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by wturner 11y ago
Every generation takes what the previous generation set in motion and expounds on it. This is obvious when looking at things like extreme sports and technology. The irony is that the "infantile" behavior he is complaining about is
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If I'm not your target audience then ignore these words as they might sound a bit harsh. My primary concern in using any service like this would be how easily I could port all content over to my own servers when ready. This includes no
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To be contrarian... "hosting and selling high quality video series" As a creator coming from a business perspective I see these platforms as mostly a liability to be avoided. I write videos and have decided to create my own subsc
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I haven't read Facebook or Twitters complete terms of service but I'm sure they allow for censorship. So as long as users agree to the TOS then it doesn't matter what words come out of the founders mouths. They simply leverag
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Noam Chomsky on Startup Culture(youtube.com)
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ScriptSONIC(scriptsonic.com)
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The point of constructors in JavaScript was to mirror the "look" of Java. Brendan Eich has mentioned this. You don't technically need them and can use functions to return objects.
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Decide who is more comfortable learning new things....and go with the other persons stack.
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For those interested in a peice of signifigant ( and less known ) history from the world of flying saucers here is a little gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Weygers and his invention: http://w
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2016: The year one switches to Ubuntu due to the slow, chunky over engineered mess and automatic updates of Windows that screw up workflows and interrupt video conference meetings where money is on the line.
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I consider this the "normal" way we learn ( one-on-one ). Since the instructor can't be one-on-one with everyone, he/she offloads the burden onto the students themselves - which is a good thing. The psychology allows the
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As I said, the reason these things get thrown out of court is because it isn't gambling since no money is expected by the user. If you're asking me a legal opinion I'm not a lawyer. I'm just telling you what I've re
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Gambling isn't the same because the money users spend isn't used as a bet for a real-world money return. That is why when this stuff goes to court it gets thrown out.F2P relies on pure psychology and large sums of marketing dollar
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The problem is that there is nothing that can be done due to the fact that its all opt-in and is based on ( as the article points out ) psychology. Free to play has gamed the inherit structure of the world wide web.
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I was momentarily good friends with someone who went on to become a well known entrepreneurs in this space. Right before he got his business off the ground he emphatically told me :"I am going to exploit the living fucking shit out of
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What the World's Toughest Animal Is Really Made Of(news.nationalgeographic.com)
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Ok. Then I was wrong.
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I never said I was upset. Read the post.
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I don't want to derail this with a personal story but this might be useful. I wrote a JavaScript course that I was contracted by someone on Elance to do for very little ( relative to the amount of time I put into it ), he then sold it
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The way I like to phrase it is that humans are in a perpetual loop of creating things that make life easier in one way yet inherently more complicated in others. Then the cycle repeats to compensate for the new situation. The more granular
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Steve Albini Weighs in on Tidal Debate(stereogum.com)
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I didn't mean to insinuate the two things were related in that way.I was just making a comment loosely related to the topic of the thread.
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For anyone interested in this kind of thing (UFO stories that discount the idea of aliens etc... ), take a read into the back story of Alexander Weygers. He was a polymath who patented an invention called a 'disc copter' in 1945 (
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Now Algorithms Are Deciding Whom to Hire, Based on Voice(npr.org)
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I heard a radio show recently where the host mentioned a study in the 50's where people were asked what rabbits and dogs had in common, and the answers were usually something along the line of "they both have two ears". The s
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People actually do kill for social acceptance - literally. Gangs are the most obvious example
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I've recently been listening to this BBC show called "The Infinite Monkey Cage" hosted by a physicist and a comedian. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011j7vc#auto
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Sex doesn't always sell(alexa.com)
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His final words: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVqAPtyORJk88tBMQzNwD...
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The American Workplace Bully(nydailynews.com)
1 points by wturner 12y ago|1 comments

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