User: longfeet

Re:So not "a third of cash" at all, then

On: A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com)

Another option: A third of all cash held by US non-financial companies in 2015 was made by 5 US tech companies oversea

Might make sense to avoid hosting countries tax

On: A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com)

These companies might pay taxes to oversea countries when they extract their money to the US. So it might make sense keep it oversea.

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On: Transparent Displays Are Here, But They're Pretty Useless

Obviously

Lack of respect for the trade

On: Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity?

I work for a big software company and work on a huge product.

The number one productivity killer is Broken Code.
Broken builds, bugs which prevents the product from running, newly (undocumented) configuration.
Sometimes it takes me days until I can actually start developing.

Proper testing environment is a valuable asset for productivity.
Beyond the obvious reasons of making it easier to clean bugs, test by running is a time consuming method.
Our product is heavy and takes ages to start running and it surely consume my time when I'm developing.

That brings me to slow machines which is not a major time killer but is very easily fixed and I'm pretty sure has a good ROI.