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by lusr 14y ago
Fair point - I was a bit too rigid in my statement. High-end DSLRs already support shutter bracketing of this sort. From a technical perspective, my mid-range Nikon D7000 can take 16.2 megapixel images at a rate of 6 frames per second, wh
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How would that work? Part of what makes photography a creative art is choosing a creative, personal exposure from a range of visually valid possibilities for a given scene. Once a shutter speed has been selected you're pretty much stuck w
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Can't speak for the parent but I think I understand where he's coming from. For me, it was reading the section on procrastination (which requires reading the preceding sections on dysfunctional thought patterns) in David Burns' "Feeling Go
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Aside from determining earned vs. received, surely the Kickstarter revenue must still be offset against expenses before tax can be calculated?
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Now this should be a Kickstarter project. With such detailed plans as "Research" for 9 years I'm not seeing any risks here. Jokes aside, I'm not really sure what the point would be. As much as I love the idea of spaceships and explorin
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Can you explain how a "merge conflict" arises? Surely something can only become law once it's voted in, and a specific revision of a document is what's voted on?
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It's a cool idea and performed perfectly first try in Chrome once I figured how out to navigate it... for all I know it could be my mouse scroll sensitivity is the issue. Sarien.net is awesome BTW :)
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I have to wonder whether the author is one of those people who writes SQL that reads like procedural code, full of IFs and WHILEs/cursors. I can't count how many times I've converted application-layer-equivalent code like that into brief
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Great demo, it immediately felt like being back in the Space Quest world. But did anybody try visiting q42.com? I'm not sure if this proxy server here is blocking some critical content or not but I find it impossible to navigate the 3D stu
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That's one way to look at it. Another is that Shark Tank is itself a business and they're taking a risk putting you on TV; if you don't generate interest, the show could get cancelled because of poor ratings. In effect, they are inves
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I don't think money is the only thing that matters but I'm fascinated you don't think having a lot of money can dramatically improve the quality of your life. If I had enough money to live comfortably off of the return on my investments, my
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"Apple iMessage is a classic example. If you're using iMessage, you're not using one of our messaging services, right?" It's hard to believe this is a real quote by such a senior executive. If the profitability of your business is so signi
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I always felt I was slower than the other kids, but later I realised I was attempting to structure and understand the information whereas they were just regurgitating it. Once I did understand the information I could apply it far better th
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The friend answered the question: "Listen. It’s never been easier to start a company. And right now, money is thrown left and right. In the past year alone, six of my colleagues left my company to start their own startups. I figured if they
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by lusr 14y ago
I completely agree. It feels like intellectualization - a subconscious defence of personal choices made out to look like fact. I see this in everyday life all the time, and I daresay the root of it is an irrational subconscious fear that
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There's also a practical limit to how many businesses you can be involved in. If they aren't stooping for pennies, and they've been around investing for some time, then it's clear they're making good returns on other businesses and don't f
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I imagine that the response times of S3 vs. this Frankenstore model will be much better, which may be an issue for certain applications. Also you need to host infrastructure software that knows where your data is sitting, how to deal with p
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It's more than that. He's conflating personal motivation with business model validation. Yes your business model should be validated, but what's wrong with pursuing money? My goal has long been to work on my interests without having to wo
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There's nothing stopping you from hedging your bets. I work full-time and put away 60%+ of it. This is capital for whatever investments I make, including into my own startup that I work on when I get home. Fact is I get paid what I do by
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Don't know why people are voting you down. I'd rather hit middle-age penniless but full of experience and no regret, than look back and say "Well, I sure managed to scrape by in life without taking any chances or attempting any of my dream
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I don't follow this logic as a valid reason not to become an entrepreneur. 1. The 90..95% definition is stupid. Projections are irrelevant other than for purposes of planning, appeasing investors and roughly determining whether the busines
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That final statement is unfounded. If you have all those things, you're far more likely to make more money (and faster money) by building your own business. You cannot escape this simple fact: if you're an employee, you are only getting a
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Absolutely agreed. All I know is I will COMPLETELY lose my mind if I'm still working for somebody else (as a contractor or employee) in 5 years; his advice to stick with the paying job while figuring out what you want doesn't address what
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This is pretty much what I've always done - describe the sort of problems they're likely to encounter in the role they're being hired for, perhaps mentioning a few challenges we've had (and possibly already solved), and ask them to explain
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Yes, and keep the timer! It's a critical aspect of evaluating whether your answer is solid.
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Seems like such a simple thing for the movie studios to do - legally - and generate some positive PR for a change... but no.
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Oh no don't get me wrong - the site is great and I expect it'd be very useful for any entrepreneur, whether seeking investment or not! I'm commenting on the GP's post, which implies some people aren't capable of answering questions this
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Out of curiosity, what happens if a second company (say, Anglo Platinum) goes out there and blows up the facilities of these guys? Maybe even murders their miners (if there are to be any humans out there). What would the legal protection
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Right - none of these questions are difficult to answer quickly and concisely or to prepare for - if you have a valid business model. Applying for investment without a business model you understand through and through is like applying
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You can be yourself after you've spent 3 to 5 minutes getting through these questions qualifying yourself as somebody worthwhile getting to know better. Investors are busy people with thousands of proposals crossing their paths every year

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