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by rick888 16y ago
" I'm of the opinion that if there is anything that is promoting or enabling piracy, it's the lack of innovation." no innovation? We've gone from CDs to online streaming music like pandora,last.fm, and grooveshark. I remember when Napster f
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by rick888 16y ago
I liked the post! I just started noticing more and more Americans using it in blog posts and I wasn't sure when this trend started.
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by rick888 16y ago
"GPL prevents your competitors from outright stealing your work. BSD/MIT doesn't." "Any particular examples?" Me. I know I can't be the only one. Your competitors could just download the source code, figure out what you wrote, and re-work
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by rick888 16y ago
Sometimes I almost feel like Stallman intentionally used the word 'free' in the license to confuse people. Many people think that it means you can do whatever you want with it and get in legal trouble down the line. This is why I won't us
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by rick888 16y ago
when did people start using the word "Whilst"? This guy's obviously not British...
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by rick888 16y ago
According to you they take more out, but the truth is, they put in just as much. Artists willingly go to labels because most of the time, they either don't have the resources or just aren't interested in dealing with everything that has to
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by rick888 16y ago
"I bet you don't personally know a single "little innovator guy" who has successfully been protected by a patent." I know plenty. My last boss being one of them. His product was copied by a competitor (the entire design) and sold under a
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by rick888 16y ago
Not have to work for anyone again. Complete freedom.
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by rick888 16y ago
Anyone that sells software is printing money. You build one copy and then sell it over and over.
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by rick888 16y ago
This should be a lesson for everyone: Don't use Oscommerce. The code is terrible, lots of security flaws, and it's not easy to update. Since html templates and business logic are mixed, you need to manually make security updates to your f
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by rick888 16y ago
"Now I don't think socialism is a dirty word, but saying Open Source is socialist is wrong. If anything it's extreme Libertarianist. It's saying if I give you something, you can do whatever the fuck you want with it. Open Source is not abou
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by rick888 16y ago
I wouldn't bother with elance, rentacoder, or any of the other freelance sites out there. I had this idea a few months ago when I got laid off. It's flooded with Indian groups and coders from eastern Europe that will do the job for $5/hour
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by rick888 16y ago
"Zuckerberg is not particularly unique in terms of his intelligence, ambition or connections. Men and women like Zuckerberg have come into and passed out (or dropped out) of the USA's elite universities for centuries. Yes. Luck played a big
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by rick888 16y ago
"In comparison to what? For all we know, there were dozens, maybe hundreds of other similar sites being built at the same time. Without being able to compare them, we really can't say how well he executed Facebook." Yes we can. If there w
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by rick888 16y ago
This is exactly why I got out of consulting. I also don't like working for consulting companies (even if I am a full-time employee there). To many times, the company takes on too much work for the number of employees, and the employee end
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by rick888 16y ago
"There is a stigma attached to middle-aged job hunters. Why hasn't he found his dream job by now--is he fickle and hard to please? Why isn't he already rich? " It's funny you mention this. An unmarried (and has never been married) friend o
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by rick888 16y ago
"The elephant in the room was race. I'd bet 90% of the problems were caused by kids of a particular race. Unfortunately many public discussions involving it devolve into demonization of the messenger or blame gaming." When 90% of a specific
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by rick888 16y ago
In every one of my business ideas, I look at the bottlenecks. IE: What will prevent me from making more money (my time, etc). This is why I love software and services. Your time isn't directly related to your money, which is the only way
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by rick888 16y ago
Here is more information about it: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/02/a-little...
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by rick888 16y ago
"It's easy to be judgmental. What would you have done if you didn't have parents to mooch off of for a year? What if you had a family to support?" The thing is, If I have a family, it means I'm already making enough to support them. This i
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by rick888 16y ago
I was 25K in credit card debt when I got out of school. I moved back in with my parents and pretty much didn't do anything outside of working and sleeping for a year, and paid it off I am still debt free (this was 5 years ago). It takes s
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by rick888 16y ago
"So, they overextended themselves and THEN lost a job or had a medical emergency. The problem is people choose to live on the edge financially, which I think is irresponsible, especially if you have others who depend on you for their life."
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by rick888 16y ago
I can't see this working very well. If you are working at your current job, you aren't very committed to your idea (which makes it easy to give up or move onto another one). Personally, I am now 4 or 5 times more productive now that I'm no
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by rick888 16y ago
"For decades, Mubarak coped with Egypt's youth unemployment problem by expanding college enrollments. " It sounds like this has been a problem for many years and is more of a symptom of the style of government than our current economic situ
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by rick888 16y ago
"The same could be said for 'paid subscribers'. If you have a product you're selling for $10/mo you'll need 1,667 subscribers to make $200k/yr not taking into account churn, customer support overhead, etc" 1667 customers isn't that difficul
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by rick888 16y ago
"There's pretty substantial industries that are built on advertising revenue - free papers, television, and the internet." In the beginning, it was easier to get advertising dollars for a website. Things have changed in the last couple of
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by rick888 16y ago
Social bookmarking sites. digg, reddit, etc. If you have new content every day you can post them there in the appropriate categories. A twitter account will help too.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the music industry screwed itself by raising rates until they all but killed the most profitable, popular and legit outlet they had?" This may be the case. But, I don't believe that people pirating
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by rick888 16y ago
I think this would be probably great in the mind of the original person asking this question..until society starts raising children in a way that's against their core beliefs. The direct democracy would be interesting too, because it would
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by rick888 16y ago
"This tax system is really only taking a large chunk if you have a lot to begin with, so I don't think you are going to lose your freedom because of it." The tax system will prevent everyone from getting a large amount and taking a large ch

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