rockarage

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by rockarage 11y ago
This sort of discrimination is not limited to Taxi Drivers, Speaking from experience, Uber drivers can and will reject a customer if they don't like the neighborhood you're traveling to.
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by rockarage 11y ago
10,000 plus fixed issues within 6 months does not equal "5.4 fixed issues per day"
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by rockarage 11y ago
A much better answer. The original statement was unnecessarily smug and did not precisely reflect what you meant. Generally speaking, I agree with the gist of your adjusted comment. Yet it is possible to spend millions on a Superbowl ad or
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by rockarage 11y ago
You're talking like you have some special insight, yet all I'm finding is a poor understanding of television commercials. (see how that works?) A television commercial can easily top $600k for just one minute of advertising, not e
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by rockarage 14y ago
In the free market competition is good, it keeps pricing competitive, and despite Envato's popularity, they are still from my experience, not popular enough. To make it work well for the majority of authors they need everyone who works in t
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by rockarage 14y ago
The irony of this is ever since I got tweetbot for my ipad, I stoped using twitter on my Mac.
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by rockarage 14y ago
Totally, and there was a familiar line, around tech circles, it goes like this "Friends don't let friends work at Zynga". And let's not forget. “I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues,” -Mark Pincus It's unfortunate the
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by rockarage 14y ago
Matt does not bring up a valid point, there has always been ways for people to distract themselves. The ability to concentrate has always been important. If you can't concentrate it will be very hard if not impossible to learn. Discipline i
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by rockarage 14y ago
Exactly, so you should expect some customers will leave once there is a sale, perhaps a significant amount. And if there is no sale they will be closing shop on July 1, so 37signals won't compete with your product if you build an alternativ
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by rockarage 14y ago
> We’ve put Sortfolio on the clock: We either sell it by July 1, or we close it down. I'm wondering, If you had $480,000, why not spend 10% of that to build an alternative, and release it on July 1. After all the customers are going
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by rockarage 15y ago
Is this the same University of Florida that did this: Give a 6 year 24 million contract to a coach of a so called amateur sports team ? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4374311 Is this the same UF that gets a cut of SEC 2.25 bi
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Detect What A Mobile App Is Sending To Its Servers(thinkvitamin.com)
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Geeks in the NBA - Landry Fields and Jeremy Lin (youtube.com)
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Apple Has Brought The Jobs Back To America, Just Not The Ones We Asked For(pandodaily.com)
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by rockarage 15y ago
I think there is a sample bias there, many parts of the country has a large religious base so it's likely neighborhoods are filled with people of similar beliefs. There are plenty of humanitarian work not affiliated with religion, like Doct
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by rockarage 15y ago
ios is a lot of work, programming in general is a lot of work. It is 2012 not 1992, business people in all fields should know programming is not cheap. Business people who do not do the research, don't bother with them. Avoid them at all co
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by rockarage 15y ago
Not true, I said I would used an alternative to Apple if all tech companies did not produce computers in similar or worse factories. The bulk of the blame, not all of the blame, has to fall on Chinese government. The government is in the bu
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by rockarage 15y ago
For those of you who think people are piling on, understand that things could be much worse. They are company operating USA where copyright infringement is illegal, punishable by a fine and/or jail time. They can also be sued in court and c
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by rockarage 15y ago
As an East Coasters I get the feeling there are two distinct groups in Silicon Alley (NYC). One group is represented by people like the author of this article, who has a limited knowledge of Silicon Alley, and write articles based on their
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by rockarage 15y ago
I'm open to an alternative to Apple products, but I'm hard pressed to find a company that make computers that are not made in similar or worse factories. And why does China get a free pass in this ? Isn't communism suppose to prevent this s
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by rockarage 15y ago
China is far from a developing country. So this isn't about taking advantage of a developing nation. It's very difficult for many foreign company to start a business in China. These are companies that China has approved that are mistreating
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by rockarage 15y ago
I never said anything about risk, I said willing. The tech world giants so far has not been willing to produce a Hollywood type blockbuster film. I think it is a matter of will not risk.
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by rockarage 15y ago
Long before youtube, there was a show called American funniest home videos. You should check it out.
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by rockarage 15y ago
"Just because this is the way things work doesn't mean this is the only way things can work" That is true, but the current reality is: these are the current cost to make big budget films, just like I would like buy a brand new Mac Book Pro
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by rockarage 15y ago
Yes, and Microsoft is spending billions on Bing, if Google pulled a so called Hollywood move, by making Google search a pain to use, people will start using Bing more. We don't have that with big budget films. DRM died in the music industry
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by rockarage 15y ago
Hollywood losses are partly due to Hollywood accounting. The budgets for production are real cost. In these high budget movies, there are major expenses apart from just salary. In the Dark knight, the batmobile and other machines are real v
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by rockarage 15y ago
That is not correct, DRM and other restrictions do not fund big budget films. Those things actually take away profits from film in the form convoluted distribution cost. see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514416 . Big budget films
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by rockarage 15y ago
This is just sad, I get the impression from the comments and up votes that tech does not get Hollywood. Hollywood business only work because only Hollywood is willing to give Christopher Nolan 200+ million dollars to make Dark Knight, ditt
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Nintendo Posts 61% Drop in Quarterly Operating Profit(thenextweb.com)
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by rockarage 15y ago
"A good example of “Hollywood accounting” would be “Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix”, which took in $938 million in revenue, yet still produced a $167 million loss. In cases like this the distributor, Warner Bros., still makes a

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