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by jaz 15y ago
It depends on the degree of control you exercise over the individual, if the individual is offering their services to the public, if the individual furnishes their own tools to perform services, if the individual performs services in their
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by jaz 15y ago
This would be interesting - although I wonder if there would be any negative reaction from redditors. Posterous tried this out last year[1]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309403
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by jaz 15y ago
This reminds me of the Heritage School [1], which teaches people skills such as blacksmithing, knifemaking, working with Damascus steel, and woodworking. I think it's great these skills haven't completely died out. [1] http://www.bc3.edu/h
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by jaz 15y ago
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Some translations are better than others, but I have found The Emperor's Handbook[1] to be the best so far. [1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743233832/
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by jaz 15y ago
If you do decide to drop out, keep in mind that without a degree many professional opportunities will be closed off to you. You'll need to work several times harder than degree holders to prove you know your stuff (or are willing to learn).
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by jaz 15y ago
Often times, people/organizations will pay money when performing a particular task is outside their core business and/or they have nobody on staff with the requisite domain knowledge. It may seem cheaper to grab a copy of wordpress and host
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by jaz 15y ago
ePubPack[1] to create the ePub, FlightCrew[2] to validate the ePub, Calibre and iBooks on the iPad to preview. For Kindle books, I use Mobipocket creator[3]. Kindlegen[4], the tool Amazon provides to convert ePub to Mobi didn't output consi
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by jaz 15y ago
The thief returned the laptop and apologized. Here's the thread and a news article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359512 http://bostinnovation.com/2011/03/23/dont-steal-a-computer-f...
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by jaz 15y ago
Is earth class mail worth the price? I thought about signing up about a year ago, but some bad reviews made me hesitant.
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by jaz 15y ago
Sure, Microsoft could have built a skype clone in-house for far less than $8bn. But would people actually sign up and use it - to the tune of 124 million people per month? My guess is no, at least not for several quarters.