As of 1 January 2008, the Belgian government introduced a tax deduction of 80 % with unlimited carry forward under the corporate income tax for income derived from patents licensed by a company based in Belgium.
Now, who said patents are bad? They make you save 80% on taxes. How on earth can it be bad?
The idea is simple. First, watch a quality movie about a place and the next day, go there to see it with your own eyes. The point is to find quality movies that get to the feelings and pass the atmosphere of the place.
Here are a few suggestions:
Start by watching In Bruges. It is a dark comedy telling the story of two Irish hitmen enjoying the beauties of Bruges. Upon arriving in town, walk over the Grote Markt and climb The Belfry. I may assure you that it will feel very different after watching the film.
Watch the story on the birth of the so-called "social catolicism" in an industrial city of Aalst at the turn of XIX in Daens.
Finish by the Girl with a Pearl Earring which depicts the life in a medieval dutch town through the imaginary story of one of the best known painting of Johannes Vermeer. Delft has kept its medieval centre largely intact, and you can still discover beautiful landscapes from the film in Delft's surroundings.
A camera is following-up a killer as he moves around Wallonia to get his job done in Man bites dog.
College freshmen drama Ad Fundum happens in the setting of the medieval city of Leuven.
The sexual life of Belgians shown in Camping Cosmos and filmed in a camping on the belgian beach.
I have been using Ruby for a few months now, doing development of small projects of up to 1000 lines. But I still bite into the naming clashes with ActiveRecord regularily. They appear at random places and it takes a lot of experience to figure out what is happening. Here's an example with the type attribute clash. Of the two code snippets below, the first one does not work (thing.type equals nil, after execution), and the second one works.
thing = Thing.new(:type=> Type.new)
thing = Thing.new thing.type = Type.new
Another example is having an attribute named transaction.
thing.transaction
Calling .save on a model with such an attribute will produce no output in the logs and leaves the developer in frustration about what happens.
Попалась в руки мне недавно прикольная книжка, ATV RVD for Dummies. Учебник по стыковке космического корабля ATV к МКС, оформленный в жёлто-чёрном стиле книжек For dummies. Так вот, там между прочим говорится, что у космонавтов есть такой инструмент - прозрачная линейка. Они прикладывают её на экран монитора, вдоль диаметра ATV, и получают дистанцию до ATV в метрах.
Mind maps are unstructured, so if your project is unstructured, use it. It is a safe bet to acknowledge the lack of structure altogether than to invent funny names like Inception, Elaboration, Construction to the project stages that do not exist.
The lack of structure brings in a subtle problem. Someone else looking at your mind map will have a hard time reading it. First, because of the lack of the predetermined structure does not allow to grasp the content through the common knowledge of that structure. Second, because mind maps are only half-language, inadvertently using the noun phrases and dropping the predicates and prepositions, together with the grammatical relationships. You may know that the line between "flies" and "arrow" mean "time", but not necessarily your reader.
So, use Mind Maps to acquire new knowledge, but do not pass them onto others.
See Free Mind.
Gantt charts are only practical to track the deadlines and to keep various participants accountable in case of a high parallelization of work. It may look to the newbie that the length of the bars in those charts represents the actual amount of effort, but this is largely false, in reality.
Remember that: Gantt charts are the tool of choice to organize the work of multiple parties at the beginning of a project.
See Projity.
Интели не гангстеры, это отчаявшиеся люди, патриоты... У них одна задача - расшевелить это болото. Любыми средствами. Дать этому городу хоть какую-нибудь цель, заставить его оторваться от корыта... Они жертвуют собой, понимаете? Они вызывают огонь на себя, пытаются возбудить в городе хоть одну общую для всех эмоцию, пусть хотя бы ненависть...
There are only three films that impacted my life to the point that they are day and night living around me in speaking and dressing habits, posters, wallpapers, ring tones, logins and passwords, class names and variables. One Russian, one French and one English. One per culture I learned.
mkdir ~/fusesmb fusesmb ~/fusesmb sleep 3600 # wait until fusesmb caches the network shares ls -1R ~/fusesmb > shared-files.lst # -1 is "minus one", not "minus l"
