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I have made a desktop application for a DVD rental franchise. I have created an account as a customer too and whenever I go to a store and the clerk enters my customer code the title of his screen becomes a smiley.

What was so wrong with this question?

Then why the yawning when reading the article?

And the next big thing is a free newspaper delivered at home? It's not even original

"Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible"

"Simple things should be simple" is the author's point. I agree.

"I had to learn the "complexities" of my environment, that the author bemoans, such as browser bugs"

And you're happy with it?

Why is this a tautology?

maybe it feels more fun? (just to start a discussion..)

"..but I always miss the colons off the end of lines"

Well, if you miss them so much, just put them in.

Markets are not efficient

As I have pointed out before, "deep pockets" is actually a disadvantage

"Dim inty1,inty2,inty3 as Integer"

This will define only inty3 as integer. The other 2 variables will be variants.

From Wikipedia:

"László Polgár (born 1946) is a Hungarian chess teacher and father of the famous "Polgár sisters": Zsuzsa (Susan), Zsófia (Sofia), and Judit. He authored well-known chess books such as Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games and Reform Chess, a survey of chess variants.

Although he himself is a modest chess player, Polgár is an expert on chess theory, owning over 10,000 books about chess. He is interested in the proper method of rearing children, believing that "geniuses are made, not born". Before he had any children, he wrote a book entitled Bring Up Genius!, and asked for a wife who would help him carry out the experiment. He found one in Klara, a schoolteacher, who lived in a Hungarian speaking enclave in the Ukraine. He married her in the USSR and brought her to Hungary. They have three daughters. He homeschooled his three daughters, primarily in chess, and all three went on to become strong players. An early result was Susan winning the Budapest Chess Championship for girls under 11 at the age of four"

As Buffet has mentioned himself, Berkshire has a serious disadvantage compared to a small investor: tons of cash, meaning it only makes sense to make huge bets thus limiting its choices.

That was a good one. But somehow it supports my argument, showing that any additional information (like how many of the lines are blank) brings some new value.

Ok, let's say someone proposes you to maintain either A or B, giving you 10.000$ per year. You have the right to choose one of the two. He tells you that the only info he can give you is the lines of code of each program.(think of it as a thought experiment.) If you say, I don't care to know - it's meaningless. you lose the chance to make 10.000$ per year by maintaining a toy application of 20 lines. Even worse if you say, I just need the 10.000$ and choose B randomly.

I mean, at least one info you get is that A is a toy application and B is a big program. Might be big because it's full of useless sh*t, but still it's big and this IS some information.

Program A has 20 lines of code. Program B has 20.000.000 lines of code. Is this absolutely meaningless information?

"Anything which uses science as part of its name isn't: political science, creation science, computer science."

- Hal Abelson

I would also recommend the first minutes of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA

It doesn't matter so much which industry will be hot in the next years, it's what a specific company will do that matters (compare the fate of amazon and pets.com. for example)

Can you spot some?

"Sometimes quality.." I guess you mean quantity

And in french it sounds like couilles ,which means bollocks.

I have the [dead] option on and I see often dead comments like this, so I was wondering too. Are some accounts banned or something?

The only comments I see from the parent's parent are the ones in this thread. So how come and you noticed what you say you noticed?

Shouldn't we examine military spending as a percentage of GDP? The author only shows absolute numbers, which I think is misleading.

It doesn't capture the essence of the creature in the sense that it lacks certain elements that one can assosciate with it, e.g. power (it looks very timid to me). Probably I misinterpreted the world "image", I did't take it literally as you suggest.

"...that it captures the absolute essence of the creature in as concise an image as possible"

I'm not convinced.

(This is not an expert's comment, I know nothing about modern art)

They have

Number #5 needs some clarification. Apparently he doesn't believe this to apply to himself since he didn't make his riches by investing in an index fund. I don't know in what context he said it, probably he means it's the best strategy for the average investor. Quoting Buffet again: "Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing."

Doesn't matter much, most important is to have David Lynch direct it.