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by gutnor 12y ago
Soon they will be cheaper than their non-smart equivalent.
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by gutnor 12y ago
I work in banking. For trader, M&A and other related positions, the contractual bonus rate is/was(?) often 100%. A lot were fired, they hired back, then fired again. Not sure what the overall impact had been, but for the ones I kno
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by gutnor 12y ago
There are also alternative paths for people with good connections from their background. I remember seeing brochure in one of the business hotel I went for work. It was about a University type establishment but with no major or minor or har
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by gutnor 12y ago
I was surprised when they started an actual investigation when some idiot slashed my and my neighbors tires. Apparently my neighbor heard the guy shouting "Fucking foreigner" (we both had foreign registration plates at the time) o
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by gutnor 12y ago
The cost of operating those is also questionable, especially in China. It is profitable to have pizza hand-delivered in the US/Europe where labor cost is high. In China, I wonder how that is even possible.
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by gutnor 12y ago
Isn't that similar to the way the productivity (the economic metric) is measured though ?
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by gutnor 12y ago
Unless there is a coup or revolution, a bad government is elected and as is common in most democracies will hold as little as 30% of the vote for a while. A law that already exists does not require further discussion or vote and can be perv
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by gutnor 12y ago
Not really, Apple Pie is American for the American and maybe some other English speaking countries. In the rest of Europe, there is no association of the US with the Apple Pie, and until very recently, there was nothing cooler than US-stuff
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by gutnor 12y ago
You are just comparing a shit job to a good job, and well the shit job is shittier than the good one. Let's run with your example - what would have been your boss opinion ? Or if your business is growing and you need more people, how w
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by gutnor 12y ago
It is not only that - even when you run your own company you can and often are effectively dependent on your clients/market ( especially that big client making 80% of your revenue ), or the need of your dependents ( you still need to p
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by gutnor 12y ago
He is a middle-man. He provides flexibility in the medallion scheme (offering scheme that are not provided by the government), take financial risk ( he put the money on the table and need to find some driver ) and so ensure more taxi are on
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by gutnor 12y ago
Trivial to get an newer version though, for example through homebrew. Here is what I have, currently (haven't updated in a while) $ git --version git version 2.0.3 For windows, it is another matter, seems officially stuck
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by gutnor 12y ago
Europe is mainly about regulating a common market, that's what it does, what it was design to do since day 1. Not taking seriously would cause Google infinite problem if they don't pull from Europe entirely. It is all the other th
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by gutnor 12y ago
That's the lowest level of vote with your wallet statement. Like "That's it facebook, you have abused my privacy one too many times, I will disconnect for a whole week-end."
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by gutnor 12y ago
Most of the black cab I have taken have a also a GPS, so that's not like it is an exclusive type choice, and I wonder why people assume so. Even connected GPS are fairly bad at finding the shortest way if it means running in the other
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by gutnor 12y ago
European Union is a union in a UN sense rather than USA sense. There is no European value or identity to defend, so neither Cyprus nor Luxembourg is doing anything wrong really, just playing their card and do the best for their citizen firs
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by gutnor 12y ago
Somewhat, brain went straight to "brand specialising in mass market" which was already incorrect but still understandable. Unfortunately I also wanted to avoid repeating "mass market" hence the shortening. "Speciali
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by gutnor 12y ago
Seems like all the big storage provider are bundling up feature. Integration with all their product for Apple, Office 365 for Microsoft, now this for Amazon. I'm wondering if Dropbox has something in store ? Seems to me like they will
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by gutnor 12y ago
"specialist in the mass market" I meant, but yeah "generalist" is definitively better.
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by gutnor 12y ago
Selling a few high end car (Porsche) and selling a mass-market car (VW, Ford) are vastly different businesses. Boutique style pampering you get today when buying a Tesla does not scale, or at least not easily. For example, online buying, Te
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by gutnor 12y ago
> On the other hand, it is incredibly easy to go around Amazon. It is tiring to hear that kind of argument all the time to determine if a business is a monopoly ( monopsonist ) or not and then it is supposed to be business 101 to know t
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by gutnor 12y ago
Yes, people that knows the difference between local searches and online searches are probably upset about it. As a HN user, I'm in that category of people. However, I was surprised, when using my phone that I expected Spotlight to sear
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by gutnor 12y ago
The taxi market is very different in Europe than in the US and different in every country. Uber faces a different set of challenges in different countries. Taxi service is not universally crap around the world and Uber is not answering the
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by gutnor 12y ago
Well except that this article has nothing to do about technology or disruption ( that is a recognised business model used as noted by the article Tesla direct competitors ), and indirectly about Musk. That is so banal, AFAIK almost all bran
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by gutnor 12y ago
> it is primarily emotional rather than calculated That about sum it all. My situation allow me to follow closely similar situation in Belgium and Spain. Separatist parties mine the emotional level. The reality is that splitting countrie
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by gutnor 12y ago
People do not want a watch like the current crop of i-watches. They hope that Apple will create a watch the masses want to buy. That's what the excitement is all about, either pro-Apple people that want to see Apple creating another iP
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by gutnor 12y ago
That only work if can bill your employer for all the hours you work. For example, it does not matter if I work more than 8 hours a day, I will be paid the same. So if I hire somebody to wash the dishes in the evening, it is costing me mone
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by gutnor 12y ago
That works alright up until you need to integrate with third party libraries like JSF, Seam, Hibernate, Jaxb, Spring, EL, plenty of other stuff that requires a "javabean" Sure, you can beat the big ones into working, and there is
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by gutnor 12y ago
Actually, there are 2 financial center in London. Canary Wharf and the City. Canary Wharf does not enjoy the same weirdo status as the City and that does not seem to prevent bank like HSBC to be headquartered there. Also quite a lot of fina
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by gutnor 12y ago
Just adding up to those points. Compiling at the time was a problem. Adding a new library could mean hours of digging up to find out why you can't even link the damn thing in your project - if that's even possible. That's bef

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