waps

96 ms·

601.
by waps 12y ago
Going from real development tools to basic web development. Essentially from Delphi to web development, passing by QT/C++ development and with some excursions to android and other things. Journey destination : got really, really, reall
602.
by waps 12y ago
From the wikipedia page. > During Elop's tenure, Nokia annual revenues fell 40% from 41.7 Billion Euros per year to 25.3 Billion Euros per year. Nokia profits fell 92% from 2.4 Billion Euros per year to 188 Million Euros per year. N
603.
by waps 12y ago
You are defending the broken windows fallacy. Wikipedia can explain better than I do, but the TLDR is simply : you are defending useless destruction of value, the end result is that everyone's poorer, nothing else. http://en
604.
by waps 12y ago
They don't. It is not a requirement. But if you want your employees to do overtime, you have to pay them either 50% more or 100% more, depending on whether it's "just" overtime or overtime during a time when they wouldn&
605.
by waps 12y ago
It's worse than that. If you look at how much bandwidth is required for any-to-any connectivity you can approximate how much it costs by modelling the internet as a full graph. Of course the cost of a full graph internet is n(n-1), wit
606.
CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired(linkedin.com)
238 points by waps 12y ago|324 comments
607.
by waps 12y ago
What I don't understand. How do these figures justify a $70 share price ? Companies tend to be valued at 15 * revenue, on large aggregate. With these earnings their PE ratio will go from 72 to 57, assuming the stock price doesn't
608.
by waps 12y ago
> You say "enlightenment values as values of enlightenment government" but what you mean is the values of government in the period of the start of the enlightenment movement. But as we all know, the process of replacing faith w
609.
by waps 13y ago
> "There are a few essential vehicles that can’t be easily electrified" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-119 Specifically the Tupolev Tu-95LAL is a nuclear powered aircraft. Only one was ever made.
610.
by waps 13y ago
It's like a job application filter. Start working for a .int company, only pay 10% income tax (but still get all benefits everyone else gets, sometimes more).
611.
by waps 13y ago
Only ICANN really had the choice, and the UN declared the US government can't sponsor them anymore (and of course the UN is not replacing the funds) So ...
612.
by waps 13y ago
Clearly, Europe does not intend to defend itself, it's members, or it's neighbors against Russia, no. It is telling that this is coming from the US state department. Makes you wonder, in Brussels, are they so incompetent they don&
613.
by waps 13y ago
No ? The law that the government that is generally identified with the enlightenment movement was my object of study for almost a year. Half of it matches canon law article-by-article, word-for-word. Right down to the freaking wording, and
614.
by waps 13y ago
So are we to understand that when your prophet did this, he was wrong ? That he is not part of your religion ? How exactly does your argument work ? The islamic prophet killed people for apostacy. That's a fact, confirmed by both islam
615.
by waps 13y ago
One thing's for certain : clearly IVR designers hate the rest of America. On a serious note, at least in Western Europe religious hate crimes go ever more unreported because the larger portion is muslim-on-jews violence in the larger c
616.
by waps 13y ago
This is because of the violence inherent in islam. The threats. Everybody knows this, but they choose to ignore this because they can isolate themselves from muslims. This will stop, for obvious reasons, and then we'll see what happens
617.
by waps 13y ago
Thank God for the corruptness of islam's implementation. After all, the real islam was by the prophet. Who, amongst other things, is a genocidal massacrer, paedophile, a thief and a slaver. Feel free to pick any of those adjectives and
618.
by waps 13y ago
Don't forget -we are in America- that islam seeks to re-introduce slavery. Another one of those non radical positions (America forced most islamic states to give up slavery in 1950 or so, and they haven't really done so [1], only
619.
by waps 13y ago
True, but since if one has a job working for an enterprise like that makes me want to kill myself in a hurry I consider that a feature, not a bug. QT will get you into C/C++ programming, which will get you into backends, which will get
620.
by waps 13y ago
I loved it for that too. It's amazing how much easier most things are in Delphi. Yet everything remains possible. I wrote a windows application firewall in Delphi, and that worked. Man that was a great experience.
621.
by waps 13y ago
> What type of application is that, in your opinion? Would you use it for a web-based app? (Many boring corporate apps are now web-based, and not just because the developers want that. The business people often want it too.) I think this
622.
by waps 13y ago
Even C++ compilers (except gcc) mostly compile themselves in under 30 seconds. How is that impressive ? Delphi compiles source code almost as fast as it can read it from disk. Megabytes of sourcecode per second on a 486.
623.
by waps 13y ago
Just received this email : Hello, Earlier today you may have received an email informing you that your Google Apps account for the domain ******** has been Closed due to inactivity and will be Terminated on **********. This email
624.
by waps 13y ago
I agree the point where purpose and incentives don't align isn't companies, it's government(s). However how can you fix that ? Democracy at least puts some limits on how far it can go, but doesn't seem to fix the problem
625.
by waps 13y ago
Why not use this as an opportunity to make your server redundant ? If you don't have the time drbd + front-end load-balancers (e.g. on ec2, but just sending 403's, nothing else) , for example. Really interesting to setup, and ther
626.
by waps 13y ago
All these anecdotes make one wonder why these people aren't simply going to hetzner and ovh and simply get a dedicated server for just slightly more (meaning $25/month).
627.
by waps 13y ago
You mean after the project manager has switched projects and management has voted itself a bonus ? Absolutely.
628.
by waps 13y ago
Isn't that the efficient market hypothesis ? Which, when you read it, I'm sure you can come up with 10 counterexamples (obvious counterexample: ponzi schemes). I guess you could call me a disbeliever.
629.
by waps 13y ago
Well that may be true, but unbiased information is just not available in commercial settings (even the government "which solar panel is best" information is politically influenced, plus it doesn't even list correct pricing).
630.
by waps 13y ago
GWT isn't even on there. Why ? Frontend-backend integration. Backend on JVM. Library availability. By far the best integration with other tools and mature backends. Plus statically typed programming that just doesn't suffer from C

More ›