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by rick888 16y ago
A business can take years to become successful, which many times means either not having a regular salary, sacrificing free-time with friends and family, and working harder than you ever would at any job. Even if it meant employees got a c
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by rick888 16y ago
I usually try to fit everything in during the week and spend time with my friends on the weekends. It's been working out pretty well for me for the last couple of years.
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by rick888 16y ago
no, you are trying to make the case that piracy is merely sharing, which is wrong.
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by rick888 16y ago
"If movie studios want to deal with piracy they have to compete on all those points." Why should the movie studios negotiate with thieves? The music industry listened (as I stated in my post above) and piracy hasn't decreased. Piracy will
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by rick888 16y ago
$1 is less than the cost of a 20 oz Pepsi, a gallon of gas, and a gallon of milk. If songs were an average of 3MB each, you would need to purchase around 5,300 songs to fill a 16GB iPod. Buying 5,300 of anything isn't going to be cheap.
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by rick888 16y ago
"DRM very rarely works. DRM on movies, tv, and music does not work. Every example of DRM trying to impose artificial scarcity on these media has been utterly broken." Since you say there is no scarcity, create Photoshop for me without makin
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by rick888 16y ago
Do you really believe anyone in the year 2011 thinks it means that? Words change meaning over time and there's not much you can do about it. Does gay mean happy? or does it have some other meaning?
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by rick888 16y ago
The taxes are so high in Denmark, I'm not surprised. Most people don't have that much money left over to spend on things like music and movies.
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by rick888 16y ago
If tax laws were reasonable, then people would not find it acceptable to break them.
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by rick888 16y ago
no. Because the people that don't want the term piracy used think that way because they don't feel what they are doing is wrong.
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by rick888 16y ago
I doubt it. Most of these warnings and previews that you mention are the direct result of piracy. I also don't think the movie and music industry are going to play that game anymore. in 1999 when Napster came out, everyone said music was
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by rick888 16y ago
I see we have some teacher's reading HN. Pointing out the inefficiencies in the system gets me downvoted. This is a good example as to why our schools in the US are failing.
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by rick888 16y ago
Social networking sites and the Internet have shown many people the way they could (and should) be living. Even if the Internet is blocked, people always find a way to get around it. Dictators of the world should be worried, because they
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by rick888 16y ago
I think this works for simple words and phrases (just like the Rosetta stone). But if you really want to go deep into the language and become fluent, it will become difficult to create pictures for everything. This feels very gimmicky to
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by rick888 16y ago
so because you can't measure performance to fairly give raises, you just don't measure performance and give people raises that may or may not deserve it? This leads to bad teachers staying in the system and getting raises. It's an ineffic
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by rick888 16y ago
my thoughts: We need to think carefully about having a gas tax. Once taxes are in place, they are rarely removed, because the government starts to rely on that money. We are "addicted" to oil because everything needs it to run. It's not e
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by rick888 16y ago
I feel like many developers are using RoR and Python simply because it's 'cool'. The old, reliable languages are boring. I also don't like the fact that many frameworks out there abstract layers away and make it so you don't really know w
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by rick888 16y ago
I just started using the CodeIgniter framework. It has a small footprint and doesn't try to include the kitchen sink (which is one of the reasons I stayed away from frameworks for so long).
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by rick888 16y ago
I understand this. I'm just sick of the recent trend of silencing the freedom of speech when it may offend someone.
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by rick888 16y ago
Get a programming job at a company that isn't in the software/services business. I've been the sole developer at a few small e-commerce companies and my co-workers were a mix of men and women. Much larger companies also have other departme
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by rick888 16y ago
why should he have to be sensitive at all? It's his opinion.
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by rick888 16y ago
Now that more artists are taking a risk when they sell music, the pirates should have no excuses. The music isn't too expensive, DRM is slowly going away, you can try before you buy, and the artists aren't getting screwed by labels. I susp
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by rick888 16y ago
People have this notion that if you create a digital application or product and don't want it to be shared without your consent, that you have a monopoly over it.
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by rick888 16y ago
"The same applies to the reversed, you don't have to be a programmer to suffer from DRM, vendor lock-in, or nag-ware." ahh, so you don't want software to be commercial, is that it?
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by rick888 16y ago
"I don't mean everyone who uses a piece of software should have to know the code intimately; merely that they should have the freedom to see it, modify it and learn from it, should the need or desire arise." Hopefully, in your ideal world,
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by rick888 16y ago
it doesn't change the fact that thousands of state employees are getting paid over 100,000 per year and the state is bankrupt.
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by rick888 16y ago
I hope in the future that when 'taxes' and 'rich' come into the conversation, $100,000/year doesn't.
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by rick888 16y ago
The lowest salary on the last page is $103,000 It's no surprise that the state is bankrupt
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by rick888 16y ago
It depends on the situation and the amount of money and resources your competitor has.
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by rick888 16y ago
This is why you shouldn't rely so heavily on third-party services for your business. Twitter can either change policies to make it so you can no longer make money or just out-right compete with you and put you out of business.

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