viandante

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by viandante 14y ago
Yes, an RDF format looks like a good solution. It appears that RDF is quite supported in python and that it also abstracts away persistance ( http://readthedocs.org/docs/rdflib/en/latest/persistence.htm... ) in a way. I ll look into that, t
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by viandante 14y ago
From a business perspective (and believe it, it hurts me saying that), this discussion makes no sense. It's like saying: 'are we in a PMIs bubble'? Or, 'are we in a multinationals bubble?'. The point is that we tend to group things together
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by viandante 14y ago
Well, let's say that now that he saves 25k for the maid, he hires a gardner. GDP 225 again? So basically the GDP depends on the number of transactions? Is that so?
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by viandante 14y ago
Agree. But usually business rules and exceptions boil down to filters and look ups on the dataset. It is difficult to keep up with that mess from outside, but if you deliver a way to make look ups and filters efficiently, maybe you got a so
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by viandante 14y ago
Well, at work I use Cognos. But it is clumsy and it forces you in its paradigms. Instead, when I dream or code (I am learning to code, I am a finance guy), I am making demos for things that should provide a better way to explore your data:
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by viandante 14y ago
Again, in the first case the man is simply spending the 25k on the maid. In the second case he will spend the 25k in something else. That something else will then spend the 25k as the maid would have done. No change.
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by viandante 14y ago
Let's say the man invests all his money in a socks business. In the first case his socks business will demand 25k less. The maid will demand 25k more. I still see effect 0. I think the problem is people are not considering savings in the
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by viandante 14y ago
You are assuming that investments don't bring spending. But that is wrong. If the maid does not get the 25, a company, a bank, a fund, will get it (as savings=investments). This means the 25 will flow in the economy in both cases.
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by viandante 14y ago
Please, don't just downvote. Do tell me where the +25 are coming from in the first case instead. It would something more productive to do.
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by viandante 14y ago
The equation is Y=C+I+G. In the first case he has 175 of investments (I) and 25 of consume (C). In the second case he has 200 of investments. If some of the downvoters can please explain in those terms where I am wrong, it would be nice. Pl
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by viandante 14y ago
Are you sure of this example? It does look like GDP is 200k in both cases. The first case looks wrong, if he pulls 25k from his savings, there will be -25k in savings (or investments as they are the same) and +25k in spendings. Effect is 0.
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by viandante 14y ago
To me your arguments seems to be sound. What is 'scary' is seeing some prices out there. They are very low. I was looking at mixpanel pricing ( https://mixpanel.com/pricing/ ) lately. A game changer should be able to provide more than those
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by viandante 14y ago
A link to some of those hacks?
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by viandante 14y ago
Graphs is for business Agree on this. Especially the shiny and good looking ones. For a technical crowd you can stick with a black line. For business the format is as important as the substance. Therefore, I can't see lots of applications
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by viandante 14y ago
This looks good, what about the non standard browsers (IE<9, what did you think?)? I have been looking into d3 a lot lately, but if there is no good support for IE, then no way this can be used for business apps.
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by viandante 14y ago
What's the problem then? Having management? 'Stealing' profit from the workers? You can't seem to understand that 1000 workers doing 'their' job may be hundrends of times less productive than doing the same job under the same company. Lots
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by viandante 14y ago
Workers are not pointed a gun to do the job. Given the opportunities they have, they are choosing this specific opportunity. This means that this service is increasing their expected value from the job. I don't see how this can be bad.
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by viandante 14y ago
The main challenge is that start ups, as it is normal, seems to look for top people or with lots of experience. The second challenge is that even if they would consider an unexperienced person, they would not do it remote. I am pretty sure
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by viandante 14y ago
For us business guys (and the term is broad, there can be also quite technical/numerical business guys...) is really a struggle convincing anybody that we can code. Yes, we have small tiny demos laying in there (<shameless plug> htt
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by viandante 14y ago
Could you be more specific on why this will not happen? As you say, in-web calls should be possible, why people don't compete against skype with decent web apps?
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by viandante 14y ago
I am not from US, but indeed I do see as socialist any State that collects taxes. Socialism is a broad definition, I just like to use it like this because it shows that the problem is the continuum and not the extremes. And for me the main
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by viandante 14y ago
As much as definitions are concerned, also US has only socialist parties. The first problem begins when your parties only discuss about further spending and never about expense reductions (as in US too). The other problem begins when the St
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by viandante 14y ago
This is good news. But I am not sure yet if I would vote for them (usually I do not vote). Their economic policy seems not mature enough or too much towards an even more socialist State. This is what is now failing us in most of the western
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by viandante 14y ago
Yes, but for 1 DTU there are plenty of other Universities aiming only at big numbers of students. Also, degrees are so inflated that companies keep asking for a Master even after 2 or 3 years of experience. I am not sure Danish are happy. A
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by viandante 14y ago
When I was in Denmark I found really irritating the pay Danish students get for University (600 euros net). You can put it any way you want, but that creates all sort of bad incentives and crappy education (which I did see. VIA, anybody?).
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by viandante 14y ago
I hear you and nice web app too, but basically you are telling me that Excel and SP are more cost effective than a good app made for the specifics of your needs. I don't know, in finance at my company with put huge ammounts of man hours in
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by viandante 14y ago
What features of excel? I work with Excel everyday (I'm a finance, not a hacker) and I can't really see what features, besides filters and pivots, you may want to implement in an app. The best piece of software I worked with is "Hyperion",
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by viandante 14y ago
Never had this problems on linux. Actually I was pleased to have a decent csv support in libreOffice.
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by viandante 14y ago
SharePoint is what happens when you force a paradigm (the idea of files) to the limit of good sense. Why do we need Excel sheets lying around in SharePoint? Why not just a decent web interface connected with the databases (external and in
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by viandante 14y ago
Frankly, I would say just the opposite. If your needs are minimal, go with windows. If you need more, linux is a good choice. You will never get a decent terminal in windows or good support for some programming languages (such as python). Y

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