hevi_jos

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by hevi_jos 8y ago
It is worth remembering the real reason there is a limit of 8 hours a day for work is because of a man called Henry Ford, that studied seriously productivity on his company's 300.000 workers and got to the conclusion that 8 hours a day
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
C is extremely simple. In fact is one of the few languages that you could manage to understand completely in the sense of knowing exactly what it does. C macros on the other hand, should die. I use C a lot but never ever use c macros, they
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You will be taking 100% of nothing… Because no traffic will visit your page versus Google's or Apple's traffic. In the same way you can put a store in a rural place, or you could put in in New York 5th Avenue with warrantied traff
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"3. How difficult of a challenge is it to build sorting machines, anyway?" The answer is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. The problem is that it is a network system. The number of possible connections of different elements with different elem
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Just look at the new HoloLens: It uses the cloud in order to analyze the objects in front of you at your office, your house or whatever on real time. Combine that with this with companies like Apple tracking your pulse in your clock(that gi
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The problem with killing more efficiently is that after a point you don't know if you are improving your situation or worsening it. There is this tv series in Amazon about Einstein life and you could see him opposing using his knowledg
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I do not believe that people that only know one language is the majority of the population. Certainly most people in Europe know more than one language, most people in Africa(poor people) and most people in Asia, most people in South Americ
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It is obvious. China debt bubble is bursting right now so they are sensible with prices and Apple just have raised them absurdly. China will experience a traumatic experience(growing pains) for getting to a service economy like the rest of
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What socialism system are you talking about? Just name one socialist country that applies your ideal scenarios. IMHO this system only exist in your mind, it is not real. Countries that people say are Socialist like those in the north of Eur
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Speaking several languages gives you some advantages. You need to automate the distinction of complex sensory patters to the point in which it become effortless(after lots of practice). You create complex neural networks that process this s
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There are also a terrible cost of running just on one database, the dependency on just one provider. In business you should never depend on just one provider. This provider could be the best in the world, now, because it has amazing managem
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
Well, diamond is very easy to break, because being hard also means it is very fragile. In other words, it is very easy for a fracture to propagate. We actually broke low quality diamonds with a hammer. They are also very easy to burn. What
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When a company goes bad, the best people go out first. This is a force bigger and stronger than you are.
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What the world can't escape is politicians and people in power always overspending. The overspending always must come to an end when for every additional monetary unit in debt you get very low improvement in the economy but you in debt
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You are mixing things that don't have anything to do with each other. Two empires separated by more than a thousand of years. While talking about an Empire expansion you omit the biggest factor: You expand or grow conquering-stealing-
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
You must be joking. Those product are the best products out there. They could be overpriced, yes. But other products "many times better", no way!! Other products could be cheaper, but better, no they are not. You can't compar
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That is because some people are hoping for it, in particular, home buyers. If the price os something goes too high, it is a good thing that it goes down to levels in which they are affordable again for those that need it for living on them
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The answer my friend... is blowing in the Wind. I can do way more(orders of magnitude more) with less resources in Lisp and C-python and very simple JS than most of those frameworks do. But it took me years of learning to be able to do that
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Actually they were not that far away. Mr Mussolini was a member of the Communist Party in Italy before creating its own version. The main difference between socialism and fascism(also called national socialism) is that instead of accepting
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People are different. Each mind is different. Only over 30% of the population is highly visual. When people talk about "images" in the memorization world, they are not just talking about visual memories. But also touch(we have mil
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Apple has always cared about dominating market share. It gives them extreme negotiation power when dealing with suppliers, giving them a good price and quality. Apple usually is the first to choose the best quality components from dealers a
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Well, you are into hardware, so you only use stable products :-D As industrial engineer I know what it takes to develop any new product. The real world is enormous and you will always face the unexpected when releasing something new. People
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It is ironical that I find the tone of these people so prepotent when talking about OTHERS being wrong. For example, they give us an audio and they tell us a robotic voice is telling "Laurel", but they then tell us that what we he
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SICP is not just a book. They are lectures you can freely watch on the Internet. For me is one of the most interesting lectures I ever watched. Requires effort because it makes you think, and this is one of the great things about it. Not fo
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I agree with this article, as I have experienced what is working for myself and working for others. On the other hand, people need other personalities to complement their personalities. Organizing this environment is not simple for most peo
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That will certainly be from a North American viewpoint. From the other countries perspective, it is a tremendous power imbalance. The fact that any city of your country could be destroyed by an invading force in 3 seconds at zero cost for t
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Yeah, exactly. They supported the Iranian revolution expecting they will be able to control the outcome. That was ending the British relationship and starting an only American one with their oil. This worked out pretty well in Saudi Arabia,
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IMHO It is. It is like Windows. When it appeared it was significantly inferior to Unix options, but it made a hundred or a thousand times more people to experience computers. If a 1 to 10 percent of people is naturally innovative and creati
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"Decision" word comes from latin: https://www.etymonline.com/word/decide It means cutting off. Decision means choosing something and cutting the rest. If you try to avoid future regrets(future errors), you ar
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I don't know why. One of the founders of AA was atheist. He just realized that acting like a bigger entity exist helped him, so he started using it as a tool. This does not mean that he really believed that. I had seen several atheist

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