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znmeb

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About znmeb

Media Inactivist, Thought Follower, Sit-Down Comic, Social Media Analytics Researcher, Former Boy Genius, Linux Capacity Planner, R Hacker, Mathematician

“M. Edward (Ed) Borasky is, in order of appearance, a boy genius, computer programmer, applied mathematician, folk singer, actor, professional graduate student, armchair astronaut, algorithmic composer, supercomputer programmer, performance engineer, Linux geek, solution in search of a problem and Social Media Non-Guru. His hobby is collecting hobbies.”

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    1. Empathy 2. Humility 3. Sales 4. Accounting 5. Spanish 6. Chinese

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    Comment #7164811

    I believe it's against Amazon's Terms of Service. They're bigger than you are and they will sue you if you violate their TOS. So check it out!

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    I liked Marty Cagan's definition: "once you have achieved a threshold number (I advocate at least 6) of live, referenceable customers for a given vertical market" I'd say you don't…

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    Comment #7086845

    Never give anything away for free! If people aren't willing to pay for it, your product has no value!

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    Comment #7002582

    No! If my team can't write readable code, I'll get a better team!

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    Comment #6890943

    No, because you'll be five years older and young people will cost less than you do. Might as well go eat worms.

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    Comment #6872898

    Anything totally unrelated to computers, math and hacking! Food, clothing, printed books, sporting goods ... Really, seriously, us hard-core geeks have all the geeky stuff we need …

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    Comment #6824958

    OMG LOL WTF

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    Comment #6817727

    Yes, unless there's a paid development position at the end of the course. ;-) But seriously, your first programming language should be one where there are numerous entry-level prog…

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    Comment #6549897

    Yes, and because of the rampant age and sex and racial discrimination in technology, they're history by the time they're 35 just like an athlete.

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