Something similar but without the gambling aspect has been done before:
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I liked Canada so much that I decided to stay here (Toronto, Ontario) and have been happy about my decision ever since.
Yes, taxes are a little bit higher, but the place feels saner and safer. Various levels of government are supportive of new businesses (lots of incentives, grants, R&D support programs), especially in technology sector.
No surprises here for me though. After struggling to get DK2 and Unreal Engine on my Macbook Air running smoothly, I bit the bullet and bought a Windows gaming box just for the Rift.
Considering that I bought my current Macbook for iOS development in the process replacing my Samsung laptop running Ubuntu, this makes sense - platforms are just tools to get things done.
If budget does not allow all 3 of them, then choose whatever system makes most business sense for you. This should not be an emotional decision.
Prior to wearing Gunnars, I'd often have headaches by 4 pm and my eyes felt dry and quite tired. I was sceptical in the beginning, but these things do help.
Easily the best $140 that I spent on ergonomics.
All I see here are free ads for Apple and Google. Good job, Taco Bell :-)
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Walking around with earplugs/headphones all day is too painful and not an option, so now if I really want to get anything done I leave the house.
It does not have to be the only tool in your toolbox (own site, blog, Twitter all come into play), but it is expected that you have one.
It is also very useful to keep in touch with former colleagues/customers after projects are over. These are the people who you would not add to your Facebook account but would like to exchange a message with every couple of years or so...
Also, have you considered adding an entry to ToDoMVC project [1] for ease of comparison to other frameworks? I know it's not an exciting endeavour but it does make comparison much easier.
Thank you for creating it and your time in advance.
It doesn't take much - do a nice write up about yourself on LinkedIn and ask previous customers to write endorsements.
After GAE and treatment of "non-essential" products under Larry, I have lost the trust in Google as a reliable business partner, regardless of any technical advantages their offerings might have at the moment.
A small shop like ours can't rely on a partner who can change major aspects of a product without any concern for its customers. And when the trouble comes, being left at the mercy of a random Googler who might come to the rescue if you are sufficiently Internet famous is not a recipee for building a stable business.
Thank you, but no thank you. I'll stick with companies who are relentlessly working on improving their products, driving prices down and care about their customers even if their products might be behind in some areas.
Until Google proves that they care and are in this for a long haul, my business goes somewhere else.
Oh, yeah, this applies to personal usage too - good bye Google Reader, my most used Google product...
For a basic overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraccel
As for the rest of the article, it feels like a basic Data Warehousing 101 re-discovered. It should have been titled "Analytics: Back To The Future" :-)
One thing they don't mention is how buyers come into possession of bitcoins. Buying bitcoins is currently a hassle for an average consumer and has transactional fees that are paid to bitcoin exchanges - enterprises of unknown origin and reputation that don't have household level brand name recognition (ask your aunt Sally or uncle Kamal about Mt. Gox).
I assume that chargebacks that are offloaded to bitcoin exchanges. These exchanges are the weakest point of the bitcoin ecosystem at the moment - this is where bitcoins touch the real world.
Contact with the real world makes them susceptible to the control of the authorities (regulators, law enforcement, criminals and etc), easy target for malicious parties meaning harm (yes, don't want to use the word hackers) as well as financial manipulators.
Success of BitPay and the like depends on the health and stability of the whole ecosystem, which is still quite immature, so if I were a merchant I'd approach this cautiously.
This commonality (both being tools) is crucial to the reason that I chose hammers and not apple pies, "Dance Dance Revolution" games, Iron Man animated series or the Federal Reserve as examples for my analogy. These would not hold any kind of substance at all (liquid or otherwise).
Each tool has its own place and time. If there's a recession and Cap finds himself unemployed, then LinkedIn will be much more valuable to him despite the minor inconveniences that it might cause (i.e. spam). In fact these inconveniences might become a welcome and even desired feature of the product.
My point is that renouncing tool X when you can't find a use case for it has become a fashion of sorts that irks me.
Please note, that I don't deny anyone the right to follow this movement, but I also reserve the right to be annoyed by it and share my emotional state and receive validation that such state is shared by a large number of other people, at least according to the upvotes on my post.
LinkedIn is just a tool - it's usefulness depends on what your current needs are. It's useless today and useful tomorrow. Just like any other tool - i.e. take hammers for example.
Would it sound absurd for someone to announce that they quit hammers tomorrow? Does any of this make sense?
- Yeah, hammer was really useful to me when I hanged that picture on the wall last year. Not so much any more, I should quit it!
- I'm past hammers - electric drill with screws can do 90% of it does and for the 10% it does not I should really re-assess whether I'm doing the right thing in the first place.
- I tried to make a cereal with a hammer this morning, but it did not work! WTF???
- I watched this movie where someone was killed with a hammer. What an evil tool, I should quit it as it stains my karma!
- I don't use it any more, but every time I pass by the toolbox it reminds me that I still have it and I get this strong urge to get rid of it. It depresses me so much, that I want to throw away the whole box or move out of the house!
Don't mean to be harsh on Cap Watkins, I'm just tired of reading this kind of posts. Oh wait, I know - I should quit the Internet!
It works on Windows, OS X and Linux, connects to almost any RDBMS in existence, easily customizable and has tabbed results interface in addition to many other features.
All for $60-70. Easily worth the money, you can get a full trial for 30 days to see if it works for you.