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by jk4930 18y ago
The German tax system is said to be complicated, but if you keep your business simple, it's usually not that much of a problem. The tax that will most interest you is the income tax (as a natural person). There's a difference between the ta
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by jk4930 18y ago
What's wrong with Ada?
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But he coded on his windpowered PC two new UNIX and six Lisp flavors. And he had the time to read all the books recommended here. Do you think that's nothing?!
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by jk4930 18y ago
Of course it is possible for a business major to succeed in the web. There are real-world examples of business majors who won't get into the way of hackers (or techies in general) and give them room to think and play and listen to their fee
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by jk4930 18y ago
I'm self-employed since 1996 and did and do this from time to time. And I learned a lot of useful things about both the topic and the different business cultures. And got valueable contacts. I do this especially when I enter a (more or less
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by jk4930 19y ago
Look at what problems they claim to solve, how and why. Try to assess whether they are conceptually and technically better than you. They have more money than you, what I consider an advantage over a bigger team in terms of marketing (i.e.
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by jk4930 19y ago
We should note that IT itself is a kind of an "Aspergism-Amplifier": When one has an aspie-bias before, IT might make it stronger. And when one switches from math or IT to project management and similar social activities, aspergism steps a
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by jk4930 19y ago
Love it. Thanks. :)
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by jk4930 19y ago
Why can't we simply admit to the jealous world of corporate wanna-be lions (i.e. pussycats) that we are the creme de la creme and they are not. We are always smarter, faster, stronger, and more sexy. We have more fun and self-esteem. We are
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by jk4930 19y ago
Short blog entries on complex topics most often won't tell the entire story. There's more on getting out of poverty than not resting or asking the wrong questions. This is not about dumb wealth redistribution but social institutions and tec
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by jk4930 19y ago
"Ninety percent of everything is crap." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law Not only true for products. I use this rough estimate in developing ideas and prototyping. It works for me.
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by jk4930 19y ago
Yes, of course. It reassures me to stay with Lisp, Haskell, and Python. :)
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by jk4930 19y ago
OK, he's talking about jobs for liberal arts majors. ;) So what. More interesting: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=usability%2C+accessibility...
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by jk4930 19y ago
Quote: "In fact, as life gets busier with more choices than ever before, simplicity could rule the day." That's exactly the point (also true for many pseudo-techies). Most people hate to read manuals. And an increasing "instant gratificatio
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by jk4930 19y ago
This is great. Here we have it: Listen to your customers. Many of the problems he complained about were solved later by the community, businesses, or simply by technological progress. Solved profitably, I might add. Sure, one has to subtrac
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by jk4930 19y ago
For the German readership: "Cash Code" by Tritsch and Kohlhammer. It has a focus on the legal and administrative stuff around a startup. http://www.cashcodeportal.de/
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by jk4930 19y ago
That's sexy. :) Well, it pays to use good technology. Lisp and Debian are great. And Ada 2005 (yeah, now vote me down).
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by jk4930 19y ago
My entire text was "roughly speaking" because it depends on the startup's context and the founders' knowledge and abilities. I'm not talking about book-long specifications, but for sure you should have some requirements on unit functionalit
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by jk4930 19y ago
Think of employees as subcontractors. Their basic monthly salaries are your costs of having them on standby to work on your assignments. Then you can (more or less) calculate the value of a unit to your company / project and that's what you
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by jk4930 19y ago
Specify the unit's quality. Payment depends on compliance to the specification. One can agree to pay a basic monthly salary (we're talking about employees who are motivated by some income security) and make all else a variable income. One n
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by jk4930 19y ago
When you can influence productivity via payment: Don't pay for time but for units of work done. That motivates the employee and gives you a better performance control. But that's not true for supporting jobs (e.g. secretary) where it's up t
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by jk4930 19y ago
Your karma is 15 points... :)