THE DEPRESSING DARK SEASON
A lot of us are affected by the winter darkness. Usually it get to me about this time of year and I need a little sunshine.
I’ve been taking high doses of Vitamin D and it really helps. And this year is better than any other year I can remember because of it.
But I wonder, how does everyone else cope with it?
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-12 14:57:00 UTC
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2012/12/08/sir_issac_newton_explains_income_inequalityANTIQUITY ON INEQUALITY 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-12 10:57:00 UTC
”[I] DIDN’T LEAVE AMERICA. AMERICA LEFT ME.” (( A reference to Regan’s statement ‘I didn’t leave the democratic party, the democratic party left me.’ )) Any country that wants to demonize white males, is welcome to. I’m a libertarian: You’re welcome to do what you want, just not welcome to do what you want with me. I don’t want to live in a country where I’m preyed upon by the state, and hold second class legal status because of my race and gender. Where my heritage is disowned and discredited. And where I’m demonized in exchange for my entrepreneurship. Thanks. Our enemy: The State. Democracy is the slow road to totalitarianism.
”[I] DIDN’T LEAVE AMERICA. AMERICA LEFT ME.” (( A reference to Regan’s statement ‘I didn’t leave the democratic party, the democratic party left me.’ )) Any country that wants to demonize white males, is welcome to. I’m a libertarian: You’re welcome to do what you want, just not welcome to do what you want with me. I don’t want to live in a country where I’m preyed upon by the state, and hold second class legal status because of my race and gender. Where my heritage is disowned and discredited. And where I’m demonized in exchange for my entrepreneurship. Thanks. Our enemy: The State. Democracy is the slow road to totalitarianism.
UNBELIEVABLE DEV COST
You know, in Seattle, assuming I could get developers this good to work on this product, the burdened cost would be something on the order of 100 an hour. Here it’s 25.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-11 08:21:00 UTC
NO MATTER WHAT RINGTONE YOU USE
You probably sound like a d_____g to somebody.
(This guy behind me has the Carpenters ‘killing me softly’, and gets a call every two minutes. And every time it goes off I want to throw my coffee at him.)
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-11 07:43:00 UTC
[S]INGLE WOMEN RULE AMERICA “President Obama won women by a 55 to 44 percent margin and lost men by a 45 to 52 percent margin, leaving an 18-point gender gap, up from 12 points in 2008. But this difference is dwarfed by the marriage gap—the margin between married and unmarried women. Married women supported the Republican candidate in 2012 by a comfortable six-point margin. It is Obama’s huge victory among unmarried women that delivered the women’s vote and with it, the White House. There is a 43-point difference in the margin between married women and unmarried women, a number which exceeds the gender gap by a factor of two. ” — Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (firm) Women are marrying the state, and returning to their natural preference: to bear children at will and place the responsibility for raising them on the tribe. (Now, as much as I argue that this will undermine the truce in reproductive strategies that we call monogamy, and by consequence I believe it will undermine the high trust society, I am also cognizant of the fact that we never had the technology before to make it possible to have BOTH a division of labor AND unregulated childbirth. The problem is that I just don’t know. I can’t see how it’s possible. But then, i’m not omniscient either.)
UKRAINE IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO ME IN MY ADULT LIFE
if there is a heaven. It looks like Ukraine.
These are the most wonderful people on earth.
White people in their natural habitat. With a government that has abandoned them.
It’s beautiful.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-09 19:40:00 UTC
FASHION: LONG LEATHER COATS
In the states, wearing a long leather coat makes you a member of the lower classes.
And if you aren’t at least six-two and have a thirty eight inch chest, they make you look like a cow.
But these really tall skinny Slavic men can pull It off without looking like dorks.
Lots of good looking (straight) men in Kiev. And downtown shops cater to them.
So far I’m spending money almost exclusively with Karl Lagerfeld. Which I wouldn’t normally wear in the states. But is perfect here.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-09 13:14:00 UTC
BUDGET. SIGH.
Ok. Now that we have the scope done, and the plumbing done. I have to do a budget. Which means a project plan, estimates and comprises. No
one likes compromises.
The team is quite good. Exceptional. But it will be work keeping their confidence. The scope of work is not something they are comfortable with.
They want to simplify things for themselves not the user. And they seem afraid of some of the complex features because multi site solutions are unfamiliar to them.
So it is cheaper to develop software here. And the talent is exceptional. Especially per dollar. But you have to work hard to incrementally build their confidence.
This isn’t Seattle or SF. The talent doesn’t have poduct experience. And they are timid. And like all of us, when exposed to the unfamiliar they resort to the familiar.
I love this business.
I love engineers.
🙂
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-08 17:18:00 UTC