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by maigret 14y ago
But this 1$ = 1€ rule has been there for much more time. This can't be the main reason. As another poster wrote, I think the reason is rather "because they can". They may have charged a premium back in the 80s or 90s and just kept it becaus
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by maigret 14y ago
Most of your why? can be answered by reading the actual post.
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by maigret 14y ago
Must be a red-yellow-blue-green screen then ;)
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by maigret 14y ago
Right. Even Vim and Emacs in the terminal are actually GUIs.
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by maigret 14y ago
Current hunter-gatherers populations that can be observed in the world nowadays "work" only 20 hours a week. So 40, or even 50 for some, is way out of what would be "natural". Of course we now live longer, etc. I'm just countering the argum
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by maigret 14y ago
Totally agree with you and the original poster that the Google car is probably not driving as well as many people think. If it was nearly near it,Google would sell that tech in any way, because that would make them probably the most valuabl
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by maigret 14y ago
Thanks for the heads up! I thought it was some anonymous on Twitter ;)
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by maigret 14y ago
No, that supports the point that looking at P/E alone is not enough. Searching for a spouse? Maybe you should not only look at her/his diplomas or music tastes alone.
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by maigret 14y ago
Yes, but as someone said, "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".
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by maigret 14y ago
Said shortly: if you want to build a great product, you have to really understand at each level what makes a great product.
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by maigret 14y ago
Funny, the more I learn about Facebook, the less I believe to this distinction. You've got to see how much people FB hired out of Goog to see that they've got some technical talents, and I can hardly imagine they are idling. Facebook may no
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by maigret 14y ago
Agree with your first statement. But there is quite a reason for that - Zuck succeeded at making FB a brand people like and are emotionally bound to. Every entrepreneur should aim at that. Hackers are often low on emotion (so is said to be
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by maigret 14y ago
That's the point. Facebook brought social network to the masses. In my environment, Twitter is still a tool for geeks. Facebook has brought to hundreds of millions the broadcasting and sharing features. You can't deny that. It could have be
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by maigret 14y ago
My search engine(s) have much more private information about me than Facebook. If I had to disclose one of both dataset, I'd go for FB anytime. Facebook is the friendly persona of us, the search engine - the real private one.
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by maigret 14y ago
You can hardly measure the impact Facebook has on society. Of course, FB and Zuck have their dark side. But people are looking on FB for the people they love for a reason. And hundreds of millions like to use FB in their everyday life - tha
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by maigret 14y ago
At least some data seems to agree with you http://www.businessinsider.com/busted-hypocritical-peter-thi...
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by maigret 14y ago
Nice. Looks like the lights are represented as single points, so even making it bigger still produces the "on/off" effect when moving objects in front of the light.
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by maigret 15y ago
I guess a valuable scientific study would try to see the delta between what people like and what they think they want. Applying that in real teams though, has a lot more to do with the personal experience and ability to deal with peoples an
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by maigret 15y ago
Many studies show that actually, money is not that important. So I'm wondering what would happen if say, those 5% were invested in team events, office improvements, better food or hardware. Or, even, how would employee feel if they'd be p
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by maigret 15y ago
I work at a place where a manager has around 20 people, and Google is told to have much bigger departments. But are you meaning people manager or technical manager? If your manager really directs your work, then yes 20 is too much.
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by maigret 15y ago
Depends what your dreams are. One of my dream was to fly planes. I did learn all that without getting burned out - would not help me much keeping my medical certificate for flying!!! Actually, this was quite some time taking learning, but t
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by maigret 15y ago
> We tend to live our lives thinking as we go that we should be striving to end up at some optimal place and that the purpose of our lives is desperately trying to keep us exactly on that course. This is very US (and now occidental) th
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by maigret 15y ago
You're only seeing a part of the development task. Yes, the knowledge requirements for doing a task X (let's say a given CRUD app) are declining. But: - How do you guarantee that all those pieces you just glued together will work with high
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by maigret 15y ago
But due to their relatively low P/E, they don't even need to grow that much to still be worth. Their current P/E is not forecasting a huge growth in the next years. It's not the same for, say Amazon. They'll need to earn 5x more to get back
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by maigret 15y ago
The thing is though, private education systems has shown to produce cost explosion as education is a needed thing and no one is controlling the costs. State financed education has a much better cost control. Like they don't build insanely e
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by maigret 15y ago
I've heard Israel does that sometime in the immigration controls.
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by maigret 15y ago
Or they just all speak English? Living in another country that speaks another language, my translation skills are only rarely needed.
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by maigret 15y ago
There is some point in what you write, and I wouldn't have downvoted you. But there are counterexamples, like the Surface for example.
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by maigret 15y ago
Working often with american programmers, I can tell they often have a hard time including globalization in their code. On the other side, they are usually also quite capable folks, and once they get it they apply it consequently and efficie
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by maigret 15y ago
I see it rather that way - for my case, I have few problems with email. Email is mostly ok, but it sucks to exchange files, and it is a pain to visualize thread. Also, the whole history shouldn't hang on each email. Fix that and you would h

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