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1. Make friends with the receptionist or office manager. This goes a long way.

2. Bring goodies for the first major holiday/celebration (i.e. Halloween, Valentine's Day) that comes up.

3. If think of things that could be changed or improved, write them down, then sit on those notes for at least a month.

4. Avoid gossip. The best reply if someone says something gossipy to you is a non-committal "Ahh" or "Hmm."

5. Be relentlessly positive. No mention of anything bad going on in your non-work life.

6. Avoid saying things like "TGIF" or "at least it's Wednesday."

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It doesn't work in Chrome on the Surface Pro, alas.

Speaking out against bigotry is not 'oppression.'

1. Global warming

2. Lack of privacy

3. Inequality (the 0.1%)

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I'm relieved that Apple didn't buy them. In that case, they'd have certainly either a) discontinued the Android version, or b) created a cross-platform app like iTunes.

Is it okay for a site to use black-hat tactics to rise to the top because they've got the 'best' content?

If they've got the best content, shouldn't it rise to the top organically? Or is the argument that 'everyone else is doing it, so if we don't do it, our organic rank will be jeopardized'?

An important point - you can't create ready-for-the-Windows Store apps using Siena. They're apparently meant for internal company applications.

I think you can export the project at the end so it can be massaged into a distributable app using VB/etc.

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So, in comparison - would the same people who want prices on apps to be higher be willing to avoid using contest sites like 99 Designs? Seems like the same principle to me...being unwilling to pay someone 'the going rate' to design a logo because you're not sure about the value of the underlying process sounds a lot of like being unwilling to pay what developers consider a 'fair rate' for an app when you can pick a free one instead....

Have you asked a representative sample of writers whether they write this way, and would like to use your site to write this way? Outside of business, collaborative writing seems to be pretty minimal (I say this as a novelist)...

Also, if there could be some cross-compatibility with MS Word's Track Changes (I know, I can dream...) that would be great.

Nursing home patients, some seniors, and those who cannot eat regular food (i.e. those with advanced MS) depend on them to survive.

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One of the characters in the sci-fi show Crusade was a pickpocket, and her first scene demonstrated her prowess...I'm thinking she was supposed to be mostly likeable.

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It's a great idea - is there any word as to whether it's patented/patentable, or might we see this on other OSes?

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I suggest you try Gamezebo (http://www.gamezebo.com/) - they review many casual games.

Excellent idea for boardgames and family games. I know quite a few DMs who would die for this.

Usually folks will only reveal their Adsense/etc. secrets once the secret no longer works for them, unfortunately. You see it a lot with information marketing products (the slightly more legit version of "Make Money Fast", usually with hype-y titles like "Google Bullet" or "Facebook Frenzy").

I can say that it's been fairly standard for me to be interviewed (a few times in one case) and then having the firm never contact me again, and not even answer a brief email asking about progress.

This in marketing departments for high tech firms, mind you.

Clearly, they a) don't care, and b) know they can get away with it.

The other alternative might be to review your current archival storage format every year, and upgrade while the interface is still available but new storage formats are coming out.

Older Web cams (and a few modern ones built into laptops) used to come with a physical privacy shield -- a shutter you could move to block the camera when it wasn't in use. I like the idea.

Nice work - it would be helpful, I think, if you could explain how these designs with with software that scans resumes for keywords, etc.

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