{"id":530,"date":"2008-11-16T18:40:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2008-11-16T18:40:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T17:40:51","slug":"its-a-fair-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/its-a-fair-game\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a fair game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking for a while now what&#8217;s <strong>fair <\/strong>in this system of ours. You see, people often say that it&#8217;s not fair to pitch some other companies\u00a0employees\u00a0to come and work for them, or in terms of product, that someone else has a better product and you&#8217;re loosing your hard-won users\/customers to them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\">\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13506489@N02\/3031918996\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"My Mother ..\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3067\/3031918996_9f146fe606_m.jpg\" alt=\"My Mother ..\" width=\"240\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by UniqueOo    Mania via Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an more interesting question &#8211; <strong>should we build a competing system? It doesn&#8217;t seem fair to the other guys who just started, and we&#8217;re so ahead.<\/strong>\u00a0Well, it might not be <strong>fair<\/strong>\u00a0by some strange standard of\u00a0decency, but it&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">definitely<\/span>\u00a0fair in this game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s all I wanted to say. Go out and compete in this dog eat dog world and don&#8217;t worry about fair, you&#8217;re allowed to do basically everything. The community will judge you against your actions, but as long as you can justify them and get away with it, why not? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why write this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because of Comment spam problems with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Disqus\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.disqus.com\/\">Disqus<\/a>, I decided to change my commenting system to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"IntenseDebate\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/intensedebate.com\">IntenseDebate<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s going to work better, but I&#8217;m willing to give it a try. Since I really like what Disqus is doing, I wanted to somehow justify breaking my virtual relationship with them, when I disabled the plugin.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <strong>fair game<\/strong> and I&#8217;m happy to switch back when they fix their spam problem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/1827811d-db4b-4e0c-b67d-db89f7e5e58c\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=1827811d-db4b-4e0c-b67d-db89f7e5e58c\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking for a while now what&#8217;s fair in this system of ours. You see, people often say that it&#8217;s not fair to pitch some other companies\u00a0employees\u00a0to come and work for them, or in terms of product, that someone else has a better product and you&#8217;re loosing your hard-won users\/customers to them. 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