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by padobson 14y ago
I agree that we shouldn't be looking at it in terms of hours, but I don't know if it can be measured in terms of happiness (as the author seems to be indicating) either. What are your goals? What is it going to take for you to achieve those
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by padobson 14y ago
Never did I suggest the world was fair or that trust fund babies don't have a better chance at a high income than someone born into a iron-workers family. I was suggesting that there's good money to be made in every discipline - you may nee
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by padobson 14y ago
Money is about being good at something. I know of lawyers that barely scrape by on insurance law suits because all they know how to do is prey on the fear and pain of injured people. Such lawyers have to buy $500 suits and drive BMWs and be
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by padobson 14y ago
Actually, that's exactly what it means. Demand = consumption. Opportunity for growth and growth are not the same thing. I think Twitter has opportunity for growth, but that's not to say they will definitely execute on it.
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by padobson 14y ago
Didn't know about the polling app that Google has. That's great. Seems to me like Twitter still has a lot of opportunity for growth in the US, if these numbers are to be believed.
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by padobson 14y ago
I switched from Windows to Mac in 2004 when I started college. A year after I graduated, I switched to Linux, and I haven't looked back - and this article illustrates the reason as well as anything. The lifecycle for Apple devices are far s
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by padobson 14y ago
+1, "Kicking it into mode 7" was one hell of way to spend a Saturday night. There's no youth like nerd youth.
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by padobson 14y ago
Have conversations with people that need problems solved. What's your main area of expertise? Go to online communities where that expertise is discussed and join the conversation. When somebody enters the conversation that needs a problem s
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by padobson 14y ago
Who thought we'd ever see an Apple CEO actually telling customers to use a competing product to something Apple made while they were the CEO?
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by padobson 14y ago
This is exactly why a service like this needs to be crowdsourcing gifts. We don't need another wishlist - we need a way to turn the 7 giftcards and 6 sweaters you get for Christmas every year into one iPad or two plane tickets to Hawaii.
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by padobson 14y ago
+1 Your existence will be cold, lonely, and meaningless if you only ever act on falsifiable information.
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by padobson 14y ago
Tax simplification doesn't win votes. A complicated tax system does win votes. Is your campaign weak with car wash owners? Add 2k lines to the tax code and make washing your car at a car wash tax deductible. Can't seem to get over the hump
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by padobson 14y ago
+1 for doing all the math
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by padobson 14y ago
That is not straight. We had the correct username and password. We lost the security questions. It asked us for neither when we wanted to redeem gift cards, and then wanted answers to the security questions after we had already given it the
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by padobson 14y ago
Recent Story: My 8 year old has an iPad that was setup by her and her grandmother. She recently had it replaced at the Apple Store because of a busted WIFI antenna. A few days ago, she wanted to buy the 2.99 version of Draw Something. I hap
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by padobson 14y ago
Anybody know how I can watch it from Linux (Mint - Cinnamon)?
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by padobson 14y ago
Apple is the worst example that you could use. Steve Jobs never wrote single line of code! He didn't solder a single chip into a single iPhone. Nor was he the lead product designer, the lead ad man, or an expert in any field EXCEPT dealing
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by padobson 14y ago
I am not sure how you can say that, considering the dramatic technical advances over the same period. I mean, there is no way to experimentally show what is cause and what is effect, but to me, the idea that we had this incredible technica
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Engadget is Down(isup.me)
1 points by padobson 14y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 14y ago
Sounds like he wasn't very good at managing the relationship with you. Steve Jobs turned on the charm when he needed it - he was so good at reading people that he knew when he could treat them like crap and when he had to really suckup. Sou
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by padobson 14y ago
I am with you all the way on this. The great businesses and fortunes of the last 200 years of industry did not come from engineering or technical expertise, but rather from those few, adept individuals who were able to navigate the mysterio
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by padobson 14y ago
I'm always looking for a co-founder, whether I'm the geek or the suit. When a suit approaches me to be the geek for their idea, I usually give them some simple technical task to do - like setup a Tumblr or a Twitter account for the idea. Th
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by padobson 14y ago
I can't think of anything in software lagging as much as personal finance. I use GNUCash, which is a glorified balance sheet, and my online bank accounts. This sucks, but only slightly less than Mint which sucks slightly less than Quicken.
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by padobson 14y ago
Experimentation with government seems to have stagnated. This sucks. According to Sid Meier, we should have come up with some cool alternatives to Democracy by now. What the hell?
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by padobson 14y ago
Not all are successful, and some observers worry about what might happen when a fan-funded game flops. This is the great thing about crowdsourcing - if the game sucks, you've probably invested less into the game than if you had bought one
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by padobson 14y ago
Entrepreneurial solutions to government. Why not?
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by padobson 14y ago
I'm not sure journalists deserve the benefit of the doubt. The press in the United States over the last 15 years has anemically covered two wars, the burst of the housing and related securities bubbles, the crippling government corruption a
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by padobson 14y ago
I feel like this article lacks a fundamental understanding of the labor market. The beauty of being self employed and working for multiple clients means that, if you are constantly promoting your skills, you can accelerate your way up the p
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by padobson 14y ago
Well geez, don't hold back, let me know what you really think.
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Facebook Should Not Fire Sheryl Sandberg - A Retraction(pdobson.com)
14 points by padobson 14y ago|5 comments

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