elmuchoprez

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by elmuchoprez 11y ago
As a Midwestern suburbanite, I don't think I understand this service. When it comes to trash removal, the city already comes around once per week and collects whatever I put out there. The cost of this is baked into my city taxes and c
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by elmuchoprez 11y ago
Similar announcements from Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg have gotten significant press over the past few years. Is this kind of philanthropy new, or is it traditional to see some of the world's top earners donating (or pledging to dona
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
After reading it, I actually went looking for a date hoping it was written before the Echo announcement and was a wonderful coincidence. On a side note, having to hover over the title to expose the date is a silly UX.
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
Backblaze is $5/month (per machine) and let's you grab single files (or directories) from your backup if you want.
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
I found the use of slightly different shades of the same color to differentiate data bars to be incredibly frustrating, which made me assume this was written by a marketer and not someone with a technical background. Fair or not, that insta
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
The one thing they're not making any more of in this world is land. Huge portions of the US remain undeveloped or under-developed. Land isn't really in as short of supply as some would have you believe. $3.2M isn&#
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
As a small team (1 - 10), I would be willing to pay in the neighborhood of $5/user/month. Once we get up to $50/month, I'd like to see volume discounts. I can't imagine I'd ever pay more than a $100/month
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
This is purely anecdotal as I don't have real numbers to back it up, but it seems to me like every airline has been on the edge of going out of business for as long as I can remember. I don't think it's greed so much as there
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
Because reclining the chair is using it in a predictable way and as it was intended to be used. It's a bit like laying your laptop in the middle of the freeway and then claiming people can't run it over.
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
Liability would almost certainly be yours alone. The passenger who reclined their seat was using the seat as it was intended, so there is no offense there. The airline would likely argue that they never made any guarantees as to the protect
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
I saw his one-man show when it came to town about a year ago. After watching him alone on stage for 90 minutes, I have no doubt that he is still "with it" enough to not only comprehend modern tech (if that's what we're c
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
Chalkfly.com - Detroit, MI Detroit-based start-up (funded, stable, paying competitive salaries), is looking for experienced Magento developers. Chalkfly.com is looking for amazing, experienced, OO PHP developers with deep Magento experience
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
I think you're describing a sales guy versus a programmer. In my experience, "businesses guys" are actually professional bullshit detectors. It's one of the reasons you want them in on the actual contract negotiations. A
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
Detroit-based start-up (funded, stable, paying competitive salaries) looking for experienced Magento developers. Chalkfly.com is looking for an amazing, experienced, OO PHP developer with deep Magento experience to join our fast-growing, fi
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by elmuchoprez 12y ago
"...just 'cause the owner was still staying there." Honestly, my favorite part of a hotel is not having to share a living space with a stranger.
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
Detroit-based start-up (funded, stable, paying competitive salaries) looking for experienced Magento developers. We are looking for an amazing, experienced, OO PHP developer with deep Magento experience to join our fast-growing, first-rate
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
How many days of vacation did you personally take in the past year?
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
For-pay services have an incentive not to do something with my data that upsets me enough to leave. Let's say an advertising company offers eTrade 50-cents for info on every trade I make. That's free money for eTrade right up unti
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
This looks really cool but I couldn't shake that feeling of, "If you're not paying for it, you're the product." I didn't feel any better about that when I saw that Google was one of their major investors. Still
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
"And abhor even more the money spent on college football (e.g., the budget for our university library was being slashed so much that frequently used journals were having their subscriptions cut, while at the same time the football team
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
"Football/basketball players are paid obscene amounts of money, while what they do does not have any real value." Serious question: Do you consider entertainment to have a real value for society?
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
"Never trust anyone over 30" is a bit of a rallying cry among musicians. It's often attributed Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Rubin and a few others during the 1960's, but I'm not sure anyone really knows who said it
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
"A college kid would never have come up with what I'm building, because they wouldn't realize the problem I'm trying to solve actually exists." This is such a key point. Sometimes it takes years, if not decades, of
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
The most recent episode of In Beta with Gina Trapani and Kevin Purdy ( http://5by5.tv/inbeta/70 ) discusses the current state of WP and specifically addresses Ghost. While they make a sound argument that WP has become a
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
These days I bill like a lawyer: Up to two hours free of charge as a consultation and then the clock starts at my full rate. If you're not OK with that, you don't value my time enough for this relationship to work out. And that&#x
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
One of the things I'm not sure the general public is aware of is that there's a very high stakes war going on behind the scenes between Amazon and much the e-commerce ecosystem. As the author points out, Amazon is good at what the
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
Some sort of verified caching protocol. Like mixing together the Wayback Machine and a notary.
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
This is specifically what services like Kickstarter were designed to address. And there is plenty of evidence to suggest that crowd-funding services are viable funding models, especially for low budget projects like this. This feels like de
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
"We've also discussed how homogeneity is valuable to an early startup. Having everyone be culturally similar may allow faster pivoting and interpersonal comprehension." Homogeneity is also the natural state for human beings a
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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
While I can appreciate your situation, those last two paragraphs read with the same kind of anecdotal logic that lead people to the conclusion that vaccinations do more harm than good.

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