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An EU grant is an arbitrage. a) There's zero possibility to lose my money (since the investment is theirs, not mine). b) There's positive or at least zero probability I'll make money as result of this investment. The only problem I have with them is timing. I got $50k of my own, just like the...

It goes like this: albeit called programming "languages", in a comparison with real life languages they're more like alphabets. So the "C++ alphabet" resembles much the "Java alphabet" sort of like 26-letters Latin versus essentially the same with some às and ós and ßs. But with the same...

Help me define the following situation in arbitrage terms. Lemme remind you what an arbitrage is: 1) You CANNOT lose money. 2) There's a PROBABILITY you will make money. Not a certainty. I've re-run my backtests and they came even better (plus a lot more bugs in the software, the reason I...

Two questions: 1) How many of you are old enough to have read "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" ( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ ) by Joel, the guy who invented StackOverflow? Although the article was written in 2000, I read it around 2006. 2)...

Is this insider trading? Coze I can, do and will continue to do that. By being an employee of thatTarget Corporation (even) after 11 o'clock news and still working towards making it better.

See above. Not that I don't wish you luck, I just don't charge at bayonet in front of a machine-gun equipped trench before first at least bombing the shit out of them with artillery. Then I'm sending my newly developed wea^H^H^H tan^H^H drones. If if gets to the next point then it's interesting.

Thanks for the quote.

Shit, this brainstorm just made me reckon I actually like the interviews game - as long as my personal long term average gain from it is in the 200%. And getting a strong preference lately towards shorting that long term. Anyways, interviews suck and always remember they're only a means to an...

OK, part of the skills sausage was a joke, same like $40,000 / year before taxes for a developer in general (not just the one who's missing one or two of those "skills"). Actually I've seen both similar lists and similar salary quotes and not just in Europe, although I must say I do 98% of my...

A lot of operations and not that much programming. Perhaps you already did what I'm going to say but before quitting your job it would have been a good idea to: 1) Make sure you are *generally* employable. Apply to generic IT jobs matching your experience: web, CRM / ERP. The market is very...

There are like a funkton of programs here currently that hand over grants from EU structural funds, usually around €30,000 - 40,000. Another year of my own savings plus one of those grants and I'll have that free/full time (gotta hire two people to get them, so it would be me and an apprentice)...

I'm fine even with loosely drawn maps like this: https://www.google.ro/search?q=Holy+Roman+Empire&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj82fTTwcfcAhWCzqQKHRJdBB4Q_AUICygC&biw=1546&bih=818#imgrc=0g-9oWupA8wGyM: as long as part of the Bulgarian Empire you still remember to give us our posca, the...

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Empire: "The Empire overnight disintegrated into multiple states based on nationalism." ROFL.

If that retarded nationalistic imbecile wouldn't have killed Franz Ferdinand, we'd be just here: an united Europe. Speaking *ENGLISH* because German is darn hard and Latin (my base language) has too many grammar rules. But language is irrelevant in the larger equation of motivation, which...

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/map-austro-hungarian-empire-1914

On a general note, when I was a student in high school back in the (German style) boarding house for high school ELITE students (former Austro-Hungary borders), I got not just outcompeted but physically beaten by my respectable antepasados. So I asked what seemed like a reasonable (like not beat...

I also know what you're saying.

Seems like you've resigned yourself to the new "reality". I'm a programmer but also an entrepreneur and if the deal with the Californian guys gets trough, a net *hirerer* of developers (in the US and EU). It's no fatality and it's in your power to change the rules of the game, you just gotta...

I live outside your counting system so at least I have a choice but you my friend, you're fried. Cheers.

How much can you? Not me, you. How long can you live outside the current benevolent economy where some "mi sento generoso" slave owner grants you the right to some weekends? And if they don't, what can you do?