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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
Author here: actually the article talks about this- you're unable to cancel the My Website (their most popular service) using that website.
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
We have 50 reader reviews of GoDaddys website builder at Site Builder Report. Of the 50 reviews, 48 have received the lowest possible rating (1 star out of 5). http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/reviews/godaddy/user
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
Loved his points about how you can hear punctuation in speech: "Morgan Freeman is liberal with the commas, and Jon Stewart is a master of parentheses. Lewis Black made a career out of the exclamation point while Dennis Leary barely use
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
That's so fascinating to me. So there is the "start time", but it's just delayed? For example: scheduling a 7pm dinner means everyone will know to arrive at 8pm?
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
As a Canadian, it's always fun when we get European friends and family who come to Toronto and discuss going to Montreal or New York for "the day." Then you get to explain just how far apart everything is here :) Of course, I
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How Software is Eating Web Design(sitebuilderreport.com)
9 points by steve_benjamins 12y ago|0 comments
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How to Solve the Problem of Online Comments(sitebuilderreport.com)
3 points by steve_benjamins 12y ago|0 comments
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
The solution (in so far as there is a solution) is to cultivate a culture. Large communities remain civil through culture. Last week I wrote a post called "How to Cultivate Culture" that received a good amount of attention (outsid
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
"In the future search will be a discovery tool" ... I think this sentence needs some work. It feels empty of meaning. Am I missing something? Or does the sentence really simply mean: "in the future search will be a way to dis
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
They also did a podcast on this subject. Well worth a listen as well: https://soundcloud.com/a16z/a16z-podcast-valuing-todays-fast...
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
Thanks Paulo- glad you liked it :)
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How to Cultivate Culture on a Website(sitebuilderreport.com)
6 points by steve_benjamins 12y ago|2 comments
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
Awesome. An easy interface explaining each goodie. Such a simple idea- and yet I've never seen Google figure something like this out. I mean I'm sure it's buried somewhere in Google's technical docs, but those docs don&#
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
Videos like this should become standard for any major SV acquisition!
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Marc Andreessen on Equity Bubbles and Fighting the Last War(stevebenjamins.com)
2 points by steve_benjamins 12y ago|1 comments
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
What Weebly understands (that many website builders don't) is that a "blank canvas" is not the correct metaphor for building a website. Instead a website needs structured sections (such as navigation, logo, footer etc.) as we
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
Most Western countries (not Canada) have opposed the last few major American conflicts, so "subsidizing" is an awfully generous way of putting it.
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
As a Canadian, I would like to suggest an alternative title :) "The Canadian Middle Class is Now the World's Richest"
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
(1) That is not at all a conventional theory of "capitalism" (2) It is most certainly not what Piketty means by capitalism ... which is what we are discussing here.
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
Rome was not capitalist. He is arguing that the inequality capitalism generates is unsustainable.
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
It is pretty clear Wells wasn't trying to confront Stalin on historical events here. This was mostly a theoretical and ideological discussion.
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
Fascinating how important the questions of class and revolution are in this conversation (from both Stalin and Wells). Equally interesting is how theoretical and ideological the answers are. Great read!
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
You are inferring that being in a US administration while US sanctioned murder and torture occurs, means that the leader therefore murdered and tortured people. Which puts Condi in a large group of people: nearly every member of a US admini
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108 Ways to Learn to Code(sitebuilderreport.com)
2 points by steve_benjamins 12y ago|0 comments
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
"With this three billion from Google, we will solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area" Huh.
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
EH! I wanted to see the results :)
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by steve_benjamins 12y ago
Julie has been posting on Medium for a while though- this is I believe Elons first post on Medium.
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How To Take Your Own Professional Headshot With An iPhone(sitebuilderreport.com)
1 points by steve_benjamins 12y ago|0 comments
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by steve_benjamins 13y ago
If you're considering a stand-up desk, I'd really recommend this review: http://www.thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-standing-desks... It hugely influenced my purchase of a NextDesk Terra :)
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How I received 8,000 visitors per month using Arrested Development & Weebly(sitebuilderreport.com)
1 points by steve_benjamins 13y ago|0 comments

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