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Why are grades that important? They show that you can do things after a professor tells you how to do it, and that you're good at busywork

why are you telling me this? just drop the fuck out now and save the money you are pissing away on tuition if you are convinced its all just a waste of time

but get used to being self-employed, because without that degree you won't even get through filter0 for any recruiter or hiring dept. hard to tell a cto how smart you are when the HR staffer shreds your resume because your last education is high school

only if your company is trucking in low-iq monkey work...which covers 99% of the "startups" today

and I've got a cofounder

good god please bury this term, the yc fanboys have turned the "startup" lexicon into such a shallow cliche that its almost at the point of parody. you don't have a "cofounder", what you have is a guy down the hall in your dorm

I can't think of anything else I'd want to spend my freshman year on.

try your homework, it'll pay dividends unlike yet-another pointless website

I'm not an experienced coder myself, and I'm also working on a start-up.

stop wasting the precious hours of your life

shutdowns like this are going to be common. 90% of existing websites have no viable chance of being self-sustaining by ads or subscriptions...but this shouldn't surprise anyone, at some point, a near-frictionless model coupled with strong winner-take-all economics is bound to result in a few dominant players choking off nearly everything else

co2stats is just a greenwashing tool, and its utility will die as fast as greenwashing dies. by greenwashing, i mean the suggestion that users choose products based on their adoption of "green"-appearing means of production

matching ips to locales is not new.

steve jobs is a psycho-grade control freak whose "singular vision" of tech implies pointless upgrades on a regular schedule. apparently i can't mount my ipod in linux because his OCD control issues can't grasp someone using a computer that doesn't have a glowing fruit on it. but when you put all this in a tony mall with minimalist blonde-finished tables, its cool. but it isn't. monocultures always die and apple will be no different.

please stop buying apple garbage. they are evil. there's nothing cool about crass consumption

why the "concern" about inflation? this is a "gimme" get-rich scheme for anyone who understands how inflation works. gold at 4000, oil at 500...it will be a triviality to make money as hyperinflation works through the system

excellent. i am ready for hyperinflation. are you?

the whole point is to avoid ever exposing yourself as a US resident

you use a whois proxying service to block your ID. and when company C tries to strongarm the ISP over which they have no jurisdiction, they get told to bugger off.

astoundingly i have met people who are stupid enough to use this service, which is curiously expensive

christ folks, if you just want to whitelist all your contacts, go to fastmail.fm and edit a sieve script

move your servers to venezuela and tell them to fuck themselves

oh i hate these pricks and their "oh i know you would give your nuts to be in the same room as me, here are some pointers" posts

fuck you douche, i neither want or need your money

who will want money from you is the dipshits who threw a substantial amount of cash into your sorry funds in the first place...right now they are probably wondering if your zero-return, high-risk investment vehicle is worth the paperwork. something tells me you will be returning their calls

no, its a strength. it means people make a very strong association with google being better at search. they earned this reputation and deserve it.

i commend them for experimenting

i also commend them for shutting it off when the experiment has failed

if you want to grow new products, you have to engage this process

the nytimes isn't asking the government to deliver their papers.

A big 3 bankruptcy will be bad for auto workers

yes, i think that is understood. they're going to live in the real world one way or another

get them out of the big 3 and they can find work that the economy values. will they find it soon? no, but then again maybe trying to compete in the global economy with a high school education wasn't such a bright idea after all

this is just about a huge chunk of our economy that has been living in the 70s finally forced to join the rest of us

Because if the Big Three go under, a very large number of workers (folks working for the Big Three and for their suppliers) will suddenly be collecting unemployment insurance instead of paying taxes

and they will also paid in taxes if bailed. so GM is going to become a giant money laundering operation for the IRS?

cut out the middleman and put them on unemployment...then they can actually find PRODUCTIVE work

what about person C - a nonunion honda plant employee. he has beaten the competition fair and square, and now he must subsidize them. perversely, the harder he works, the more money he can potentially contribute to a government underwriting his competition.

assuming you modded me down because you can't name three real companies where every employee is FORCED to use outlook

yhoo management is almost single-mindedly defined by competing with google. indeed they "missed" facebook because they couldn't stop obsessing with google. in google, yahoo mgmt sees the company yahoo could have been

the reality is there is no real competition in north america search. google has the market sewn up. team members can move from yahoo to microsoft to powerset to whatever...google will still dominate.

brand matters. in a test i recall, they took yahoo results and google results and swapped the company banners. people liked the results that had the google logo on them. google has the brand in search, its probably impossible to unseat them unless they do something drastically stupid

and one wonders why bankruptcy is suitable for any other company in america, including airlines that have gone in and out of bankruptcy numerous times over the years...yet this same option is not permissible for the big3?

this is exactly why ch.11 exists - to allow freedom to restructure

As we save the companies that crippled the credit markets, we have no interest in spending a fraction of that same amount of money helping the companies most negatively effected by the condition of those same credit markets.

are you trying to tell me that gm is simply a victim of the credit crisis???

why would a bank loan them money now?? aren't we all about responsible lending now?? lending money to gm is the corporate equivalent of a subprime loan. we don't want banks making subprime loans anymore.

one must ask why a waitress at denny's who makes minimum wage and has no healthcare must bail out union workers at gm who make 8x the wages, do less work, have ZERO DEDUCTABLE healthcare (do you? i doubt it), and full pensions.

or why should a succesful worker at honda in ohio subsidize not only a failed competitor, but in essence have his own taxation used to undermine his own hard work?

as for saving jobs and investment...most of the suppliers are already on death's door if they only rely on orders from detroit. investors have already lost 95% of their money on avg...nothing can reverse these losses

in the end the govt cannot give the big three their reputations back. lost reputation is why people do not choose these cars even though they are now comparable in quality. barak obama cannot force me to buy a buick

Not something that's good for the consumer!

no doubt some reversion to the mean is beneficial...but a healthy economy shows some nonzero manageable inflation level...like around 2-3%. a deflating economy is deadly in the longer run, because demand goes away and so does employment.

oh jesus just kill this meme already

i tell seth godin to pay my bills