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This thing has been floating around for years--and I see it in some classic gamer group on FB or Reddit a couple of times a month.

Can anyone point me to a change.org petition that made any difference whatsoever?

At one point, a lot of my consulting business was figuring out code like that, that others have written.

Make money by finding clients or customers to pay you a higher rate than it costs you to produce something.

Conceptually it isn't that hard.

Putting it in practice is not always easy.

I imagine a data science business would be a services business that you can sell to C-level executives.

+1 for the E-myth, a must read for anyone who wants to run a business.

Which book are referring to? Human Relationships or the Dale Carnegie book?

Definitely interesting; I wonder how LASIK and PRK fit into the picture.

In my version of the world, podcasts and YouTube video tutorials were alive and thriving 10 years ago; I'm not sure why they would suddenly kill conferences.

Burning out and quitting my job with no plan.

Through word of mouth / networking I got a few consulting gigs and things snowballed and I've been doing that for 18 years.

When dealing with short-term clients you learn how to swallow your ego and get things things.

While I can guide/direct on the best approach or technology, the final decision isn't always mine, and I morph to the demands of the person signing my checks.

Also learned a lot about communication, marketing, negotiations, finance, legal, and sales.

2 parents and 8 kids?

I think arguably, both options are correct.

It is probably valid for a game publisher to claim copyright on the game's music--assuming they created it for the game [as opposed to licensing it].

I also believe that a playthrough video probably counts as fair use in most cases.

Nintendo is known for having a 'bad' reputation with playthrough videos on YouTube.

LOL! I thought that too, but I do not own the copyright on the game or the sound effect.

That's no longer the case. I post a bunch of game playthrough vids and there are a lot of options to contest claims like that now.

I had a recent one where the sound effect from a game released in the 1990s was claimed as being part of a song released in 2015.

On the Internet no one cares about punctuation or grammar.

My own anecdote; 12 years of Catholic School, graduated HS in early 90s.

In my Freshman year of High School, the English teacher gave us a grammar test on the first day to see where we were. Two people passed [including me--I got one question wrong], but the bulk of the students failed.

I remember being surprised that so many of my long-time classmates could fail the test.

Consequently the teacher spent the first half of the year on grammar issues instead of other literary pursuits.

I have not heard of 'be a multiplier, not an adder' Can you elaborate?

I got my unit on initial release, so have had it for roughly 2 years. It was hit or miss for the first 3 months, but various updates solved all the issues.

It's been running like champ ever since.

Technically, 3 of them because they had a mini-refresh of the "Surface Book with Performance Base" around 1 year after the initial release.

If I download a W9 from the IRS web site I can fill it out directly using Acrobat. I'm pretty sure the free reader is all you need.

I guess I'm not understanding the niche you fill.

Good luck with it, though.

I'm really confused. Is this intended as a programmer's tool? Or as an end user tool?

If I understand it, create an HTML form, submit to server, spit back PDF. This has been built into ColdFusion for about a decade, and it is trivial. [and I assume other server side software can do the same thing].

Aside from that, the bulk of the PDF Forms I download these days can already be filled out with Acrobat. I'm not sure what benefit you're offering me in time savings.

You sound like Manager material. Or maybe Entrepreneur.

In the real world it is perfectly legitimate to 'hire someone' to do your work for you and claim it as your own.

From a purely legal and promotional standpoint, Guacamole is more likely to be trademarkable than "Apache Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway".

I prefer descriptive names too.

In fairness the bulk of The Millionaire Next Door subjects owned their own business and could often pull in salaries of $500K+ per year.

I see that now. His space between no and SQL confused me.

What makes you think SQL didn't exist 15 years ago?

SQL has been around since 1974 according to Wikipedia. There was a ton of SQL Work during the first dot com era of the mid-90s.

On another note, I did a lot of Lotus Notes working during that time, which was clearly a no-SQL database.

Super slow, but pretty cool....

Finally I can play Solitaire without Ads again.

I try to make my Desktops last for 10 years before replacement, but I've been known to replace components along the way.

Probably wouldn't be good for a hard core gamer, but for Quickbooks, Email, and MS Word, I seem to be surviving.

Welcome to a larger world. The bulk of patents in the US seem ridiculous.

As always talk to an accountant.

But, the 'deduct expenses' will help reduce taxes.

No link, but the gist in the US is this:

1) Start Business

2) Get Real Clients to buy your stuff

3) Deduct Expenses

4) Pay 40%* of whatever is left over to the Government

* The 40% number can go up and down depending on your income amount [and local tax commitments].

I was able to freeze my credit through on-line forms using instructions here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/identity_theft

Fees vary by state. I think I paid ~$20 total and not all of them charged me.