hezekiah

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by hezekiah 15y ago
You're a good writer, I think you should take it all the way to a full-size book, get O'Reilly to publish or self-publish on Amazon.
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by hezekiah 15y ago
"Our plan was to allow users to upload an image file, and display the uploaded image in the browser. Back in the 90's this would have qualified as a business model for an IPO." Tru dat!
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by hezekiah 15y ago
Reading it now; excellent introduction! I'm what you might call an "experienced developer" - I've been writing code since I was a little kid typing in Basic games to an Apple II - but I still find this back-to-the-basics approach more help
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by hezekiah 15y ago
Learn the difference between median and average. It will change your life. :-)
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by hezekiah 15y ago
Not quite accurate, read the article: "By 2009, the median net worth for white households had fallen 24 percent to $97,860; the median black net worth had fallen 83 percent to $2,170" That's MEDIAN, not AVERAGE. Average is even worse, as y
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by hezekiah 15y ago
If you've ever read Henry Ford's autobiography - a man who once took apart an entire car to the last bolt and reassembled it by himself - he says much the same.
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Black economic gains reversed in Great Recession(finance.yahoo.com)
9 points by hezekiah 15y ago|10 comments
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by hezekiah 15y ago
When I had a startup selling software to banks, sales cycles were never less than a year, often more so.
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by hezekiah 15y ago
You coded it in six months and the whole project start to when you gave it up was only a year? Most startups I know of take several years to get any revenue at all. You need to have brass balls and a rich friend / family / side consulting
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by hezekiah 15y ago
I've read many of these, and they all have essentially the same approach: screw over the worker.
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Wozniak: Humans destined to become pets(theage.com.au)
3 points by hezekiah 15y ago|0 comments
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by hezekiah 15y ago
I have seen this literally - it's low down but it does happen.
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60% of all NBA players end up poor(cnbc.com)
61 points by hezekiah 15y ago|46 comments
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by hezekiah 15y ago
Seems hard to believe, but cool if true.
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Courtney Love does the math (2000)(salon.com)
251 points by hezekiah 15y ago|66 comments
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by hezekiah 15y ago
Really good article. Mentions the different fees, how they are calculated, their amounts for a typical successful album. This kind of info you normally don't come across.
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by hezekiah 15y ago
doesnt work on touch devices
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by hezekiah 15y ago
whats the availability of this for open source? it would be fun to hack with
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by hezekiah 15y ago
this jibes with what i know about friends with their own android apps; most of the revenue is coming from ads and virtual purchases