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by math 16y ago
All else being equal, BA's and management are making higher level decisions which have more potential than developers to create stakeholder value. All else being equal, they are therefore worth more as measured by the potential return their
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I make additional contributions above those required to the retirement scheme in Australia similar to 401k. Obviously, this is because the compounded savings in tax are large. I have share trading accounts for savings I intend to use before
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A friend of mine swears by a strategy he calls "smashing ideas" to generate ideas for research: Take two fundamental ideas from the literature (the more fundamental the better) and try to smash them together into a new idea. Says a remarkab
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For me "something needs to be clarified" is often "faith in the idea needs to be clarified via stamp of approval from a third party". Yesterday, I was procrastinating badly. This morning, I talked about my project with someone and they were
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Yes. I have to say though that after 20 years of exhilaration, the buzz is getting less and less for me each time. I think because the process of learning another new language, framework, API etc is now no longer new.
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I think the fact our housing bubble hasn't popped yet goes a long way to explaining why our banks look to be in such great shape. I'm not sure all the patting ourselves on the back is necessarily warranted. For example, the leverage of the
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eating too much lunch -> afternoon drowsiness.
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The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies by Jeffery Owen is good. My own experience suggests it is extremely difficult to find exploitable inefficiencies by looking at market data alone [I have not managed to do so and have spent a lot of tim
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I have just come back to Australia from 2 months in SE Asia and one of the most striking difference is the lack of rules - in particular how easy it is to get a business going if you want to. As countries develop, they introduce rules which
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Why It's Hard to Get a Business Off the Ground [video](youtube.com)
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I'm currently in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) doing this and it's working out extremely well. Extended visas are easy to get (note: pay the extra $5 on entry and get a business visa if you want to extend). Love the people and the place.
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Going out on your own for many is about breaking out of systems and processes.. but joining YC can be perceived as becoming a cog in "the startup factory". I know in reality it's far from that! Just noting a slightly negative opinion I have
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or responses to comments you left where you thought you knew what you were talking about, but someone here knows the subject matter on a completely different level. Contributing to HN can often put the ego on the line...
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A related tip: I use a True Crypt (file) volume to store all my personal stuff, in particular a scanned version of everything ever sent to me in the post (tax stuff, bank stuff). I highly recommend this practice (scanning everything to an e
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I spent a few months of full time work investigating the viability of an eHow like site - trying to measure likely profit margins. I put the effort in because of this Demand Media article in wired: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_
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Booked a trip to SE Asia with you guys a few days ago. For what it's worth my first user reaction was: * Looking good! * Of course I jumped in without reading any help and didn't realize the full power of the natural language search, in par
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The inflation/deflation debate is fascinating to follow, and in my eyes currently the most important topic to make a correct call on financially. I'd recommend searching for "Mish" to learn more about the arguments on the deflation side, an
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I've used both prgmr.com and linode.com and my experience with both has been excellent. I currently use prgmr.com to host all my projects (which are only hobby projects) because they are very cheap. There is no fancy admin system, but I don
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Not really because I'm fairly keen to move away from the Microsoft platform.
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I've done about 4 non trivial projects with Clojuire. (a) some fairly serious SEO related to RFS1 (b) a news aggregator (c) music-compojure http://github.com/mhowlett/music-compojure (d) some investment portfolio performance calculations.
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I doubt our banks are as safe as everyone says. Our housing market, by many measures is in a much bigger bubble than where the US got to and I'm convinced this is not due to supply demand fundamentals (as most people have been brainwashed i