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by fergie 9y ago
In most jurisdictions a limit a limited company has to have a board and a CEO. You can outsource middle management- this is what McKinsey, Bain, BSG etc essentially do, but you can't legally outsource the guys at the very top.
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Ask HN: Are you pretending to work today?
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by fergie 9y ago
Yes, put property prices have shot up PRECISELY BECAUSE INTEREST RATES ARE SO LOW. When interest rates and inflation are low- asset prices such as property go up. High(ish) inflation/interest is a really good thing for workers because
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by fergie 9y ago
Interesting to note that usage and income peaked in late 2017, yet earnings per share continues to rise unabated. When there is too much shareholder pressure to extract money from struggling companies, those companies tend to struggle.
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by fergie 9y ago
SO has never quite cracked the "be nice" rule. You can still get some pretty nasty feedback on your questions, and I completely understand why some beginners would be put off. Its also worth noting that the top result for a softwa
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by fergie 9y ago
After reading the article I am genuinely unsure whether you are joking or not.
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What Medieval England Can Teach Us about Software Development(medium.com)
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by fergie 9y ago
It could be a way for Uber to generate goodwill, particularly in Europe where they have been effectively banned from several cities.
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by fergie 9y ago
One thing I really dont like about Witcher 3 is that you hear the voice of "yourself", and that voice sounds like a WWE wrestler. I never thought about it before, but I now realise how important it is for immersion to let the play
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by fergie 9y ago
Nope and nope. A guild of taxi drivers prevents a "race to the bottom", which does, in fact lead to the benefits I describe. Its not an issue of "fair" wages (although I did use that word), its an issue of _good_ wages.
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by fergie 9y ago
There are many good reasons to licence taxi(driver)s, and cap their number. For example: - to keep traffic down - to ensure a minimum standard of vehicle - to ensure safe, well-trained and responsible taxi drivers. - to ensure a fair level
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by fergie 9y ago
James Bond's academic nous was famously demonstrated by his First in Oriental Languages from Cambridge. The most common qualification for a career in British government is an Oxbridge undergraduate degree in PPE. A top grade in an unde
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by fergie 9y ago
Sad to see this type of infomercial hitting the front page of HN
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by fergie 9y ago
Hacker News is the textbook example of a highly successful content marketing platform for software engineers. Second only to Joel on Software.
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by fergie 9y ago
Often when I see a developer that I look up to actually work, they are on Emacs. Its definitely a small user base, but an influential one. I think if you were to limit the survey to readers of Hacker News, the proportion of Emacs users woul
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by fergie 9y ago
6 day weeks = 6/7 of 365 = 313 days work per year 12 hour days = 313 * 12 = 3756 hours work per year Hours per month = 3756 / 12 = 313 Hourly rate if $60000 per month = 60000/313 = $192
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by fergie 9y ago
Literally the vehicles described in Brave New World. Life imitating art.
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by fergie 9y ago
> Amazon has a serious problem with counterfeit goods Or you could say that Amazon is highlighting the comparative lack of quality of branded goods. A Lacoste shirt is so easy to replicate at a fraction of the cost, that Amazon, by its v
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by fergie 9y ago
Isn't the virtual distribution shelf for investment funds already a pretty established thing? When I log into my online bank there is an online market place for funds, allowing you to place money in funds with maximum trust and minimum
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by fergie 9y ago
For those who missed it there was a pretty good article/discussion here a few weeks ago about how the art market is systematically manipulated for profit, and nobody wants to fix it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by fergie 9y ago
I hadn't thought of it like that- it sure would be really interesting to find out exactly how and why people give him so much money.
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by fergie 9y ago
It sounds entirely reasonable. One way of reading the popularity of Agile is simply that it is a vehicle for non-creators to get their head around dealing with todo lists, testing, documentation and releases. Github is great at all of that.
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by fergie 9y ago
To be fair, testing is to some extent an unsolved problem. The joys of testing were being extolled long before test frameworks were actually usable. Now that they are, and you can glue Travis, GitHub and the test lib of your choice together
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by fergie 9y ago
> hence why cloud providers can offer $100,000 initial credit Is this a thing? How can my company get $100,000 of AWS on credit?
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by fergie 9y ago
Wow- TIL. Thanks.
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by fergie 9y ago
Its still not clear to me why native CSS doesn't/shouldn't support variables.
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by fergie 9y ago
Its amazing how much nicer most European cities have become since the '80s. The wall was one thing, but the general crime, grime and sense of decay was almost as bad.
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by fergie 9y ago
Terminal with GNU Screen works really well for me.
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by fergie 9y ago
Regex101 is the daddy. I really don’t know how it could be improved.
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by fergie 9y ago
Bag-of-words/tf-idf is still a pretty good goto for working out "significant terms" to solve "search" tasks. Its simple, old, and reasonably effective, which is what makes it good.

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