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by gutnor 8y ago
I guess "garage competence" is determined part of the environment. In an environment where getting proper spec is a challenge the competent developer needs advanced business knowledge too. Similarly, a very technically competent t
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by gutnor 8y ago
Combined with that they could collect locally relevant information too. Using DDG from the UK is currently a disappointing experience. You have the choice between US centric search result or "UK" filter that is too restrictive: fo
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by gutnor 8y ago
Yes, but not your children and their children. Being a billionaire is prosperity for several generation of your children. The real problem is that becoming a billionaire is statistically an abnormal outcome of that kind of life. Some people
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by gutnor 8y ago
I use it for small utilities, so they are kept up-to-date and I don't need to fish them out when re-installing (which happens unfortunately every year on my corporate Mac) Just missing a Cloud (Dropbox/iCloud) HomeBrew configurati
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by gutnor 8y ago
From a European point of view, this whole thread is surreal. Your hand is crushed or your fingers are severed, you are sent to the ER in an Ambulance. This is impressive how far the US has normalised the concept that health is primarily a
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by gutnor 8y ago
> The interesting years are 2 and 3. Indeed, after all what would be the point of going through the trouble of acquiring a company if major changes weren't coming ? If you don't need something special, there is a myriad of othe
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by gutnor 8y ago
That's not the whole effort involved though. You first need to either remember, or somehow get hints somewhere that the content exists. Then you need to search it, in this case, first on all the streaming option. Then you need to find
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by gutnor 8y ago
Indeed you are right, that's what people kept talking about when Amazon started to rise in popularity: long tail sales strategy. They had everything that you simply couldn't get anywhere else, a strategy that only an online shop c
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by gutnor 8y ago
I haven't been so lucky, maybe that's because of searches in the UK ? Google manages to find more locally relevant information (the most annoying one is the stuff from amazon.com instead of amazon.co.uk). You can easily turn &quot
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by gutnor 8y ago
> 10% content and 90% offtopic musings about boring things The worst problem I have with them is the structure. It is bait and switch, structured a bit like US TV Shows: "Coming Next - you will learn the extraordinary conclusion X r
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by gutnor 8y ago
Also clickbait, the demise of the Cavendish is a yearly article with basically the same content published every years. This one seems to be prompted by the recent rejection of a GMO solution. This is the banana equivalent of publishing &quo
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by gutnor 8y ago
There may be a confusion here, I'm referring at Private Healthcare and not Public Healthcare run by a private company. Spain sometimes subcontract public healthcare to private hospital. However from a patient point of view, you are sti
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by gutnor 8y ago
The UK and Spain have a private health sector with Clinics, GP, ... To access those you either need to pay cash or have a private health insurance. Both the UK and Spain have also a public health sector, with Clinics, GP, ... that is access
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by gutnor 8y ago
Does healthcare insurance pay for that in the US ? In the EU, this is considered a personal life-choice procedure and very rarely handled by insurances - like cosmetic surgery. (being the EU though, you can get it for free using public heal
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by gutnor 8y ago
I'm personally not exactly happy how the EU handled Greece, especially the harsh social consequences on its citizen that the EU could have smoothed and the lack of proper management of Greece "creative" accounting that let Gr
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by gutnor 8y ago
> “for money” is no longer good enough It is still plenty good enough but employee want to be paid in the currency their employers uses. If you trust your employer to do things for the greater good, you can accept less money, or even no
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by gutnor 8y ago
At least Netflix releases a season at a time. On Broadcast tv, filler episodes were really upsetting when you had to wait a week or more. (even worse in foreign countries that took time to realise US series moved to multiple episode story a
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by gutnor 8y ago
Dubious quality is one thing, but dubious legality is the stuff that worries me the most. I ordered some food processing gadget, but it does not come with any kind of EU certification (i.e. not stamped or anything) and it is shipped direct
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by gutnor 8y ago
Another problem is anti-tampering measure is applied before the initial tampering check have been applied. Anyway, that wouldn't solve everything considering that if the chip itself is tampered with, that's undetectable short of a
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by gutnor 8y ago
I guess the problem is the combination of "35-year-old" with "unknown". Seems the 35yo bit is irrelevant to the story, that's neither old nor young: you can have a significant career by that point and you are a long
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by gutnor 8y ago
Java has 2 release cycles. A yearly release with all the latest and greatest available without waiting but whose support stops right after the next release is out. Java 9 went out of support when 10 was released and 10 went out of support w
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by gutnor 8y ago
I guess the "Blockchain" part. Blockchain is a decentralised way to create trusted record without a trusted counterparty, i.e. centralised. In this case, there is nothing decentralised, you need to go through IBM as with a regular
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by gutnor 8y ago
Also 3. China does not want Mandarin to become a Lingua Franca in anything. Let's remember that China is a strongly nationalistic, protectionist, autocratic and most importantly successful country. Keeping Chinese for the Chinese give
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by gutnor 8y ago
> The real problem lies in the laws it relies on, namely the extremely stringent copyright laws and the weird fair use. Real problem is the negative incentive to be correct. The rule penalise you harshly if you serve copyrighted content,
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by gutnor 8y ago
Patents are only a problem for technologies with successful application. Ideally, once you have covered the R&D cost, it should be free for all. Technologies without successful application is the interesting case. With patents, like in
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by gutnor 8y ago
> I also believe that some of what occurred should, in hindsight, have been illegal. That is the main issue. Nothing you can do against individuals that acted legally. However hindsight happened very quickly, almost from day 1. There is
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by gutnor 8y ago
When you reach that stage of technology, why own a car at all ? By Ubering/Renting/Leasing into a fleet of autonomous cars, you get all of that with the addition of: * Be able to chose the car for your immediate present needs (car
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10 Downing Street in London was similarly yellow darkened by soot. During the refurbishment they decided to paint the yellow bricks to maintain the classic look of the building. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Down
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by gutnor 8y ago
Desktop OS where designed for physical media first (side loading). The freedom came first, became part of the expected feature of a desktop, and it would be difficult to take it away. iPhone defined the image of the smartphone and they star
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by gutnor 8y ago
or Apple complies with local laws. Of course it is bad for censorship in autoritarian countries, but I'm glad for the extra customer protections in the EU vs the US. edit: And I'm also glad that foreign companies need to comply wi

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