gutnor

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by gutnor 13y ago
It is a bubble. There is nothing that really drives the market except gut feel ( rationalised in various "strategies" ). That's what it is. You can't use regular metric for the same reason you can't use regular metr
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by gutnor 13y ago
It is weird how traditional journalism has not caught up with internet mentality. What about linking to the study ( http://www.mercer.es/articles/quality-of-living-survey-repor... ), hell, even their official press relea
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by gutnor 13y ago
Don't want to be beta testing that simulator.
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You would hope that from one bubble to the other people learn something. The last bubble, people thought than making stuff available online was enough (Do X but on the internet). The first crisis taught us you need to have an actual busines
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Yes sure you had IRA, ETA in Spain. Although they were making regular appearance in the media, that was not a daily drivel. Suddenly 9/11 and everything any government in the world does not sanctify is labelled terrorism, and adequate
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At some point you would probably be better off having physical button. A huge touch screen on which you need to draw weird gestures you had to memorize does not strike me as very user friendly. That said that is neat implementation and it v
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by gutnor 13y ago
That is the standard advice and I have agreed with it for a long time. However, that highly depends on the company, especially large one. There is very often a disconnect between line management, HR, and all the parallel hierarchies that ma
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by gutnor 13y ago
Engineer/Dev will come to me on a regular basis to "use framework X", that code is module Y is shit because and there is a more optimal version of the algorithm. Most of the time, there is not objective reason other than &quo
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by gutnor 13y ago
You are doing doubly wrong. Look at people opinion on HN (i.e. our peers). Being good require to train in new tech and work on personal project outside work time. If you are pushing yourself to the max for an employer you are most likely no
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by gutnor 13y ago
More generally, there is the feeling that those top earning CEO (and top managers) are seen as outsider of the company. They are like chess player, moving the pieces but not affected by their decisions and there is no real way for one of th
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by gutnor 13y ago
So is that a fail in your book ? The guy actually learned the tech in less than 2 hours under pressure in an unfamiliar environment. If you fail him for that, the message you are actually giving is "I don't care if you can learn,
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by gutnor 13y ago
And how is that clear that Louis C.K. will not blow up a school ? Because of the context. What is the context in this case ? We don't know because the US justice system decided that context is not important.
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The most painless I have seen is the one my it colleague got at a bank: "Hi, you are fired, if you go sign the paper at HR today and you are out of here before 9:30 AM, we give you 6 months salary and an added 10K compensation for the
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by gutnor 13y ago
It is a popular opinion on HN that a population should wish that. Mostly because of corruption, evil financial institutions, inflation is bad, technical superiority, ... At the end of the day, it does not really matter. The people that have
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by gutnor 13y ago
Remember after getting laid off at my first job in London. I didn't know about the difference, my boss kept reminding me that I was not getting fired, but "terminated" As a foreigner, I only knew the lethal meaning of the ter
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by gutnor 13y ago
Well that however is akin to say that Esperanto would render translator and interpreter obsolete. In order to render Central Bank obsolete, you would need major economies like the US, EU, China to switch their currency to Bitcoin. Also it u
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by gutnor 13y ago
I can't talk for GP, but I work in finance, so that comparison has me puzzled too. Maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong corner, but actual money transfer is such a minor part of finance that the comparison is akin to "Inter
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"monopolistic" ? What's that supposed to mean ? They don't have any monopoly, they are not even the dominant player in the smartphone market, and slipping in the tablet one. I guess you mean they use heavy handed control
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I agree for EBay transaction between 2 private individuals. However, from a consumer / vendor perspective, paypal acts more as a regular payment processing. In that market, the vendor is the client, most of the features you enjoy as a
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by gutnor 13y ago
Porn industry is a better use case. Unlike regular movies you do not watch porn with friends and family. Seems to me it is the future of regular movies for the Audiophile type guy that want to enjoy the very best experience even if alone.
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by gutnor 13y ago
The thing is it was more inconvenient than horse and cart for a long time. ( Early cars broke all the time, costed a fortune and you needed to maintain it yourself - that was basically a toy for rich kid to parade at the country club ) You
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by gutnor 13y ago
I'm not sure why you don't apply that reasoning to managers. You do not need continuous guidance from the CEO. A great CEO, after he has built a good team and a good strategy can just let the company sailing along for a decade. He
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It is fairly an honest title. The guy talk only about that feature, use original content, talk about something available for free which he most likely does not have an immediate interest. There is a little bit of exaggeration in the title t
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There is the flip side of it too. This networking effect of having developer hanging around the business people and sales is also the added value of those developers. As one of my manager put it, why would I hire a remote worker in the UK w
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Strangely, here in the UK, corn fed meat (i.e. with antibiotics) is a premium product over grass fed one. So, the problem is a bit deeper than that. There are other problems that are solved by antibiotics: overcrowding and mass production.
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by gutnor 13y ago
I don't want to vilify my fellow Londoners, but to me, that's more a sweeping generalization of London. Getting wasted seems to be the #1 hobby of most the people I know here, no reason the homeless cannot have their share of fun.
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by gutnor 13y ago
I'm currently living for a few month in the country side. People home are filled with stuff they had done by hand. In the past, instead of getting bored, people sewed, diy various stuff, made beer/wine/alcohol/... Younge
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You forget a category of people in the list of what is good. Unless it falls under the "utopia" category, there is the people that wants what mostly what we have today but durably available to a larger portion of the population. &
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And in your world how do you prove you do not know something ? I guess ... more torture ?
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by gutnor 13y ago
Indeed, we should not underestimate the effect of police/agencies behaviour on regular citizen. It is something that shocked me when talking to friends freshly immigrated from countries like South America to London. They have a general

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