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prknight

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    Comment #3045343

    Increasing the dataset of color names doesn't really work as well to address this problem in my opinion. I looked at a pretty large set of colors of 5000+ and I discarded it becaus…

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    Comment #3044550

    Well this is funny and cool to see, I spent the better part of Sunday playing with the name that color script ( http://chir.ag/projects/ntc/ ) and jPicker and I compiled a larger c…

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    Comment #2923463

    would make a nice replacement for what is shown on an empty new tab in Chrome.

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    Comment #2889721

    maybe in 2007. You're a couple of years behind.

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    Comment #2762265

    Agree, I'll take a good desktop app over a webapp any day. Webapps disappear frequently, aren't as quick and most importantly you put your data in the hands of a 3rd party which ca…

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    Comment #2754685

    More ideas Rank it then sell it to someone who can do something useful with it, such as a fitness coach/company or any other interested health related org. Or build up a list and i…

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    Comment #2621985

    Barbara Sher - Refuse to choose. It's book about people similar to you. Also, if you work well with a particular extrinsic structure (and enjoy it), why not leverage that. did you …

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    Comment #2580932

    I think a partnership can make sense if there is complimentary leverage, i.e. both parties bring something to the table that the other can leverage to their benefit + the combinati…

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    Comment #2440433

    First, I wouldn't focus too much on the total amount, instead work out what you need to make per month, per week and per day and you'll arrive at an achievable non-astronomical sum…

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    Comment #2438842

    Same goes for words like hustle or pigheadedness. I think grit maybe an even better way to state it. Stubbornness and tenacity can work for or against an entrepreneur or business. …

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    Comment #2401584

    Doesn't that make it even easier for malicious users/bots to cause problems? How does qbix.com strategise against that?

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    Comment #2401578

    They can't be avoided in most cases. Among a host of other reasons, there are the opt-in laws in the US & EU http://www.lsoft.com/resources/optinlaws.asp

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    Comment #2400693

    +1 not to mention that some people just do better when they have more than one project running concurrently. A contrary approach to working non-parallel is the little and often phi…

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    Comment #2375540

    I watch it, I like watching the group dynamics although in terms of business lessons it doesn't have a ton to offer, in the first few seasons were more watchable in that respect. A…

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    Comment #2373514

    This traffic comparison seems to somewhat support that http://goo.gl/FdQi3 Swoopo started tanking when bigdeal started rising, but bigdeal hasn't been anywhere near as well traffic…

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    Comment #2373481

    This seems like a step in the right direction, but I'd love to see a bookmarking service make accessing and utilizing bookmarks easy by 1) indexing bookmarked pages and extracting …

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    Comment #2243473

    Tablets don't excite me either, it makes me appreciate the tactile feel of a keyboard and the benefits of using a mouse (you can't hover like you can with a mouse with touch input …

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    Comment #2061917

    Persistence may guarantee a certain quantity of output and that may allow for a higher statistical chance of 'wins', but it's not a must-have habit to be highly creative. Compare t…

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    Comment #1878526

    A lot of commenters don't appear to have read the paper on which the article is based on - critiquing at its best. Some factoids of note: The Bem study isn't unique, there have bee…