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by Jacqued 11y ago
You don't. I updated my initial post to reflect that, thanks.
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I don't have a statistical run-down by country (which would be the way to do this) but if you compare the US with, say, France, where salaries tend to be 40% of what they are in the US, here's what you have: - Free health care (fo
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I'm not the GP but I hear your argument. It's a very compelling one when you have a family or are getting older. To a twenty-something however, pension & healthcare don't seem like very compelling arguments compared with
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I don't think it's much of a paradox that people who excel at memorization and taking tests (and choose to pursue such a demanding test and work on it for years) are not that good at doing actual meaningful work afterwards. I&#x2
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by Jacqued 11y ago
You can always lose your own life, pretty much. If you can go back to your old room at your parent's room while you find a job and start earning again, sure, it's easy to take risks (I've done it this way). On the other hand,
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by Jacqued 11y ago
Paris is gradually phasing cars out, in several ways, but even today most Parisians are non-drivers, especially the younger ones, and not-driving is a great choice. Of course people who live in the suburbs need a car but even there, public
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by Jacqued 11y ago
That's a theory but in very dense markets it's sometimes the exact opposite, I suspect because people understand rent as "lost money" vs. loan repayments as "invested money". Where I live, in Paris, if you take
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I'm not familiar with the way Uber operates there but if they mediate the worker-company relation and sponsor the drivers into the country they might actually be helping here, at least with the placement & passport issues. The wors
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by Jacqued 11y ago
Unfortunately you have to find a landlord that lets you rent a 3-bedroom AND sublet parts of it, which where I live is completely unheard of (unless you're high net worth and pay premium rent, but then why have flatmates ?). Plus, you&
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I think it has to do with the fact that customer's are paying for an offline service, not something that happens inside the application. Likewise, I don't think e-commerce apps have to hand Apple a 30% cut of everything they sell.
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by Jacqued 11y ago
In Paris we have these too, the famous Wallace Fountains, and most of them just run all the time. Other kinds of fountains have valves though, like the ones which provide sparkling water. And I can guarantee people are using them, in the ev
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I guess if you earn 20K there are still a few fine bridges in Zone 1.
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I use it the same way too. I do not really see why backup should be separate from source control as there is no valuable information on my (work) computer apart from the source code, and I never spend more than a few hours without pushing.
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by Jacqued 11y ago
We've been fine using rebase on already pushed branches. This comes from the understanding that a feature branch belongs to one developer, ever, and that no one else is supposed to work off of it (or at their own peril). Everyone knows
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by Jacqued 11y ago
I think you're employing an extremely narrow definition of critical thinking. The ability to question everything you read, hear and learn in search of the truth (what is ), or, most likely, of more accurate or useful representations o
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by Jacqued 11y ago
BNW has always seemed much more alien to me than 1984. When I first read it as a teenager it seemed incomprehensible and somewhat insane. Now as I get older and get to better understand (still very modestly!) people in general and the struc
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by Jacqued 11y ago
Interestingly enough, the story about the barber who killed strangers to be baked into his neighbor baker's pies also exists in Paris, in the rue Chanoinesse. There's no specific motive to the crimes, but it's clear that the
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by Jacqued 11y ago
Those random identity checks are only legal if they are performed under particular circumstances establishing the risk of breach of the public order (for example around a protest or in such situations). Theoretically they cannot be based on
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by Jacqued 11y ago
This looks like an interesting perspective. Do you have any pointers to discussions of topics that become more intuitive/clearer when thought about in other bases ?
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by Jacqued 11y ago
Well, - I did not talk about the government, but I don't think it's that bad in France compared to most places in the world. Sure, some places like the Nordics seem to have pretty decent governments but at the end of the day in al
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by Jacqued 11y ago
In the next few years I think Paris might become quite an interesting place. (disclaimer: I live there) It's already booming compared to a few years ago, it is seeing some significant successful startups (Criteo, Blaclacar...), and the
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by Jacqued 12y ago
I second this greatly. I have only taken it up recently and am left wondering why I did not do it MUCH earlier. The most astonishing thing for me was the amount of energy I got from it. I used to be quite apathetic during the day, with inte
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by Jacqued 12y ago
Regarding you first point, it was the community's perception after last year's ngEurope, but not so much after this year's ngConf. With the current focus on component-based design in Angular 1.x, the meat of your app would be
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by Jacqued 12y ago
As I said in response to another comment, you actually can. Paris has a density of 50000/sqmi (to compare with Manhattan's 70000) without high rise buildings. What you can't have though, is large avenues and parking lots ever
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by Jacqued 12y ago
You don't even need to live in the future to have a very high density. Paris proper has a density of 50000/sqmi yet has simply and literally banned high rise buildings. There are 2 districts with a number of these (although
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by Jacqued 12y ago
Looking for remote / offsite freelancing gigs. Location: Paris, FR Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: Angular, React, JS, SASS/LESS, all things frontend, Node.JS Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com&#
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by Jacqued 12y ago
I don't know what your end goals are but I'd say the safest thing to do is probably to pick tech that is not yet outdated (eg. PHP) and not too shiny or arcane either (React or Haskell respectively - while both great, probably not
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by Jacqued 12y ago
I think entrepreneurship is more of a mindset where you liberate yourself from the wage constraint and take control of your life by directly producing value for others. Changing the world and being worth billions is just the Silicon Valley
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by Jacqued 12y ago
Maybe you were thinking about chat ? ( https://twitter.com/lukew/status/411233184529911808 ) Once you're chatting, dating is not that far anyway :)

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