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by rick888 15y ago
It seems like most startups aren't even thinking about running a long-term business...their main goal is to get bought out by bigger companies. I saw a show about startups on msnbc the other day. They were all trying to get funding at some
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by rick888 15y ago
Yeah, like we should be listening to Amazon. They won't allow non-pro merchants to collect sales tax and they charge 3% to collect taxes on pro-merchants.
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by rick888 15y ago
"I dislike the whole anti-counterfeit programs because companies want you to spend $2000 for a leather bag with their name on it, but the bag is only really worth $20. They're not even complaining that you're not willing to pay for it (like
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by rick888 15y ago
You are only telling one side of the story...just like all of the OWS propaganda.
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by rick888 15y ago
You can make money with amazon affiliates, but it's such a small percentage of the sale. It's much better to come up with your own product or dropship something. You take on more responsibility but you can also make more money.
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by rick888 15y ago
hmm, something happened to my post and there's a funny number next to it. I suppose you would rather have bullets?
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by rick888 15y ago
I suppose you would rather have bullets?
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by rick888 15y ago
Can people please stop posting this? Yes, I see the passive-aggressive reviews from OWS supporters. Rather than trying to make a difference, we have people taking the lazy way out and writing this garbage.
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by rick888 15y ago
I wouldn't want to find out. If customs seizes your stuff, you could get in trouble with the law or lose money.
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by rick888 15y ago
well, it's not my fault. It's the fault of the person that named a ruby development tool "Dojo" when it's clear there was already a javascript framework with the same name. so..maybe they should be downvoting themselves? (like I have your r
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by rick888 15y ago
How does this invalidate my point? The link title includes "Dojo" and I was stating my opinion. I see the Dojo fanbois have downvoted me.
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by rick888 15y ago
Dojo has already lost the battle. I used it for awhile and it is a cool framework. However, Jquery has it beat in terms of documentation (code and usage) and community support (I can find pretty much any component I need with Jquery).
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by rick888 15y ago
"Because FLOSS enables much of this software as a service (SaaS), then it becomes the root cause of the reduction in jobs." Rather than hiring more developers to create the SaaS, a business now is able to just get free OSS and hire less dev
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by rick888 15y ago
"There are plenty of good 8 hour/day engineering jobs that pay well and have interesting problems to solve." If I can't take vacations whenever I want or have the freedom to come and go as I please, I consider it slaving away. No job will
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by rick888 15y ago
"Because the item is a copy, and (digital) copies actually do cost nothing. That is just the physical fact, and people will always have some underlying sense of it -- as they should." So why don't people have the same mindset about currency
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by rick888 15y ago
"I am not sure the world would be a better place if most engineers shifted to becoming business owners." I know plenty of engineers that aren't capable of owning a business. They need to be told what to do..otherwise nothing will get done.
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by rick888 15y ago
"What if you get a crappy client? How about a demanding one or one who doesn't pay." You are assuming the business is consulting/freelancing, which in my opinion is just as bad as a regular job. "either will suck at some point" I would much
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by rick888 15y ago
"It causes unemployment (at least short term) in the country outsourcing its work" This isn't a problem with outsourcing. It's a problem with technology. Technology has now made it so everyone must compete on a global level. An small mom
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by rick888 15y ago
This is one of the post passive-aggressive rants I've seen in awhile. Bravo.
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by rick888 15y ago
I usually spend time in a research phase. Writing out the main goals/ideas, writing pseudo-code, then actually coding. I find it works much better than the hack it all out approach, but takes a little longer before I actually start coding
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by rick888 15y ago
"Not all that fair I'd say." If you have a more expensive house, you are paying a much higher tax rate and not actually getting much more out of the money you are putting into the system. If their kids are in private schools, they are also
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by rick888 15y ago
If electricity is paid through my taxes, why am I paying $300-$500/month to DTE?
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by rick888 15y ago
Don't they also store all of the uploads?
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by rick888 15y ago
This was only a matter of time. I've been using Grooveshark for a couple of years now and I didn't even know they were illegal (I figured they had deals with all of the record companies) until I saw info posted about it here on HN.
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by rick888 15y ago
I take a different approach, mostly because I've fought hard to do the right thing..and it rarely works..and I usually end up looking like the bad guy. I do what my managers want and when things start falling apart, I remind them about the
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by rick888 15y ago
If they did this, people that normally would just pay $10/month to watch one movie a month would only be paying $1. It would definitely eat into their current business model.
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by rick888 15y ago
I solved this problem by working from the library. It's a quiet place with free, fast Internet access. Another key is keeping a regular schedule. I wake up at 8am and go to bed at around 11 or 12, unless I'm working extra hours to get som
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by rick888 15y ago
If I release a proprietary software app and users start sharing copies of it for free online, I should have some legal recourse. I'm really tired of hearing the same old arguments about how somehow this is helping me as a business by giving
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by rick888 15y ago
I've done this a few times in my career. I'm smart enough now to always backup before I make any potential mistakes and test everything on a staging server. The worst was executing "DELETE FROM <table>" instead of "DELETE FROM &#60
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by rick888 15y ago
I don't agree with this law, but there seems to be this underlying sentiment on HN and other communities that copyright holders don't have rights and that there should be a free-for-all with their content.

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