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by rwhitman 16y ago
hey kareem... heh well i do now ;)
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I'm sorry but this approach infuriates me. I am constantly approached by people asking me for discounts for equity, low salaries etc because of the idea that I'd get paid out at an exit event. And every time I take the deal, I end up paying
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I will agree with this on some level. Teenagers are a known community cancer. Left unchecked, they will turn any board into 4chan. I don't think there is an uncontrollable flow of noobs on Forrst though. For the most part its follow-based a
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by rwhitman 16y ago
If you do a google search to find out who this guy is you'll discover that this story has been copied in a number of different answer sites and blogs for the last 5 years. But no info on who this is or the backstory on the context of why he
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I thought using the WP Greet Box for HN upvote was a smart move. Definitely piqued my interest in referrer-based call to action
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by rwhitman 16y ago
All the people I know who travel the most and I feel have the most exciting and interesting lives make less than $60k a year. Wealth is relative.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Definitely seems they had a change of heart in reaction to the bad press and decided to sell it instead of using it as a write-off
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by rwhitman 16y ago
This really hit home for me, as I just woke up to an email today from a client, who owed me the equivalent of a month's salary, to tell me there have been complications with payment. Basically every bill I have to pay now gets managed in th
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by rwhitman 16y ago
While I agree with you on some level - I too have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to late payments - I still get sucked into these situations no matter how wise to it I am. I've been doing the freelance dance for 10 years and for some
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by rwhitman 16y ago
"The first time since 2000". Hmm, I do believe that is not an accurate statement.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
yea this is closer to what i'm talking about, thanks
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I'm looking at their docs now... I worry about Dropbox + security. The fact that I'm sharing folders publicly with other people in the same directory that I have private data, worries me. Lots of room for human error Why does 1Password need
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Ok, so I've definitely lost about 3 dozen client passwords when my password manager was eaten by a drive failure. And then when I went to restore the backup discovered that the creator of the password manager was no longer supporting the so
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I discovered that Sallie Mae doesn't accept special characters. And that iTunes now forces one capital letter. I dunno, I think if you've used a special character you should be forgiven for not using a uppercase letter
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Isn't Chrome just an OS layer optimized to run Google Apps and logically intended more for enterprise use? Who really needs to deal with Windows and IT issues for sales reps? If they can use Salesforce & Google Apps all they need is a b
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I noticed I was locked out of Twitter today too
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I don't think its a 'perfect' landing page, but I think its a good framework to start with when designing a new product. And something to point to when working with clients. I'll definitely keep it bookmarked
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I firmly believe that the next major system of government to emerge in the future will be heavily influenced from the lessons learned in governing social media communities. The idea of A/B testing laws seems like it would fit into this pret
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by rwhitman 16y ago
To those hiring in NYC - I just relocated to the east coast from CA and am looking for opportunities in NYC. Feel free to reach out.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
As someone who spends a lot of time doing UI dev work, I need to open up photoshop and cut up PSDs into CSS quite a bit.. The ability to run a terminal and local PHP or Django are also biggies, but other than that I don't need much of an OS
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Google has certainly upped the ante on its design efforts, everything they've been releasing lately looks beautiful
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Well a 'no' is definitely a lot better than the silent treatment
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Actually there was another story somewhere on HN (i think) about a guy who did the same thing, only with data recovery. He would hijack a drive or a computer's components and tell the customers they needed to pay more money before he'd retu
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Frustrating, sure. Something to be "angry" about? No. Its a free service. With no advertising. When you use Tumblr you are consuming their resources which they are giving to you free of charge. Its not like they deliberately pulled the plug
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by rwhitman 16y ago
So basically you can threaten the lives of your customers and not fear any repercussions from law enforcement as long as the New York Times doesn't write a profile on you using your real name and location. Not to mention the fact that all t
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by rwhitman 16y ago
From a business perspective, if Wikileaks is charged with federal crimes, and Amazon is still hosting it, that would roll amazon into the investigation and open them up to whatever charges the US govn't might throw at them. Is it good busin
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I love that you can add it to your shopping cart
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by rwhitman 16y ago
One thing I'd say is that I don't believe programmers are the only profession afflicted with this scenario. Who knows how many times I've had a 'brilliant' idea for something outside my domain where I've said to myself "this is a great idea
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by rwhitman 16y ago
There is a good business model in serving these people. Want to build the next WalMart sized franchise? Have the millions to make it happen? Well step this way my friend. Paid a good chunk of my bills, I'll say that.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I think the only way wikileaks can stay alive over the long term is probably through torrents, the combo punch of govn't takedowns and constant DDoS attacks probably doesn't make hosting a website feasible. It would make more sense to relea

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