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Ah yes, I know exactly what you need. I too programmed for an uncountable number of hours in a similar setup at my university dorm. What I did is keep those bright lights on while wearing a baseball cap. This is very easy on the eyes and ke
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Agreed. The internet isn't a magical place where the best product automatically wins. Much to the misfortune of us hackers.
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Now that is a valid reason: meeting other smart people who can inspire you and teach you things that the classes don't even begin to cover. If only there were a way for prospective students to know how good their school is for this ahead of
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It's not about profit? For virtually all schools, it is. I think these discussions are highly distorted by just focusing on the top couple schools that are the exception to the norm and affect very few people anyway.
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Maybe for art school. Wasn't the case for engineering. Real people may be nice to have, but I learned basically everything from the books/internet and reviewing homework/test solutions for what I got wrong.
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So I understand you have never had a wife (or children.) She will give new meaning to the word "forced."
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I put in a site that has been making $1200+/month for the last two years and it tells me that the site can make $20/month. Fail.
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Yeah man, what would 26 hackers be doing here on a Friday night? Preposterous!
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Always liked this one.
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No. But, weigh comment karma a lot more than submit karma and it might be alright.
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19y ago
So success by accident. Another little known fact, google's rankings aren't perfect.
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19y ago
Is there a sample event that we can see for helping us evaluate your site? Everything I've seen so far looks good.
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Yes I'd definitely write these up more as SEO success stories than adsense success stories.
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Whether Front-loading or end-loading registration requirements is more successful seems to hinge on which is greater: (1) the user's expectations coming into the site (2) how great the user finds the site once he's using it. If your site ha
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I've found programmable templating frameworks to be more powerful and maintainable than 100% css. Looking at what a lot of those zengarden designs do behind the scenes shows you just how ugly css can be.