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Comment · 17 years ago
Comment · 17 years ago
Maybe the author should unfollow some people?
Comment · 17 years ago
It is an interesting app and I think a lot of twitter developers will find it useful.

On the UI side you need to rethink things. Twitter apps tend to be on the really well polished side, and your site is lacking here. There are lots of different fonts and effects, alignment issues, things like that. Maybe hire a designer? Or if you want to do it yourself, really simplify things.

Comment · 17 years ago
Same here. But I think that is the idea - to let the comments speak for themselves and let the comments sink or swim on their own merits.
Comment · 17 years ago
That's an interesting insight but it goes too far. For example, Mint.com/Intuit and Facebook can survive independent of Google.
Comment · 17 years ago
It is like a safe harbor provision. If you exclude processed foods and grains, then you are in a relatively safe place food-wise, though not perfectly safe of course.

If you do eat processed foods, then you take your chances or you must spend a lot of time educating yourself about various ingredients and the studies about them.

Comment · 17 years ago
The point is that it is difficult for people to follow the diet consistently.
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More interesting than how they got thier names is what these companies were doing before their names got famous. For example on this list there are decendants from a pulp mill, dried fish exporter, and a playing card maker.
Comment · 17 years ago
I've read the book, as well as Influence. Influence is a far stronger book because it does a better job of describing the theoretical underpinnings of why the 50 tricks work.

Some of the tricks are really narrow and so they aren't all that useful themselves (e.g. to write post it notes and put those on interoffice forms and surveys for a better response), but with the theories you can make better extrapolations.

Comment · 17 years ago
Is that really a win though? Your friend is out two years worth of income + considerable debt to make an extra 35K after two years.
Comment · 17 years ago
That's the stated policy, but it hasn't been my experience. I've done many days at waaay over 2 hours.
Comment · 17 years ago
You can get free wifi at starbucks without any AT&T setup at home. The steps:

- buy a starbucks gift card ($5 minimum)

- register the giftcard online

- use the registration info when prompted when you connect to the network at SBUX.

- you must make at least one purchase each month on the giftcard, e.g. a tall coffee for $1.50.

- you can only use two MAC addresses on that card. Otherwise they'll lock your account, but you can call and get it unlocked.

- with said giftcard you also get free refills and free flavorings of some type too, even if you don't use the giftcard to buy the coffee in the first place.

I go to starbucks pretty much every day and that's how I get online there.

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