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by lprubin 9y ago
There are certain core things that your agency will have to do in order to succeed. Some high level examples: - Aquire Clients - Do client work - Manage projects - Bill clients - Do pricing/timeline and estimates - Hire employees or f
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I agree that it is challenging for all the reasons you stated and more. This book really helped me overcome many those issues: https://philipmorganconsulting.com/the-positioning-manual-fo...
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by lprubin 9y ago
If you choose to run a software development agency: - Shoot for between 3 and 10 clients. Any less and you'll be very stressed about losing a client. Any more and you'll be overwhelmed with juggling too many balls. - Fire bad cl
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by lprubin 10y ago
Humans produce our own creatine if we eat enough of certain common amino acids that are found in plants. So it's not actually necessary to eat creatine.
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by lprubin 10y ago
If you're interested in a book length exploration of patents on the anti-patent side of the argument, I found this book to be well argued: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=978052...
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If that's the definition of slavery you're using, do you feel that there is anybody who is not some level of enslaved? Honestly asking.
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> Now the question is - when you and your family depend on one entity, i.e corporation that has hired you, are you not a slave to them? It depends on if there are other viable/satisfactory (or better) options that you can voluntaril
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by lprubin 10y ago
I tried out ReactVR for a prototype and I liked that I was able to use my familiarity with React to set up a simple VR project in a few hours with no prior VR experience and without having to learn any new syntax, just a few new classes.
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by lprubin 10y ago
What about failures in medical software, airplane safety software, or military software?
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by lprubin 10y ago
Graph based on Github and Stackoverflow data. http://hotframeworks.com/
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by lprubin 10y ago
Another, faster way to see what JavaScript google can crawl on your website is the google search console (previously known as google webmaster tools). They have a fetch as google button that allows you to enter a url on a site you own and
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by lprubin 10y ago
For bootstrapped startup talk, I like http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
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I wish I had spent 10% of the time I used playing computer/video games in high school/college on learning to code instead.
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by lprubin 10y ago
While you're right that the 3 new stations are in a rich, white neighborhood, it will hopefully reduce congestion on the 4,5 and 6 lines which service many poorer neighborhoods in the Bronx and harlem.
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by lprubin 10y ago
Exactly this. The hiring process cuts both ways. Unless you're desperate, you should also be evaluating your employer and the quickest way for me to walk away is to filter candidates through something like hackerrank rather then some
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by lprubin 10y ago
Exactly. Also, how can we possibly want to eat something that the company producing it is going to great lengths to prevent us from watching how it's made? That's really creepy.
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by lprubin 10y ago
A pretty good movie based on a novel about this exact concept: 13th Floor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor
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by lprubin 10y ago
A 1% conversion rate increase for some companies is worth millions.
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by lprubin 10y ago
"The more she listens" part is likely why we can listen to an album once and dislike it and then on a second, third and fourth listen develop an increasing appreciation for it until it potentially becomes a favorite album. I alwa
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by lprubin 10y ago
In Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick calls this historicity. A shopkeeper shows two necklaces, indistinguishable from each ither but one was worn by Sitting Bull and the other is a fake. One has historicity and the other is basically w
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by lprubin 10y ago
Not having kids may be one of the biggest forms of environmental activism.
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IMHO they're offering you help to increase your yearly salary and get a job that you enjoy more, basically risk free. For example, if they increase your salary from 80K/year to 90K/year, they'll get $1350 (1.5%). From
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by lprubin 10y ago
Usually chrome requires a service worker for notifications and I don't see one in this library. Anybody else get this working with chrome?
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by lprubin 11y ago
If you enjoy thinking about and exploring these types of questions, I highly recommend Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
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by lprubin 11y ago
The issue in this instance is not that MDMA caused harm but that these students ingested something other than what they wanted and it made them sick. If MDMA was legalized, people curious to experiment could purchase and know exactly what t
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by lprubin 11y ago
Search Engine Market Share: Google 67% Yahoo 10% Bing: 10% Baidu: 8% AOL: 1% Other: 2% Just because 67% of consumers are choosing Google search despite a myriad of other options, doesn't make it a monopoly nor does it mean they don&#x2
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by lprubin 11y ago
I think it's an important question of whether or not lasting monopolies are possible without political intervention.
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When drugs are legalized, addicts have better access to treatments and counseling and the stigma is lowered so they can be more open about their addiction.
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I'll add to the discussion that until a bartender friend of mine taught me about this a couple of years ago, I had no idea. I asked a few friends and family if they were aware of this and it was a real mixed bag. I think there are a l
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by lprubin 11y ago
Some of the measures the OP is railing against can help stop students from needing suicide prevention counseling, counseling which is not 100% successful. If we can help reduce the number of students who even contemplate suicide, I'd

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