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    Finding programmers for Grey or Black Boxes

    Actually, not always: both on the high and the low sides of the scale.
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    Finding programmers for Grey or Black Boxes

    Well, this just illustrates the fact that a coder is not necessarily a good manager. First of all, anyone that has been in software or IT long enough to command 6 figure employment should also have had exposure to the business of hiring outside vendors - both domestic and offshore. Its...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    exactly the problem in california .... it takes an annual household inome of about 300K to live comfortably anywhere along the coasts and hence, any business with a non-executive employee base is needing to locate inland - inland empire. ....Better locations and environments can be had out of...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    This is exactly the case in california: people are leaving the state when the opportunity arises. This makes it extremely difficult for california employers to keep talent. Some large companies located in california have essentailly transformed to executive only offices within the state...
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    Finding programmers for Grey or Black Boxes

    I dont hang around donut shops and I dont do referrals except to people I know ... I'm sure the "cops" will show up though <g>....
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    US demographics over the next 5 to ten years are against your demand prediction unless you expect an influx of afluent immigration - which is actually occuring in areas of california real estate with international marketing of properties. In california the business equation is clear: You just...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Hmmm ... Infinite demand ? Always Growing ? There is a very large demand for housing in california: less that 25 percent of the families can afford the median price home. Its a pretty simple equation: In california at least 75 % (or more) of households will be renters in the future or...
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    Do you Expect the US Economy to be Better or Worse

    On the first point ...these are the "news" and "media" reporting focus. A lot more positive progress is happening in technology and invention in the US than in reported to the general public through mass market media services. On the second point I would say that I too am worried about the...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Thank you but this one is not buying in Phx area .......
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    Good Read on the Real Estate Mania

    I just sold a property in So. Ca. : As long as you live in it 2/5 years you get the gain tax free.... just keep moving and selling until things stop and you would be doing very very well over the last several years ..... And the Agents are doing better. Now, do I think things are long in the...
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    Are some markets more profitable (or less risky) to trade than others?

    Nope. It really doesn't take 1M trading account to make a decent living. Keep working on building your trading account: thats good .... but once it gets to a certain point you have to make some changes to your trading or scale it up with more people, or just keep your account at a chosen...
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    Finding programmers for Grey or Black Boxes

    Tell that to the shops in india doing most of the development work for a variety of wall street firms, and for several large silcon valley firms. The effective rate of these ventures is between 10.00 and 25.00 dollar per hour US equivalent. Competing on price ? Ain't gonna happen...
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    The best book in Technical Analysis

    Again, a posting that is vacuous and longwinded.
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    The best book in Technical Analysis

    I'm sure you are a smart person ..... But ...... You should have stopped with the first sentence. Your post is a rambling diatribe. I'm sure there is a way to distill all of your ideas into tens of words, rather than hundreds ...... Like my old college writing professor would say...
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    IB API - Visual Basic

    Welcome to the world of programming ..... API specifications / user guides often have error or usage conditions that are either completely missing from the documentation or just plain wrong. Why is this ? Well ... it probably started off being a budget thing - no money for testing and...
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    PIMCO/Bill Gross being investigated for Gunning shorts on the 10 yr

    Maybe it was planned ...but I doubt it. More likely it was a beneficial side-effect of poor decisions by others ......
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    Trading for a Low-Paying Living

    The relationship between an accountant and client is no different than any other client consulting relationship - its confidential or presumed confidential unless you release the consulting or audit firm to publish facts related to your account. Publishing general statistics is not part of...
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    Strategy optimization of 4+ variables

    Actually, your blanket statement is not really true .... you can use some of these techniques in some situations depending upon your goals and needs. They can be statistical or not, or can be combined with statistical methods: It really depends upon your understanding the problem. If you dont...
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    How much Ramm?

    Pentium D can probably use more than 4 GBytes of RAM . What do you need ? Depends upon your needs ... On Windows machines the performance counters can not only show you in real time the vairous system metrics but can also log them over a time period for later analysis. If you are getting...
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    PIMCO/Bill Gross being investigated for Gunning shorts on the 10 yr

    and again .... other than Gross saying he didn't engineer all of this he basically said nothing. I find his comments usually just a bunch of marketing noise ...... The PIMCO team is comprised of an excellent set of strategists and they are very sharp about not intentionally violating...
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