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by padobson 12y ago
Excellent points. Those who utilize these platforms are something like contractors (though with less legal footing); not small business owners. I don't differentiate between a small business owner and a contractor. When exchanging la
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by padobson 12y ago
You're probably right. Big businesses like McDonald's and Hilton and Hertz could never be overcome by the little guy. On a completely unrelated note, if you ever find yourself in North East Ohio, I have some nice apartments you ca
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by padobson 12y ago
10 years ago, if you were able to watch high quality TV and use the commode at the same time, odds are you were in a household with an income in the top 98% of any given developed economy. Today, I know inner-city kids that can do this with
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by padobson 12y ago
If this works the way they're hoping it will, I have to think it will be a huge time saver over: -Updating a resume -Contacting a recruiter -Replying to recruiters -Searching job descriptions -Writing cover letters -Tweaking previously
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Japan’s sexual apathy is endangering the global economy (2013)(washingtonpost.com)
32 points by padobson 12y ago|37 comments
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by padobson 12y ago
If you're smart enough to copy DNA with a polymerase chain reaction, then you're probably smart enough to figure out the logistics of building a highly efficient janitorial services company that undercuts the local competition. On
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Sling TV to Launch Live, Over-the-Top Service for $20 per Month(about.dish.com)
1 points by padobson 12y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 12y ago
If I worked somewhere that had an unlimited vacation policy, I think I'd probably stop working on Fridays all together. An unlimited vacation policy could be an open invitation for a 4-day work-week (or 3 day or 2 day...)
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by padobson 12y ago
Yes, this was what I meant.
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by padobson 12y ago
Ok, so this makes a lot of sense for renewable sources of energy like wind and solar - production facilities that are distant from bodies of water can store surplus energy during peak production times (windy or sunny days) and then use that
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by padobson 12y ago
I hope no one is getting excited about this. President Obama is a lame duck. His party just got tossed out of the Senate, relegating his political capital to basically 0. In the wake of this, he's decided to take maybe the most importa
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by padobson 12y ago
Whenever I walk through a Home Depot, I think "Man, the people that use this stuff are really MAKING things." Inevitably, my next thought is, "And a place like Home Depot could never operate without software making it work be
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by padobson 12y ago
A few things: 80% of the projects I've worked on already had code written for them when I showed up to work on them. There's no difference between the existing investment in legacy code and the existing investment in a property. N
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by padobson 12y ago
Every project has 'gotchas'. And I don't mean just every coding project, I mean every project anywhere, ever. Part of the key of navigating those 'gotchas' is to immediately communicate it to your stakeholders when
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Scientists convert human skin cells directly into brain cells(medicalnewstoday.com)
1 points by padobson 12y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 12y ago
Anybody want to start a Tesla dealership in Dearborn?
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by padobson 12y ago
I took a contract with a company that had a profitable and almost-working web-based business. They had fired their original developers over a contract dispute. He's right about the high demand for maintenance contracts. The majority
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by padobson 12y ago
The most intriguing line: While he won’t reveal specific plans for the near future, he says that the next step for his products will be designed with the goal of eliminating waste entirely. It'll probably lead to another ad/arti
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by padobson 12y ago
Economists of yore were wise to see that productivity would increase dramatically, but they were wrong in believing that surplus productivity would translate into leisure time. I look at Google and Ycombinator as the model for the future ec
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by padobson 12y ago
I have a GMC Canyon that sits in the garage next to our Prius. I bought it a year before the Prius, but it has about half the mileage on it. That said, I generally find myself having to move something big once a week during the summer month
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by padobson 12y ago
The last, and best paragraph: At the end of the day, the trend toward informality doesn’t actually get away from the traditional business emphasis on appearance and presentation. It just replaces one standard with another that is, in its o
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by padobson 12y ago
There's a regular business network meeting in my home town, I don't know what it's called, but most of the web design firms I talked to had a rep at it every week. Ask people when you talk to them if they go to any meetups or
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by padobson 12y ago
When I was first getting started, I just looked up every web design firm in town and called them. A lot of the local firms just had people building websites with Wordpress or Joomla on managed hosting services, so being able to say "I
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by padobson 12y ago
Well this is no big deal, I'll just vote for a guy in the next election who will dismantle this system... oh wait.
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by padobson 12y ago
Apart from learning, try these: 1. Put yourself in situations where you can meet more tech people Most (not some, most ) of the work I've gotten came from a chance conversation with someone who was working at a place that needed the s
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by padobson 12y ago
It's disappointing to me that this needs to be said. I read the first Song of Ice and Fire book in the middle of 2013, and I finished the fifth book this past March. That's several thousand pages of fiction in less than a year.
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by padobson 12y ago
I'm generally a Laissez-faire kind of guy, but the treatment I get from my cable company is a strong argument to drastically increase regulation, or even nationalize entire chunks of the industry. If you're providing a service so
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by padobson 12y ago
Are cable boxes really so mysterious and complicated as to be serviced only by 'specially' trained employees and 'vetted' contractors? I'm no expert in the area, but if a Modem or Cable box needs to be reconfigure
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by padobson 12y ago
If anyone tries to say we suck, you're gonna pay. Otherwise, we might actually have to get better at our jobs!
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by padobson 12y ago
I don't know what's going on, but it seems to have something to do with black v-neck t-shirts.

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