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by Jacqued 9y ago
I understand you said you don't have networking skills. I too find networking pretty awkward and tedious. But in my experience the best kind is the kind that does not feel like networking at all. You could go to relevant meetups for yo
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by Jacqued 9y ago
Surprising, for me it's one of the top criteria. The languages I'm using are shaping my process of thought, like when I'm speaking a different natural language, and some are more enjoyable than others to "think" in.
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by Jacqued 9y ago
If we're talking about JS, it would seem to me to be trivial to accomplish, by simply decomposing paths and using bracket notation to access nested props, just like lodash _.get does.
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by Jacqued 9y ago
In France we have this small chain of "Anticafes". They're basically coffee shops but instead of paying what you drink, you pay for the time you spend there (5€/hr. or 20€/day) and you can order beverages at will. I
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by Jacqued 9y ago
It's probably different where you're located, but around here it's pretty much a given that an engineer will work more hours than what is written in the employment contract, even if they regularly come in late / leave ea
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by Jacqued 9y ago
Unpleasant contingencies for sure, but I don't think you can in good faith compare a gratuitous massacre carried out by a tyrannical ruling class against peaceful protesters, and a popular uprising that ended a millenium of tyranny and
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by Jacqued 9y ago
Not to forget Goa, which was actually invaded by India in 1961, with the Portuguese fighting back, although there were 10 times more Indian troops.
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by Jacqued 9y ago
Actually WeakMap() could not be iterated over as its keys are not enumerable by design - you can't "know" at any given time what the list of keys actually contains.
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by Jacqued 9y ago
Wait, you mean drivers deliberately hitting a biker with their car are not in the wrong?
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by Jacqued 9y ago
Yes. You even get a better replacement rate when you create a company than when you're unemployed and looking for work. If you held salaried work for long enough before, it will last for two whole years. We often joke in France that th
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by Jacqued 10y ago
Come to Paris in August, the whole city is on vacation! Joke aside, it baffles me every time this comes up wrt. american workers. I have 5 weeks PTO and I'm the worst off from all of my friends: most have between 7-8 weeks, some even u
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by Jacqued 10y ago
In France the Familistère de Guise is renowned, as a kind of socialist utopia for workers, built by an industry leader to house the workers. It's not exactly a "town" but I think it's close enough as it housed 1700 peopl
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by Jacqued 10y ago
You sign up for free. Then you can just leave your trolley (along with your phone number so they find you in their DB) and go home and will pay upon delivery. I used this for some time and it was indeed very convenient
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by Jacqued 10y ago
Owning property and not using it _is_ indeed a vast social cost. What you're doing is forcibly depriving everyone else of the land (and not using it for anything). This is not a big deal where land is plentyful, and terrible when land
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by Jacqued 10y ago
Even "rich people" don't like to take a 10% hit every year on their estate though. 2% is much less of a burden, especially in a bubbly market where the paper value rises by way more than that yearly. The vacant home issue is
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by Jacqued 10y ago
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by Jacqued 10y ago
I counted it myself too until I realized the website provided that. My second citizenship adds 6 countries to my first, for a total of 163. These 6 include Yemen, Syria, Rwanda, Mali, Guinea and my second country itself, so I guess at the m
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by Jacqued 10y ago
> Do you think the income stagnation is due to housing costs rather than globalization? I'm not denying globalization's role. However, as bufordsharkley said in a sibling comment, housing costs often do prevent people from movi
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by Jacqued 10y ago
Or maybe they _could_ afford much more if basic necessities such as housing did not swallow up any gain otherwise expected. (Not to mention children, education, healthcare depending on countries). When 35-50% of your income is taken up by r
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by Jacqued 10y ago
> neighborhoods who didn't voluntarily agree to increased traffic just to make my commute shorter, this is free loading and their roads are for them to get to and from their home It's nothing against you but is this a common op
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by Jacqued 10y ago
Check out this classic movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046072/
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by Jacqued 10y ago
If you mean french for the infinit.one founders, it's actually spelled "Infini".
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by Jacqued 11y ago
> people feel like they should have a job they love that pays well first thing in life I think the notion is that people should have a job that pays a livable wage, meaning you should be able to pay for rent, utilities and food. Sure, th
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by Jacqued 11y ago
iMessages, facebook, whatsapp, ... Unfortunately every messaging platform (except old school texts, but iPhones will automatically send iMessages to other iPhones) seem to have implemented this "feature"
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by Jacqued 11y ago
> Things like a Secular government are new concepts to them I don't think a secular government is a new concept for Syrians or Iraqis. Saudis, Afghans? Sure. But Syria and Iraq have been under secular governments pretty much since t
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I'm French and I did not know salted popcorn even existed until I went to the UK (other than salted butter caramel popcorn). I just asked for popcorn and always got sugared popcorn...
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by Jacqued 11y ago
To be fair, the same youths in Germany or the UK that are technically-not-unemployed aren't faring much better, working below minimum wage or ridiculously precarious jobs (like the infamous 1€/hr jobs in Germany or the 0-hour cont
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I really don't get or condone the use of the term "poach" here. Company A has great employees, can't pay them according to their value. Company B comes along and does pay them that, they leave. How is this not the best p
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by Jacqued 11y ago
As a counterpoint to the comments about how very dense cities are unlivable, I'd like to offer the example of Paris. I think many people will agree that it's a really nice first-world city, with great culture, transportation, no s
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by Jacqued 11y ago
You don't get it if you just quit. However, there's a middle ground between quitting & being fired, "contractual separation", which is when you & your employer agree to end your employment. In that case, you get

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