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by kfk 11y ago
It's interesting to notice that 9 of the causes of failure are due to poor financial controlling (as in terrible or absent financial controller/manager). Which does confirm one of my thoughts about startups: they need huge margins
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by kfk 11y ago
and yet no one could come up with a decent ms access replacement, which is still the go-to tool businesses use to build custom apps if they need something quick and easy to train employees on
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by kfk 11y ago
So it’s probably more shocking than surprising that, at first, Modena—home to a twelfth-century university and cathedral, to Italy’s West Point, to the Ferrari founder and the Maserati factory, to a concert hall, an opera house, seven thea
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by kfk 11y ago
People and movies focused on the killings, while the real nightmares were and are in the business, public sector and work environment. When you don't do what a politician wants you to do, he sends you the tax authorities or some other
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by kfk 11y ago
It's worth noticing that this is not only an app problem. When it comes to Corporate systems, the fact that a user has to work with different systems is incredibly painful. In fact, it's so painful that having 1 person managing th
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by kfk 11y ago
Putting things in perspective: half million makes up to about 20-25k per month once you take out taxes in Europe. While huge, it is not incredibly huge. A semi-decent doctor can get close to that amount (it's easy when you charge euro
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by kfk 11y ago
Wow, only nasty comments so far, why? He is putting himself on stage here, he will win this or not, he can die or not, he can go mad or not (and that is, having some experience with this stuff, the biggest danger). It's an interesting
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by kfk 11y ago
It would be interesting to hear about your experience, did you do a write up somewhere or could I email you with few questions? My project would be to put different data sources together + to allow users to upload their own structured data
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by kfk 11y ago
I have in my hands a pretty interesting BI project for a big company. So far, the proposal on the table has been .NET and SQL Server, but I am wondering if I should at least try to give python a chance. Pandas is a great library, with great
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by kfk 11y ago
If you want to look at things from a humanitarian perspective, then sure, let's talk re-distribution. But it should be in form of education and competitive markets (free milk quotas, anyone?). I struggle with the idea of making war to
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by kfk 11y ago
And if you ask a person in the 18th century if we could grow GDP 30+ folds while increasing various folds also the world population he would say... you are going to finish all the Earth resources and die before you even get to a tenth of th
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by kfk 11y ago
I would pay for his service, not a lot, but I would pay. Every now and then I find a good movie (last one being "Swingers"), but it's completely random. I can't find a website with a constant flow of good recommendations
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by kfk 11y ago
My feeling with Argentinians has always been that they could easily come from the South of Italy and you would notice no difference. There is a very strong connection between Argentina and Naples too. It's amazing how an Argentinian an
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by kfk 11y ago
Man I want to un-see that! What a horrible way to go
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by kfk 11y ago
Didn't watch it, not sure I can, Troisi died in the making of that movie overworking himself to death (he had a heart condition). He was probably the last of the big starts of the Italian cinema, we are still waiting for a new Troisi.
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by kfk 11y ago
I am looking for a new report solution for my company, but it seems you guys have a different set of users in mind. But your dashboard building solution looks great, I wish BI suites out there would be that easy
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by kfk 11y ago
It's really not, it's now because few things are relatively new, it wont be like this forever. Building a rocket, a plane, a car factory, it's way more complex.
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by kfk 11y ago
Excluding maybe self driving cars (maybe), I doubt that the core capability needed to drive the innovation in the above is software. I mean, that's like saying metal is everywhere in those industries. Of course it is, but it's als
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by kfk 11y ago
And yet when you look at it, the biggest opportunities to create immense value added are on the hardware side of things: self driving cars, pharma (aging, cancer, etc.), robotics, batteries, power generation, interstellar expeditions, bring
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by kfk 11y ago
It's funny how most of this ideas are in reality very old concepts of Greek/Roman philosophy. Seneca was a big proponent of "quite ego", for instance (his critic to a strong ego/desire: Tamquam mortales timetis, omn
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by kfk 11y ago
“Greeks are aware there are devastating consequences of being in a single currency, like capital controls,” Then they are aware of the wrong thing. Capital controls are not the issue. My guess is that without some form of control capit
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by kfk 11y ago
Sure, but making stuff at the scale of GE or a big car maker is much more involved. First, if you make a mistake people can die, both due to faulty products or faulty plant processes. Second, you are dealing with thousands of stakeholders,
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by kfk 11y ago
> The cult of quarterly earnings may lose more of its following I'd love to see that. But still you need to make money in the near term and once you start making money, you have to keep making money, that's where the quarter
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by kfk 11y ago
So, they work less, but they had to hire more people, at the same salary. Operating Costs are going up. Who is paying for that? Tax payers of course! Most of which have to work more than 6 hrs to pay for those kind of politics.
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by kfk 11y ago
The fact that growth is really the only way. If you think about it, everything we achieved has been through growth (i.e. how China managed to bring millions from below the poverty line in few decades). We face enormous challenges (i.e. 7 bi
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by kfk 11y ago
Yes, it can, if we keep being ambitious as a species. I believe we did not even touch the real potential so far. There is an entire Universe out there, incredibly hard problems not yet solved (i.e. aging), are we really saying that this is
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by kfk 11y ago
Correct. Italian and Spanish can understand each other, but with a lot of effort and keeping communication at a very basic level. This thing that we can speak to each other easily is a myth. That said, we can learn each other languages in a
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by kfk 11y ago
UK is not Europe, in fact you pay less taxes and you actually do get a pension since it's tied to a low taxation fund that belongs to you. Germany is about 45% once you go over the 45-50k bruto, which is not much if you ask me (rent te
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by kfk 11y ago
The problem in those countries is taxes and social contributions. You need to make 10 in order to bring home 5, that kills work, completely. Now the basic income, so basically we want the State to manage even more of the economy. If past ex
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by kfk 11y ago
For the first time in many years I found myself in a big group of friends in a new city. Good social life is something I always thought I was missing and now I have it. I realized, though, that my problems are still there. Maybe I had put t

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