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by toast76 16y ago
Although a cell phone probably won't do you much good on say...Nimbus III.
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by toast76 16y ago
Wow. The Thanksgiving parade was last week Mr. Raincloud. Here's some positive thoughts for you! - Running your own business is quite simply the most rewarding thing you can ever do (professionally at least). - Succeed or fail, you'll come
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by toast76 16y ago
If I have two pieces of advice I can share, 1. Pick up some contract work - you can easily turn 6 mths into 12 mths, and then 2 years, then 3...no matter how many projects fail to get off the ground, if you have a bit of side income, it'll
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by toast76 16y ago
When I started the business my wife was working, yes. She doesn't now. She's on full time "mum" duty. She is a web type as well and she does some of our content and client work when she's got the time. I'm not sure what you mean by the seco
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by toast76 16y ago
You'd think, but in an online forum it doesn't work that way. For an example of this, see below for my intentionally contentious comment "questions aren't a contribution". It evoked some high voted comments, and yet the comment itself has
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by toast76 16y ago
As can a bad hypothesis, or a bad question. The "great conversation" is the part that creates the value. Not the parent. My own point here has no value on its own other than the fact that it started further discussion. It doesn't make my co
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by toast76 16y ago
Was that one? :P
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by toast76 16y ago
Karma (to me) is about making a contribution. A question doesn't make a contribution, but the answers may.
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by toast76 16y ago
People thought I was mental when I went out and started my own business. They were probably right...especially when you consider WHY I started my own business. I wanted to spend more time with my family. WHAT!? Yes, really. I had just gotte
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by toast76 16y ago
I would've said Jawas, but they've already got it hard enough...what with the Sand People problem and all.
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by toast76 16y ago
The article (as well as being old) is also false. "Currently, the ACMA list of prohibited URLs that is notified to accredited filter providers does not contain any URLs within the Wikileaks website," the ACMA told ZDNet Australia in a state
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by toast76 16y ago
I'd actually say you've got it backwards. The bigger you are, the more sense it makes to host internally. The smaller you are, the more it pays to pay someone else. I don't know what your hourly rate is, but if I had to spend even one hour
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by toast76 16y ago
I just want to know what the TSA supervisor expected would happen if he DID choose to go back to customs. Then what? Where does he go? He has no ticket, no boarding pass. He can't get on a plane. I don't see how refusing could possible end
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by toast76 16y ago
I think it's not overly clear what the site actually does. There's a lot to read and none of it really jumps out at me to explain why this site is of benefit to me. The biggest problem, as has already been mentioned, is that it looks like a
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Why you absolutely MUST write an API when you write your next app(blog.angrymonkeys.com.au)
76 points by toast76 16y ago|22 comments
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by toast76 16y ago
It was created by http://www.thomasmangold.com/ for a Playstation 3 ad some years ago.
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by toast76 16y ago
It's like anything. You get what you pay for. If you're up against low price estimates, they're probably using templates, or reusing stuff they've already done for someone else or maybe even outsourcing it overseas. You can't compete with t
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by toast76 16y ago
You saved me the effort of typing it. I feel ANY person in ANY role has a duty to themselves and the people they work with (or for) to not comply with orders/instructions which go against their beliefs, values or morals. When I was younger
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by toast76 16y ago
I'm a programmer (and in Australia), so maybe that makes it a bit easier. I think it's mostly a case of knowing people. Nearly all of my work is from people who already knew me before they needed the work, or knew someone who I had previous
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by toast76 16y ago
http://usabilityhub.com (including http://fivesecondtest.com ) was originally a free app. We introduced subscriptions in August. It's now getting close to being able to support two of us full-time. At the moment, we're both still doing c
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by toast76 16y ago
Call me crazy, but things going UP is generally good. I don't see how you can logically describe something as having an "increase in worsening satisfaction". "AT&T is ranked 1st out of 244 brands"... they must be AWESOME...oh wait, no t
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by toast76 16y ago
No, worst case is he gets fined $11k and then others are not only too afraid to opt-out, they're too afraid to speak-out.
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by toast76 16y ago
It's like reading an Ask HN from me. You sound like me about 3.5 years ago. I was in the same situation, dev lead for 10 years. Bored. But I hated shuffling papers more than I hated being a drone...even if I was a senior drone. What you nee
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by toast76 16y ago
Acting without thought is always going to be bad. But not acting (also without thought) will still be worse. If you're stuck with an unthoughtful reactionary leader, the best thing to do is find a new job.
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Why indecision is worse than a bad decision(blog.angrymonkeys.com.au)
1 points by toast76 16y ago|2 comments
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by toast76 16y ago
It sounds like you're saying that it's the bullied kids fault because he's socially awkward? The point you've missed in this article isn't to START a fight. It's that if someone starts one with you, you better bloody well finish it. The key
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by toast76 16y ago
I'm the youngest of three boys. We all went to the same high school. When I arrive in Year 7, there were apparently quite a few kids "lining up" to have a go at me. My brothers were well respected academics as well as both celebrated for th
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by toast76 16y ago
Yeah that's what I'm finding. It basically comes down to who is bigger. Smaller companies would love the exposure, larger companies consider it "association" and don't allow it. Frustrating when you see Sony, Johnson&Johnson, Google, EA
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by toast76 16y ago
I had considered doing this, but I get the feeling it wouldn't help should the company in question ask us to take it down. :)
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Ask HN: Use of customer Logos
7 points by toast76 16y ago|6 comments

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