mauricemir

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91.
by mauricemir 11y ago
True but we arn't allowed to hit people with sticks sigh
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by mauricemir 11y ago
But share buy backs are not a guaranteed gain and you don't have to spend millions to an IB to do the buy back. As someone said (back in the 20's) where are the investors yachts :-)
93.
by mauricemir 11y ago
But with share buy backs the advisers make bank unlike dividends where its the owners that directly benefit
94.
by mauricemir 11y ago
Increased speed/ux of sites is a big win
95.
by mauricemir 11y ago
I meant as a species not an individual basis
96.
by mauricemir 11y ago
Some one earlier mentioned it was about playing the right sports and "football" (soccer) is a non U sport. As a mate who went to a minor public school (Bedford) it was Rugger, Rowing and Drinking Beer as the school sports.
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by mauricemir 11y ago
Depends if you think IQ improves over time (which is a big ask) what really happens is the students and schools game the system. The point is with scoring on a curve you can say that this person scored at this point in the curve so they ar
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by mauricemir 11y ago
And what given American history makes you think that companies will behave better than government? At least Governments are somewhat accountable.
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by mauricemir 11y ago
The way it works is if the top 5% got an A you can say some one with an A grade that they where in the top 5% who took that exam in that year.
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by mauricemir 11y ago
It has been done effectively converting a privately owned company to a worker coop. But this normaly happens towards the end of ones life eg John Lewis and Baxi in the UK.
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by mauricemir 11y ago
It's better in the long run as you can compere results across cohorts fairly.
102.
by mauricemir 11y ago
Or do as I do and go on the 1 week Pl/SQL Oracle course before starting a project.
103.
by mauricemir 11y ago
No wonder some told me that new devs often cant write a simple SELECT statement or use a database from the command line.
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by mauricemir 11y ago
HPC, Cluster, Computing, Assembler, some exposure to PIC or Amtel - plus CCNA level in networking. Oh and Know how to use a soldering Iron :-)
105.
by mauricemir 11y ago
Or getting copy editing done via crowd sourceing
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by mauricemir 11y ago
Google need to think about this from a "Brand" perspective. Likewise some of Googles published API's are "in need of improvement" - which is polite civil service speak for your on a PIP
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by mauricemir 11y ago
Interesting they don't mention any Database related tech ie set theory relvars and PL/SQL et all (plus the no sql query language)
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by mauricemir 11y ago
I think his point was that pure math can be very devolved from real world as I found when i tried to go from a Engineering to a HNC in Maths Stats and Computing. Back then it was virtulay all Pure maths with the computing side being shall w
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by mauricemir 11y ago
It was told to me by coworker at BT
110.
by mauricemir 11y ago
Just the thing for Kulak Liquidation Comrade
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by mauricemir 11y ago
Trouble is an ATGM is in some ways easier to defend against with point defense systems that a straight 120mm DS round. for example Futzing with the guidance of a fragile missile or using point defence and at some point in the future Lazers
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by mauricemir 11y ago
What you really need to know the dirty little secrets of the various implementations of the stacks and the short cuts (or blatant ignoring of standards). My Boss at BT could do this from a x.400 packet trace and point to the offending dwor
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by mauricemir 11y ago
Or plant it as a wildflower meadow which encourages wildlife and plant species and is much less high maintenance. Ps Shameless plug for a mate http://www.daviddomoney.com/2015/03/13/how-to-grow-a-wildflo...
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by mauricemir 11y ago
Your a long time dead - to do 80 hour weeks except in an emergency for very short periods 1-2 weeks max is not good health wise.
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by mauricemir 11y ago
But the USA is much bigger and spread out than the average EU country - You cannot ignore Geography
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by mauricemir 11y ago
I thought the wide streets where to allow better firing lanes for the artillery vs the mob :-)
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by mauricemir 11y ago
Well Blinding weapons are banned by the Geneva convention use would be considered a war crime.
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by mauricemir 11y ago
You mean the professional market that that Apple is abandoning in favor of consumer devices. I look after a mostly MAC environment and OX server is hopeless no migration from stand alone MAC's to Networked was the first shocker I found
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by mauricemir 11y ago
IBM Type F or M - which r3minds me must build that Aurduio Base USB converter of my Type F
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by mauricemir 11y ago
I recall working for a Lebanease company in London whist the Civil war was on even getting a phone line to connect was a lottery. When we did mange to get one the Directors PA used to keep the line open so that every one who needed to talk

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