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I would pay them 2x or so and ALSO hire a second junior/entry level developer with the remaining budget. The senior developer benefits by having a sounding board and someone to put…

I switched away a long time ago when I got a cold call from GoDaddy trying to up-sell me their hosting... when I told him I use Amazon for all my hosting the salesperson was convin…

Didn't anyone here play Sim Tower? Obviously you want the send all your elevators to the ground floor for the morning rush hour and distribute them evenly among your floors for the…

I can't say I'd mind youtube getting shut down for a day... It'd be comical though when a study puts a value to the U.S. productivity increase when youtube videos are an inaccessib…

Except that we'd be putting a price on opportunity... Sure maybe big companies would put up $100k for international talent, but anybody else that would want to immigrate for that p…

You can be extremely hard working, but that doesn't make you an entrepreneur. The one common trait I've found among great entrepreneurs...? They want to change the world in a big w…

I would suggest Wikipedia needs a 'second page' site to host these types of 'less than notable pages' and they be eligible to be promoted to the main site. But really I would just …

Simple solution. File a small claims court case for the cost the replace your library. The less offensive option that I've used in the past is finding the corporate contact from th…

I'm not much of a self help guru, but positive visualization was often taught to me in sports growing up. In these cases, it would seem the lower blood pressure and heart rate woul…

Isn't "the percentage of search queries that result in a visit to a website" a bogus measure of success? I find myself having to follow more Bing links because the captions are irr…

Why don't we turn the patent review process into a public endeavor? Hacker News / Digg style... vote up the novel patents and down the obvious ones, while commenting with conflicti…

As I once heard serial entrepreneur Tim Bucher say... "Always hire people who are smarter than yourself." It's an extremely difficult task since every entrepreneur wants to do some…