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by rick888 15y ago
yes. "For whatever reason, some people will pay for the freely available." If piracy wasn't stopped and it was advertised everywhere that in all the search engines that you could get commercial software for free, these numbers would be very
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by rick888 15y ago
The problem is that piracy destabilizes the price of whatever is being pirated. Digital goods are only worth what people are willing to pay and if everyone knows they can go to thepiratebay and get it ford free, it will be $0. So even thou
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by rick888 15y ago
It sounds too much like a religion to me. I'm from a c,c++, and now PHP background and the syntax of ruby has always seemed backwards to me. In addition to this, Rails adds too many abstraction levels. I feel like it's actually dumbing do
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by rick888 15y ago
The posting is related to the rental property. They are asking them to list it on another site.
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I'm all for the sharing of information, but Metallica's new album and the new version of Adobe Photoshop should not be in the same category.
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by rick888 15y ago
Well, you could use the same rational for bad articles on HN...
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by rick888 15y ago
College is more than learning the material, it's also about learning about yourself. Most of the time, it's your first taste of freedom and it's one of the only times where you aren't really a kid anymore and you aren't stuck working in a
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by rick888 15y ago
I don't see a problem with it. You need to get the word out there somehow and the email doesn't seem spammy at all.
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by rick888 15y ago
are you being serious? How can you be awesome without experience? Otherwise, why not hire a janitor and pay him 100K as a developer (he's awesome!)
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by rick888 15y ago
The time is right now, because the government will most likely kill bitcoin as soon as it even gets close to becoming mainstream.
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by rick888 15y ago
If you still want to do business, move to another state and allow as many of your current employees to work remotely as possible.
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by rick888 15y ago
I would be cool with this as long as the people that decide to use these newly legalized drugs either don't get any sort of government medical care or have to pay a stiff fee. I shouldn't have to pay for your mistakes.
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by rick888 15y ago
This is mainly because of the type of people that use Reddit. If more of the masses were using HN, you would see the same thing.
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by rick888 15y ago
yeah, I just learned about the meaning of that in Australia.
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Some subjects are just boring, but you still need to learn them. I had power points in my algorithms class, yet I was never bored.
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by rick888 15y ago
but if you have a family (which most people do after 30), you do need to take a much higher risk, which many people aren't willing to take.
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by rick888 15y ago
I moved away from slashdot about 3 or 4 years ago. For, it went: digg->reddit->HN. I check HN+Reddit a few times a day.
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by rick888 15y ago
It does become more difficult to risk it all when you have a family/are married, so this probably plays into it.
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I've been using this concept myself for the last year. After years of abandoning projects, this seems to do the trick for me.
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I second this. If you get people on a list, you also don't want to disappoint them by not coming out with your product.
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by rick888 15y ago
I think you probably have a better chance at making 1.2 million from your own company than finding a job that will pay you that much.
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by rick888 15y ago
"if you look at the big picture world that happens to startups, there are really three things that happen: IPOs, acquisitions and bankruptcy" This is why you shouldn't spend all your time creating a short-term business with the goal of bein
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by rick888 15y ago
I have always believe that you need both. There are lucky opportunities that pass by us every day. If we don't have the skills and intelligence to act on those opportunities, you won't get anywhere. The only people that can fully attribut
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very cool. It's very smooth under chrome.
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Last year's goal was to "learn chinese". I can't imagine him "learning" it in a year.
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If you aren't an actual partner in the company, you shouldn't be complaining. Were you compensated at $150K+ from the beginning? The founders probably got paid nothing while the business was being built. "both founders seem to have rose g
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by rick888 15y ago
"Does this mean we should say that all the black are criminals and the rest are law-abiding citizens?" No, but we should figure out which ones are actually criminals and which ones are there because of racism (which is probably a very low p
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If any these ever go out of business, would there be any way to easily switch your customer base over to another provider? This is why I hesitate to use startups for reoccurring billing. I know that something like authorize.net will most l
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They better execute this idea quickly. Within a few years, these media formats will most likely be gone.
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mine started crashing on me at least 3 or 4 times a day. I eventually completely switched to chrome. The only thing really keeping me is firbug.

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