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reeses
18y ago
Don't forget the Chinese premiers for the past 20 years or so.
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18y ago
> If more people had to kill their own meat, there'd be a ton more vegetarians. For about a week until we got over the social conditioning. Then we'd start wondering what else we've been missing all these years, and start killing and e
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reeses
18y ago
The point of those late night "here is my yacht, here is my house, here is my trophy wife. Call now and be like me!" infomercials is that they're making money from selling the money making system, rather than from real estate or chinchilla
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reeses
18y ago
Specifics make this discussion a lot easier. A full-time company would probably handle that scenario by evaluating the market and seeing how to leverage their investment. For example, if your pop-up blocker had any intelligence to it, one
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reeses
18y ago
Apologies in advance for the snark but let me paraphrase: "It's not necessary to give your startup your complete attention to run it. I treated my shareware business as a part time job. Mind you, other companies that could focus attention
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18y ago
The big deal with military experience is that it's just about the only way to rack up a lot of flight time on commercial-grade gear without having a money tree growing in the back yard. I don't think airlines necessary value "combat pilot",
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reeses
19y ago
It's like a CEO. There are a lot of people who can scale a company to $10m, but for each step up, the field of capable candidates gets smaller and smaller.
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19y ago
Do you add an NPV to account for not getting the return until some date in the future? I.e., a 10000 pts/hr task might be better prioritized after a 100 pts/hr task if the duration of the first is two years and the duration of the second i
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reeses
19y ago
Congratulations on the new baby. :-)
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19y ago
It's amazing the number of people who don't get this. Not every change order has to have a cost, but every change in scope should go through the process. It should be just painful enough that your clients don't request random changes, but
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19y ago
There's a broad line with "C++/Java". You can use C++ as a safer C, and yes, that's generally unpleasant. But if you're leveraging STL, Boost, and some GC like Boehm, among other extensions, it's a great deal better. Same with Java -- if
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19y ago
The Dell 24" monitors have quality control issues that the Apple displays don't seem to have. They're enough less expensive though that it may be worth it to you to risk the occasional banding or backlight failures. Or you may just want/ne