that comic is priceless!
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She did get the geekiness aspect though, in fact when I didn't want to join my college's sci-fi club she signed us both up (and became the president who all feared and respected). We had a blast there and made some life-long friends. Then she watched star trek: tng and the love of ST began :).
With my sister, I grew up telling her about what smoking feels like and the addiction. Guess why she does not smoke... Its not a big curiosity anymore for her, she just knows nothing good will come of it. She also tried (unsuccessfully) to get my mom to quit smoking. She understand addiction and why its bad to start.
Once you realize just how much they mimic its incredible the things you can realize. When I saw my daughter standing idly doing the same little motions with her feet as I do when I stand Idly, I realized: Nothing too little will go unnoticed with the child, the child will pick up on everything I do and thus if I want her not to do it, I must MODEL the right way for her.
Parents NEED to understand the difference in age. Don't YOU hate it when you have to stop watching a movie you are interested in mid-way and do something you don't want to. Well a child has a harder time coping. Imagine your mother walks in on you fucking your girlfriend, and says in a pleasant voice (she ain't being a bitch) "honey, please get out of her and wash the dishes". Imagine the response you will have. Now imagine the request "honey, I know I'm heavily intruding but you haven't done the dishes in 3 days and I am hungry, so finish up in 15 minutes and wash the damn dishes!" I assure you the second scenario will make YOU feel responsible for the fact that this shit happened, maybe even embarrassed. But the message is VERY different. There was no painless way to get into the situation but it was as painless as possible given the circumstances and the blame now lies in the appropriate party.
You need to alert the child that "homework is coming" give em a few minutes to cope, make sure they understand they have a few minutes and let that brain work at the coping, it just takes time. Be consistent with it. Also important to let the child know why it's their fault they have to stop, if the child did the homework first the child would have the ability to watch the movie without interruption. (make sure to not go back on your word, because that will not help later on). Now if the movie is on disk, let the child know you can pause and resume later, if not, hell 5 bucks to download the movie and let your kid watch it is worth it.
With children every potential conflict can be turned into a learning experience one way or another. The problem is the going up to a child "turn of the tv and do homework". To a child that might be too sudden and too intense to immediately cope with.
I am 26 years old and already me and my wife noticed these little things. Most the conflicts with my 3.5year old is avoided. AND she does what we want her to do. Sometimes we turn chores into a game, sometimes we turn something she dreads into something "fun" because we join her. Also PICK YOUR CONFLICTS. Believe it or not, the child will want to do things differently than you do. Sometimes the way the kid wants to do it is alright, so let them have their way. The child NEEDS to feel some control over their life, give them inconsequential choices "red or blue shirt" fine it does not match, who cares.
You will have to dedicate yourself to the kids, but thats what parenting is about.
I must say the program in itself is nicely made, not mentioning the javascript-fact of it.
Edit: Too bad does not work in IE9, was hoping to see what video acceleration can do for performance.
On the other hand if you want non-insane, I would buy an appartment building, flip it, and try to make long term money on that. With partners of course.
Honestly for 25 grand I'd live off the money for a few months and find a job.
I find the in corporations where you can throw more people/time at the problem is where it starts to fail. I can always "hack" something up fast, and add a few programmers to make it faster, but the trick is to not add anyone and still meet the deadline (or a bit over, but that gets covered by blowing all other deadlines away).
GitHub is no different. They had an itch, scratched it, turns out other people had the same itch.
"In an unstable economic environment, the only safe investment is... PORN" -- Avenue Q
Competition = forces everyone to innovate, even Microsoft. I still have a prediction that in 3 years Microsoft will rise again.
I agree with the fact that this is not "disruptive", when I opened the post I expected to get something that can help you cater you wedding for a fraction of the price or something, or a mechanism for to shop and rate wedding planners, something.
Now a REAL wedding disruptor would be a tool that auto-generates video/photos of you and your family at a wedding so you can send those out and skip whole wedding nonsense, and go drinking with all your combined friends for the evening.
I worry about your business model though. It seems nice to be able to safe a thousand or more dollars on wedding invitations BUT here are the problems:
1) When a wedding costs 25k, saving 50-500 bucks on an invitation is going to be looked at as stupid, and cheap. You want the one that takes the most hassle out of it.
2) A big part of the invitations is the printing/mailing. If only the design was the only factor.
3) Often catering halls (im from new york) will do everything from getting the place, getting the catering, getting the flowers, getting the invitations and sending them out, its a full-blown package.
The real way to go about this is to have people design their invitations in an awesome way quickly before their wedding, get hooked to it, and already have that in mind. Makes it less of a headache for them, and sells your product.
I find it insane that it is criminal to share some of this information. Secret information that the government has should be very very little, especially in war efforts. Sure the CURRENT strategy being applied in the battlefield should be secret since that will save our soldiers' lives, but after the battle that should all be revealed.
Hiding information makes the american public hated for certain actions, and the american public does not know what the actions were to begin with, so in the end the american public loses.
1) We forget our dreams and risks because if we have children or just people depending on us to put a roof over their heads and food on the table, we can't just drop everything.
2) Once you live in luxury, it is hard to drastically cut back a few months (like spend 1000 a month vs 3000) and then have enough money saved to just take a risk and hope for the best.
3) Even if YOU can achieve (2), your spouse might not be able to.
4) Loans, assist with this risk averseness, since you don't want to lose your house/invested money. Honestly this is why I am debt free. When a company I worked for went under, people were ripping their hair out, I was just smiling "cool, I got time to look for a better job".
5) In reality, you DO HAVE FREE TIME. I have 1 child (3yo), and a full time job, and a wife in college, AND I find time to r&r AND work on a startup, AND spend time with child/wife. If I have enough hours, no excuse for you. I have co-workers with even more responsibilities than I do AND they manage to find time for a side company.
In reality people who say "I don't have time" are just not willing to sacrifice anything for their dreams. Even if you fail you can at least live your life knowing you tried, if you succeed it feels even better, otherwise your whole life is spent envious of someone else's success.
Ok those damn immigrant spies... oh wait those were legal too, and a drain on their country's resources.
Ok those damn illegal immigrants and their taking of american jobs that were created by immigrants who we now depor... damn, this aint working out.
I'm going to stop listening to fox.
1) Do your contract. If asked then respond with that.
2) Do a good job, let your client see clearly YOUR code is superior.
3) Let your client keep their shitty coders.
By stating the above, you potentially destroy a relationship with a client. Unwarranted too.
Ok in all honesty, many f2p games are intended as exactly that. Free to play and buy some online goods. I find that sometimes these f2p models are actually quite nice and can be worth spending money into. Other times I find f2p models evil and crippling the none f2p people. A good example was a mmorpg where you pay for a month of faster (2x) exp gain. Which is great and many do it, but the mmo was free otherwise. And you are not really crippled without the double xp.
If america stops buying from china, trust me china will be hit hard. These relationships are pretty symbiotic. On the flip side: Did you know the very tycoons we are righting in iraq and the middle east own a big chunk of our debt as well?
I bet Tiwan thinks that americans walk around dueling lightsabers on a daily basis. Sure everyone's missing a limb and steve jobs/bill gates go around strangling people, but thats alright, eh?
What was the quote? "The only thing worse than being talked about all the time, is not being talked about all the time". Because bad press can be turned into awesome press.