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by mattm 11y ago
Most entertainers have an appearance fee. You could pretty much meet up with anyone you wanted if you were willing to pay the price.
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by mattm 11y ago
The value is in the gift suggestions.
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by mattm 11y ago
For the cc declined customers, you may want to look into http://churnbuster.io/
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by mattm 11y ago
This argument never holds up. Being a doctor or an engineer is almost always thought of as a good path. But what if everyone was a doctor or engineer? There'd be no one left to do basic tasks in life and the positions available for
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by mattm 11y ago
I really wish this was more the case. When it comes to economic systems, everyone has theories about what will work but most of the time it's just that. Instead we would be better off actually trying things on a small scale to see how
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by mattm 11y ago
I tend to be more enthusiastic about my job when I leave something for tomorrow. Like a "To be continued" episode that gets you hooked, if I leave at the end of the day with something to finish the next morning, I look forward to
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by mattm 11y ago
They have genetic memory for one. An elephant can "remember" a water source that its grandparents once visit well before it was born.
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by mattm 11y ago
What do you mean you made them pass but you failed? Do you mean that you coded them for the base cases but forgot about the edge cases? If that's the case, maybe you should spend some time on trying to think through the edge cases in
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by mattm 11y ago
Pay in BC is low compared to what you'll read about SV here. My first job in Victoria was around $45k but apparently I was lucky to get that as the standard junior level salary was around $36k (this was back in 2007). If you want to m
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by mattm 11y ago
When I was teaching English in China, one student got locked out of his apartment. Apparently, the city has authorized locksmiths you can call to open your apartment after proving that it's you. So he called one and was shocked at ho
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by mattm 11y ago
How come whenever I find something, it's always in the last place I look?
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by mattm 11y ago
Like the commentator said above, get another offer. Obviously you can't get it from this outsourcing site so you'll have to find it somewhere else. What's the outsourcing site? They're probably billing you out at $100+
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by mattm 11y ago
This is definitely not the case. I question how many elderly people (80+) you actually know in your life and see on a regular basis.
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by mattm 11y ago
My wife is a hospice nurse here in Japan visiting terminally ill patients at their homes. She comes home with many different stories. Some people are incredibly wealthy but their family doesn't want anything to do with them so they ba
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by mattm 11y ago
Just to add on to this, most business owners have tons of ideas they know they should be doing. They generally don't need anymore ideas. After a certain point it just becomes too much. Being able to prioritize the ideas they have becom
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The Muppet Show Pitch Reel [video](youtube.com)
4 points by mattm 11y ago|0 comments
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by mattm 11y ago
That 1% increase compounds.
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The Uncanny Valley of Email Automation(skmurphy.com)
2 points by mattm 12y ago|1 comments
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by mattm 12y ago
Obviously, I should have added on "...outside of the major cities." I don't live in Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto.
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by mattm 12y ago
Not too mention that furnished apartments are unheard of here so you may also need to spend money on a fridge, stove and air conditioner/heater.
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by mattm 12y ago
But these are all Kindle books which you can't request refunds for.
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by mattm 12y ago
I've never been in this position so you can just throwaway my input if you want. Some questions: - You're burning through $60k/month. What are you spending it on if you're getting no sales? Can you cut the expenses to
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by mattm 12y ago
Wow, this sounds like it should be an article in The Onion.
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by mattm 12y ago
SEEKING WORK My skills are best suited to working with large, legacy code-bases. I understand complex systems quite fast and make improvements in a way which doesn't break things and improves the codebase a little bit everyday. Have w
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by mattm 12y ago
Unfortunately, the best policy when dealing with these people is "say and do as little as possible". Give one word answers and don't offer any other information that you're specifically asked for. Also, don't enga
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by mattm 12y ago
I'll throw my solution into the ring I'm the founder of https://touchingbase.io and while we're not a CRM per say, we do help consultants and sales people land four or five figure deals by automating the parts of
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by mattm 12y ago
I also use XE. I think he might be referring to setup. Setting up an account takes a lot of documentation and took a few weeks IIRC. Once it's setup though, things are easy.
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by mattm 12y ago
It's also politically correct and fits in with the current generation's thinking of "you can be anything you want." This comes up now and again on HN as well about whether everyone should/can learn to program. Will
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by mattm 12y ago
On the other hand, it could show that the owner's don't really believe in the future success of the company. If they really think the options will be worth millions of dollars, why wouldn't the owners just pay the $5000&#x2F
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by mattm 12y ago
I lived in Nairobi for the summer of 2004 (in Buru Buru for half the time and then in Kibera on the map) and I would have loved to have this information at the time. Taking the matatu into town was always a fun experience. I came just aft

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