Computer Science from the Bottom Up — A free, online book designed to teach computer science from the bottom end up. Topics covered include binary and binary logic, operating systems internals, toolchain fundamentals and system library fundamentals.
Author: Leonid Mamchenkov
Cyprus Tax, Facts & Figures 2016
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) published their annual Cyprus tax, facts and figures brochure for the year 2016. It is a handy document to send to friends abroad who are interested in moving to Cyprus or starting a business here.
One thing that I found ironic in this document was the example they used for personal taxation (page 7-8 in the English PDF). The example is for someone with a monthly salary of 5,885 EUR and additional income from rent, etc – a total income of 75,620 EUR per annum. Looking at the average salary in European Union, Cyprus shows 1,833 EUR per month in 2014 and 1,574 EUR per month in 2015.
I hope PwC predicts a huge spike in average salaries in 2016. That would be nice …
CSS Styleguides
I came across a couple of CSS guidelines while catching up with my feeds over the weekend. Here they are:
- cssguidelin.es – high-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS.
- grvcoelho/css – opinionated CSS styleguide for scalable applications
Saturday office lunch : pizza
Location: Qobo Ltd
Old World Language Families
Here’s an interesting graphical representation of the worlds most popular languages and where they came from.
