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by pyb 10y ago
Of course, a lot of small companies use accountants anyway, but I've heard of fees in the £100's, not 1000's.
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by pyb 10y ago
In the UK, it is doable to do your own accounts, as a one man band.
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by pyb 10y ago
There is also the possibility to challenge the choice of expert witness before the trial, I believe.
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by pyb 10y ago
From the downvotes, sounds like I'm the only one who is shocked by this.
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by pyb 10y ago
"The expert witness circuit is surely tempting for many academics, since a distinguished expert can get paid $600+ an hour to prepare a weighty report that supports a lawyer’s case. I don’t have any issue with that, but testifying in c
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by pyb 10y ago
But it has been getting worse and worse in the last 10-15 years.
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by pyb 10y ago
Was this document meant to be public ? It this is the case, the honesty is perhaps a bit too radical.
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by pyb 10y ago
It's already the case that some prominent VCs have already become way more active outside Silicon Valley. IMO, the immigration restrictions in the last few years are one of the root causes. https://techcrunch.com/2017&#
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by pyb 10y ago
I wouldn't call it that. But what this is, is Trump is testing the waters for a more extensive Muslim ban in the near future.
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by pyb 10y ago
Yes, it's safe to say than in the last ~50 centuries, the 20th was quite a standout one and the 21st quite possibly will be as well.
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by pyb 10y ago
I've often seen very elderly people left standing in the tube.
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by pyb 10y ago
I see that they are based in Florida. Maybe part of the problem is that they just couldn't recruit the right tech talent in the first place.
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by pyb 10y ago
It may well be that the IT services industry you mention is taking all the talent. Apparently, the Indian ecosystem tech is currently structured such that this is the most rewarding career path.
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by pyb 10y ago
You made a good point re. job seekers though :)
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by pyb 10y ago
Job posters, not job seekers
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by pyb 10y ago
Problem is, sometimes people just upvote based on the title.
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by pyb 10y ago
Yes totally agree with this. I've been there, but with my eyes open. It's still a good experience being employee #1 or #2, as long as one doesn't expect any financial upside for it. Therefore, the key is to put a time limit
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by pyb 10y ago
Yes, plan A is the UK voluntarily making itself a satellite state of the US. If that wasn't bad enough, a satellite state of Trump's United States.
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by pyb 10y ago
Seeing the comments, many people are still in denial that some finance jobs might leave London this year. This seems strange, considering that even the Prime Minister's position is that keeping those jobs is not a main priority. She ha
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by pyb 10y ago
I've also got experience of this kind of situation (See my other comment) I think you can definitely call that technical debt.
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by pyb 10y ago
Yes, this is actually quite common. What I've seen happen, twice personally, is a large company asking teams of developers to work on a codebase they can't really understand, and have no chance ever to, because the code has basica
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by pyb 10y ago
Yes it looks like I was thinking of those trains, they don't look this old. They run on the Reading-Paddington line. Anyway, there's no excuse whatsoever for this design, however old they are! After 3 years, I am still not quite c
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by pyb 10y ago
We are talking about recent carriages here (10-20 years old)
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by pyb 10y ago
Yes, I've always thought it was completely ridiculous. What's the 'justification' for it ?
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by pyb 10y ago
Fair enough ; the strengths of Lisp languages lie elsewhere : macros and rapid prototyping. Having said that, Clojure is also pretty good for FP as you describe it.
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by pyb 10y ago
That sounds great ! This said, as an outsider, I can't quite tell what FB engineers are working on these days ? (apart from the Oculus team)
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by pyb 10y ago
Uber
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by pyb 10y ago
(SEEKING WORK) As a software developer/consultant for hardware startups. I would love to hear from startups who need help shipping their product on time. Successful prototyping and/or shipped products for : Blocks (Smartwatch), SQ
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by pyb 10y ago
For me this is the money quote : >Tech investors will start to adopt genomics as an additional “information technology” investment category
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by pyb 10y ago
In the UK, I've noticed remote working has become more and more common, particularly in the last 2 or 3 years. Not only are there more distributed companies, but commutes in the London area are quite long as people have to live far out

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