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rufusjones

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    Comment #12379372

    You can flag my comments all you want, but it doesn't change the facts. There isn't ANY link to evidence that this thing works. The Valley turned a con artist named Elizabeth Holme…

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    Comment #12365697

    So is it "Best cancer diagnosis system", or "Breast cancer diagnosis system"... or did you mean that he was from the UK, and this is a portmanteau word, like "Brexit"? Also more to…

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    Comment #12288900

    In high school, I had a poster that said "EAT SHIT-- Five Billion Flies Can't Be Wrong!!!" Your approach reminds me of that. You upvote things you don't read, because you figure th…

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    Comment #11180927

    There's a scene in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER where the producer halts the recording session after Loretta Lynn starts singing and says "We need to get some more pickers." "What do you …

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    Comment #10609452

    Where is the video teaching basic spelling? (Peronsal)

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    Comment #10474244

    Elance and Odesk merged to become Upwork. What you heard about those sites is incorrect-- or, more precisely, incomplete. It's like my saying "A lot of the people on GitHub couldn'…

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    Comment #10473940

    1. What part of the phrase "might or might not" wasn't clear to you? 2. Where in "introverts who lock themselves away and aren't great at self-promotion" do you see any assertion a…

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    Comment #10469855

    You have to be kidding. And I mean full John McEnroe "You cannot be serious." First of all $150 for a 750-word article would be a good payment. Assuming you aren't asking for more …

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    Comment #10014844

    Use it to serve PHP pages. That oughta do 'er.

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    Comment #9775461

    And you are peanut butter. Making false statements with conviction doesn't mean they become correct. If Boober were a lead generation company, it would charge a flat fee for leads …

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    Comment #9386939

    No, you aren't "good enough to do consulting." Skills are important, but attitude matters. If you charge $200 an hour, you have to BELIEVE that you can add $400,000 in value if the…

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    Comment #9380005

    Neither-- it's pronounced "Gif".

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    Comment #9249890

    Dwight Lundell had his license to practice medicine in revoked in 2008-- his fifth disciplinary action in five years by the Arizona Medical Board. This does not prove his ideas are…

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    Comment #8231510

    So customers know why they should buy you, as opposed to the 14 other companies offering the same thing. Unless you are building life-size replicas of people out of tuna salad and …

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    Comment #8162155

    You send letters to your brother Theo, cut off your ear and hope to be recognized as a genius someday. You say "you're not the managerial type so leadership positions... requiring …

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    Comment #7909294

    TaxPal, by a wide margin, because it's short and very close to being self-explanatory. When people say "What?" you can say "It's an online bookkeeping service provider" and they'll…

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    Comment #7619880

    Of course you can learn online. So what? Here;s why you need to saddle yourself with $125,000 additional debt-- even though it might become useless soon. Let me explain how compani…

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    Comment #7608202

    Hi-- Rufus Jones. Pleased to make your acquaintance. I live outside of Germany-- in fact, I live outside of Boston. There was a 3-year period when you couldn't pick up a computer m…

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    Comment #7564021

    Absolutely look for an internship. What would a job offer you, other than money (which you say you need) and experience (which you absolutely will need if you ever want to get hire…

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    Comment #7507758

    Facebook, Google or Twitter, because I don't think those companies know enough about me yet. Sane people use Abine's Maskme things they think they might want to use and Mailinator …

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    Comment #7472236

    He probably imagines that they can 3D-print the shirts. If I remember right from talking to a tailor, collars, cuffs and buttons are almost all of the construction effort. If the i…

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    Comment #7472227

    It is if you use underpants gnomes, eg: 1. Order shirt online 2. ? 3. $30 dress shirt in 48 hours with profit!

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    Comment #7472222

    Thanks for filling in some details. I don't have any expertise in the apparel business either, but general principles indicated how badly thought out this was. Really, a functionin…

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    Comment #7463276

    You ought to be able to get at least $100 million for this idea. Look at how well it corresponds to your typical dot-com: 1. You have absolutely no understanding of the size of you…

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    Comment #7296870

    There's no such thing as a "student developer". If they pay you, you're a pro. There are only good and bad pros. Get into the habit, right now, of thinking and acting like a consul…