jevgeni

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by jevgeni 12y ago
In my opinion, I wouldn't call what you describe "ambition", but rather "need for self-validation". Ambition is desire and determination of achieving something, whereas challenge, pressure and responsibility just se
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by jevgeni 12y ago
This is exactly the thing. I have been using xBSD and OS X for the last 10 years, but have been confronted with the need to do some financial modelling on Windows (as a side note, I guess this is not "serious" computing, according
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Racket is amazing, I agree. :)
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by jevgeni 12y ago
I have this ritual every year or so, where I try to write J, sigh, and go back to pedestrian F#.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
An eloquent, objective, and thoroughly researched opinion.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Well, I'm clearly misinformed. I thought that maybe my source meant the relative size of non-public shares, but even then it's ca. 49% employee ownership. Yeah, sorry for that. I stand corrected.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
I think this is dependent on the age of the company. Last one I've looked at was SocGen - an old French bank. 90% of their shares are owned by employees and I think somewhere around 7% by executives. I can easily imagine that a just IP
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Usually most of them are common (i.e. voting shares). What has a potential to get exploited isn't the fact that people can't cast their vote, but that: - they can't (or don't care to) coordinate themselves - don't h
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by jevgeni 12y ago
There were a lot of problems with the USSR. If we look at it only from an economic point of view, then it failed because planned economy is broken by design.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
The most deliciously ironic thing is that the main Marx's grief with capitalism - the fact that the workers didn't own the means of production (or "capital") - was rectified exactly by the modern financial capitalism tod
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Which is even more cut throat, since you're basically selling political power: rich people would be able to afford way more, than the poor.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Not to burst anyone's bubble, but banks need loans to stay in business per definition . Especially in a Glass-Steagal world.
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Approximate Valuation of a Room Planning App(jst.lu)
2 points by jevgeni 12y ago|0 comments
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MIT Researchers “Re-identify” Anonymized Records with Few Pieces of Data(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by jevgeni 12y ago|0 comments
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by jevgeni 12y ago
That's not the point. Any kind of contractual obligation isn't exactly freedom. The point is, that the comparison is still bad.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Yes, like, for example, victims of human trafficking. It's not the same as paying off a student loan though.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
So, what should we call common slavery? Super-slavery?
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by jevgeni 12y ago
They are though.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Paying mortgage isn't exactly slavery. Inappropes.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Because no one will work for free on the development side and no one will pay for search on the consumer side?
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Thank you, Golden Homer. :)
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Why Do We Look Good in Bathroom Mirrors?(jst.lu)
19 points by jevgeni 12y ago|2 comments
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Point made by author is still valid.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
The point sz4kerto is making, as I understand it, is that the staff cost just jumped for these companies, meaning that some companies might seek to freeze any new hires or even lay off some workers.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
I'm not sure I get your point. Although writing your own video codec seems a bit overkill. The spec here isn't that trivial, I mean the thing has clearly strict performance and portability constraints across systems and compilers,
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by jevgeni 12y ago
Seriously, buddy, I gave you like a ton of ways to deescalate the douche in your response, but you went right through the wall. C4 isn't the only case where developers are frustrated with Linux. And if Windows and OS X fare better in a
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by jevgeni 12y ago
I'm not arguing that there aren't any libraries.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
I like how you gloss over the "needed libraries". But seriously, let's take a quick look (here)[ http://www.terathon.com/architecture.php ] and think, what might be a clear pain point in Linux, even if the &quo
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by jevgeni 12y ago
I'd guess installing a distro and installing a distro with all dependencies for developing a complex game engine might be different things. If they say it's a legitimate roadblock for them, then I tend to believe it.
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by jevgeni 12y ago
I'm just curios, how would you imagine the dev environment for C4 would look like?

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