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Effort intensive as a one-off, maybe. If you're one of the aforementioned spammers, I assume you just set it up once in pywinauto and then go nuts.
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Congratulations, you have just reduced the distance to becoming good at this by an order of magnitude. attempts += 1 while 1
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15y ago
Because technology interprets inefficiency as opportunity.
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Anyone who can code, no. Anyone who can code well while remaining sensitive to business concerns and doing some level of networking? Depending on location, it can be far easier for them to find a job versus the average, even normalizing for
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15y ago
The trick is to evaluate why they suck and use that to improve your ideas.
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Alibaba cleans up here simply by facilitating connections, and this despite many problems.
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Ever notice how the classic startup curve follows Campbell's "Hero's Journey"?
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15y ago
Yes, see this. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-na... Using real words is also generally necessary. One "u" pops right out and ruins the batch.
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15y ago
Lots of recent graduates who have "hello world" programming experience know Java. If you want to hire those. It's sort of portable and it's sort of good at a wide range of stuff. In general, I would worry about what you're doing long before
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15y ago
I only visited your site because you forgot to say what it does. I'm still not that sure what it does, or how, or why. Fixing that would be a big step forwards. You want to always be communicating about your service, and in a clear way, and
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Similar here - lots of sketching followed by Inkscape.
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You put the quotes in the wrong place. "python 3" string methods
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That's pretty much the rule for modeling in any domain. It can tell you with good confidence if an idea is bad and with fair confidence whether an idea might be viable, but it can't do more than guess and it won't tell you whether you're as
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15y ago
If you have a viable plan for getting customers and revenue, then yes. Otherwise, no. Business release "yet another X" all the time. It's called competition.
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15y ago
One big worry for me is somebody coming out with a free version - or worse, a bundled version. I usually cheer up after remembering what proportion of the software development job pool can't figure out a linked list.
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They already have that covered. http://support.balsamiq.com/customer/portal/articles/135659#...
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15y ago
Button: persistent interface element or call to action Link: supplemental resources
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15y ago
He's claiming that spacing is the dependent variable, not the independent variable. Parents who are not considering these issues at all are arguably more likely to cluster towards shorter spacings, but shorter spacings alone do not provide
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15y ago
Munroe's Law: It only matters that it's wrong - on the internet.
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Despite much fiddling with alternatives, this is still what I use. Since Windows 3.1, no less. Portability is achieved with a notebook and pen.
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That's one of the big steps which is necessary. It still leaves the questions of (a) funding, (b) how do you reproduce it and how long does that take, and (c) how do you explain it. Many problems in science are considered to be "twenty year
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15y ago
So which is it? Academics, or a notorious MIT professor? You're blaming the problem on completely the wrong party to begin with. Academic researchers are getting screwed by groups like JSTOR on a regular basis. There are gorram huge movemen
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If it's not a bit of partially-digested cheese, it might have to do with the interface between relativity and QED. But while it's not unthinkable that relativity requires revision under some circumstances, it's one of the most thoroughly an
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It's usually best to leave off the "look guys, I broke physics" until human error has been well and thoroughly ruled out.
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"The fact that no one in academia has spoke up on this case is damming to say the least." I'm an academic and I think it's a load of rubbish. Where are you getting your facts?
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Language as a distinguishing trait is overrated. Pick a project that you want to spend time on, then learn the tools that make it easiest to accomplish your design goals.
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Find a lawyer who: (a) Comes well-recommended by others in your network (b) Has successfully handled this sort of transaction before
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"it’s always possible to recover" Only if the initial exposure was good.
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RAW is good, but you can still get some benefit in crappy cellphone JPGs. I've had to make batches of personnel photos taken with an iPhone look presentable for a web page on several occasions. A few seconds to set the white balance and nor
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Factors like chromatic aberration are going to be a problem long before relative quantum efficiency.
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