rick888

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by rick888 16y ago
"This really makes me question my vote for the pirate party. I really like them, as a voice for freedom on the internet and beyond, and would really like them to lay of the pirate propaganda and start preaching the gospel of freedom instead
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by rick888 16y ago
"Copyright laws exist to restrict people's rights to free speech and freedom of communication. And in the age of the internet, business models based on scarcity of copies are obsolete; they cannot be propped up except by restricting the uti
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by rick888 16y ago
"I had happily come to office at 7-8-9 AM to meet an higher up or attend an important meeting or whatever. That doesn't happen everyday. In an startup, quite contrarily, I had want my co-founder to schedule meetings taking my timings into a
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by rick888 16y ago
It seem this hit too close to home with many of the developers here. (I don't care about my karma)
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by rick888 16y ago
"Not really, there are several projects and average size of a team is quite small. In my case we were five people working on a quite large project and no one could compensate for my time. I knew I had to get something done in a week time an
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by rick888 16y ago
I gave some very good reasons why the developer should be coming in at a reasonable time. It seem this hit too close to home with many of the developers here.
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by rick888 16y ago
"In my last job, I used to crash in the office most of the time (9 AM to 3 PM), skip most weekdays, work all night and all sunday. I never had any complaints and was considered quite good at what I do. My last job was at Google." In a compa
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by rick888 16y ago
"but comparing a bootleg movie to a fake life-saving device just makes you look ignorant." Not really. Pirated software can be "low quality". They could contain viruses, which also could look bad for the company that made the software.
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by rick888 16y ago
geo lookup isn't that accurate yet (I assume you are talking about geo-IP lookup).
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by rick888 16y ago
"They don't spring the hours on you, they increase them gradually." More like the frog in the pot principal.
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by rick888 16y ago
"There is no need to work on getting your name out there for top execs at a startups." But you will if they start to get any kind of investors.
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by rick888 16y ago
most shipping rates are based on where you are located. So the retailer at least needs to know your zip code before you will get accurate shipping rates
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by rick888 16y ago
very true. I've been studying mandarin for a year and I still can't read newspapers.
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by rick888 16y ago
Every language has its difficulties. Chinese grammar is very easy compared to English. However, to get to a basic reading level, you need to know at least 2300 characters (in other languages, the alphabet is very small). There are also t
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by rick888 16y ago
This is actually a problem with most startups. They don't concentrate on something that's a viable business and fail within a year or two. I don't necessarily want to become rich. I just want to have a business where I have enough money
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by rick888 16y ago
"I suspect that this would work in society's favour." maybe, but it would most likely take the profitability out of most good ideas for small companies. As soon as a good idea is seen as profitable, a bigger company with more resources (co
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by rick888 16y ago
"For the connections. That was my original point." Is it really that difficult to find these connections on your own? sites like meetup.com have local groups where you can just go and meet up with other like-minded people. In some groups
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by rick888 16y ago
"1. Student loans and such all the machinery students today use to get their tuitions would still exist; they'd just be given directly to the student. 2. It would be a workers' cooperative, with the labor being learning. 3. Joining and part
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by rick888 16y ago
"Current employment status, not work history." This wouldn't be fair to the employer or the employee. How would you really be able to get a grasp of a potential employee's experience/fit for a position if you can't look at their previous j
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by rick888 16y ago
"But what does it mean to be employed? Receiving a paycheck? RMS doesn't take a paycheck from MIT, so he's both homeless and unemployed by the standard of receiving a paycheck and having an apartment/home. Yet for the right position, he's i
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by rick888 16y ago
"True I think I just have a problem with the fact that the University is the one in control of it. If, instead, the social network was the core organization and free to join, and the students rented out/purchased the buildings and equipment
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by rick888 16y ago
"GNU is an operating system." It's pretty easy to confuse the two when you slap GNU in front of everything (including operating systems and licenses). Stallman even tried rename Linux a few years back to: GNU/linux http://www.gnu.org/lice
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by rick888 16y ago
I will do that when the EFF stops suing people for violating the GNU and requiring them to: 1) open up all their source 2) hire a "compliance" officer to make sure they aren't violating the GNU license in the future. More info about this ca
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by rick888 16y ago
"If it's making more than it's costing him, and he's got time to be getting on with other stuff, he's doing pretty well in my book." If I put up a random web page on a free hosting provider, slapped Adsense on there, and started making $1/m
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by rick888 16y ago
"I consider making $35,000/year in a few hours a week to be a "commercial success." Especially, since the kind of work he is doing is easily repeatable in other niches." If you have followed his story at all on the JoS boards, It sure doesn
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by rick888 16y ago
"What do you consider a commercial success, then?" A commercial success to me is the ability to live comfortably off of the business (and quit your day job). I suppose Patrick has quit his day job for $30K/year, which I think will make it
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by rick888 16y ago
"Roughly $35,000 for what he describes as a trivial amount of work each month, while he was holding down a job as a salaryman. Now that's he's gone full-time, there's no doubt in my mind that his revenues will be prodigious." The app took h
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by rick888 16y ago
"Simple products can do pretty darn well if you get the commercial side right." What's your definition of "really well"? Patrick, the bingo card guy has been hanging around the joelonsoftware forums for 5+ years and selling his product for
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by rick888 16y ago
"So the article supports the idea that if google could just copy the iPhone and add something we would have progress. But if they just re-invent it badly we have regression." Why would we want them to re-invent it badly? I want something c
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by rick888 16y ago
"Google chrome, Firefox, and other browsers do not seem to suffer from too much duplications even though they are open source." We also aren't seeing much development of innovative new browsers (even though we may not need a new browser), a

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