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by jadams 20y ago
Okay, I missed the humour. Regarding (2), though. I think making $3M in 3 months has a lot more to do with luck and hype than any inherent skill. So, obviously those numbers were pulled out of thin air. The likelihood of that happening is e
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by jadams 20y ago
Er. I recommend not immediately pissing away $200K, but that's just me. If you're in your early 20's, a $200K investment could easily be $1M by your thirties. Taking a $1M lump-sum means never having to work again. That's not to say you wo
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by jadams 20y ago
You're using the word "incorporate" incorrectly, which was my original point. To incorporate means to start a corporation. Therefore, registering a sole-proprietorship is, by definition, not incorporation. The more general term is "registe
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The Business of Software: Real Advice From Real Business Owners(discuss.joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by jadams 20y ago|0 comments
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by jadams 20y ago
Yeah, and stay away from this site, and reddit, and for the love of god, stay away from justin.tv.
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by jadams 20y ago
It's very, very cool. I'm in Canada, and it felt like I was at that party. I kept having the strange urge to talk directly to people like pg, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston, as if Justin were some kind of Telepresence bot, or medium.
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by jadams 20y ago
The downside is you may be competing with Google.
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Biz Idea: Netflix For Big Data -- Mail Hard Drives(wired.com)
4 points by jadams 20y ago|1 comments
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by jadams 20y ago
Satellites and warheads in LEO travel at similar altitudes and velocities. What are these LEO warheads of which you speak? Does he really mean ballistic missiles? In that case the speeds are very different.
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by jadams 20y ago
If you're in Canada, and you set up a sole proprietorship for your dad, then you didn't incorporate it. Corporations and sole proprietorships are mutually exclusive categories of companies. Setting up a sole proprietorship is as easy as goi
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by jadams 20y ago
I love this thing! I can store all of my notes, ideas for articles, and business ideas in one HTML page. I can back it up or transfer it by copying a single file. Nice.
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TiddlyWiki - A Reusable Non-Linear Personal Web Notebook(tiddlywiki.com)
3 points by jadams 20y ago|1 comments
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by jadams 20y ago
I love the picture of pg waving his finger from the back of the scooter. I half expected the next shot to be him pushing one of the other dudes, with his finger. The next shot should have been of said dude falling over as his CG moves outsi
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by jadams 20y ago
I finally got around to trying EC2 this weekend, and it's pretty slick. I just wanted a *nix box to try out SBCL threading. I love the convenience. Anyone know off-hand what extended instruction set these machine instances offer? I.e. MMX?
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by jadams 20y ago
Overheard outside a former boss's office: "We're not talking customer service, we're talking cunnilingus! Are they happy? I want you to make them happy!"
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by jadams 20y ago
Sick, but true. I find I can't work at a reasonable pace. Either I'm slacking off, and for all intents look like an incompetent retard, or else, I'm in crisis mode and will do whatever it takes. Unfortunately, after crisis mode, I'm burnt o
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by jadams 20y ago
Sony claims that Qrio can respond to outside pushing, as here: http://www.plyojump.com/movies/qrio/sdr-4x_recoverfromfall.mpg
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by jadams 20y ago
Gah! Why do I keep double-posting? Someone please delete this.
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by jadams 20y ago
> [...] Dexter appears to be treating each step as a discrete unit, where it has to attain balance at the end of one step before going on to the next step I doubt that. I don't think that would qualify as dynamic balance. Remember,
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by jadams 20y ago
If you had N overwritable "save-game" slots for the universe, what would you do differently? Saving a game stores a re-loadable state of the universe. Let's say saving or loading a state takes less than a second to initiate, and
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by jadams 20y ago
I heard a rumour that each instance is 6MB of source code, alone!
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by jadams 20y ago
Can you tell us what kind of editor you're using to write Arc (and Arc code). Is Arc suited to writing its own IDE?
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by jadams 20y ago
Can you tell us what kind of editor you're using to write Arc (and Arc code). Is Arc suited to writing its own IDE?
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by jadams 20y ago
I think the problem is that there are a lot of very smart people who are good at talking and generating ideas, but not so good at implementation. If they're not regularly "going dark", they may not have the focus to succeed at a sta
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by jadams 20y ago
Interesting. Perhaps they should be performing traffic analysis to see who's busy, and who's not? I love to debate (reddit has saved my wife a regular earful), but I can't imagine surfing when I'm really "in the zone". I tend to do