anjc

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by anjc 12y ago
Yes. This analysis was amateurish and naive, given the guy's credentials. A 1st year undergrad in business and finance could do a better job with half an hour to spare.
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by anjc 12y ago
This is a finely written article but it's showing an ignorance of basic marketing. "You can't grow a consumer product that hasn't reached product market fit". The term 'product market fit' is specific to a
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by anjc 12y ago
I love its collaborative aspect (which is impossible to use when the document is longer than 30 pages), but you're right, it's not even close to being a Word killer.
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by anjc 12y ago
I did one thesis in Latex (I can't remember which IDE). And although I absolutely adored the output, and although I hated using Word's formula creator recently, I just had too many hours and days wasted trying to debug errors. Som
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by anjc 12y ago
Maybe it's a matter of opinion. My opinion is that Office has its faults, but having written hundreds of <30 page documents and numerous >100 page ones, nothing comes close to being as...acceptable as Office. Google Docs, for exa
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by anjc 12y ago
They're not "making gold better" like magical alchemists, they're making a composite material.
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by anjc 12y ago
A lot of the comments here are depressing, showing no appreciation of computing history or engineering challenges.
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by anjc 12y ago
Ridiculous comment.
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by anjc 12y ago
> I would love to see how it recovers from other than very tame issues You do know that these things don't pop out of the universe via magic right? Do you understand the engineering issues involved here to be judging the tameness of
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by anjc 12y ago
> This phenomenon is endemic to dating culture in general. It's strange that the large majority of young Western women who have ridiculously fickle preferences, don't have the insight to realize the consequences of their behavi
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by anjc 12y ago
Sure all muscle gains are temporary. And TRT is typically used by people who would be at an age where baldness is common anyway.
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by anjc 12y ago
Yeah I get you with the Palm comparison, but I do think that the top end Lumia's are definitely not 'meh' hardware. I recently purchased the 930, so I can see a way Microsoft can increase sales immediately, and you hit the na
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by anjc 12y ago
I don't know why people would suggest that Microsoft fork Android. Windows Phone is by far and away the best experience i've had on a phone, and my Lumia 930 is the nicest phone i've used (after coming from a series of iPhone
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by anjc 12y ago
Good article, but I still don't understand why they're suddenly popular again. So processing is faster, but is there some development in processing which has improved this domain especially? Developments in "big data" pr
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by anjc 12y ago
Women have been allowed into the industry for a century+ :S If you mean attracting more women into the industry, supposedly the demand is so high that it wont affect any wages. Wages should continue to increase because of a lack of supply
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by anjc 12y ago
I like the visualisation in [2]! > However, we have zero reason to believe all of these people "can't find a job in their industry" We do, from the same datasource I believe. I'm copy/pasting from another reply i
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by anjc 12y ago
> It seems like labour shortages are built into the system. It certainly was: http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-...
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by anjc 12y ago
His point is that H1B visas are exploited to get cheap labour, and, they are. Why conflate that with general immigration, which H1Bs are not for? Do you only want immigrants who have talents in a specialised area?
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by anjc 12y ago
Check this and the citing papers for it: http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED498867 "Purported labor market shortages for scientists and engineers are anecdotal and also not supported by the available evidence" "the edu
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by anjc 12y ago
> But more to the point, it's short-sighted and selfish to judge policy decisions solely based on their effects on your salary. Especially since those of us in tech are, by and large, ridiculously well-compensated. Maybe it's s
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by anjc 12y ago
> Does that mean being a citizen entitles one to a job regardless of qualification? Also, does that mean 100% of the US should be employed before bringing in foreign workers? You're making up arguments and arguing with yourself here
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by anjc 12y ago
Many countries are lowering the wage requirement. My country (Ireland) is lowering it from ~30k to ~25k. I'm pretty sure the US is too?
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by anjc 12y ago
There's plenty of evidence, and governments in western countries are lowering the "prevailing wage" requirements to far below market rates.
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by anjc 12y ago
There's lots of evidence out there. Probably the most obvious signal for you should be that companies are complaining about a lack of workers, but wages are stagnant. Or another signal might be the fact that 50% of STEM grads have to w
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by anjc 12y ago
> There's a certain amount of tech talent at any given technical ability level available worldwide Surely then wages would be skyrocketing for that limited number of qualified workers, rather than remaining static, which they have.
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by anjc 12y ago
It's not necessarily a competition thing though, is it. Intermediaries sit on top of them, rather than competing. And they rise in many industries because they can provide value that suppliers can't. In the travel industry, consum
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by anjc 12y ago
The overloading of the word 'disruption' irks me terribly. It seems like everybody wants to be 'disruptive', when all they really mean is 'successful'. Anyway, Christensen defines 'disruptive innovation&#x
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by anjc 12y ago
Yep this is exactly what I mean. BMW's get stolen around here often, robbers programming new keys without breaking a sweat, and knowing how smash windows and get in without setting off the alarm: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by anjc 12y ago
There're a lot of comments saying thieves are too thick to use technology for robbing people. Maybe some are, but there are plenty of tech-savvy people with no scruples who might use information like this. To-order car thieves use plen
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by anjc 12y ago
He's talking about cultural alignment in the mail, and there's no reason to assume that that's not the reasoning behind the Nokia layoffs. Acquisitions and mergers are very difficult to get right, particularly in terms of cul

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