lgieron

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by lgieron 13y ago
What else would you buy it for (assuming no dividends are being paid out)?
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by lgieron 13y ago
> Yes we broke the U-Boat codes The Enigma encoding was actually cracked by Polish mathematicians and handed to the UK during the summer of 1939. In exchange, Poles expected the UK to join them, were they to be attacked by Germans. Unfor
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by lgieron 13y ago
I wouldn't say the societes were "insensitive to losses". It's just that anyone who expressed their views would be killed/imprisoned.
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by lgieron 13y ago
I'd say - set yourself a comfortable base by selling your time and talents (ex. by working as a programmer) and then, if you have enough spare time, do what you love. Going 100% after passion is as dangerous as going 100% after money.
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by lgieron 13y ago
It's not that hard - orienting your life around becoming rich is clearly a trap and, as for the remaining two options, it's better to make more money than less as long as the job doesn't suck too badly.
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by lgieron 13y ago
Seriously, THIS is the advice that you'd give to, for example, your son? Views like that (both the content and the form that was used to present it) are a great example for why lots of people see the techies as detached simpletons.
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by lgieron 13y ago
If it's only about employee retency and not about money, the solution is simple - just pay the employee enough for him to stay (counter the offer competition gave him). No need for illegal conspiracy.
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by lgieron 13y ago
There's a long history of fraud in every area of human enterprise. Doesn't mean we need to regulate everything.
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by lgieron 13y ago
You're not in middle class if you need your month's wage to buy a smartphone.
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by lgieron 13y ago
I want to capitalize on my argument on huge barriers to entry being a major factor. In industries with such barriers (huge initial investment required) there's always only a limited number of players, and usually no one is interested
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by lgieron 13y ago
The Law and Order (PiS) party is effectively about amping our influence in the region, in the spirit of old traditions. See the meddling in Georgia, bullshit acquisition of refinery in Latvia etc.
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by lgieron 13y ago
My guess is that, since Russia is no longer a top global power, this area is not a priority for the US now. Georgia lies in more strategically important (lots of oil around) and fragile region, while saving the Ukraine would be mostly a fav
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by lgieron 13y ago
You seriously believe that IT investment is the sole reason for large companies being more efficient? How about the fact that they can make large investments in general (for example, build a pipeline or a nuclear power plant), at the scale
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by lgieron 13y ago
My understanding is that web apps have some limitations that can be a show-stopper for scientific apps - for example, there's no way to gain an arbitrary access to file system (something that is easily doable with a signed applet), whi
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by lgieron 13y ago
That could be true for general consumers, who could be scared into disabling Java altogether in their browsers(so that some part of the population wouldn't be reached by the app). On the other hand, if you're making B2B/scien
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Real world applications for AI?
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by lgieron 13y ago
And how much would you pay to cleaners employed by Google then? If programmers "deserve" 500k, then maybe 200k per head for the cleaning staff?
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by lgieron 13y ago
I wouldn't discard your IT career just now. You're likely to be hating some particular aspects of your current job (long hours/little vacation? monotonny? stupid management? dull coworkers? feeling of isolation?). If I were y
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by lgieron 13y ago
The belief that it's an obvious choice for a developer to spend his free time exploring ideas in hopes of getting rich is a fallacy IMO. After all, we don't advice every literate person to spend their time trying to get rich via w
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by lgieron 13y ago
There's only so much CEOs on te market with proven track record and obviously companies prefer them over unknowns. Also, for CEOs, even a small difference in skill/experience can translate to huge changes in financial results (via
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by lgieron 13y ago
It doesn't really matter if they produced wheat or not - as it's a globally traded commodity, the price of Egyptian wheat would've been the same (unless the country stepped out of international free trade agreements, which wo
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by lgieron 13y ago
You can play white noise on the headphones. It mutes other sounds without drawing attention to itself.
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by lgieron 13y ago
> Never trust girls that you meet at the pub, especially if they look interested in you and you are a computer guy. A recipe for an amazing life.
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by lgieron 13y ago
The thing is, non-tech founders rarely have ideas for tech startups. They usually wanna do real estate startup, social network startup etc. which just uses tech as a tool.
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by lgieron 13y ago
Ultra-high taxation of the rich will be the only way for the society to survive in the world where most work will be performed by machines.
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by lgieron 13y ago
Since it's just *2 (right shift) or /2 (left shift), I'm pretty sure they wanted to quickly test how are you with general programming knowledge.
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by lgieron 13y ago
> Furthermore, the contrast between young well-paid, well-dressed younger people and people sleeping and panhandling on the streets, with virtually no other groups (middle class of any kind, children, late middle-aged people, affluent af
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by lgieron 13y ago
Recently: "The map and the territory" by Michel Houellebecq. It's certainly not the kind of book that you'd think is inspiring in a literal way (ie. would make you want to go and achieve things etc.), but it's just
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by lgieron 13y ago
He didn't say Facebook was a failure, he said it was a failure as a social network site, which is 100% true if you want social network to be a vehicle for genuine human connection (instead of superficial self-promotion).
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by lgieron 13y ago
It is a pretty serious accusation. I wish you'd prepare a pdf or something where ou state your case. Most people don't have time to dig into that themselves.

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