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Joining The Prestigious Three Monitor Club (2006)(codinghorror.com)
1 points by tyn 15y ago|0 comments
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VBA for Macintosh goes away (2007) (joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by tyn 16y ago|1 comments
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by tyn 16y ago
The only case where this could be acceptable is when you work in the R & D dept. of a company. If you are hired for specific tasks (which is usually the case) then everything else you do should belong to you, only. Einstein produced mos
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by tyn 16y ago
"Never build a business based on a missing feature of a popular software product" First time I see this, is it really a fundamental piece of business advice?
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by tyn 16y ago
"7. Do you have a spec?" I've written succesful applications without any spec, just talking with users, writting things down myself, showing them prototypes, repeating. In some cases users are not able to produce a spec and even if the do t
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by tyn 16y ago
I guess I'm being downvoted for stating the obvious.
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by tyn 16y ago
My point was that when a company uses a foreign tax regime (which is what google does, btw) it completely escapes any incentives created by it's own government that are related to tax avoidance. Apparently the parent of my previous comment
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by tyn 16y ago
If the money stays in the company forever, why should they be taxed? Imagine a company that makes billions but never distributes income in any form, a 90% shareholder could starve to death. Income should be taxed only when distributed, it's
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by tyn 16y ago
Can someone explain why companies should pay taxes at all? Their shareholders should and they do pay taxes according to their income but what's the purpose of an extra taxation to a legal entity?
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by tyn 16y ago
Using tax havens is certainly not one of these cases.
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by tyn 16y ago
Right, if you are going to be pedantic, you should go all the way to the end.
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by tyn 16y ago
Every positive number is a power of 2. Yes, I know, but there is no mention of "integer". Btw, I would just check if log2(x) is an integer.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Street Gangs (Freakonomics)(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by tyn 16y ago|1 comments
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What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire?(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
65 points by tyn 16y ago|18 comments
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by tyn 16y ago
Many thanks for sharing all this. Since you seem to know how the UK agents think, is locality of candidates a crucial factor for the agents? I live in the continent and had little luck whenever applied for UK based contracts, much more inte
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Electric cars neither as useful nor as green as their proponents claim (economist.com)
24 points by tyn 16y ago|42 comments
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by tyn 16y ago
Ironically enough, that's the way it's pronounced in Greece.
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Artificial intelligence - Riders on a swarm(economist.com)
2 points by tyn 16y ago|0 comments
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by tyn 16y ago
What money? He could ask a favor from his buddies, provided of course he has the same revengeful mentality as the victim. This is quite unlikely but still works as a deterrent for many people that would otherwise take similar actions as the
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by tyn 16y ago
If he's caught. He could even do it while in prison.
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by tyn 16y ago
She posts with her real name and full details of the case. What if the guy does the same thing she did when he is out of prison?
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An attempt to explain Lisp by use of familiar concepts(defmacro.org)
1 points by tyn 16y ago|0 comments
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by tyn 16y ago
"If you torture your data long enough they will confess to anything"
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by tyn 16y ago
If you meant they make a lot of money working as employees (e.g. as traders in banks that get a lot in bonuses even when they blow everythng up) then my comment was irrelevant. If you mean that a lot of people make money by beating the mark
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by tyn 16y ago
"A lot of smart people go into finance and make a lot of money"... Any references?
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Career advice from Thomas Friedman(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
7 points by tyn 16y ago|4 comments
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by tyn 16y ago
An UPDATE sql statement with a forgotten WHERE clause
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by tyn 16y ago
Are you sure he was targeting the goalpost? Maybe it was a failed cross that just gone lucky. Happened to me, too.
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by tyn 16y ago
The widely accepted notion that we should drink 8 glasses of water per day is apparently an urban legent http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp
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Rapid Thinking Makes People Happy(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by tyn 16y ago|0 comments

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