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by eftpotrm 12y ago
Network providers are asking to be paid twice for the same service though; it's like the Post Office charging you to send your mail, then charging your recipients again to receive it. It's like car makers charging the buyers once
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
>> Not sure, but wouldn't basic income induce increased prices for commodities? >Yes, it would be expected to shift the demand curve somewhat, because you'd be redistributing income to people with a higher propensity to s
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
I'd try it if I had a keyboard for mine. I've written loads on a 10" netbook; it's a great environment IMHO because it's so portable.
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Hmm, I'd put Jobs lower and Musk higher; I'd suggest we're overscoring Steve Jobs still. Paypal is clearly already a big success though, and both Tesla and SpaceX have the potential to become so in the coming years. For me, w
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
I can't claim to have worked with a representative sample of SQL developers, but I've worked with a lot and written huge quantities myself, and I'd like to think some of it was near the 'expert' level. And I'm
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
No (though I'd suggest less atypical than you might think), but that's the point. If you're looking to model migration patterns and you have a data gathering system that biases your data to capture a bimodal migration pattern
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
From that data? It's way too basic. Mine isn't completed, partly because the real friends know it and the casual acquaintances don't need it, but if it were? Well, I can't tell them where I'm from with any precision
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
People tend to overestimate what can happen in a year, but underestimate what can happen in a decade.... That said - * Current economic recoveries are too top-heavy and debt-focused; businesses and investors are taking for themselves withou
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Yes, but only as an amateur experimenting. That said, I'm very grateful for the start he gave me - computers were always around at home (dating back to a kit-built ZX81), as was the knowledge that they could be programmed and the encou
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
I'm in the UK and do voluntary work with teenagers. While I can't at all say my sample is representative or that I've I polled them to check, my experience is that it definitely isn't dead and buried; these teenagers def
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Yes, from what I understand - BBC Radio 4's PM news program covered this yesterday. They were focusing on Vietnamese trafficking gangs.
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Well, yes, but also (stretching the analogy) how many times have we been asked for a schedule to an unnamed destination via unspecified waypoints and then told it's too long and we need to make it shorter? Devs make mistakes, sure, but
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
I'm not a criminologist but my understanding is that murder is almost always a personal crime of passion rather than a general psychopathy, and that the repeat offending rates in countries which allow murderers back out of prison (such
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
It costs USD40k per year per prisoner? Wow. As I understand it's substantially more than 40k GBP per year per prisoner. If the American system is costing less in the order of half what we're paying it must be absolutely horrendo
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Exec summary: my plan to hide assets from creditors and prevent GM from honestly meeting is liabilities was the only thing that saved the company. The government's enormous pile of cash on absurdly favourable terms and without which it
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Not that health economics is my area of expertise so feel free to contradict me, but I believe the US per-capita healthcare spending on Medicare, Medicaid et al is actually higher than comparable nations with universal healthcare. The rat
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
If we're going to pick up on BAR's fuel tank problems from 2005 (and calling it a 'secret fuel tank' as the article does is rather disingenuous), then it's worth also pointing out that the tank manufacturer said tha
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
And if that were really the case then you wouldn't see the big teams like Hendrick and Penske dominating. Heck, even Chip Ganassi has problems competing in NASCAR and he's hardly a small player. Not that I'm necessarily anti
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Generally that sort of thing IME is a sign that you're got a hardcore SQL but who isn't as good as they think and / or a poor SQL dialect. I've known far, far larger things than that written in pure server side SQL (ofte
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Willing to be persuaded otherwise, but the major win of mirrorless for me is scale. A mount can lose its mirrors but the flange distance is still based around a mirror box so there's no win there. NEX is nice in some ways but I'm
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
From a few months with an Olympus E-PL3 (last generation, I know) and a pair of lenses - yes, but not yet. For the bulk of what I do, the Olympus has real advantages over my Nikon D7000. It's much easier to carry round and so gets phot
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
I just checked two Android devices (Nexus 10 and Xperia Z FWIW) and they both jump when you try to tap the WiFi icon, giving an indication of the pulldown menu behind it. Honestly, I'm mostly with the author on this. Maybe it's a
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Aside from the simple fact that I'm experienced and comfortable with Oracle's competitor databases and don't need them, you know what keeps me away from Oracle? Their reputation. Oracle the company have managed to spend sever
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Yes, and I pay about that much petrol month just in petrol to get to work. London's a swings and roundabouts thing, I can see the attraction TBH.
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Move. Seriously. You're harming your future. I made very nearly that as a fresh graduate with an unremarkable degree and no relevant experience. Out in the sticks with more reasonable living expenses. Thirteen years ago, and I'd come close
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by eftpotrm 13y ago
Honestly, no different from how I got permanent jobs; I sent CVs to recruiters and talked to them on the phone. Since then I've been obsessive about building up my contacts book to make sure I can get proactively in front of them as and whe
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by eftpotrm 14y ago
And how's that profit sustainable? They currently have near-monopoloy perceived first-mover prices and margins as 'the only credible device' (iPad) and 'the coolest device' (iPhone). They have the perception as being 'the only system with
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by eftpotrm 14y ago
Windows CE 'Pocket PC' handhelds had retracting soft keyboards 10+ years ago. Handspring Treos were dedicated touchscreen-based phone-PDA hybrids not much later. PalmOS had grids of icons for its screens from day one. Apple's primary innova
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Maybe you should built it, try to develop a userbase then sell it on Flippa? ;-)
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Aren't Red Gate an SQL Server shop though?

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