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The church is the corporation of religion, using religion to bend the will of man and keep power. I know it sound harsh, but I spend a lot of time in the Philippines where the chur…

My point of view with this is that it is more of a problem with government rather than a problem with the wealthy. If a government is bought off by the rich, it isn't a government …

Great customer acquisition cost, less than $1 per user. With ROI at 10 to 20 times, that was a pretty good investment for $35M.

> It's a lot harder than you might think. Sounds like those spam emails for Viagra

> Yup, that's where I live. Maybe you could let my employer know that's what he's supposed to be like. Hey it's your employer so maybe you should speak to them. It is not an unusua…

> This doesn't sound like the Asia that I live in. Well I have seen it in ; Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia. (note: when I refer to Asia, it is the SEA section)

> It's not like employers are keen on training anywhere else in the US either. Although I do not live in the US, I gather that like many countries I have lived in is the view is th…

They bought a massive customer base in developing countries, and they manage to secure all of those users who use a messaging app without probably doing any deals with any telcos. …

The majority of these points relate to all outsourcing development whether if it's onshore or offshore. In fact it applies for in house development. Cheaper does not mean bad code …

> so I can't see advertisers being too interested with "targeted" advertising being so current Gary Vaynerchuck had an interesting point in one of his many many interviews. Basical…

Do people use paragraphs anymore ?

BOFH day

> this is ridiculous. from what I read the "harm" that happened was really the fact that it was prominently placed in the search engines, which the blogger really had no direct con…

Reading the pastebin text, it seems a little petty and most of all a bit of a big emotional rant. So the author does not agree with the valuation, many people do not agree with val…

Great stuff ... congratulations .... now send me Dars :)

> You wouldn't do 24x7 with 3 people, but you could do 24 hours x ~5.5 days with the rest on call. Thanks, I hope I didn't sound too harsh as I just wanted to understand how you we…

> and not lose that simplicity. Very interesting point

> Once you can afford 3 people this can become a very effective way of ensuring 24 hour coverage. How can you run 24/7 with 3 people ? In Australia that would mean you would have t…

> It has been heavily reported that AWS has cut their pricing quite a bit over the past few years. Yet, how many times has Heroku reduced its price? This is the bit which confuses …

> No sane person running a business will take a 1PM outage over 1AM. Hey what about us people in Asia who use Heroku ... a early US AM outage is likely to be in our early PMs.

As a person who is hovering between a tmux+vim setup and rubymine, I find vim rather convoluted. I was hoping vim was going to be my goto editor, as I was looking for something whi…

Yes, some African Americans may get offended by this. HOWEVER slave does not mean black, in fact there were black people around the world who were in fact Masters. I could take off…

Have to agree here in south east Asia a lot of this is run by crime syndicates, only part of the money goes to people on the street.