PAYE

June 19th, 2008

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UPDATE: 3 July 2008
Updated code to reflect more recent tax tables (2009)
When I was asked to estimate PAYE on a gross monthly salary, i hauled out the calculator and started chipping away, according to the SARS Tax Tables. Not being a tax consultant or looking at various structured packages, the first stab is mostly always [...]

Ding

June 3rd, 2008

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That’s roughly equivalent to the sound of the resonating chord which struck me this morning.
But today’s revolutionaries are sheep in wolves’ clothing. They’re lost in the economically meaningless, in the utterly trivial, in the strategically banal: mostly, they’re cutting deals with one another to…try and sell more ads. That is, when they’re not too busy [...]

Investing in the Learning Curve

June 2nd, 2008

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We have a concept of what the learning curve represents, and unfortunately, the same thing can represent 2 opposite concepts. What makes more sense to me is looking at a learning curve from a classical labour cost perspective and more keenly towards labour productivity. In this sense, the learning curve is interpreted, broadly, as: the [...]

IT vs Business

February 27th, 2008

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Who’s gonna win?
Judging from the insights that are developing, not only within myself, but also from more prominent journalism, i would say business will eventually catch onto how IT’s supposed to be managed and augmented into adding value to the core focus of the business. Obviously, IT-centric business will be oh so slightly different. But [...]

IT “Industry”

February 22nd, 2008

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I say “industry” but there’s no real regulation put in by the government (at least here) which keeps the industry in check. For one, it’s not illegal to provide IT services or build software without a licence, while in more established industries, it is illegal to, for example, provide medical, financial, engineering or manufacturing services [...]

Crack My App

January 21st, 2008

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What do you do if someone asks you to do something illegal?
Of course (and i do sincerely mean and hope, “of course”) the first response is to just say “No”. But does it end there? Maybe it depends, maybe it doesn’t?
Well, I was asked by a company to crack some software. Everything was totally illegal [...]