rick_perez

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by rick_perez 10y ago
Twitter is a great way to get targeted traffic, but it takes work. You need to find users that are interested and interact with them. I was able to get 5000 signups in a month for a product I was releasing. The product never really came t
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Dating apps are kind of like social networking sites. They both take a tremendous amount of money to get off the ground and are very difficult to monetize. Tinder was different because the goal is not to have a long-term relationship (and
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by rick_perez 10y ago
I also care about democracy. I hope that in the future, the DNC doesn't collude with the mainstream media to destroy any real chances of a third-party in this country. Since they haven't apologized to the American public for doin
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by rick_perez 10y ago
"GPS is the automated tool that killed the Taxi." No, not really. When I travel to a new city, I always use a Taxi to get around. GPS actually helps out the taxi drivers because I don't need to sit there explaining exactly
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by rick_perez 10y ago
We don't need AI to end the middle class. Services like Uber are replacing what used to be a stable job by fewer drivers with a job now done by many more drivers for peanuts. It's almost a way of taking an industry and redistribu
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by rick_perez 10y ago
When I see these allegations, I often wonder if we are looking at it from the wrong side. Yes, someone black might be getting paid $10K/less on average. The question is, do they have the same amount of education and experience as thei
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Becoming? Has everyone been under a rock for the last decade and a half? China and Russia hackers have been breaking into computers all over the Internet for quite some time.
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Donald Trump is the answer to the question: Do we really want our politicians taking in millions of dollars for favors, colluding with the mainstream media to destroy our chances of a true third-party candidate, and lying to the public abou
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by rick_perez 10y ago
This happened to me with two different friends and two different startups. Many people love the idea of a startup: getting rich, being a tech rock star, and retiring early. Most aren't willing to do what it actually takes to succeed:
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Let's be honest here. Silicon Valley only wants 'openness to immigration' because they can get cheap labor and the H1B Visa makes it very difficult for a person to move to another job when they get here. It's all about
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by rick_perez 10y ago
"President Trump’s recent executive order is not only potentially unconstitutional, but deeply un-American. We are a nation of immigrants, after all. In the tech world," We are a nation of immigrants. Trump didn't institute
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Silicon Valley is losing their source of cheap labor and are now avoiding the law by going to another country. How is this any different than a company avoiding tax laws by moving its base?
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by rick_perez 10y ago
With big companies, it's pretty common. There is probably something about your contact info or education/experience that was auto-flagged as a rejection.
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by rick_perez 10y ago
I've never heard of any of these. So the mainstream media has not really picked up on them and they pretty much have no steam on Twitter. Is anyone actually following through? "These are five examples since November" These
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Holy Shit your response doesn't offer anything witty or intelligent to our discussion. With these sorts of responses, I usually don't even respond, so you should feel lucky. To be blunt, people like you are why Trump was elected a
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by rick_perez 10y ago
"you only see this behavior coming from the left because of your own bias." You don't see that these are progressive tactics because of YOUR bias. I rarely see the same tactics used on the right. You don't see the onlin
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by rick_perez 10y ago
This was just an under-handed marketing move by Lyft to destroy Uber and simultaneously virtue signal their support for immigrants through ACLU donations. More and more things like this just shows me how many mentally ill people there are i
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by rick_perez 10y ago
I feel like our society has devolved into vindictive children. Instead of allowing someone to have their own thoughts and beliefs and debating them like intelligent adults, you try to get them fired or destroy their only source of income b
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Jeff Bezos normally doesn't really care that that much about other human beings. Why start now? Working conditions are deplorable in many Amazon warehouses and he has destroyed many small businesses all in the pursuit of raising Amazo
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Why wouldn't the investors like it? Companies license IP to other companies all the time. It actually is a plus for investors because they will see a faster ROI.
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by rick_perez 10y ago
I've come back to a job after a round of layoffs. My company laid me off and after a month, they realized my manager had lied and actually had another job lined up as they were letting me go. I was the only one that actually knew how
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Well, it sounds like you haven't gained the trust of the more senior developers.
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by rick_perez 10y ago
"but most of my time is spent doing mundane stuff. It's important work, but it's extremely dull." I feel like you have unrealistic expectations. Unless you are in a startup with no senior developers (or senior compared
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by rick_perez 10y ago
He's still young. When he's bored with Facebook and is looking for a new challenge, I predict he will run for some sort of office.
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by rick_perez 10y ago
I find this interesting because I just saw a story in my local news about Western Union getting flack because they were making it difficult for certain customers to send money to known terrorist countries. They were called 'bigoted&#x
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by rick_perez 10y ago
I didn't even want Trump, but the people on the left gave me no other choice. Many people like me are just sick of the political correctness and the vindictive racism from the left that is marginalizing anyone that isn't a minori
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by rick_perez 10y ago
At my first developer job, I accidentally left off the 'Where X=X' in a SQL update statement. My manager didn't catch it in time and pushed it from staging->production. The next day, the damage was done when the first cli
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Here is a speech from Bernie Sanders, taken right from his own website: https://berniesanders.com/sanders-prepared-remarks-at-democr... "Together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America a
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by rick_perez 10y ago
Because it's easier to just not think about it. Many people with regular day jobs also have management breathing down their necks to just get the job done.
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by rick_perez 10y ago
An easier alternative is to tunnel everything through a SSH connection. I use putty tunneling+proxifier (on windows) and a python script on my ubuntu box (The name is escaping me at the moment). It's very simple to setup, doesn't

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