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by markshead 14y ago
>Force companies to pay a living wage. Who determines what a "living wage" is? Does it include having cable? Internet? A car? But beyond that, why do you want to put up any barriers to what jobs companies can hire workers for? Lets say
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by markshead 14y ago
What skills does it take to make minimum wage? Often it is the ability to show up on time and follow directions. If someone doesn't have those skills, I question how well they will do in a community college. If they do have enough reliabili
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by markshead 14y ago
Yes, someone who starts out cleaning does learn skills. They can become better at cleaning than the average person. They will know how to clean really bad messes without getting grossed out by it. They will know how to dispose of the stuff
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by markshead 14y ago
Many people learn their skills on the job. Setting an artificial lower limit of what they are allowed to work for prevents some people from starting to climb a ladder toward higher skills and higher wages. Regarding just hiring the person m
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Chef Solo Demo (open source infrastructure management)(blog.markshead.com)
1 points by markshead 14y ago|0 comments
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by markshead 14y ago
>It means being aware that proposals written by minorities are likely to sound less confident and may understate the value of their content. Why do you assume that the color of someone's skin will make them less capable of writing a goo
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by markshead 14y ago
You are saying that greater than 40% of the developers in GB are not white males. What are you basing this on? GB is only about 10% non-white and last statistic I saw on gender was that only 1.5% of people participating on open source proje
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by markshead 14y ago
If you have a goal of "diversity" that implies that you are going to treat people differently depending on their race and gender. Race and gender becomes part of the selection criteria. Isn't that pretty much the definition of racism and s
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by markshead 14y ago
I think the point wasn't that Yahoo should show no ads. The point was that the ad was in a place where people were accidentally clicking on it and not knowing why a window kept appearing. This didn't add any value to the user, didn't add an
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by markshead 14y ago
"The web is the most advanced publishing system we've ever had but the process in which most people publish is backwards next to print." There were probably similar things said about the shift from hand copied books to using printing presse
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by markshead 14y ago
Costco had a company that was bringing in 3d scanners to scan your body and then making suits based on those measurements. Haven't seen it advertised for awhile, so I'm not sure how well it actually turned out.
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by markshead 14y ago
Checkout the Dell Sputnik project. ( http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/d/campaigns/sputnik ) It looks like they are going to start selling a small SSD laptop with Ubuntu. Right now you can get the laptop with Windows and then downloa
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by markshead 14y ago
Like this? http://www.golittleguy.com/teardrops/
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by markshead 15y ago
I'm not clear if you are looking for books, links, or topics. If you are looking for topics or books, I'd suggest starting by taking a look at the syllabi from degree programs that you respect. You may want to pay particular attention to th
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by markshead 15y ago
Regarding your follow-up question, here are a few things I ask myself before moving forward with a new idea: 1. Can I get the expertise/experience to actually create this? I may have the technical expertise to do it, but if I don't have the
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Domain knowledge for software ... and guns.(blog.markwshead.com)
4 points by markshead 15y ago|1 comments
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by markshead 15y ago
When was the last time someone's software project failed because they created a usable version too quickly? Thinking that you can spend 30 days and then never touch your code again is stupid. However, setting a time constraint that forces y
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by markshead 15y ago
Do you consider PayPal to be invisible to the end user?
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by markshead 15y ago
I think that if it is less than $600 per person per year, you can just give cash and there is no record keeping necessary. But for something like this to work, you'd need to have some type of centrally administered place. I'm not sure what
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Why I'm considering Not giving to beggars anymore.(blog.markwshead.com)
3 points by markshead 15y ago|2 comments