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by phillmv 15y ago
It's not a matter of distraction, it's a matter of support and influence and money. If you can convince a politician that a sizeable percentage of influential people who are liable to donate money to a cause are for or a against a particula
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by phillmv 15y ago
Cool! Duly noted. I was using it as a catch all for "make more profit than the year previous".
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by phillmv 15y ago
Just because they knowingly or not pirated a copy of Windows does not mean they won't pay for your web app, if at least not in the form of eyeballs for your ads.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I don't mean to be adversarial, but could you provide examples? >Yeah, that's why the stock market promotes cancerous growth of companies. I have troubles with this sometimes. I lie awake at night and think about the little I know about
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by phillmv 15y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong! But: >Profitability and cash returns from a business can grow as revenues decline if the company either increases operating efficiency, or reduces in investment in recognition of the declining opportunity
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yes. You need to find/create more markets. Look at Apple. iPod -> iPhone -> iPad. If I invest 100 dollars in you, I want to receive a percentage back after a certain while. You need to be able to give me 103 dollars back the next y
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by phillmv 15y ago
They forced an externality on to the rest of us. The marginal cost of sending updates to pirated machines is probably negligible, and pirates adapted to WGA within a couple weeks. So – they managed to convert a few Western users who didn't
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by phillmv 15y ago
No growth. Everyone who could possibly use a Windows license has a Windows license and drags their feet about upgrading. You're either busy growing or you're busy dying. As a potential shareholder, I care more about growth than straight up
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by phillmv 15y ago
Since they're hiring so many Googlers one presumes Python would be a top choice, but if you need an opportunity to whine about Ruby/Rails go for it.
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by phillmv 15y ago
It's always hard to talk about these differences because 90% of the time we're actually just chest beating and comparing the length of our respective community's e-penises. When people complain about PHP they often mean that in an aesthetic
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by phillmv 15y ago
Get your memes right. This is an example of government corporatism, acting at the behest of a single entity. Socialists are supposed to hate business, right?
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by phillmv 15y ago
No, you got it wrong. Evolution drives cancer. >besides, nobody is asking to cure cancer in all population for all times. but in specific individual. who may or may not reproduce later in life. Seriously? Go back and re-read what the GP
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by phillmv 15y ago
>It may seem completely insensitive to argue against helping disabled students, but it seems to be happening at the expense of the gifted students. False dichotomy. 1) To begin with, scholastic success correlates most heavily with incom
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by phillmv 15y ago
Schooling is relatively unimportant. There's nothing your kid can't learn on their own time. How do you handle properly socializing your kids? You can't teach them that.
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by phillmv 15y ago
>We could hire a full-time support person and let them handle it and still have about $400k net (taxable) left over after other expenses, basically forever. Doing nothing. WELL… if you ain't busy growing, you're busy dying. It's not goi
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by phillmv 15y ago
>But the fact is, within 3.5 or so years, Freckle would have brought in that much revenue anyway. And then it would KEEP bringing in more, forever. So… straight up your expected value was higher than the offered acquisition price ;). If
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by phillmv 15y ago
Going through the list: Code Complete: First ed 1993 Prag Prog: 1999 SICP: 80s? K&R C: ditto CLRS: 1990 Refactoring: 1999? GoF DP: 1994 Mythical Man Month: late 70s, 80s? TAOCP: Decades ago, and not a serious suggestion Dragon book: 198
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by phillmv 15y ago
What snark? I'm being totally straight here. I love Maciej and all of his body of work and I aim to give him many of my dollars in the future - but this is something I'm going to nitpick on. The reason why I feel comfortable using Pinboard
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by phillmv 15y ago
I love Pinboard, but it's a one man operation. Maciej is extremely susceptible to get hit by a bus tomorrow, leaving me without my $9.23 and all of my bookmarks. You're telling me that if someone offered you $1-5 mil to lead a team at inser
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Come back to me when either of them improves the quality of social interactions by a multiple. Path is up there. We'll see how it bears out over time, but the interaction is much more tightly thought out. The seem to have reduced a lot
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by phillmv 15y ago
No. I think it's a good analogy, but the correlation stops there – I think I've asked a sum total of two girls out in my life. There are ample opportunities for women to get rejected as well. My theory goes that men as a rule of thumb have
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by phillmv 15y ago
> I think only once or twice I've ever made any sort of counter. Argh! This kills me inside. >Are there tips out there to help getting over the fear of negotiating? It's the same with asking someone out. The worst that can happen is
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by phillmv 15y ago
This is extremely hateful . Like with the Google Plus real name thing.
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>Why are you authing with Facebook? Because it's easy and there are network advantages - it slurps down a profile picture automatically and fills in a bunch of otherwise useful fields. At no point in time does anyone need to know what
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I signed up for airbnb using my facebook account and I noticed that they give away your DOB. I immediately changed my DOB on facebook and vowed to avoid authenticating with apps. I generally avoid putting in real information on facebook but
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by phillmv 15y ago
100% of my jquery-ui experience can be summed up with "I don't know why this is so hard and why is this so ugly? Ugh, I just want this plugin to work already." Bootstrap on the other hand is a great way to go from 0 to "For something that a
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by phillmv 15y ago
1. Thirty years ago, this dutch novelty pop act charted #1 in the US Billboard charts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bGQ1-Gmoso (watching it now is kind of great, actually) 2. In much the same way I tire of Node people claiming it's The
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You are being non sensical. Does Rihanna respond to HTTP verbs? I like Node insofar as it distracts hate away from the Ruby community, but c'mon now.
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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but Bootstrap is also relatively unique. We've had css frameworks before, but they were usually concerned with letting you position things along a grid structure. The great thing about Bootstrap is th
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I know it's possible , but goddamnit I didn't want to learn Haskell in the first place! That is my bone of contention. Yes, yes, it might make me a better person but I want to try XMonad more than I want to fuck around with Haskell.

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