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by sabat 15y ago
Who would know (outside the UK)? Thanks for that. (Maybe the lack of apostrophe was on purpose!)
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by sabat 15y ago
Good point. But I took the OP's point to be: quite whining about having to pay taxes at all. I certainly object to the use of a lot of our money (unnecessary wars meant to pad the coffers of hyperrich war contracting corps, subsidies to hyp
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by sabat 15y ago
It would have been a little more convincing if they'd bothered to use an apostrophe: Media Mogul's Body Discovered. Not to nitpick, but you want a media prank to work, you need to think like media people. They wouldn't forget punctuation.
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by sabat 15y ago
Too many people confuse SF with the Bay Area. SF is just one city in a much larger populated region. You don't need to live in SF proper even to work there. And housing is cheaper outside of the City than in it (generally).
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by sabat 15y ago
The emperor has no clothes.
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by sabat 15y ago
Excellent idea. I've seen this elsewhere (Zynga apparently uses it, among others).
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by sabat 15y ago
This kind of thing drives me crazy. Why not allow special characters? The only conceivable reason is so that your app doesn't get SQL-injected or otherwise hijacked -- which is why God invented the character escape. Limiting the number of c
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CA State Board of Equalization Still Going After Amazon(blogs.kqed.org)
2 points by sabat 15y ago|0 comments
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by sabat 15y ago
That's pretty much the end of all affiliate programs for people in CA, no?
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by sabat 15y ago
Lawyer types: if one were to, say, incorporate in Delaware, and then rejoin the Amazon program from a Delaware address (presuming that's possible) -- would that be legal?
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by sabat 15y ago
The fact that Sony is a weakling is a problem It is a problem, sure. LulzSec is doing their level best to solve that problem No, they're just committing random acts of vandalism.
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by sabat 15y ago
Recursively find all Emacs backup files and remove them find . -name ' ~' | xargs rm* Recursively find all Python files and search them for the word ‘import’ find . -name ' .py' | xargs grep 'import'* Hmm. I don't mean to be a tweak,
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by sabat 15y ago
Boring. The problem with these tards is that they lack the discretion to find interesting problems to tackle. So: they pick on weaklings like Sony. Real grown-ups find good problems to solve and, well, solve them. A lot of those guys profit
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by sabat 15y ago
Well, the OP is German, so I'm sure he's doing the best he can. And it's really not that bad -- certainly writes better in English than I can in German! :-)
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by sabat 15y ago
The hard part: making people (like Jack Dorsey and the rest) believe they should do their best work for your company.
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by sabat 15y ago
The difference is philosophy. The RoR guys think of things like built-in admin interfaces as appropriate for plugins because not every app needs such a thing. As a guy who happens to have a security background, I'd discourage admin interfac
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by sabat 15y ago
Actually they've been previously profitable but keep putting money into expanding the business.
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by sabat 15y ago
Hahaha. That's your argument? Yes, my snarky friend, that's my argument. Given your years of experience running startups from conception to IPO/buyout, I'm sure you can understand. BTW I don't scoff at all at lifestyle businesses, if you'
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by sabat 15y ago
It sounds distorted. Pandora is a huge brand name and is already in places you aren't aware of -- in part because you're probably not its target market.
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by sabat 15y ago
That post is skewed and narrow-minded. Pandora is in places most people don't realize, and has growth opportunities the poster is not taking into account. Remember, there's a big difference between a lifestyle business and a startup. A star
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by sabat 15y ago
Blank's argument doesn't completely hold up. Bubbles happen, but not all bubbles are created equal. The Big Bad One, from 1999, does not compare to whatever you want to call this one. The irrational exuberance exercised in that era was much
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by sabat 15y ago
far from facing a global warming problem We don't have a "global warming" problem. We have a manmade climate change problem, which may be worsened by the Sun's own agenda. I haven't read the Bad Astronomer's take on this, but he's a lot
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by sabat 15y ago
Perhaps, but "kinda bubbly" is many degrees of separation from the kind of "bubbly" that was going on in 1999. So calling this "another tech bubble" is disingenuous because, frankly, it just doesn't compare in degree of irrationality.
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by sabat 15y ago
The Rails core team does seem to treat the project as if it's a personal playground. But the improvements they make do seem to (usually) be good ones. Since it's almost always the case that you can eschew their choices, the complaints I hea
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by sabat 15y ago
I think that the difference may be that they have bigger tools and more power than they did in the past. That's what's scary.
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by sabat 15y ago
The goods and services with which Apple intends to use the “iCloud” mark are identical to or closely related to the goods and services that have been offered by iCloud Communications VoIP service is not identical to nor is it closely rela
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by sabat 15y ago
It really depends. I don't use scaffolding if I would just replace it anyway. But: I do find it convenient for apps where I don't want to write (and therefore re-invent) data display views, like activescaffold provides (or used to provide?)
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by sabat 15y ago
Some valid points in here, for sure. Look at Groupon's month-over-month decreasing revenue for evidence. Is there actual evidence of this? Groupon is private, so how would we know? (Real question, not rhetorical.)
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by sabat 15y ago
Quick note: would be nice to see a tag line that explicitly states what you're offering. It's about setting up tee times with friends, correct? That should be stated more clearly and simply.
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A Tale of Two Economies(globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com)
1 points by sabat 15y ago|0 comments

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