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by rick888 15y ago
CNN, MSNBC, and aljazeera are also all biased. In fact, all news is. The only difference is that you don't agree with the politics of Fox news.
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by rick888 15y ago
I've had this happen too. About 5 years ago I started a small consulting company and I had roughly 10 clients. I eventually had to get a job because clients realized I was small and would not pay me on time (sometimes 3 months late) or at
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by rick888 15y ago
"I just wanted to point out that dismissing someone because you don't know about their accomplishments (or lack of) is probably going to mean that you're going to miss out on some pretty great people." The problem with keeping everything qu
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by rick888 15y ago
Before SO it was google groups/dejanews for me. I suppose it does make us a little lazier, but I don't ever take the answers on SO as fact. I always try them out and usually end up changing them around to fit my specific situation.
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by rick888 15y ago
I signed up with a free account and got the email a few hours ago. I had a feeling this would happen because I couldn't figure out how they were going to make money when they were giving away 500GB for free.
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by rick888 15y ago
"Preventing theft while not punishing users is extremely hard. And so lots of banks and services take the easy route: forcing complicated passwords, OTP's, holds, "sitekeys", security questions, et cetera." You will always be inconvenienced
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by rick888 15y ago
I'm part of this group too. It's less about money and more about freedom to me. The freedom to work on what I choose and the near complete control I get over my own destiny. No matter how good it is at a company like Facebook or Google, t
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by rick888 15y ago
I've talked about this too. Sadly, this is what programming has started to become: slapping third-party components together and calling yourself a developer. It's one of the reasons I tend to stay away from things like Django and RoR. It
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by rick888 15y ago
"So maybe its because a higher IQ allows one to realize that the War on Drugs is fucking irrational bullshit and magical thinking and act accordingly (i.e. to choose for oneself)." I think it has more to do with the fact that people with hi
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by rick888 15y ago
I feel this way about working for other people. If I'm going to slave away for 8+ hours/day on something, I would rather have it make me rich than someone else.
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by rick888 15y ago
I'm shocked at the number of closed-minded members of the HN community. If the answer to the violence in Mexico isn't: "let's legalize all drugs!", I get down voted. I wasn't a troll and explained my points, yet nobody wants to listen. It
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by rick888 15y ago
"2) (related to the above) The increased tility of any brbe to somebody living in Mexico. (we see this phenomenon in developing nations across the world)." Which is what I said. The reason the US isn't third-world is because most cops don'
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by rick888 15y ago
How did it get to this level? We have criminal gangs in the US and the police here don't have to worry about that. It's mostly because of our justice system and the fact that you can't buy off any cop with some cash.
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by rick888 15y ago
"It would stop a significant amount of the violence as explained by the fucking article." I'm sorry, I read the article and I disagree. I'm merely giving a different view and you have to get all angry about it. You should use more logic a
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by rick888 15y ago
What about the increase in corruption in Mexico? An increase in corruption means more criminals can have drug businesses without being stopped by the cops. So, when more drug businesses pop-up, there will be less of a monopoly on the suppl
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by rick888 15y ago
"The one that we're used to is so normalized that it's unthinkable to do without, while the other is a scary abomination concocted by foreigners." It's different. 100% of the population doesn't need to use the police or fire. I've never h
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by rick888 15y ago
The other problem with idea people is that they haven't risked anything. I've been partnered with a few idea people in the past and if the project isn't finished quickly, they usually move on or want to do something else (and all the hard
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by rick888 15y ago
This seems to be the new theme: Create a startup that has no long-term plans and the goal of being bought out by a larger company.
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by rick888 15y ago
Microsoft has been doing this for awhile now. see: webspark and bizspark programs. You can get all Microsoft software for free for 3 years.
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by rick888 15y ago
Working from home isn't a right. I've done both (worked from home and an office) and it takes a certain kind of person to actually be able to get work done at home. The same sort of discipline that you need to run your own company. Most
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by rick888 15y ago
It's funny how amazon won't pay for their mistakes, yet sellers in their marketplace are kicked off for much less. If you have over a 1% failure rate, you are warned. If it continues, your account is put on hold and you might even be kick
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by rick888 15y ago
"not the open source philosophy" It doesn't matter what the philosophy is, it matters what the laws says and what it allows you to do. Many companies don't want you to resell their products on ebay (their philosophy). However, the first s
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by rick888 15y ago
In business, you sometimes have to release code that isn't perfect. However, I've seen too many apps that were hacked together to get them out the door. After customers are using it, you really almost never get a chance to rewrite it from
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by rick888 15y ago
"That doesn't matter. This is no different from being self employed and making bad decisions yourself." The difference is that you have control over your own path. There were many bad decisions at my previous job that I warned my managers
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by rick888 15y ago
"In reality you will probably be happier sticking to employment and working on and launching a side project as and when inspiration strikes. Burning 20 hours a week of your free time will likely lead to - in this guys case - divorce and for
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by rick888 15y ago
Some people just aren't interested in running a business, which is fine. However, I see things in a different light. I love developing web software. It's been a passion of mine since I was 13. I've been working as a developer for the pas
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by rick888 15y ago
So using your reasoning, we can still call piracy "theft"?
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by rick888 15y ago
I'm not sure why I got down voted. I made my points and wasn't a troll about it. I suppose down voting = difference of opinion on HN these days....... yes, and they stand for open source software too. Open source is devaluing developers
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by rick888 15y ago
"They apply for loans with no intention to repay, and buy goods with the goal of landing the bill with the real owner of the identity." Which technically is fraud. Another word that can be used when they actually go to the bank, etc.
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by rick888 15y ago
Identity theft is still called theft, even though there's no actual stealing going on. You still have your identity, it's just copied. I'm waiting for another GNU license violation story to come out, because when a company uses source code

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