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by Ologn 11y ago
> I thought/think that people supporting capital markets view them as a method for companies to raise capital You are correct, people supporting capital markets do view/promote them as a method for companies to raise capital.
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Radio Shack used to sell TRS-80 Model 16 microcomputers running Xenix in their stores to business customers. At least up until the mid-1990s, many local Radio Shack stores were using these machines as their point-of-sale, inventory and fin
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> Maybe distros like Debian are more stability/security oriented than feature oriented. New version of software often contain new features that it may introduce new bugs. New versions of software also fix old stability and security
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by Ologn 11y ago
> It is not the software writers' fault that your distro can't be arsed to keep its package system up-to-date. That's it. Ubuntu releases every six months, it's not upstream's problem that an up-to-date version
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by Ologn 11y ago
Location : New York City, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: See below Technologies: Android programmer for the past few years, which is what I am currently focused on. Was a Unix sysadmin before that. I have a variety of skills at diff
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by Ologn 11y ago
How does my three years of reading get compressed to two years? As I said, most recommend each hour of lecture time to be followed by three hours of self-study. Also, if someone is going to do those three years of non-class study (after cl
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My college had three non-CS writing courses. I would say they helped improve my writing skill, especially one of the classes. I would also say writing well is an important skill to have when working for a business - when writing documents
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Yes, we just had a period after 2008 when open positions dried up, and I remember 2000-2001 when the economy hit the tech companies specifically (I went to work at an investment bank). People shouldn't ask if they and their co-workers
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I used to block off every 9AM-10AM, 4PM-5PM and 1PM-2PM slot as busy slots. If someone really needed to have a meeting at one of those times they could ask me. Because often, those were the only slots the 10 people in the meeting all had
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If you have hundreds of HP Proliant servers, all with the latest firmware patches and some level of support, and they all run a supported version of RHEL, with some level of support, and once a week a different machine crashes and dumps the
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by Ologn 11y ago
One reason some companies want to see a college degree is for the exact reason you're not finishing it - because for many people, working four years without reward is to hard to get motivated for. They want the kind of people who will
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The computing building is named after a student who went to Georgia Tech in the mid 1990s. He went on to found a company which was sold to IBM for over $1 billion.
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> no immediate plans to pursue the public markets to raise capital Corporations raise capital by selling bonds, by reinvesting profits, by getting money from VC's and through other means. That companies rely heavily on public marke
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Prety much what the others have said. The desk should be ready, the phone if they have one (with voicemail password and instructions), the computer, their email and necessary passwords, necessary passes to the building. They should get th
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by Ologn 11y ago
Yes. My laptop is not on the lowest end of the scale, but over the past week my IDE has alternated between vi and emacs on my VPS as I edit Python scripts. I don't need a lot of local power to do that - years ago I was doing that typ
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I use a System76 Gazelle which I bought a year ago. Upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10. Yesterday I had to connect to a new Canon scanner. The standard Ubuntu SANE package did not have the driver, but the Ubuntu PPA package did, and it worked witho
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Also Belgian Association of Newspaper Editors v Google. Also Perfect 10 v Google. These cases mostly revolve around the same issue - they say Google is ripping off their content.
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The core of Google is a search engine and that case has everything to do with the founding principles of Google. As I said, this is just one of the cases. There was also Parker v. Google. Or Authors Guild et al vs. Google. Or Viacom v.
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The areas raised in cases such as Field v. Google.
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Nowadays people forget that Google was founded on a grey legal area.
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> An investor shouldn't be judging you based on the judgement of another investor. You are of the opinion that this should not be the case, which may be correct. Nonetheless, this happens all the time.
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How can they win "an actual copyright court case" for copyrights they don't hold? When TPP passes, they actually will hold these rights.
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If you look at this forum discussion... https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?p=743803#p743803 You can see that an audio recording of a book published in 1921 was pulled due to legal letters. Of course, in the US, works
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Great book!
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On a weekday, Caltrain stops going south between midnight and 5 AM. Bart going east shuts down around the same time. In Manhattan, subways run all night to the different boros, Metro-north, the LIRR, PATH, NJ transit etc. run through the n
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> So the legacy IBM is dying on the table If it is dying, it will be a slow death. IBM spent decades entrenching itself in government and Fortune 500 enterprises. The 23 year old Ruby-on-Rails coder sitting at his desk in his unicorn&#x
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> The reliance on the stock markets is mostly a phenomena of the English speaking countries I know more about how it works in the US than in other English-speaking countries. That listed US non-financial corporations attain capital via s
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> the single most important factor that determines startup success is hiring quality talent, specifically engineers and scientists. High quality engineers and scientists are currently a small percentage of the entire world's populat
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[From the article:] > For STEM-related majors, average earnings don’t vary much among the college categories. Perhaps average or media earnings are not affected much, but what about the outliers? Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg went to Ha

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