roel_v

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by roel_v 12y ago
We sold a house last year. I had read Freakonomics so I thought I was going to outsmart everybody (which I knew was a stupid to think from the start, of course). Turns out most real estate agents (the ones we talked to at least) weren'
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by roel_v 12y ago
I was reading your post, about halfway through I started thinking 'hey this reads like a post by...' glances up at username 'oh look, it actually is' skips rest of post .
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by roel_v 12y ago
"being both electronic and obfuscated / proprietary, isn't as easy to clone." Cloners can be bought from underground websites, the same sites that sell credit cards etc. Look around on Youtube, it's a bit scary how
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by roel_v 12y ago
Wisest advise in this thread. My mind boggles at the idea that apparently there are investors who give money to people who do their own taxes.
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by roel_v 12y ago
"In NL we actually do have such a 'bright line', a very reasonable amount that anybody in the hot seat is required to pay out of their business on an annual basis as a salary." That is the floor, it's not a 'br
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by roel_v 12y ago
" It's honest, and frankly sounds more impressive to the client." LOL, how much have you sold in your career? Because really, it seems like you've never had a sales meeting at all.
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by roel_v 12y ago
"I've chosen to never speed because it reduces my cognitive load." That's a utilitarian approach which is completely orthogonal to what this thread is about.
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by roel_v 12y ago
"2. If you sent the phone company that $6 today, they would file criminal charges, because that cheque is an admission of guilt for stealing money from them." Uhm, yeah, pardon my French, but that's complete bullshit.
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by roel_v 12y ago
I don't think that's what he/she meant, I don't even think the 'kanban' was about Trello. It's about taking something relatively simple, then honing it to perfection. That is how you make great stuff - not
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by roel_v 12y ago
Well yes, that code points aren't enough as your first example demonstrates, is part of my point. Where I'm coming from is this: about a week ago I thought the same as you do. Since then I've researched on how to move a big M
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by roel_v 12y ago
50 bucks is enough to get a junk his next shot. I had 2 CD's and a 10$ Walmart rain jacket stolen once from a car when somebody smashed the window in. 50 bucks is a lot of money for some people.
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by roel_v 12y ago
TV, computer, phones, cash, jewelry, clothing, any type of appliance, power tools, medicines, alcohol, cigarettes, toys, ... I'm not sure what kind of houses you have in mind that have nothing that can easily be transported and sold...
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by roel_v 12y ago
For what purposes would you use this?
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by roel_v 12y ago
Well, he has a point. From your description, it seems tenuous to classify what you do as 'web programming'. So why don't you describe how your bioinfo work relates to the web part, because all I can think of is that you have
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by roel_v 12y ago
Well that my post wasn't nice is I think indisputable, but I wasn't saying that you're arrogant because you're French, just that the arrogance exhumed by your post reminds me of more often observed behaviour of your fe
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by roel_v 12y ago
If you're really suggesting what I'm reading into your post, which is that 'academic pdfs' are somehow some sort of glorious special species because everybody in academia uses latex and all publications are typeset using
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by roel_v 12y ago
To badly paraphrase Star Wars, "your confidence in your friends is your greatest weakness". Pdf sucks, it's little more than a glorified 2d graphics api that happens to be used mostly for content that should be represented as
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by roel_v 12y ago
Well, that was certainly from 'I was never bullied' to 'bullying doesn't exist in Europe' in less than 2.8 seconds. If you'll pardon me for being rather blunt, it's exactly this sort of snooty French uninf
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by roel_v 12y ago
Nobody cares about open source code, unless it made you famous in some niche.
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by roel_v 12y ago
Sure, and plenty of people are perfectly happy with their Dacias, and there is nothing wrong with that. Cars never became a commodity and never will, even if todays cheapest cars have features the most of expensive ones of just 15 years ago
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by roel_v 12y ago
The thing is that there is no competition to Dropbox that works equally well. It's like saying 'BMW is feeling the heat from all those Dacia's being sold'. No they're not, they're in different markets, providin
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by roel_v 12y ago
'Careers in CS' don't exist in the corporate world, certainly not in Europe. Not personal experience in the sense that I took that route, but in the sense that I know plenty of people in positions like that. Then again, fuck
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by roel_v 12y ago
Sorry I meant that as the salary for a post-doc, which you will be for 2 (if you're top of your field) to 6-8 years (if you are a postdoc for longer, you should reconsider academia imo). Also I meant 2000 pre-tax, but when I look at it
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by roel_v 12y ago
You talk about 'career in CS' but what you describe is 'being a programmer'. 'Career in CS' = MSc then PhD then postdoc in CS, making you ~ 40 when you will qualify for ~E2000/month jobs. So yeah, too late
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by roel_v 12y ago
"Technically, with the state of OCR and other methods, many things like LaTeX, PDFs, .DOCs, etc are all perfectly machine readable" Uh, no. What does OCR even have to do with the 'machine readability' (for your strange d
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by roel_v 12y ago
I think the problem is (at least that's my problem with your posts, although I didn't downvote you) that you're, and from the look of it for your disdain for spreadsheets, arguing spreadsheet != declarative programming becaus
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by roel_v 12y ago
The alternative is 'throw out not completely useless stuff because I can't be arsed to sell it'. It's win win the way I see it, I'd dump half a truck of stuff on their dock if they'd offer this in Europe.
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by roel_v 12y ago
Much of this discussion has been on soap, and for me personally using soap every day everywhere just dries out my skin, so I use soap daily only in 'strategic locations' (on a meta note, I can't believe I'm actually havi
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by roel_v 12y ago
This does work for the use case where you only want to set an initial distribution, but quite often you want to play with trading one option against another afterwards, e.g. spend more on housing and less on holidays, but not less on food o
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by roel_v 12y ago
Yes, this is the first instinct. But moving all of the others down/up is in the majority of cases not what you want. Imagine you have 100 to spread out over 4 categories. Let's say you start with setting them all to 25. You set th

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