of information and negotiation skills as well. In Bob's scenario, maybe Bob doesn't know his value and is happy to take the job at $10 per hour. Bill, who works with Bob, negotiated $50 per hour. Bill
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by gexla 11y ago
Apparently they didn't run the marketing of the contracts by the attorneys. I don't know much about law, but a lawyer told me that law isn't black and white. It's gray. So, bulletproof probably goes against that.
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by gexla 11y ago
If they could afford 3 meals a day without ever having to skip a meal because of lack of money, then they were richer than most people on the planet. If they were middle-upper class in the U.S. - that's not extremely wealthy by U.S. st
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by gexla 11y ago
I was swayed by his points enough that my level of excitement for buying one of these things has taken a big hit. On the other hand, the industry hasn't had much of a chance to get running yet. Maybe the hardware issues will prevent th
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by gexla 11y ago
Two points on this. "Cold calling" is a great method for making sales. Cold calling and talking to women is hard, but doing hard things is a great first step for breaking out of a shell and getting ahead. The more you practice def
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by gexla 11y ago
I want to start dating. I put my profile up to dating sites. I spend much of my days sending messages to women's profiles. I take their personality tests, but I never get messages (or replies to mine) even though I'm sure I get ma
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by gexla 11y ago
What word is that? Business? Keep in mind that we are referring to children (under the age of 18.) These sorts of transactions are often the first steps into the realization that you can grow value (which could be physical or virtual items)
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by gexla 11y ago
This was just one step in an incredible journey for Steve Jobs. He probably put in the long hours because he saw value in those hours. He probably learned a lot from the experience.
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by gexla 11y ago
I'm sure many of us did some sort of business when we were kids. Trading anything with your friends (cards, etc) is a business, especially if those trades make the value of your collection go up or down. Buying these items new (cards i
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by gexla 11y ago
If the menu doesn't have prices, you probably can't afford it.
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by gexla 11y ago
Next article: Just because my eyes are blue doesn't mean I'm a race car driver.
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by gexla 11y ago
> The young understand new technologies better than the old do, and are like a clean slate: they will rapidly learn the latest coding methods and techniques, and they don’t carry any “technology baggage”. As well, the older worker likel
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by gexla 11y ago
I'm pretty sure I used to do something like this as a kid. And after the fake job, let's all meet up for a tea party in the back room. If you aren't into tea, then feel free to grab yourself a fake cold one from the fake frid
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by gexla 11y ago
The problem with this question is that there are probably a long list of attributes which are much more important than technical skills. The bootcamps largely only address the technical skills. They can't turn you into "great to
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by gexla 11y ago
I believe at first, SpaceX was squeezed out. SpaceX sued the government as choosing a monopoly. The government then went back on that to allow SpaceX to play. There has been a lot of commentary in the news as to why SpaceX may not have been
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by gexla 11y ago
The article doesn't go into much detail. In this case, Russia is "bad" because of the uncertainty of the relationship relying on something so important to be considered national interests. The decision to develop rockets at h
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by gexla 11y ago
Right, submitting them isn't so much an issue because they can get flagged or just not up-voted. I don't often view the "new" articles list anymore. Most often, I feel like I'm wasting my time unless I want to help
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by gexla 11y ago
Meanwhile, there are hundreds (thousands?) of new Wordpress installs going up every day. People building their businesses and making money without much thought as to which tooling is behind their administrative control panels other than the
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by gexla 11y ago
And millions of installations of Wordpress and other PHP based systems. Wordpress is highly active and widely used because it's easy to work with. The ease of use is a SELLING point, that "S" word that engineers aren't a
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by gexla 11y ago
It won't allow me to create variations of pot brownies. Marijuana isn't an available ingredient. IBM? Fix?
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by gexla 11y ago
Radish, ginger, olives, tomato and green onions are quite general. They could go together with a lot of stuff, especially fish. In the Philippines one of my favorite restaurants serves a soup with a similar recipe. No radishes or olives and
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by gexla 11y ago
Sounds like the client has you trained. Everything the client asks for, you give in. What do you think the client is going to keep doing?
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by gexla 11y ago
They have been available in the Philippines for a while now. As others have mentioned, they are at the low end here. Low end smart phones are almost not even smart phones. You get Android and not much else because you don't get the res
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by gexla 11y ago
Notice some say they started out at less than $25 an hour. Others started out at $50 or more. The difference isn't in profile, it's in what they were asking when they got that first client.

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