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by xarien 14y ago
I met the love of my life and the mother of my child in college. The problem with these articles and the types of comments on sites such as HN is that people neglect the fact that college is an experience, and a highly subjective one at tha
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"The problem I had is none of my team would update it, because they thinks it looks crappy." I'm at a loss for words honestly.
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Just set the placeholder attribute. You'll need some js if you want to support browsers which do not process the attribute. I use Jason Garber's jquery plugin to imitate placeholder for browsers which do not support the attribute.
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I've volunteered at a large scale NPO for a number of years now holding exec positions at national and local boards. The one thing people don't understand about NPO is that non-profit doesn't mean no profit. The real difference is where th
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by xarien 14y ago
We have too many companies offering "free" products to demographics with very limited purchasing power... I'm glad I'm not in the boat of appeasing this fickle group.
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If it's not residual income, it's a pointless sample...
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by xarien 14y ago
I ran a quick litmus test. I used 6k in and 6k out with 120k in savings. The calculator told me I could afford to run a business for 20 months... /boggle
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I have a todo.txt on my google drive.
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by xarien 14y ago
The cost of automating car construction is quite costly. The cost of automating website construction is near zero. That is the number 1 reason why you can't compare these apples and oranges. One of the top reasons why blue collared labor
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Yep, I completely agree. Don't buy into the hype. The one thing that I do recommend is to have a keyboard you like, those are much harder to swap out. Everything else is easy to find on the mid / low end including usb 3 ports. My setup
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by xarien 14y ago
This is way more expensive than QR codes (which is more or less free). Each tech has pros and cons. When talking about QR codes, I guarantee price will be at the forefront. I'm not sure this is anything more than trying to invent a probl
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I am an introvert, but have forced myself to embrace and even love picking up the phone. There is no better way to get a message across than to talk to someone (even better in person). What's even better is that you recount the conversati
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by xarien 14y ago
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but it should contain the info for what is being used. I took a quick glance and it looked like it was at minimum using the following 3 svg filters: ‘feGau
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Categorization is subjective. Both of those categories are so expansive that you could spend lifetimes learning to be better and never fully mastering them. The problem isn't camp A thinks they're hard shit and looks down on camp B, it's
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Btw, I know these are user created, but if you're going to showcase it, you should check these for bugs.
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I think it's a great way for get a non-programmer interested very quickly, but I personally was quite turned off when I clicked on the "realistic physics" based bouncing ball module and found that the ball doesn't actually stop bouncing, EV
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by xarien 14y ago
Man, I must be getting old, first thing I thought of when I saw the question was a FSM implemented with function pointers in C.
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Food has become a trending social topic. Is it a bad thing? Not necessarily. If you observe the cultures around the world, food has always brought people together. In the age of connectivity, it's still bringing people together although
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by xarien 14y ago
VxWorks is used pretty extensively in space and defense contracting. The list in wikipedia is a pretty small sublist. It's also often used as a wrapper for custom bootroms.
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Keep writing and make sure you have a link on your site that says: "Like my blog? Hire me as a copywriter!" Good copy is hard to come by and if you can get good at it, you'll definitely find yourself in demand...
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When does a CEO get to take 2 weeks off these days? A CEO's job and life are homogeneous and while they do take vacation, I can guarantee you that very very few will disconnect him/herself completely.
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I completely agree which is why I always refer to myself as the monkey and not the CEO.
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They're the same if you just put a dollar value on them. You can buy group insurance easily as a startup. Forget about everything else and just quantify it as money. In this case, you'd realize both risks when you start a company so the
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by xarien 14y ago
It's always a little weird when I see the topic of health insurance come up (and it comes up a lot). When I hear this argument, it's very apparent that this is a large emotional risk, but not a large financial one. In fact, this fear is a
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by xarien 14y ago
Entrepreneurship is the quintessential American dream: a way to break out of a mold by your abilities and hard work. If you're talking to someone on the fence, the risk / reward equation basically looks like this: Real world problems creati
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People don't understand QR codes. QR codes are a medium of transportation and a digitalization of analog information. However, if what's at the end of that trail isn't something people are interested in, then it doesn't matter if that trai
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Here's the real take away from this. Copy is important and copy is hard. Don't skimp out on copy...unless you want to unknowingly offend.
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Take a look at the 3rd party (HP) Facebook app on WebOS.
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Take a look at the now defunct webOS. Many of the newer UI enhancements are taken directly from it. I really wish HP went somewhere with it, but alas, it's just an extra boot option on my fire sale touchpad....
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My intro course in college was run this way as well and to this day, I'm very glad to have started my career bottom up instead of top down...

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