witoldc

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by witoldc 14y ago
Programming jobs are not much to brag about. Many IT people don't just check out after 5pm. They are on-call after work, stay up late at night trying to finish X or fix Y. They are expected to show up to the office on the weekends to do
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by witoldc 14y ago
Theory: This is the only way his regurgitated attempt at a speech would get any attention.
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by witoldc 14y ago
You can post your cat and dinner pics on G+. It's not the end of the world if they ban you. Aside from people using it to sell things/their business, most people will not lose much of anything. In fact, they will probably gain, since they
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by witoldc 14y ago
So what did he buy that he couldn't get free using Google search? Nothing? There are phone books out there that list more information that that. Do you feel secure?
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by witoldc 14y ago
I judge people based on their past actions. Not on their hypothetical potential. Kim has a history of fraud and questionable activities going back _decades_. If that makes my way of thinking frightening to you, so be it.
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by witoldc 14y ago
I remember the first time I learned of Kim - 10+ years ago. From the early days, his questionable 'projects', his legal troubles back home, his money making schemes, him defrauding people on BMW M5 forums, etc. Then I didn't hear about him
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by witoldc 14y ago
Is there any effect on taxes? Yes, the shell company makes $0 thanks to phantom expenses, but the main company gets all that money and that is profit. So the shell has 0 tax liability and the main company faces all the tax liability. It may
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by witoldc 14y ago
The bigger the government influence/regulation/power/money the higher the stakes and more well funded stakeholders trying to influence it.
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by witoldc 14y ago
Anyone worth their salt could've Googled their leaderships history of creating big IPOs that end up crushing and burning. Most were complicit in it, or just rationalized it to themselves that it was different. Second, the people who make t
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by witoldc 14y ago
I thought it was standard to use a cash back credit card for this sort of thing.
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by witoldc 14y ago
If you had the images on your site, would you expect this to raise your Google Page Rank?
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by witoldc 14y ago
The answer is because most non-technical co-founders don't bring much to the table. Many don't have startup experience, management experience, fundraising/angel/VC connections. If you want to tech co-founders to work with you, you need to
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by witoldc 14y ago
You're extrapolating results from 3 months into years? Uh... yeah... It doesn't sound that easy or stable if you are willing to sell it for 6 months profit instead of using your 5 minutes each year to run it forever and making $900/year.
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by witoldc 14y ago
Instprofit when you sell to ZNGA. OMG so easy.
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by witoldc 14y ago
It's just simple business rules. Is it really that hard for you to tell a fake FB/twitter account from a real one that you couldn't code the logic? You don't even have to code it. You just need to link it. If someone is reading the review,
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by witoldc 14y ago
Heaven forbid someone learns your highly secretive height, weight, eye color and DL license number which is completely meaningless. They communication does appear to suck, but your paranoia is unfounded.
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by witoldc 14y ago
For many startups, #1 tactic is to spam the hell out of the social network of your existing users. The links is laughably bad. It's just a bunch of advertising disguised as an informative post.
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by witoldc 14y ago
This is both true and false. While corruption is rampant and often expected, the environment can be easier particularly for lower capital businesses. If you want to open a restaurant here in DC, it will take you quite a long time to get al
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by witoldc 14y ago
It's not the government and it's not the business environment. The problem is with the people. Look at some of the "worst" African countries. Chinese and Indians are coming in there and opening up shops. They are starting restaurants and
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by witoldc 14y ago
That is amazing. That said, after the first game it was very laggy.
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by witoldc 14y ago
My initial feeling is that the most crud left behind is from professional fakers, aka menial labor from India/Phils/etc. That's where one can buy fake reviews en masse. That explains point 1, 2, 3, 5 and possibly even point 4. (working ti
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by witoldc 14y ago
And /. still has better comment setup than anything out there today that supposedly 'surpassed' it.
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by witoldc 14y ago
That's why Obama win is so important to Tesla Government Motors.
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by witoldc 14y ago
I've always wanted to have story accepted on /. But I've yet to submit one. :)
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by witoldc 14y ago
Interesting. I'm particularly interested in how you got this matched up against voter lists. Some states are quite a PIA to collect.
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by witoldc 14y ago
This is going to be huge. No more waiting 4 weeks to get a computer/laptop I actually want.
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by witoldc 14y ago
All of these online communities face the same problem: As they get bigger, the quality of the membership becomes severely diluted. Eventually, the crud fills the pages, the 'good' members leave, and all that remains is the crud. This is ha
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by witoldc 14y ago
If this is the best that the top 24 pics from universities can do, I most certainly wouldn't call this a good criticism of traditional education.