zaqokm

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by zaqokm 12y ago
The church is the corporation of religion, using religion to bend the will of man and keep power. I know it sound harsh, but I spend a lot of time in the Philippines where the church has way to much power and people suffer because of it, co
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by zaqokm 12y ago
My point of view with this is that it is more of a problem with government rather than a problem with the wealthy. If a government is bought off by the rich, it isn't a government for the people in the beginning to start off with.
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by zaqokm 12y ago
Great customer acquisition cost, less than $1 per user. With ROI at 10 to 20 times, that was a pretty good investment for $35M.
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> It's a lot harder than you might think. Sounds like those spam emails for Viagra
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> Yup, that's where I live. Maybe you could let my employer know that's what he's supposed to be like. Hey it's your employer so maybe you should speak to them. It is not an unusual practice.
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> This doesn't sound like the Asia that I live in. Well I have seen it in ; Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia. (note: when I refer to Asia, it is the SEA section)
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> It's not like employers are keen on training anywhere else in the US either. Although I do not live in the US, I gather that like many countries I have lived in is the view is that training is no longer such a large responsibility
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by zaqokm 12y ago
They bought a massive customer base in developing countries, and they manage to secure all of those users who use a messaging app without probably doing any deals with any telcos. Not only that, they gained a potential advantage in the paym
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by zaqokm 12y ago
The majority of these points relate to all outsourcing development whether if it's onshore or offshore. In fact it applies for in house development. Cheaper does not mean bad code and bad practices, and more expensive does not mean bet
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> so I can't see advertisers being too interested with "targeted" advertising being so current Gary Vaynerchuck had an interesting point in one of his many many interviews. Basically SnapChat is instant focus, you cannot s
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by zaqokm 12y ago
Do people use paragraphs anymore ?
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by zaqokm 12y ago
BOFH day
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> this is ridiculous. from what I read the "harm" that happened was really the fact that it was prominently placed in the search engines, which the blogger really had no direct control over. If you do a google search and &quot
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by zaqokm 12y ago
Reading the pastebin text, it seems a little petty and most of all a bit of a big emotional rant. So the author does not agree with the valuation, many people do not agree with valuations of companies, in fact companies which lose money in
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by zaqokm 12y ago
Great stuff ... congratulations .... now send me Dars :)
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> You wouldn't do 24x7 with 3 people, but you could do 24 hours x ~5.5 days with the rest on call. Thanks, I hope I didn't sound too harsh as I just wanted to understand how you were doing this. > You hire them as self empl
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> and not lose that simplicity. Very interesting point
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> Once you can afford 3 people this can become a very effective way of ensuring 24 hour coverage. How can you run 24/7 with 3 people ? In Australia that would mean you would have to be above the allowed 38 hour working week as it wo
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> It has been heavily reported that AWS has cut their pricing quite a bit over the past few years. Yet, how many times has Heroku reduced its price? This is the bit which confuses me. It is easy to think that there should be correlation
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> No sane person running a business will take a 1PM outage over 1AM. Hey what about us people in Asia who use Heroku ... a early US AM outage is likely to be in our early PMs.
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by zaqokm 12y ago
As a person who is hovering between a tmux+vim setup and rubymine, I find vim rather convoluted. I was hoping vim was going to be my goto editor, as I was looking for something which was multiplatform, and was a polygot platform ( the one t
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by zaqokm 12y ago
Yes, some African Americans may get offended by this. HOWEVER slave does not mean black, in fact there were black people around the world who were in fact Masters. I could take offence by the limited perspective you put on the word relating
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by zaqokm 12y ago
Have to agree here in south east Asia a lot of this is run by crime syndicates, only part of the money goes to people on the street.
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by zaqokm 12y ago
Who says it is broken ? Most of all what is actually broken ? We know the outcome, there are fewer woman in IT. However the problem is normally touted in 2 ways .... the first that woman are discriminated against .... and the second that wo
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by zaqokm 12y ago
Due to recent complaints the black tie ball is now and Amish style. This is to prevent the objectification of women by making them less appealing. Call me ignorant (although I would rather refer to myself as not really focused or caring on
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by zaqokm 12y ago
> "Through work to bring materials and perspectives from Women's Studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged in the curriculum, even though they
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> We should assume she is being truthful and accurate unless there is a reason to doubt her. I come from a different school of thought. Firstly she only mentions a few people but the entire company and an entire industry are being brough
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by zaqokm 13y ago
We are only hearing one side of the story, but it may be interesting to note the comment: " I even had to have a few of his commits reverted. ", it seems that there may have been some legitimacy to the other non-few if we are goin
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> Why are you making excuses for these people? Probably because there are ample reasons why someone may revert someone's code for legitimate reasons.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> Two women are dancing to music at work in a tech company and the author compares this to a scene at a strip club as men are watching this. It seems hula hooping is ok, until men start watching. This is the most confusing bit she is say

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