.. we have several good browser-based accounting software systems, that is usable with Linux or whatever. For example Netvisor has integrated electronic invoices, banks (bank statements, payments, direct debit payments..), goverment e-services, invoice/document scanning by 3rd parties, ledgers, accounting of course, controller reporting and analysis, budgeting and a lot more. Though this does not help much, because it's localized in Finland (and semi-localized in neighboring countries), and Finland has a lot more advanced banking/goverment e-services infrastracture that in the states..
Steve McConnell tells us all about comments in Code Complete. Code Complete 2 (released last year) tells all about them in Part VII - Software Craftmanship (Chapter 31 - Layout and style, Chapter 32 - Self-documenting code).
- Free University education - Top 1 government education system in the world - Top 1 coffee drinkers (twice as much as the second) - Top 1 suicide country (escecially young men) - And other interesting statistics..
I think it's because our history. After the second warld war and our wictory from Soviet Union (yes, Finland vs. USSR and we won!) we have done so hard work to rebuild our country, and after we achieved that we just couldn't stop working:)
Maby because our language is so hard, so that after learning that everything is possible!:)
> "There will always be an army inside the country. Either yours or someone elses."
> "Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't"
I am just reading a book titled 'Selfish Genes'. It is a book about darwinism (Evolution), and I just read a chapter about unselfishess. It was quite interesting (the hole book is), and used wars an example about human solidarity, the prisinors dilemma. It was quite interesting, it goes like this (simplified version shown at the book):
You have 2 cards, "give up" and "co-operate", and you play against another person, who has also the same cards. You show one of your cards and the scores goes like this:
co-operate + co-operate = 3 points to each give-up + give-up = 1 point each co-operate + give-up = 0 points from co-operation and 5 points to the betrayer (give-up)
The amount of points is not important, but the relation between them. The only reasonable tactic when playing only one game, is to play give-up. Though both of you could get more points if playing co-op, but what if the another one is playing a bad guy?
Okey, the best tactic was to play give-up, because if the another played give-up when you played co-op, wou would lose big time.. The thing changes when there are n-games to play (iterative prisinors dilemma), and neither of you don't know how many games there are. This is what the army-comparison is all about. When you're in a field, say 50m far from the 'enemy', you might be thinking the prisinors dilemma. You know, that if both of you rush up to the field with guns firing, both you and the enemy will be killed (not much survivors), so that's the give-up + give-up strategy. But, if you play co-op + co-op both, you both will survive, and I don't think a great majority of people wants to be killed in a battle field.. (I might be wrong here) You propably might guess the another situation when the other gets killed because the otherone cheated.. That's why it's so easy to play give-up.
What I am saying here, there are a LOT'S of reasons to build solidarity between 'enemy' forces. And those quotes you gave have been proven to be false by biology researches based on evolution(ism). Or there are discussions to be taken from the matter. Things are not that simple.
Did I make any sense? Probaply not. Read the book, it's a great book: "Selfish genes", or in finnish "Itsekkäät geenit".
Here in Finland every bank offers sign-in with your bank web-account-id, and the protocol (TUPAS) is standardized here in finland by a central authority (Pankkiyhdistys), so that when you include this authentication system to your application, with the same effort, it works with all the banks (and potential customers). Allmost all the transactions and bill paying is done electronically in web-banks here in Finland, so almost everybody has these id's already. The bank authenticates the user at the local office, so It really works.
You receive the users's social security number and other important information, and the protocol can be customized for companies to give custom information too.
So I think this system (topic) is quite useless. It really needs some authority to trust.
Tested it on NetBSD with Linux emulation. Works just fine, was quite fast and sweet. Only problem was that when I tried adding lists, I could not get out of the list mode...
Anyway, I wouldn't pay 50eur from it, because there are similar choises for no charge.
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.. we have several good browser-based accounting software systems, that is usable with Linux or whatever. For example Netvisor has integrated electronic invoices, banks (bank statements, payments, direct debit payments..), goverment e-services, invoice/document scanning by 3rd parties, ledgers, accounting of course, controller reporting and analysis, budgeting and a lot more. Though this does not help much, because it's localized in Finland (and semi-localized in neighboring countries), and Finland has a lot more advanced banking/goverment e-services infrastracture that in the states..
You people deal with checks? Amazing...
Steve McConnell tells us all about comments in Code Complete. Code Complete 2 (released last year) tells all about them in Part VII - Software Craftmanship (Chapter 31 - Layout and style, Chapter 32 - Self-documenting code).
All programmers should read this. Twice.
If you ask about that from any Finn, we won the war.. It's irrelevant what it says in the history books.
Finland:
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- Free University education
- Top 1 government education system in the world
- Top 1 coffee drinkers (twice as much as the second)
- Top 1 suicide country (escecially young men)
- And other interesting statistics..
I think it's because our history. After the second warld war and our wictory from Soviet Union (yes, Finland vs. USSR and we won!) we have done so hard work to rebuild our country, and after we achieved that we just couldn't stop working
Maby because our language is so hard, so that after learning that everything is possible!
"Ollaan me vaan niin helvetin hyviä"
I had to give something myself, so 15USD had to go. Didn't hurt so much when paying with euros. Now I feel good :0
> .. Redmond cubicals ..
According to Books written about Microsoft, they don't use cubicles, all personnel (Developers anyway) have prive offices.
Nice.
> "There will always be an army inside the country. Either yours or someone elses."
> "Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't"
I am just reading a book titled 'Selfish Genes'. It is a book about darwinism (Evolution), and I just read a chapter about unselfishess. It was quite interesting (the hole book is), and used wars an example about human solidarity, the prisinors dilemma. It was quite interesting, it goes like this (simplified version shown at the book):
You have 2 cards, "give up" and "co-operate", and you play against another person, who has also the same cards. You show one of your cards and the scores goes like this:
co-operate + co-operate = 3 points to each
give-up + give-up = 1 point each
co-operate + give-up = 0 points from co-operation and 5 points to the betrayer (give-up)
The amount of points is not important, but the relation between them. The only reasonable tactic when playing only one game, is to play give-up. Though both of you could get more points if playing co-op, but what if the another one is playing a bad guy?
Okey, the best tactic was to play give-up, because if the another played give-up when you played co-op, wou would lose big time.. The thing changes when there are n-games to play (iterative prisinors dilemma), and neither of you don't know how many games there are. This is what the army-comparison is all about. When you're in a field, say 50m far from the 'enemy', you might be thinking the prisinors dilemma. You know, that if both of you rush up to the field with guns firing, both you and the enemy will be killed (not much survivors), so that's the give-up + give-up strategy. But, if you play co-op + co-op both, you both will survive, and I don't think a great majority of people wants to be killed in a battle field.. (I might be wrong here) You propably might guess the another situation when the other gets killed because the otherone cheated.. That's why it's so easy to play give-up.
What I am saying here, there are a LOT'S of reasons to build solidarity between 'enemy' forces. And those quotes you gave have been proven to be false by biology researches based on evolution(ism). Or there are discussions to be taken from the matter. Things are not that simple.
Did I make any sense? Probaply not. Read the book, it's a great book: "Selfish genes", or in finnish "Itsekkäät geenit".
Here in Finland every bank offers sign-in with your bank web-account-id, and the protocol (TUPAS) is standardized here in finland by a central authority (Pankkiyhdistys), so that when you include this authentication system to your application, with the same effort, it works with all the banks (and potential customers). Allmost all the transactions and bill paying is done electronically in web-banks here in Finland, so almost everybody has these id's already. The bank authenticates the user at the local office, so It really works.
You receive the users's social security number and other important information, and the protocol can be customized for companies to give custom information too.
So I think this system (topic) is quite useless. It really needs some authority to trust.
Do you have this kind of stuff?
Tested it on NetBSD with Linux emulation. Works just fine, was quite fast and sweet. Only problem was that when I tried adding lists, I could not get out of the list mode... Anyway, I wouldn't pay 50eur from it, because there are similar choises for no charge.