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by rick888 16y ago
Funny how the tune has changed. If this was Microsoft 10+ years ago, everyone would scream Monopoly and want the problem legislated away. Now that it involves Google, a "cool" company that can "do no harm", it's fine.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Opportunities are harder to seize as well - living paycheque to paycheque would make it hard to pick up and move to SF to found a startup for example." There are always many different types of opportunities around. If someone can't pick u
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by rick888 16y ago
In a free society, you will always have wealth Inequality. Some people make poor life choices (having kids too early, drugs, crime, etc), some people choose not to get educated, and others decide to sacrifice their time and be successful.
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by rick888 16y ago
That's a tough situation to be in. It's probably going to ruin your friendship. Do you have a contract? I have friends that are great coders, but I know they probably wouldn't be a good co-founder. I also have some friends that would mak
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by rick888 16y ago
If all religions were gone tomorrow, the burden on society would still be there in another form. There are many people religious about global warming, Linux, the GNU, styles of politics and economics, etc. Even some political figures are
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by rick888 16y ago
You need to pay attention to the competition to see where you stand, and how you can differentiate your app from theirs, but don't lose sleep over it. You should be the leaders and not the followers (IE: they are copying your good features
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by rick888 16y ago
I don't think it's anything we need to "fix". Racism is still around to a small degree, but It's not what's keeping black men and women out of IT. It's culture. The culture needs to change for the problem to go away (if it should be cons
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by rick888 16y ago
Why aren't we fighting against religious-hated as well? Both are acts of free speech. I should be able to hate anyone I want to hate and I shouldn't be censored because it hurts someone's feelings.
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by rick888 16y ago
"questions climate change" I know! All these pesky facts backed up with data get in the way.
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by rick888 16y ago
I think you could do it, but unless you are funding it through some other means, it's not going to be able to get very big. What defines Commercial? If I have a website for my side project and I ask for donations, is that considered commer
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by rick888 16y ago
Whenever I see a picture of RMS, I always think about the smell. From the stories I've heard, it's probably not very pleasant.
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by rick888 16y ago
If I'm going to get a percentage of the business, I would definitely work my ass off after-hours with red bull to get the app/business going. However, if I am just an employee, I will do my best, but not put in anything beyond what I am pa
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by rick888 16y ago
"So I'll freely admit I work stupidly long hours- I live on Redbull, and get off on making things that I can look back at, and say "Yeah, I'm proud of that." My primary job is in IT, but I'll jump in on and spend two hours creating user sto
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by rick888 16y ago
"How about file formats? Graphics manipulation algorithms? " If Einstein wouldn't have come up with his theory, someone else would have. Those properties aren't going to change. Photoshop, file formats, and algorithms are unique to the ind
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by rick888 16y ago
"I mean, Einstein didn't have any intellectual property rights on relativity theory." I'm fine with scientific facts not being patented, but something like Photoshop or Microsoft windows isn't scientific fact.
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by rick888 16y ago
Stumbleupon isn't really that good for the actual stumble, but is great in terms of google juice you get as a result (I always pick up new keywords after an article is stumbled). I also noticed people tweeting my articles and posting them
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by rick888 16y ago
It's not only people that are poor, but people that have a poor culture that loot. I can bet there were lots of poor people in Japan that didn't loot or steal from their neighbors.
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by rick888 16y ago
You're right. I have a history of personal projects that I've started and never finished. I think the problem is that since I had a day job during that time, it was easy for me to lose focus. I've since quit my day job and I've been work
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by rick888 16y ago
This is why I will never base my entire business on twitter. I wrote a stats app 2 years ago, but I never released it. There's nothing stopping Twitter from using you as a test while you build your business up and then directly compete wit
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by rick888 16y ago
I hope they leave. High taxes for businesses have consequences and more people need to be aware of this. Eventually, companies will be leaving the state+country and not just the city. It's funny, because businesses have been getting tax h
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by rick888 16y ago
It never seems to be that way with GNU/open source software though. As soon as you go against the spirit of the license, people talk about "theft" and "stealing"...when in reality, it's just bytes on a computer...just like proprietary soft
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by rick888 16y ago
" Are you suggesting that 4.15% of the US population is vastly responsible for looting during natural disasters or riots?" You really look at statistics for fun..really? It sure doesn't sound like it. Of course not ALL will be responsible
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by rick888 16y ago
"where the majority of the wealth has been held almost exclusively by a homogenous segment of the population who have used this wealth and influence to socially and economically stigmatize the other groups to isolate them while profiting at
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by rick888 16y ago
It's interesting, because sites like HN shows the problems with having a purely democratic system.
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by rick888 16y ago
It's funny, because I remember watching TV and hearing about this great new program call Napster (this was before it became mainstream). I was writing a program that had the exact same functionality at the time..and stopped when I went to t
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by rick888 16y ago
Are you serious? To think you have the power to decide what people say about a bitcoin gambling site. Is this post worthy?
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by rick888 16y ago
If you are best friends, why should she have to tell you her principals? Shouldn't you be able to figure this out through her actions? I pretty much know the principals of all of the people in my life that are good friends.
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by rick888 16y ago
One of the bi-products of unionized teachers. It also makes it impossible for parents to go to another school (the school is funded through taxes no matter, even if they do decide to send their kids to a private school). Crappy teachers a
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by rick888 16y ago
"For now, no, it's still being developed. There will be many sites, some catering to niche audiences" This is the same problem I've seen with other open source projects (and even Linux). There are just too many choices and people don't kno
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by rick888 16y ago
It may seem easy to you, but it needs to be brain-dead easy for the average user or they won't even waste their time on it. Is there one site people can go to like Facebook and signup? There also needs to be a compelling reason to switch.

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