reuven

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by reuven 13y ago
Audience participation is highly dependent on culture, I've found. When I give a talk or class in Israel, I can be sure that people will interrupt me, ask questions, challenge my assertions, and generally push me to explain what I&#x27
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by reuven 13y ago
Same here -- I turn on Waze before I go somewhere, and then don't touch it (or really even look at it) until I arrive. I figure that the social features are meant for a passenger, or MAYBE if I'm totally stopped at a red light
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by reuven 13y ago
Oh my goodness, you're almost certainly right about the liquor. There are oodles of laws about who can get a liquor license, as well as what they can serve, to whom, and when. I believe that you're often not allowed to have an establishme
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by reuven 13y ago
Did you see the thread in HN yesterday about the legal issues that AirBNB is having with various municipalities? That's nothing compared with what this company (and others like it) will have to deal with. I have to imagine that the healt
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by reuven 13y ago
I can't say that I'm at all surprised. Moreover, I would expect to see more judges, as well as legislatures, pass such rules. I've discovered (full-disclosure: through consulting work with a site similar to AirBNB) that many vested intere
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by reuven 13y ago
When I was in 4th grade (in 1979), growing up in the US, we learned about the metric system. My teacher said that we were learning it, because the US would soon be switching over to it. I came home and told my mother what my teacher had sa
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by reuven 14y ago
I'm not saying that this is a desirable situation for users. But I also think it's clear that Google has made a calculated decision -- they want to offer their products for free to as many people as possible, and then avoid supporting them
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by reuven 14y ago
No, probably not. Think of how much Google earns per employee. Now think of how much they would earn per support employee. The numbers are probably not even even the same order of magnitude. Moreover, Google makes money from each mailin
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by reuven 14y ago
Israel, as a country, is nothing like apartheid, and it's a shame that you use that term. Arabs can and do freely participate in all parts of Israeli life, including membership and elected officials in just about every mainstream political
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by reuven 14y ago
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of two national/ethnic groups having claim to the same piece of land. I accept the fact that Israel must compromise with the Palestinians, and relinquish some of the land that it has captured. I rem
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by reuven 14y ago
Preface: I'm an Israeli Jew, born in the United States. I've lived in Israel since 1995, and now have a family (with three children). I could respond to this comment by saying, "Why be so negative toward Israel, when there are so many coun
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by reuven 14y ago
Many of my clients were using MySQL, got freaked out by what's going on with Oracle, and decided to at least look into PostgreSQL. They were very impressed with what they saw, and in some cases admitted that they should have gone with Post
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by reuven 14y ago
My 7th-grade daughter just did a report on Marie Curie for school. She was fascinated by the subject, and amazed to find how useful and important her research was. I wanted to go to her laboratory/museum in Paris when we were there severa
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by reuven 14y ago
I just got up (it's morning in Israel), and a client of mine in the US with a major, mission-critical application was screaming (rightly so) that things are down. We're already looking into alternatives -- perhaps not leaving Heroku altoget
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by reuven 15y ago
Sigh. As a citizen of Israel, I'm upset and somewhat worried about the "cyberwar" that has begun between Israel and people who dislike us. I have no doubt that it's possible to wreak havoc on the Israeli economy given enough time, effort,
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by reuven 15y ago
If China were to improve its records on the environment, worker rights, and human rights, it sounds (from the article) as if they would still have an advantage in manufacturing that would be pretty hard to overcome by another country. But I
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by reuven 15y ago
The article and video don't seem to be arguing that it's bad to lower costs. They aren't even saying that it's inherently bad to outsource some of these functions to China and other countries. Rather, there seem to be two points: (1) Ignor
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by reuven 15y ago
I'm not sure how you can say this with a straight face, given the incredible diversity of opinion in the American media. Sure, the US government engages in propaganda. But if you're only listening to the what the government says, or to on
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by reuven 15y ago
I have been listening to Planet Money since it first started, several years ago. While the quality and freshness has dropped off somewhat in the last year or so, it remains a great source of insight and reporting into economics. I don't th
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by reuven 15y ago
Agreed. I can't remember the last fixed-price project I did in which the client and I were both satisfied.
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by reuven 15y ago
Hi, Mark. Yes, I definitely remember you! I'm still (yes, still...) working on my PhD, but I'm consulting full time nowadays, and have been for a while. I do tend to work far too many hours, but it's mostly because I'm enjoying what I'm do
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by reuven 15y ago
OK, I gotta say that after many years of consulting, this is the first truly new, clever billing technique that I've seen. Better yet, it's a win for all sides. This comes closer to per-project pricing from the client's perspective, which
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by reuven 15y ago
I'll inflate my ego here, and state for the record that I'm a pretty darned good consultant, with many satisfied clients over the years and lots of projects under my belt. Regardless, people in Israel totally freak out when I tell them that
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by reuven 15y ago
This is the most convincing argument you've made yet (and you've made several good ones). I've definitely had clients say to me, "It's not my money," when talking about billing.
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by reuven 15y ago
I've raised my rates in the past, and it has both helped business and improved the quality of my clients, no doubt. But in Israel, I've found that anything over $100/hour scares off everyone, including the very largest potential clients. T
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by reuven 15y ago
First of all, I do genuinely try to use the fastest and best techniques that I can. Maybe I'm subconsciously doing things slowly, or not using the best techniques I can, but I do think that I try to do the best and fastest job that I can.
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by reuven 15y ago
I have a general rule of not giving any one client more than 1-2 days a week, with very rare exceptions. I've found that working on multiple projects each week is good for my business (especially when projects end), good for my knowledge a
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by reuven 15y ago
Maybe I don't understand the idea of a daily rate. I thought it meant that I price my time in 8-hour increments. Which means that if I have to leave early, and put in a 4-hour day, then I only charge them for half of that. Are you saying t
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by reuven 15y ago
I quote my consulting prices by the hour, and that generally works pretty well for me. However, I'm starting to think that I should indeed switch to a daily rate. When I only work half a day, then I can just charge them half of that. Case

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