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The TL;DR: if you skip the admin and due diligence of a deal, you will close more deals. For example: "I couldn’t understand why buyers felt they needed to dig into accounting minutiae".

However, to paraphrase something I read from a sailor, "every regulation in the Navy is written in the blood of your predecessors". If you do 10 deals, one might wipe out any upside from the other 9, even if you got more upside by negotiating a better valuation, and having a faster turnaround and lower cost of doing business. And of course, if a buyer got the reputation of not doing due diligence, it would attract all the problematic companies.

There is a reason behind every "annoying" stage, and those reasons collectively explain why the entire industry is made of buyers that follow those stages.

Since he runs 10 businesses, it is probable that the author has other ways of doing the work. He will keep track of most of the promising names in his industry, he will have a network of insiders to keep him appraised of the real story in those companies (although never officially), and he will know when the timing is ripe. His good relationship with his existing bankers means financing will be quick and standardised already, his back office experienced and streamlined. His experience tells him how you can play with what numbers to present a rosier picture than the reality, as well as how much to offer to get a founder to come to a quick decision. Unless he decides to go buy palm oil crushing plants in Indonesia, it might work out quite well.
The name for what you're talking about is "morphological typology". Languages occupy a spectrum from analytic (words stay the same) to synthetic (words change). English is usually categorized as analytic, since we only have a few ways to change words: plural -s, past tense -ed, etc., and English has been getting more analytic over time. Other European languages are more synthetic (fusional), like French, German, Spanish, etc. Japanese, Finnish, Hungarian are very synthetic (agglutinative). Chinese (all varieties) is on the opposite end of the spectrum, and it's much more analytic than English.
> It's ugly

What do you find ugly about it?
I wonder what the good reason to sell is that he described. Like he pointed out, when you sell youre moving your safe assets to risky assets. Odd.
Oh yeah! But honestly I still sleep ok at night with Apple making record profits.
And all the money and jobs you have there in Frankfurt and Munch is because rest of us in EU pay for it by buying cars and other crap. This kind of finger pointing is utterly counter-productive. Without Berlin and rest of europe "your" city is a poor dead starving wasteland and we don't go around debating whether Frankfurt can enact a policy because Polish farmers are feeding them are we?

What you're doing is essentially trying to move the conversation away from what Berliners think is important - keeping their quality of life.
All the more necessitates the need to create a light-weight VM on top of which 7 + macOS can run. With better hardware we could abstract the hardware underneath the OS for legacy apps & switch to *nix at a click/shortcut.
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This game is so good. Last time I played in 10 persons (2 for each country) - game became even more complex and exiting!
While i have discovered a couple good songs in Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist, i do find it a common occurrence nowadays that songs which i have listened to in the past are included. Does anyone else have that experience? Perhaps Spotify is just having a really hard time finding music related to my tastes?
Read the paper! No contradiction whatsoever. The authors refer to 452 eminent life scientists (not programmers) 'who passed away while at the peak of their scientific abilities'.
> You can cancel a lease with a renter because of "Eigenbedarf"

Which has a 10 year "Sperrfrist" (freeze period) and you need to go to court if the renter refuses to honor and make your claim. Even in that case you need to prove your personal need and "living in your own property" does not satisfy that requirement.
> is that it is disappointing what Google is capable of

Man, how long will this meme survive? Go only initially originated with some Google developers, it's not in any way "Google's answer to Apple's and Microsoft's strategically-important and accordingly-subsidized-and-evangelized-and-invested-in languages". Just picture a handful of (previously "accomplished" in the field, as it turns out though) guys thinking "this company has a wide mess of Python etc scripts that should really be C programs, except for the problems this would pose"..
If there's a housing crisis in Germany, it's entirely the fault of politics.

There should be lots of investors in German housing construction projects, given Germany's comparatively low property quote, increasing urban population, and low general interest rates. What turns investors away is the asymetric legal situation unduely favouring the renter's over the owner's interests (I hear in Sweden it's even worse). That, plus excessive laws for energy efficiency that seem to be dictated by the construction industry to drive up initial and ongoing cost.

The SPD party's answer is new laws limiting rents (without also attempting to cut down on costs). They shure don't understand how to let the market work for you.
Interestingly, there's always someone like you making such claims in every online debate about Linux on laptop. And yet I have never succeeded in making Linux run as well as Windows or macOS on any of my laptops over decades.

I never seem to have one of those unicorn hardware/driver combinations that perform well, don't drain battery, don't run hot and don't break on dist-upgrade. I have researched my issues every single time because I would prefer to use Linux for many reasons, but the fixes I find are often partial, temporary and fragile. Eventually I give up and go back to macOS or Windows.

dist-upgrade almost always breaks things for me, especially all those hard fought for fixes. And it's not just minor things that break. Last time (Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10) networking stopped working completely because some maintainer had decided that network manager should no longer manage wired connections on my particular variant of Ubuntu.
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No, it does not. Like timg here, it only works on terminals that have 256x256x256 RGB colour, for which it hardwires the control sequences; and this is explained up-front in its doco.

An "ANSI" terminal need only support ECMA-48, which has 8 colours; as can be seen from the terminfo entry for the "ansi" terminal type. "true colour" is ISO/IEC 8613-6.

* http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/289871/5132
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The author mentioned that code generation "introduces additional, non-standart syntax". One can say exactly the same about generics.

Most useful typesystems with generics are Turing-complete. Essentially they introduce own language for types with often very weired rules and syntax that one has to master on top of the basic language. With code generation I can program my types using the same language I use for code with less things to learn.
I know that as a veteran, you are more likely to take your own life simply because you have the courage to do it. Please don't though! Anything but that. This is the only game in town, so play it all the way through.

And thank you for your service.
There's a theory that humans have a certain "complexity budget" for languages. People will add things to simple languages, and forget things from complex languages, to arrive at some sort of equilibrium. Language complexity is a bit of a touchy subject though.

By comparison, Japanese might have simpler syntax and phonology than English, but higher orthographic and morphological complexity (and English is already orthographically complex).
Of course when you do accurate depicions, the piece of film can "feel" so much better. We people can kinda detect things that are "off" and not as we remember them and that can push you away from suspension of disbelief and thus enjoyment of the film.

It's easy to fall into the hole of uncanny valley if too much things just don't add up. Keeping things realistic can also add more non-manufactured conflict that makes content more interesting - e.g. see for example The Expanse, where a lot of conflict of the story also lies in the fact that the writers understood how space physics works.
The numbers compare fairly well to what artists get paid per listener for being played on the radio, IIRC.

The 1990s CD boom is over, and it turns out it wasn't a law of nature.
Rather than run away from the problem let's get together and fix it for everyone.
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> Housing units, population, jobs, and desirability of the area is what drives housing unit prices. Increasing the supply will always ease affordability.

Within that price range. Skyscraper flats in many European cities are at such a high starting price that they might put a downwards pressure on really expensive flats but do nothing for the average person. The cost of building a flat in a Skyscraper are significantly higher than the cost of a flat in a 7 story building.
OP says noone flips their king to resign, well I do, but I've never played competitively. Aren't most games in movies casual? If they were all played with rigourous application of professional rules then that would be unrealistic too.

I've seen people playing with the board oriented wrongly, not more than a couple of times admittedly. Is the reason for it being so common in films that they've flipped the shot a lot of the time?
Interesting. Considering language as a lever and a tool for thought, how do you think the position of a language on the analytic/synthetic spectrum affects its suitability for computer interpretation?

Are there any major Japanese programming languages? It would seem to me that given our relatively primitive compilers, that 'analytic' languages offer simpler mediums for unambiguous programming, whereas 'synthetic' languages may bear greater nuance of expression when we can 'think' programs into existence in the future.
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254322

That's a 156 page thread. The result? Ubuntu still doesn't fully work on that particular machine.

And that machine isn't particularly unusual in its class.
> And all the money and jobs you have there in Frankfurt and Munch is because rest of us in EU pay for it by buying cars and other crap.

Your are welcome to build better cars. Tesla for example is trying to do it, lets see how we respond to that. This is the point of a market-based economy. It is not like we force them to buy stuff.

> Without Berlin and rest of europe "your" city is a poor dead starving wasteland.

These cities did well, when half of Berlin and most of todays Europe was behind a wall, so I think you are wrong here.

> What you're doing is essentially trying to move the conversation away from what Berliners think is important - keeping their quality of life.

They can keep there quality of live, I am just asking for a balanced budget. We are happy to pay our share for the additional expenses Berlin has, for being our capital, but other than that, please finance yourself.
Yes it's true chess is part of the physical universe and I can see why it's a difficult point to articulate. Perhaps one way to say it is that the rules of chess and strategy should not depend on the parameters that define your universe, only should depend on the rules of chess you decide to play.
I had a similar experience before when trying to get painkillers in the UK. There's a deep institutional narcophobia here.

Thankfully I was eventually able to get a prescription for an effective opioid, after an NSAID-induced bleed almost killed me.

The experience made me write up an Advance Decision (Living Will) to make it clear that if I'm ever unable speak for myself, I want my pain or mental distress to be adequately treated. The thought of being in severe pain or anxiety, and being left to suffer, terrifies me.
> I pay them because I want to compensate artists.

You're paying the wrong people then. If you want to help artists buy their music instead of renting it from streaming services, which may lose access to it at any time.
One of these things that feels natural after 1 minute. I never want to go back to the rest of Internet now :-(
It would be useful to be able to browse the sourcecode online, without actually cloning it.

It seems somewhat weird to use the VCS itself for the VCS being developed. Well, maybe that's just me. Until you offer the ability to browse sourcecode online, maybe mirror the repository to some online source hosting site and disallow issues tracking there?
Those developers are being paid by Google and their actions within this context relate to the public image of their employer.

If Google wouldn't agree with their actions, or did not pay to increase the team size, they would be developing the language outside Google walls.
> Your are welcome to build better cars. Tesla for example is trying to do it, lets see how we respond to that. This is the point of a market-based economy. It is not like we force them to buy stuff.

You're missing the point. Your own city leaders and government lobbies to sell more of that stuff. Without that you wouldn't be able to "finance yourself" - and that's my point. In your arrogance you're forgetting that subsidies are made to keep other germans and europeans buying your crap so you can "finance yourself".

> They can keep there quality of live, I am just asking for a balanced budget. We are happy to pay our share for the additional expenses Berlin has, for being our capital, but other than that, please finance yourself.

The whole point of existence of a nation-state is that it can improve overall quality of life and security because it redirects and pools financing around and creates environment on which your Frankfurt can "finance itself". Again, without those people that "can't finance themselves", you have little economy and customers to run your market-based economy to finance yourself.
Oh there absolutely is. In London we welcome anyone with cash to offload, no questions asked.

There is plenty of building going on in London, none of which will help anyone on an average wage.

It's simply about money. The government loves it because they get a nice payout from stamp duty, estate agents love it because they get to close £1,000,000+ sales, the foreign buyers love it because they can offshore their assets.

The only people who don't love it is everyone else.
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> One can say exactly the same about generics

No, it's the same language with a bigger vocabulary and grammar, on which everybody agrees.

And generics can be quite sane, as exemplified by the languages in the ML family, which have been around for decades.

Java also didn't have generics. They added them eventually, much later in version 5, but then due to backwards compatibility concerns they added them with invariance at the declaration site and complex wildcard rules at use site.

So the irony of this situation is that Go will add generics, it's inevitable for a (quasi) static language once it grows in usage and ecosystem. But when they'll do add those generics, they'll be broken due to backwards compatibility concerns, becoming yet another counter example for generics, picked up by the next Go / Java that will reinvent the wheels again.
I would not disagree that many axioms that we use have direct relationships with the physical world, this is one of many ways math is useful in describing nature. I was trying to say that axioms in general do not have to be set to accommodate the physical world.
> Is it that they failed with XBoxOne, now Sony and Nintendo eat MSFT former console market share as breakfast.

I'll think you'll find that XBone has sold pretty well (faster rate than the 360 in the same time period). It just that the PS4 sold extraordinarily well in comparison. Too early to tell for the switch but WiiU (which was competing with xbone) was nowhere near eating their breakfast.
As far as I understood the linked post, that's an incomplete tl;dr. You missed these important parts:

1) In the words of Buffet, "there would be no chance that a deal would be announced and that the buyer would then back off or start suggesting adjustments (with apologies, of course, and with an explanation that banks, lawyers, boards of directors, etc. were to be blamed)" [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13906176]. Most of such re-negotiations can only be explained by screw ups in the decision making process or dishonesty of the acquirer trying to squeeze more from the tired owners.

2) Not screwing with the acquired businesses: they buy companies because they know their owner-managers are what made these companies successful, so it would be a stupid decision to replace them or change their operations.
On the other hand that keeps the quality of life higher for people living in the cities. It's a balancing act between landlord profits and the promise of stability to the citizens.

Cities aren't only optimizing for profits of the investors (realtively few people), but also for making life in the city itself happy. And by responses of people moving to Berlin, they're doing something right.
An accurate depiction of life has lots of things wrong in it though. It's easy to fall in to the hole of imagining an accurate depiction is one in which everything is precise and correct.
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It's not "narcophobia", it's a desire to actually treat pain effectively without leaving people i) still in pain and ii) addicted to a harmful medication.
Probably you know about the opioid alternatives, but did you try anticonvulsants [1] for your nerve pain? I had nerve damage after a surgical procedure, and opioids did not really help. A doctor suggested to try Gabapentin, which greatly reduced pain down to tolerable levels. While anticonvulsants probably have their own risks, they seem much less addictive than opioids, and are probably easier to get on prescription.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticonvulsant
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No, that's not counting auxiliaries (except "-masu"). The "explosion" comes from the fact that many conjugations can themselves be conjugated (e.g. "konai" can be conjugated as an i-adjective). I don't think katsuyōkei should be counted as conjugations because they're not words by themselves. Like, obviously a godan verb has 5 possible root endings but that doesn't mean it has 5 conjugations.

If we're counting auxiliary verbs, my system can recognize more than 4000 verb/adjective endings.
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It's not British journalism per se; the Daily Mail is famous for this kind of thing. Check out the [Daily Mail Oncology Ontology](http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com).
There is no real reason that any of them would not, SSH not involving decoding and then reëncoding terminal control sequences. The more relevant concerns would be whether they worked with tmux, screen, and mosh, which do involve that; and whether the terminal emulator on the local end of one's SSH connection supports 256x256x256 RGB colour control sequences.

That said, one of the issues on timg's issues list deals in the sheer amount of superfluous data that are generated and that that thus have to be transmitted across an SSH connection or a serial device. There is no optimization of the colour change control sequences at all. pixterm similarly does zero optimization, but no-one has pointed that out yet.

* https://github.com/hzeller/timg/issues/13

pxl, mentioned elsewhere on this page, does optimize colour control sequences and indeed uses an ncurses-style double-buffer mechanism to optimize re-drawing.
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I think it's the reverse. He did all or most of their multivariable calc series, and maybe some other things for them.

And then started to do his own thing a little more.
> Because it's way less work. Simple as that.

Definitely FUD.

> Windows, in my experience, just works. The things about it that don't work are the exceptions. Windows gets out of my way and lets me work with minimal setup and maintenance.

Except that most of the time windows apps crash, freeze and the OS simply just get a blue screen. It also get slower if you don't restart it. The desktop is slow and buggy. It's really hard to tweak(try to turn off Alt+Ctrl+L without turning off the lock-screen).

The entire registry-thing is just garbage, installing and removing software takes a lot of time. And those loooong forced updates... windows fans complain about how much time it takes to configure linux yet windows setup is such a PITA.

I and my close ones only use linux but I've a windows7 desktop at work and I can't use it without a linux virtualbox because it's really uncomfortable and unstable.

> Editing endless config files; building some obscure driver from source to make a device function correctly

Tried gentoo or arch? Install a beginner's distro like Mint.

> and heaven help you if you want to do an OS version upgrade.

On ubuntu it never failed me or anyone I know. But simply reinstalling it is far faster, especially if you've a setup tool(or use the software backup program in mint).
Personally I didn't mind them. Like the other poster said, I'd already forgot about them when I read your post.
And who can you blame for your higher rent? Berliners?
The ugliness of Java generics comes from type erasing. It allowed to stay compatible with JVM. Go has no such restrictions and I do not see why a truly minimal generics in a style of Virgil cannot be added to Go at some point.
I'm not sure why people always bring up the tax redistribution. We speak about small volumes. It's about 10 billion from the states plus 10 billion from the federal government. Berlin get's roughly a third of that. We are talking about a few percent of the states' budgets. The amount of money changing hands is by no means enough to pay for major developments let alone an airport. It's certainly less than the (hard to quantify) advantage of having the market of 12 out of 16 states receiving money in your nation.

I don't see a feasible way of changing Berlin's economic situation drastically, given it's a landlocked city state in a unique historical situation. Berlin will for the foreseeable future always be on the receiving end of redistribution.
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Malaga Spain PTA, low wages and students flew away from technological subjects
Today two news are about less and less students in high school are preparing for STEM studies and the president of the Andalusian Technological Park (PTA in Spanish) is worried because a thousand estimated new jobs in the PTA are not going to be covered. Students know that the wages in the PTA are like those of a waiter, around 1000 euros/month, so high school classes in technology have less than 15 students and are disappearing, also only 20% of girls in engineering.

Students technology classes are almost empty, less than the minimum 15 per class and so the future is very few students for STEM in college.

1) http://www.diariosur.es/malaga/201703/19/estudiantes-espalda-tecnologia-20170318222025.html

2) http://www.diariosur.es/malaga/201703/19/problemas-para-encontrar-millar-20170318223552.html