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by EZ-E 8y ago
France tried to reduce working hours to 35 hours, hoping to create jobs : it didn't go well
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> Those numbers are laughable even for Beijing, I hear SZ is way more expensive still. 30k/month is junior engineer territory, and you are lucky if your one bedroom apartment is only 7500/month in rent. In Beijing, junior engin
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> I am not buying the "think of the poor" angle Me neither, opening a bank account takes one hour, costs less than one dollar, you get the bank card the same day, and there are no monthly fees (for debit card). The only case wh
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by EZ-E 8y ago
This is not true, you can get a Chinese number and SIM card with a passport in any of the big telecom operators stores
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> When apps are built on the assumption that residents of a specific community are formally enrolled in a bank or financial institution, the unenrolled are simply locked out of being able to pay Ironically I recently realized tourists vi
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Imagine if Facebook didn't buy Instagram. They must have seen this coming.
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I'm gonna get down voted but that's why I buy Apple phones. Comparing processors, ram, test scores means nothing compared to the actual experience
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by EZ-E 8y ago
"Memory is cheap!" is the new "Storage is cheap!"
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Procrastination comes from anxiety (for me) When I'm anxious about a task it's usually because I don't know where to start OR I'm because afraid I'll be dissapointed by how the result will be.
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by EZ-E 8y ago
The best is to work for a low traffic backend/back-office/api used internally.. Less risks of downtime, lower damage if it does go down too. No stress with scaling, online migrations, optimisation... I used to work (internship) fo
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by EZ-E 8y ago
It's probably closer to statistics than to machine-learning at this stage. People just love to say they are doing machine learning, it's "sexy"
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Working anymore than 40h a week as developper for someone else is non-sense is you just earn a fixed salary
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> Should I just go and basically say that this person did a bad job? God, no. If the code works and scales, he did not do a bad job. Start to apply your new standards for your new code you write on it - make tests for it too. You might n
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by EZ-E 8y ago
A lot of full time bullshit jobs become this way because of the full-time 9-to-6 requirement. These jobs usually don't justify a full time position by themselves so it leads to people making up work and responsabilities to justify the
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by EZ-E 8y ago
In a lot of companies that would just lead the product manager to go "uh... okay... just lemme know when you finished the task" unfortunately
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> The reality of course is that I'm at most actually working 15-25% of that time and the rest I'm just piloting a desk and being available for people to pick my brain Working remote can solve this, I've realized. One day I
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by EZ-E 8y ago
About work and happiness : the more I think about the reality of being a full time employee, the more I start to believe part-time is actually the right way to work and be happy. I see little reason to spend something like 70% of waking hou
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Can we stop with the "we try to make the word better" company mottos? You can't say this if you're in it for the money and trying to get more every quarter
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> So what's the solution? Some towns adapt after a while. For example Lille and its neighboring towns in France. It used to be big in textile/coal industry. Many old abandoned factories got converted into modern offices for sta
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by EZ-E 8y ago
He can and did beat Google because the Chinese government has and will never let Google succeed in its domestic market against the local champions
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Dingtalk actually has a feature that lets you record steps/exercise even though I never used it
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by EZ-E 8y ago
My office uses it in China. We use some of the features like the clock-in and the one to file expenses. My company fines you if you clock-in late on the app, but won't hesitate to use the "ding" feature to send you SMS/p
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I also drop the middle names for all daily usages, but in China, the banks and any kind of public offices are required to enter your name as displayed on the passport, meaning the whole thing. Interestingly it could work as a passive way to
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I have a last name with accent and multiple complicated last names, separated by hyphens, commas in my passport. I never encountered a system which accommodated all of these in China. Best case scenario, the accented letters gets switched t
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Most people need to live in a handful of big cities to find a decent paying job. Companies also stay there because they want to have access to a large talent pool. Meanwhile there is a ton of space un rural areas where in majority, only old
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> complaining about how busy they are It's an excellent way to protect yourself from actually having to work too much : always act and pretends like you're super busy. People will bother you less. My productivity increased a lo
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Still having issues as of 20:20 UTC - Firebase Database messages not beeing delivered to client. It's been a full hour so far. The delivery rate also had a minor drop earlier around 03:00AM to 05:00AM but no incident had been listed.
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I think that also explains why Germany is so low on the list
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Where did the money go?
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by EZ-E 8y ago
The title is "China Mines Silicon Valley for Tech Talent" but according to the article, they are recruiting Chinese engineers working in USA. That's an important distinction. From my experience it's true, unless you are

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