oldgregg

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by oldgregg 17y ago
The ultimate question is who is responsible for educating their children? Historically it's never been the state. Government run education went hand in hand with the industrial revolution-- it's designed to create a reliable (and pliable) w
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Moissanite is the way to go. I got married last fall and didn't even give her the option of a diamond on principle. Nobody asks if it's real, they just think you're loaded because you're fiance is wearing a $800 rock that they think cost 20
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Yes, normal people who... Chat with friends WHILE writing an email? Browse the web WHILE chatting with friends? Plug their USB digital camera in to upload photos?
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Yes please. Depending on how many people, mountain sun or southern sun?
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by oldgregg 17y ago
This reminds me of companies who spam their customer email lists... They only look at the immediate results without being accountable for how many people are tuning you out.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I built a service on top of EC2/Asterisk that did political phone polling. Not really polling though as much as voter ID, we'd push out 100,000 calls into a congressional district and campaigns would use the resulting data for targeted mail
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I disagree. In terms of exits I don't think either have a really distinct advantage-- it's just too early to tell. They are both great programs that will get you plugged in with mentors and investors and you're not going to regret it either
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by oldgregg 17y ago
This could be a 1980's Mac vs PC redux. Closed vs open platform. We know how that turned out. Android software/hardware is closing in fast. Who cares if Apple has 1000x more apps if the ones you actually spend 99% of the time using are on b
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by oldgregg 17y ago
College doesn't pass the smell test to me. During the housing boom everyone was saying, hey, easy money, housing is a sure thing. That just doesn't smell right, and sure enough, the system was being temporarily propped up. College is the sa
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Been using prgmr for about 6 months, can't beat it.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Probably. But you also have to consider the cross-cultural communication gap. You have to spend quite a bit of time in a culture before you can market effectively. No doubt most Americans are pretty lousy at marketing in India.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Did you really make a mistake? This is really not that big of a deal. The graphics are original, the CSS is original, the copy... it's not even in the same industry. Yeah the general feel is similar but who cares. Besides, the Shopify websi
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by oldgregg 17y ago
People won't pay $200 to save a little money on their heating bill. People WILL pay $200 to have a facebook widget that says they were the #1 greenest home in their neighborhood/city. A little game theory applied to reducing energy consumpt
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I'm running Chromium 4.0.266.0 and they are fantastic. AdBlock+, AutoCopy, Context Search, Del.icio.us Tools, Drag and Go...
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by oldgregg 17y ago
"Never fight a land war in Asia." ...unless you have 30 million single, angsty, poorly educated men...
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Chicago has a low cost of living?
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by oldgregg 17y ago
If I'm the pope and I'm trying to cover up touching little boys in the naughty-place I would use the same reasoning. Imagine the liberal loons (or worse) getting airtime on CNN and huffpo and making it sound like all priests are pedophiles.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Yeah, okay, well if you still cling to the antiquated concept of IP then I won't downvote you for sheer ignorance.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Great concept, but who needs a service? This should just be an open source plugin. I dump all of my local fonts into a folder and then just <%= render_text "Hello World", :typeface => "Comic Sans", :height => "400" %> -- add
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by oldgregg 17y ago
As a libertarian I'm inclined to believe that the whole idea of IP is just a farce made up by corporate interests. Maybe it wasn't like that in the beginning, but no doubt that's what it is today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Ter
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I spent 7 years helping to build one of the largest speaking bureaus in the country before leaving a couple years ago to launch an unrelated startup. Couple observations: The business is dominated by celebrities. If you are an event planner
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I second this, pick up work when you absolutely have to and no more. I usually tell everyone I'm always open to contract work but then set my hourly high enough that it creates a nice filter.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I for one think your writing is well suited for Inc.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I was strong-armed into opening an office in India for an american media company a couple years ago. The caste system is strong as ever-- it's just an economic caste. On the whole people don't give a shit about the technology -- only how ma
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by oldgregg 17y ago
The academy is really no different from mega-corporations like Wal-mart, both revolve around money and power. Both are government subsidized. The republicans fund their pet industries (military complex, healthcare, corporate interests) unti
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by oldgregg 17y ago
If he has an MBA? Probably nothing.
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Ask HN: Open source 3G phone?
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I totally agree with you on all counts. Except for the moral living part. It's establishment religious types that promote moralism-- Jesus' whole point is that your good works don't do jack squat.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Snowboarding, hiking, cycling, basement dance parties, photography, making random videos, this american life on NPR, watching geeked out documentaries like helvetica, and getting up on my wife... not necessarily in that order. Oh, and eati
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by oldgregg 17y ago
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