gutnor

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by gutnor 13y ago
> Promoting disclosure doesn't make sense anyway since once an invention is commercialized it can usually be reverse-engineered. Well still don't know for sure how people built the pyramids. It is difficult to imagine a world w
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by gutnor 13y ago
Even if it is not lies. I have seen several legitimate cases: 1. The agent reformat you resume in a common standard. 2. The agent add a custom section with the result of their "screening" and other client specific requests. 3. The
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by gutnor 13y ago
If my wife didn't have to work for money, she would study archeology and "work" on processing the countless of archeological site that are laying around where she comes from. That would be work. There are plenty of things tha
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by gutnor 13y ago
I have been looking for a flat in London recently. A lot of the purpose built set of flats built since the 90's use electric heaters. Even brand new one are still the same ( lot of those are buy-to-let, and if you are going to rent you
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by gutnor 13y ago
http://www.ifixit.com/smartphone_replaceability I like clear guideline instead of stupid self repair nobody care about, thanks Apple for fixing iFixit. "iPhone 5: Your battery should be dead by now. Time to replace you
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by gutnor 13y ago
A lot of comment answer that. However, they miss the point. Tesla cannot survive with 30K car. The reason is that they are betting big on infrastructure: supercharger network, new superfactory. Those kind of investments both enable and requ
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by gutnor 13y ago
For US citizens (the kind you describe, that will never go out) the world contains also lot of "evil countries", China, Mexico, ... Those countries are constantly on TV, so even if he cannot point at them on a map, they exist as p
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by gutnor 13y ago
Note that this kind of advise is good for the 20 somethings. That's like how your parents want you to avoid hanging out with the wrong crowd at school, don't be stupid a few years later. As you grow older though, it takes so much
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by gutnor 13y ago
Just replying to the parent in his own terminology. That's another thing I didn't like in the handling of the crisis. Making everybody in a country look like criminals to justify their harsh treatment of the country as a whole. So
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by gutnor 13y ago
> they have found to their undoubted regret that poor fiscal policies leads to a lot of pain, even if you have a "rich uncle" such as Germany Talk about blaming the victim ... The shitty fiscal policies in Greece or similar pro
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by gutnor 13y ago
> unlike FIAT. Actually, unlike any commodity or any currency with a physical representation. What makes other currency not traceable is the notes and coins, not the fact that they are fiat or not. side note: has "fiat" now bec
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by gutnor 13y ago
That's it. That is way cooler for a French to go in London than Paris. Especially, if it does not work out for him he will just come back with a solid resume that will get him a comfortable position easily. Like he decided to live in K
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by gutnor 13y ago
You judgement is sufficient because you live in a world where taxi are regulated and as such any legitimate unregulated competition will strive to provide you the same guarantee you get with the regulated ones. Now I'm not saying that
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by gutnor 13y ago
"Companies could increase the representation of younger people in programming by paying extra money to programmers below a certain age." With ageism being considered "natural", what about giving incentive for old develop
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by gutnor 13y ago
Reminds me of Ubik. From amazon review: Ubik (1969) offers such deadpan farce as a moneyless character's attack on the robot apartment door that demands a five-cent toll: "I'll sue you," the door said as the first
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by gutnor 13y ago
Large business also means supporting old stuff. You can stop dreaming of HTML5 and start coding stuff working in IE7. Also, weirdo DMZ, weirdo User Right, weirdo proxy settings, ... It is complicated, you have little clients that each repre
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by gutnor 13y ago
Just wondering though, what is preventing them to sell a franchise of Tesla and just provide the seller the appropriate incentive - like keep a fraction of the sales. I suppose they still have the right to put some restriction to the franch
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by gutnor 13y ago
> the government is preventing a company from selling a superior product There is some bias there. You judge Tesla a better product, so of course all the regulation that are against its sales are going to feel unjust. I have difficulties
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by gutnor 13y ago
Serious - how are friends involved with dropbox ? Now I'm a (traditional?) dropbox user, using dropbox as a synchronized folder between various computers combined with a remote backup. All I would need to do to transfer is send a few l
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by gutnor 13y ago
> a ton of rigid procedures, that only work well in concert That is your problem right there. 7 years ago, scrum was taught as a toolbox. Each "procedure" had a goal. Reaching the goal mattered, not following a recipe like a le
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by gutnor 13y ago
Scrum is agile. You are not supposed to implement everything that's in it - even better, you are supposed to pick one stuff at a time if you face the specific problem the new stuff is supposed to solve. Adding/Removing stuff is th
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by gutnor 13y ago
"Measure developer productivity and accountability" is already looking at the problem the wrong way. A bit like saying a GPS exists to measure car speed and facilitate insurance paperwork. Agile is about a team and how to make it
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by gutnor 13y ago
Also, silicon roundabout is at 5 min walking distance of the heart of the city of London, so any kind of success would have priced them out. The council is doing what their own success would have been doing in a few years. It would have req
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by gutnor 13y ago
Money and self-regulation is never a good mix and it has not even been 10 years since the last time we have all suffered the result. Of course, the point is not doing it too early to avoid chocking the potential of bitcoin, but eventually,
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by gutnor 13y ago
Well, since this get downvoted, and I cannot edit my post - here is more meat. The case I'm thinking about is the case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_De_Gucht Not saying that it is not illegal, but insider
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by gutnor 13y ago
It is very tough to prove insider_trading. As long as you don't put anything in writing, you can get away with insider trading even if you are the wife of an executive and got the tip during pillow talk.
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by gutnor 13y ago
The GPS get it wrong very often too. There is an enormous amount of magic going on behind the scene to put a car on an actual road on the map. When I'm driving on the highway with spotty coverage, I very often hear "Turn Left in 5
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by gutnor 13y ago
Agreed. We can call copying a DVD copyright infringement, after all a viewer would not necessarily have bought the DVD so calling it theft is incorrect. However, cloning a Youtube video is closer to theft. Removing a viewer is directly decr
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by gutnor 13y ago
Consumer Reports is targeted at people in the US too. Taxes in other countries means that cars get different engine, so for example in the past we used to get Audi with the power tweaked down in Belgium. Also Tesla is a lot more practical i
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by gutnor 13y ago
No people put morality over "success of other". Most of the time when talking about something convenient, or you own business, people manage to bend their own morality with "rationalisation" or "carefully avoiding l

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