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by maigret 16y ago
Have you considered going to any country where the employment situation is better than in the US? Germany for example will be searching many skilled employees due to an aging workforce. Plus you get state-financed retirement, 6 weeks of hol
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by maigret 16y ago
Not only. It's not the "current government" action, but Germany has some law to finance shorter work time during crises. Thus companies can start over now that contracts are coming in with almost pre-crisis workforce and skills. America can
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by maigret 16y ago
Living in Europe, I can see free & paying parkings. In bigger cities, most shops haven't free parking an it's not apparently keeping customers away. When you go in the land though, most parking is free. Interesting enough, I've seen the
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by maigret 16y ago
Right, but big System p also plays in a similar class price than a mainframe with Linux. You get similar functionality on an easier platform (Unix), but the architecture and middleware functionalities are similar.
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by maigret 16y ago
With good state bonds mix you can make between 3 and 5%. That's more than the average inflation, at least where I live.
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by maigret 16y ago
This whole stock story I found also a bit doubtful. Mint is obviously selling its product ;) But a quite boring fixed interest saving plan would do the same effect, probably with less return but with more security.
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by maigret 16y ago
This article is pretty right on some points. Most millionaires are just good earners (but not rich) who live under their financial capacity, and saved over a long time. Because of the compound effect, it is also much more important to save
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by maigret 16y ago
With stocks you have to control the company management, of course proportionally to the the percentage of stocks you're owning. Too sad most investors forget that, you can see an example with BP.
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by maigret 16y ago
Right, but still sale is a job only certain people can do (it's the same for programming I think) - so switching to sale is not that easy for most developers. Also if you are a very good programmer, switching to a whole other job you will n
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by maigret 16y ago
Let me disagree with that. The open drivers don't support 3D, and the closed drivers make X crash at least once a day on my setup and similar ones. I have a laptop that is just one year old. All in all, I always got a better Linux experienc
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by maigret 16y ago
And as a startup employee, you can't be fired. But don't think there aren't any way around... Internships, time contracts and external contractors give more flexibility for the employers and more insecurity for the employees.
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by maigret 16y ago
What motivates you to say that? The term "cloud" itself is not that old. I understand some of the tech underlying was already here 10 years ago, but the combination of these to what we call the cloud wasn't - it's even still being built.
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by maigret 16y ago
Yep, and Linux keeps getting a bigger part of the cake for mainframe workloads.
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by maigret 16y ago
On a side note, I like how the referenced blog almost masks the user names in the comments. Sorry for the off-topic ;)
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by maigret 16y ago
Actually you cannot travel "wherever [you] want", because in most countries you also need a work visa to telecommute. That's particularly the case in the US.
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by maigret 16y ago
At least the Gmail access overview is a nice feature, far from being universal for all webmail providers. Every provider should have it.
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by maigret 16y ago
Then compare the US to Europe. There education is viewed as public good, though it's slowly changing.
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by maigret 16y ago
A few weeks ago I heard a live presentation by IT workers in Mexiko building smart phones, and what they told was not really nice. Employers paying sublegal salaries, harassment etc. Consumers should care about that but they (I also - mostl
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by maigret 16y ago
On a side note: Am I the only one who struggles reading these articles made of one-sentence-paragraphs? I completely lose the flow and the structure of the argumentation (Is there any?).
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by maigret 16y ago
That's wrong. I know from big corps that employees always have to ask for work permission when going to the US (or other countries) for things like development, even for one week. For most countries in the world you actually need a work per
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by maigret 17y ago
Yes, for the planning I was involved in where we took the tasks planned to the hours, 4 hours a day of productive coding was the most matching value.
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by maigret 17y ago
I had the opportunity to discuss that with a pilot who uses to land in Russia in different airports and explained us NDB landings in Russia. The pilot made only one landing attempt that failed, the other ones are the standard procedure in R
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by maigret 17y ago
6. Same here but I'm rather using SpiderOak because it encrypts your content before sending it over the network.
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by maigret 17y ago
1. Gmail + Kmail local archiving 2. Still hesitating & jumping between Eclipse & Emacs 3. Netvibes mainly 4. PS3, though sync between gadgets still an issue (iPod, PS3, computers...), PC when PS3 not capable. Searching for better so
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by maigret 17y ago
No you don't want a product made by wolves. Because no sheep will buy it ever. Why do you need diversity? I've heard this story about a japanese stereo system. Nobody bought it, and they searched why. There were too much buttons on it - it
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by maigret 17y ago
You can't tell before an extensive investigation will have been done. Was the ILS active? Were there some navigation instrument failing? Was there a mechanical problem at this time on the aircraft? Was it just some human error (involved in
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by maigret 17y ago
IBM laptops aren't anymore - bought by Lenovo a few years ago.
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by maigret 17y ago
That would lead to much simpler answers, mine would be "you can't". Of all the picks you'll make, most won't be the most efficient, and many will go down. So if you can't accept losses - at least for a given amount of time -, just buy fix i
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by maigret 17y ago
Through a recent HN discussion, I discovered the finance course from Robert Shiller at Yale, and this is really only joy to look at this lecture. You get the whole semester in video: http://academicearth.org/lectures/finance-and-insurance
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by maigret 17y ago
Exactly! That probably saved them from billion $$$ fines. Seen from this angle, this is a total success.

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