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Re:First employee or co-founder? on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @10:03AM (#4417363)
watch out for those 'pure meritocracies' when the founders are less than trustworthy and a year of 60+ hour weeks is simply expected and not rewarded.

aka: I wish I had just freelanced. Live and learn

Re:I'm Not Japanese on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @06:18AM (#4416696)
Why should .com be an automatic english language domain? It defines no single country.

co.uk co.us co.au

for example, I'd be surprised if they defaulted to anything other than English for a public website. But not .com

Re:The Textbook Industry & Greed: My Story on Monday August 20, 2012 @08:02AM (#4407145)
My graduate university kept a good number of copies of required texts in the library that could be lent out for the length of the course. Reserved copies (i.e., can't be taken out of the reserved area) were available as well. No student had to buy any books unless they wanted to.

I think that's my favorite system.