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People struggle with this stuff a lot. This course looks really helpful. Something a friend was battling with recently: how long after joining a company could/should someone start …

> What's interesting about our education system is we focus a lot on precision and accuracy and not that much on strategy and planning. It seems like a system built to produce acco…

See also "You couldn't make it up."[0] [0] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/you-cou...

Google has internet searches. As well as often locations and journeys (Maps; Android). What a user watches (YouTube). Their emails (Gmail). What they do online (Analytics). Faceboo…

Identical usage to Instagram, then. But yes, I agree, the similarity in app functionality suggests that the name derives/can be confused with Instagram as opposed to a telegram, an…

I might be wrong, will try to dig deeper, but to me it seems like this is for removing third party crapware that might affect your Chrome experience (toolbars, ad-injectors etc), n…

Many a true word spoken in jest! It depends on the specifics of your company of course, but between FreeAgent, HMRC's free filing software[0], and a very mild interest in accountin…

Have you looked into accounting software? Like you, I de-registered for VAT for a while, but since using FreeAgent I've re-registered and haven't looked back. VAT returns are now j…

And equally, sometimes the deadlines are somewhat arbitrary because the manager doesn't know any better. I've seen situations where a manager has said "so you'll have this done in …

I can vouch for this. Not with the emails, but came across bdunn's free blog and podcast 2 months ago. They earned me an extra $8,000 last month, and a better end product for my cl…

Without commenting on whether the product is worth the price (I don't know enough about HiFi quality): There is a bell curve of purchasing mentality - from a minority who buy solel…

What is it that marks them as successes now? Still audience opinion, just not those audiences who first watched it.

Presumably because we are yet to find a way to detect cancer, years earlier, in bodily fluids.

Don't worry, you haven't missed it. "“We’ll follow the pattern laid out with ‘The King’s Speech,’ ‘The Artist’ and pictures like that and move slowly and deliberately,” said Erik L…

Great library. Original discussion (April 2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663775