crabapple

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by crabapple 18y ago
Why are grades that important? They show that you can do things after a professor tells you how to do it, and that you're good at busywork why are you telling me this? just drop the fuck out now and save the money you are pissing away on
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by crabapple 18y ago
only if your company is trucking in low-iq monkey work...which covers 99% of the "startups" today
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by crabapple 18y ago
and I've got a cofounder good god please bury this term, the yc fanboys have turned the "startup" lexicon into such a shallow cliche that its almost at the point of parody. you don't have a "cofounder", what you have is a guy down the hal
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by crabapple 18y ago
I'm not an experienced coder myself, and I'm also working on a start-up. stop wasting the precious hours of your life
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by crabapple 18y ago
shutdowns like this are going to be common. 90% of existing websites have no viable chance of being self-sustaining by ads or subscriptions...but this shouldn't surprise anyone, at some point, a near-frictionless model coupled with strong w
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by crabapple 18y ago
co2stats is just a greenwashing tool, and its utility will die as fast as greenwashing dies. by greenwashing, i mean the suggestion that users choose products based on their adoption of "green"-appearing means of production
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by crabapple 18y ago
matching ips to locales is not new.
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by crabapple 18y ago
steve jobs is a psycho-grade control freak whose "singular vision" of tech implies pointless upgrades on a regular schedule. apparently i can't mount my ipod in linux because his OCD control issues can't grasp someone using a computer that
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by crabapple 18y ago
please stop buying apple garbage. they are evil. there's nothing cool about crass consumption
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by crabapple 18y ago
why the "concern" about inflation? this is a "gimme" get-rich scheme for anyone who understands how inflation works. gold at 4000, oil at 500...it will be a triviality to make money as hyperinflation works through the system
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by crabapple 18y ago
excellent. i am ready for hyperinflation. are you?
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by crabapple 18y ago
the whole point is to avoid ever exposing yourself as a US resident you use a whois proxying service to block your ID. and when company C tries to strongarm the ISP over which they have no jurisdiction, they get told to bugger off.
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by crabapple 18y ago
astoundingly i have met people who are stupid enough to use this service, which is curiously expensive christ folks, if you just want to whitelist all your contacts, go to fastmail.fm and edit a sieve script
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by crabapple 18y ago
move your servers to venezuela and tell them to fuck themselves
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by crabapple 18y ago
oh i hate these pricks and their "oh i know you would give your nuts to be in the same room as me, here are some pointers" posts fuck you douche, i neither want or need your money who will want money from you is the dipshits who threw a sub
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by crabapple 18y ago
no, its a strength. it means people make a very strong association with google being better at search. they earned this reputation and deserve it.
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by crabapple 18y ago
i commend them for experimenting i also commend them for shutting it off when the experiment has failed if you want to grow new products, you have to engage this process
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by crabapple 18y ago
the nytimes isn't asking the government to deliver their papers.
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by crabapple 18y ago
A big 3 bankruptcy will be bad for auto workers yes, i think that is understood. they're going to live in the real world one way or another get them out of the big 3 and they can find work that the economy values. will they find it soon?
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by crabapple 18y ago
Because if the Big Three go under, a very large number of workers (folks working for the Big Three and for their suppliers) will suddenly be collecting unemployment insurance instead of paying taxes and they will also paid in taxes if bai
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by crabapple 18y ago
what about person C - a nonunion honda plant employee. he has beaten the competition fair and square, and now he must subsidize them. perversely, the harder he works, the more money he can potentially contribute to a government underwriting
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by crabapple 18y ago
assuming you modded me down because you can't name three real companies where every employee is FORCED to use outlook
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by crabapple 18y ago
yhoo management is almost single-mindedly defined by competing with google. indeed they "missed" facebook because they couldn't stop obsessing with google. in google, yahoo mgmt sees the company yahoo could have been
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by crabapple 18y ago
the reality is there is no real competition in north america search. google has the market sewn up. team members can move from yahoo to microsoft to powerset to whatever...google will still dominate. brand matters. in a test i recall, they
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by crabapple 18y ago
and one wonders why bankruptcy is suitable for any other company in america, including airlines that have gone in and out of bankruptcy numerous times over the years...yet this same option is not permissible for the big3? this is exactly wh
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by crabapple 18y ago
As we save the companies that crippled the credit markets, we have no interest in spending a fraction of that same amount of money helping the companies most negatively effected by the condition of those same credit markets. are you tryin
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by crabapple 18y ago
one must ask why a waitress at denny's who makes minimum wage and has no healthcare must bail out union workers at gm who make 8x the wages, do less work, have ZERO DEDUCTABLE healthcare (do you? i doubt it), and full pensions. or why shoul
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by crabapple 18y ago
Not something that's good for the consumer! no doubt some reversion to the mean is beneficial...but a healthy economy shows some nonzero manageable inflation level...like around 2-3%. a deflating economy is deadly in the longer run, bec
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by crabapple 18y ago
oh jesus just kill this meme already
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by crabapple 18y ago
i tell seth godin to pay my bills

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