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by zupatol 16y ago
There is some sort of rent control, but at the same time I have the impression that rents are going up fairly quickly. Offering to pay more rent than advertised is a good idea, I might try that.
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by zupatol 16y ago
Unfortunately this is of no help to me. Here in Geneva, Switzerland, the problem is not choosing the apartment, but being chosen among all the other people who want the same apartment you do. I've seen people stand in line just to visit one
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by zupatol 16y ago
You just made me look at that page. I was about to email it to a friend when I realized that newspeak's real home page doesn't have any dead chicken pictures: http://newspeaklanguage.org/
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by zupatol 16y ago
I have a programming job somewhat like that, except that I work full-time for (approximately) 9 months followed by 6 months unpaid leave during which I make comics. The people I tell about this arrangement usually say they would love to the
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by zupatol 17y ago
This argument is all about what's good enough to be art. If the first film ever made was boring, film was not yet art. If the second film was good, film suddenly became art. Including the first film? Is a really really good film art, or mus
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by zupatol 17y ago
No semblance to me neither. I know one guy who behaves like that. I found this out one day my wife was mad at me and I needed to talk to someone but he just pretended not to hear. I felt insulted until a mutual friend explained to me he alw
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by zupatol 17y ago
Yes, it almost isn't a thought experiment. The only difference is that friendship is not as easy as pressing a button. The button would only work if people you like would press it, and it would have to stay pressed for a while before having
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by zupatol 17y ago
Ficciones, by Borges Very imaginative short stories bordering on the philosophical, some of them hilarious.
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by zupatol 17y ago
I don't know about his country, but this is done also in my country, Switzerland. There isn't much growth, but unemployment is usually lower than 4% I think. I think they don't try to shorten recessions, but they intervene in case of crashe
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by zupatol 17y ago
The book is a classic, its advice looks sensible, but I always found the title dreadfully cynical. Having a friend is something else than knowing someone you can influence. It seems to me that finding real friends is much harder than applyi
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by zupatol 17y ago
I think it's really sad to change jobs without a period of a few months doing nothing in between.
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by zupatol 17y ago
We have this too in Switzerland. If a separation period is not mentioned in the contract it's automatically 2 months (or 3 I don't remember). If you get fired, the company has to tell you the same number of months in advance.
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by zupatol 17y ago
Advertisement, like any art form, is made of 90% garbage. The difference with all the other art forms is that there is a whole industry that works towards force-feeding the greatest number of people with that the garbage. A few times I was
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by zupatol 17y ago
If your strength is to be creative, maybe you are most useful at the beginning of projects. Maybe you could get someone else to finish them? I have the opposite character flaw of finishing everything I start. This is not very good either be
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by zupatol 17y ago
I'm in a similar situation as the original poster, but with less money. I have been thinking about passive investment, but I live in Switzerland, so I wouldn't want to have all my money in Dollars or even Euros. So if I want passive investm
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by zupatol 17y ago
Some novelties are newer than others. Those you remember best are those that don't fit with your generalizations about the world. As you grow older your generalizations get better and less things surprise you. The more you've seen, the more
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by zupatol 17y ago
I take that back. It turns out the journalist is a former college cartoonist. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/02/bill_wa...
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by zupatol 17y ago
And so few questions! Watterson is so modest that he gives his only interview to a local journalist with no particular interest in comics who mainly asks questions about celebrity. This is like Einstein being interviewed by a sports journal
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by zupatol 17y ago
I think it's an advantage of the phone that there are less visual cues, so you can concentrate on auditive cues. A non-geek on the phone is somewhat in the situation of a geek, because he is aware of less non-verbal signals. He will tend to
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by zupatol 17y ago
I've worked with ivy on a project a few years ago and the integration with eclipse worked fine for the classpath and sources. I didn't check about the javadocs. Ivy is mainly a tool to work with ant, so it makes some sense that IDE integrat
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by zupatol 17y ago
It's generally a good attitude to try to see what problems need to be solved instead of just doing your best at what you're told to do. If you identify problems and suggest solutions, you will have more influence on the content of your job
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by zupatol 17y ago
Oh don't be sad. I'm overdramatizing, there's really no way to be sure that I would have continued programming if I had got past that hurdle. Or I might even not have enjoyed it. Maybe I needed to see the ugliness of economics very closely
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by zupatol 17y ago
For me it was exactly the opposite. I started learning programming at 13 reading the zx spectrum manual chapter after chapter until I came to sin and cos which I did not know. My parents hadn't studied, so they could not tell me. Instead of
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by zupatol 17y ago
It looks more like a reply to the guy who ran out of space in his gmail account. How did it get here? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850827
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by zupatol 17y ago
Sometimes people ask me why programming is fun. I tell them programming is like building a sandcastle or writing a story, with the added pleasure that what you build reacts to your inputs. In fact some of the pleasure of writing in a natura
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by zupatol 17y ago
In Switzerland it used to be the case that a career in the military helped having a career in the private sector. I don't think this is true anymore. At the same time, no one ever needed all the qualities you mention in the swiss army. It n
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by zupatol 17y ago
So any reason for staying at home is a lie? Many people get a sense of purpose from doing things that are done more easily by staying in one place: write a book, build a house, educate yourself, create a company, raise children, withdraw fr
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by zupatol 17y ago
One way to make banks boring and predictable would be to define precisely what kind of products they are allowed to sell. This sounds like what Taleb would want, but it don't think it would be good to entirely eliminate innovation. But if r
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by zupatol 17y ago
I'm at a point where I notice how much time waste on the internet but I don't yet have the discipline to resist distractions. Other than turning the router off every second day. But I grew up without the internet. It makes me sad to read ab
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by zupatol 17y ago
Oh I saw your question only today. Alice's pronunciation is correct, but I say the name slightly difference. She pronunces 'Ex' like ecks, while I say eggs.

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