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by greendata 12y ago
Google Adwords is absolutely ripe for disruption. Actually all of Google's services, except Mail and Search, are not great.
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by greendata 12y ago
Have to agree. Great article but it just confirmed my decision to stay away from app engine. What's the purpose of paying for something that's both harder to use and more costly than a traditional server? Datastore is great but I
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by greendata 12y ago
Same here. I think the Pixelmator and Sketch combo will be the tools of the trade for web design in the future.
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by greendata 12y ago
where is this located?
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by greendata 13y ago
Curious are you physically located in California? I know that lot of states are starting to claim you a "nexus" if you take a trip through them or do any sort of business with them. It's a real problem if every state you tou
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by greendata 13y ago
I would add it's a series of taxes directed at the self-employed. If you work for a large company or for the state/federal government you'll have insurance already. If you're unemployed, you'll qualify for a subsidy
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by greendata 13y ago
The buildings in Seattle are also not prepared for a quake of the magnitude expected to hit it soon. California building codes are much stricter. Downtown Seattle is also built on a mudflat that caused countless problems in early Seattle hi
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by greendata 13y ago
Don't work for less than $50/hour.
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by greendata 13y ago
I'm not sure I'd consider Apple, Google, Genentech, and Oracle "cute apps". I think for every Apple you're going to have 100 maybe 1000 companies that are near worthless. It's just part of the chaotic process t
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by greendata 13y ago
True but you also don't see "homosexuals welcomed" on many hotels either. There are much more subtle ways of communicating those things.
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by greendata 13y ago
My point was the sample size was small but the "experiment" here is very similar to one seen with taxi cabs and other older services that are very similar to the new online "sharing economy". The discrimination in the fo
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by greendata 13y ago
I don't think you'd have to monitor it any more than you would monitor a business that puts up the rainbow flag on their window. I think the key here is to make it voluntary and not push it on people or make it a top-down standard
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by greendata 13y ago
There is a huge issue with racism in the US but you're wrong to think it's a US problem or that it's worse in the US on average. Spend a few months in Europe, especially the east and south, and you'll quickly change yo
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by greendata 13y ago
This is so depressing and even though sample size is small it rings 100% true. I think it's just a symptom of an inherently racist and unfair world and is not Uber or Airbnb's fault. The same thing happens with names at the resume
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by greendata 13y ago
I'm a current python/ruby/javascript contractor interested in getting into SAS/ABAP consulting and development. Do you have any recommendations where to start?
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by greendata 13y ago
If they didn't give you some kind of negative feedback after the first week, I'd say it's their fault. Sounds like you dodged a bullet honestly. That said as consultant if I'm not making commits by day two on a moderatel
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by greendata 13y ago
Do you have examples?
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by greendata 13y ago
For me the $100/hr minimum is an excellent filtering mechanism for serious clients. As a consultant I think there's a place for this, a place for Elance, a place for Odesk, and a place for AWS Mech Turk (AWS's horribly named
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by greendata 13y ago
Having lived in the area, I definitely agree. I think on the Peninsula it would be higher. Our federal system doesn't deal with these geographic disparities well, especially when it comes to things like federal taxes and college aid. $
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by greendata 13y ago
He's currently paid a salary from his university, so yes he and his employer are very benefiting from the federal student loan programs and subsidies. I don't see how the fact he grew up Pittsburgh and received forms of government
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by greendata 13y ago
I agree for most areas of the US. But for someone living with a family in NYC or the Bay Area, I think this would still be middle class. A lot of this comes down to housing and rent costs.
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by greendata 13y ago
It should be noted that Professor Cole is a direct beneficiary of the aggressive student loan collection practices. This story reads like something out of a "Tale of Two Cities". I wonder if the ending will be similar.
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by greendata 13y ago
It's 10x, maybe even 1000x harder to make it as an artist or musician than to make it in finance, engineering, nursing, or accounting.
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by greendata 13y ago
You do realize she is doing likely doing very well in the free market? CS is lucrative at the moment but than can and probably will change soon.
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by greendata 13y ago
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." Honoré de Balzac
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by greendata 13y ago
I have found this to be the most helpful way of setting things up
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by greendata 13y ago
Yes, this is the thing. If you are living at a US/UK standard or slightly below, DO NOT waste your time on Elance or ODESK. These sites are not designed to employee US workers.
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by greendata 13y ago
It's certainly not the market rate if they are forced to pay it.
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by greendata 13y ago
B/c the US Gov would shut it down, seize your accounts and you'd be out at least 5 million USD As long as the US Gov is against bitcoin, and they should be for their own sake, they will make it impossible to comply with the regula
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by greendata 13y ago
I agree they aren't productive. However, the fact that we keep hearing about it, especially from those not from the US, is informative. There is a German IT manager posting about how he's like to use this but can't due to the

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