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by padobson 15y ago
Freelancer is set up to save the clients money, with developers bidding on mostly small projects - its a race to the bottom. What you need to do is use resources like LinkedIn to make contacts with business owners and use your development
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by padobson 15y ago
I wonder if there's not some sort of content-estuary (for lack of a better term) effect that Twitter causes? Twitter is a massive content stream with all sorts of sources of content flowing through it, and when you're using Twitter, you can
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by padobson 15y ago
Really freaking cool, but I hear about some awesome new energy technology out of MIT every week. Any ETA on when they start using this in......anything?
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by padobson 15y ago
Part of the problem with movies like the Social Network is that they leave out key details that enabled a company like Facebook to grow so quickly. Firstly, Zuckerberg continued coursework and took all of his finals at Harvard the same time
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by padobson 15y ago
This a great point. There are two facets to Monopoly that unfortunately go unnoticed in any debate among board game geeks. The first, you mentioned, is the art of the deal in each game - the psychological and strategic maneuvering of assets
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by padobson 15y ago
'Current law provides a range of options to protect society, he says. "It would be horrible if they started repealing laws and taking those options away."' That's the most disturbing line in the piece to me. Laws used to frustrate, oppress,
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by padobson 15y ago
In my experience, people fall into two categories when they know what they're co-workers make. 1. They don't care because money isn't the main reason they are at their job. 2. They do care and they A) are unworried about people they outearn
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by padobson 15y ago
I'm not so sure about that. Firstly, making the service I am describing available to customers like me doesn't mean that everyone is going to abandon the traditional delivery methods. Such a service would likely require some level of techni
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by padobson 15y ago
The problem with the TV is not the user experience, it's the content. Right now, content creators have created an environment that is 10 times more complex and legally difficult to penetrate than anything the music industry did - and they'r
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by padobson 15y ago
I haven't gotten in yet either. My gmail is in my profile if some blessed, kind soul wants to send me an invite.
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by padobson 16y ago
Such is the nature of disruptive technologies. The "yet" in your comment speaks volumes on the impending doom of traditional, multi-channel television. The core value of Twitter, however, is the fresh and organic nature of the information f
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by padobson 16y ago
I pay Netflix $9 a month and I have no commercials to speak of. What is the marginal ad revenue of every user on Twitter? If it's <$1/mo then there should be a premium, ad-less Twitter available for purchase at $1.99/mo.
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by padobson 16y ago
10:41 EDT and it's not working on my PS3. I'd love to know what the real problem is, because I've been building everything on AWS as of late.
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by padobson 16y ago
It'd be nice of Facebook was so focused on speed - the like button slows down every webpage I've ever put it on dramatically.