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by joonix 14y ago
Gumtree is a richer form of our Craigslist. I've had better experiences on Gumtree, because there's less volume and better sorting. Craigslist is a non-profit, though.
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by joonix 14y ago
Yeah, sorry, what I meant was that I'm definitely set on doing the tutorial. I'm just not sure if I should go through the 4.0 draft or the older version that's been up there. Would it be more practical to learn on 4.0?
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by joonix 14y ago
I was just about to start the tutorial for this reason. I don't have any Rails experience but I've been learning basic Ruby. Should I start with this (4.0) tutorial?
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by joonix 14y ago
This is what happens in democracies. The local councils and city governments open their doors and drool over anyone willing to buy property. Property price rises and thus increases the revenues they can bring in any play with. There is almo
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by joonix 14y ago
This is awesome, bookmarked. This will help me because I've always struggled with CSS since I never sat down and actually learned it. Just one thing - much of the text doesn't seem to render so smoothly. Is that intentional or is it just me
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by joonix 14y ago
Spam isn't really an issue for me. I simply don't see it in Gmail. A bigger annoyance is constant newsletters/emails sent from companies whom I might have transacted with long ago in the past. I have to take time to unsubscribe from all thi
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by joonix 14y ago
Sounds about right, but then who is buying all of those overpriced $2M cottages in Palo Alto in cash?
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by joonix 14y ago
Tech guys need to stop scoffing at non-tech "business" guys looking for co-founder arrangements. Yes, there are a lot of "startup groupies" out there who don't add any value, but someone with solid marketing abilities and/or "hustle" could
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by joonix 14y ago
There are plenty of massive, dominant private companies. Koch, SC Johnson, the list goes on ... The nature of VC or anyone investing OPM requires a short horizon. When it's your own money you don't ever have to cash out.
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by joonix 14y ago
Oh, no. This doesn't feel right at all. This is giving me entertainment720 vibes.
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by joonix 14y ago
To be fair, the Lakers and Facebook were, and are, sexy-as-hell businesses. Owning the Lakers speaks for itself, as does owning, at age 22, the hottest business that every college girl is addicted to. Not that they don't both have incredibl
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by joonix 14y ago
I would imagine if someone told me about a "microblogging" platform where people would submit posts via SMS to a shortcode I would have brushed it off as foolish.
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by joonix 14y ago
Same. Thought it was going to be relevant to me because I'm considering trying OS X after 22 years in Windows. Article was a bunch of nonsense.
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by joonix 14y ago
Hold on. MG Siegler and Arrington were investors in Mailbox? This kind of conflict is really unacceptable. Bloggers need to get real about ethics if they want to be taken seriously as journalists.
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by joonix 14y ago
As advanced as we think we are a species, tribalism still reigns over much of our behavior.
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Crown is poorly run with incompetent staff, not surprised and not sympathetic.
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by joonix 14y ago
I told my parents about Internet surveillance and they said "Good! Help catch terrorists!" Average American probably feels the same.
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by joonix 14y ago
Cost? An acquisition isn't a "cost." However, this one surely will become a cost when they write down the value of Mailbox by $99.95 million.
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by joonix 14y ago
This is pretty bad advice, sorry.
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by joonix 14y ago
It worked. It was minimal. I could click RSS on a site and subscribe. It was part of Google which I'm always working in. I stopped using the site, but I'd scroll through the widget on my Android phone every day. I don't need "features," I j
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by joonix 14y ago
Had no idea my Note II had a barometer. Just got pressureNET.
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by joonix 14y ago
Yes, just take a look at Australia's capital gains taxation to see where their priorities are. In fact, there is no capital gains tax. It's all taxed as income. There is no incentive to sweat it out for years building equity because once yo
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by joonix 14y ago
Protectionist is exactly right. But things are quickly changing, at least when it comes to local retail. The incumbent bloated chains like Meyer are being disrupted rapidly by overseas online retailers as well as shrewd foreign retailers li
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by joonix 14y ago
You forgot to mention housing (property) investment. Australians worship real estate investment above all things. Most think property will still double every few years even though they are already at insanely high levels.
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by joonix 14y ago
It's a feedback loop. Lack of startups and support => Lack of successful, prestigious software companies => Geeks have not earned public admiration the way they have in the US via Facebook, Google, etc etc. It then applies to IT as
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by joonix 14y ago
I saw about 5 minutes of it streaming and had to turn it off, it was awful.
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Lack of enrollment in IT and entrepreneurship is a symptom of the culture, really. You've got tall poppy syndrome combined with protectionism that makes shooting for the easy low-risk stuff desirable... trades pay insanely well due to stron
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It's kind of a testament to the silly times we're in that this kind of thing is covered by the Wall Street Journal.
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The fact that employees are family is completely irrelevant and ignoring it as a cost is pure fallacy. You still have to count their labor at the prevailing wage when evaluating the economics.
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Agreed. Every food truck I've visited, from Austin to NYC, had comparable, and often higher prices than a sit-down restaurant or a takeaway place. It's a big let down, because I imagined the food truck movement to be about making good food

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