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by Xixi 13y ago
It's hard to draw any conclusion from personal anecdote: where I work it's the opposite, all my coworkers who had Android smartphones (Samsung and Sony) are switching to iPhone 5S. Note that none of them is technically savy at all
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by Xixi 13y ago
That's just convenience. Do you really think many people will keep forking $X00 for PCs just for a little bit of convenience needed only once in a while? I respectfully disagree. A couple of anecdotes, for lack of evidence: My grandfat
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by Xixi 13y ago
When you hear that an entrepreneur should not be afraid of failure, I think you are misunderstanding it. It doesn't mean that failure is unlikely, it means that failure is not a big deal. Corollary: whatever bold move you want to try,
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by Xixi 13y ago
Replace 90% by 100%. The use case of the PC at home is disappearing fast. What can you do on a PC that you cannot do on a tablet? If you really think about it, not much at all. On the iPad Apple's creativity apps [1] go a long way: the
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by Xixi 13y ago
When I entered university I was assigned to an alumni who would be my mentor: the IT director of a large French car maker. We really met only once, but he told me one thing that has sticked to this day (paraphrased): "To live a healthy
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by Xixi 13y ago
There is nothing particularly brave about cannibalizing a rather cheap product (iPod) with an insanely more expensive one (iPhone), that also turns out to become obsolete much more quickly. I should know: I bought one iPod Nano and my siste
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by Xixi 13y ago
I'm pretty much doing the exact same thing, but with django instead of rails. That gives a very nice Postgres + Django + AngularJS. When I need to add realtime feeds I throw RabbitMQ with the Web-Stomp Plugin into the mix: it works ama
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by Xixi 13y ago
You are right that Airbus had a hard time figuring out which plane to make, rushing a couple of A350 concepts before settling on the so called A350-XWB. But once it was settled the engineering went smoothly. Or, should I say, has been going
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by Xixi 13y ago
I wonder if Boeing and Airbus will increase the pace of new plane releases... The A380 and B787 introductions were very rocky, with delays added to delays added to delays. On the other hand so far the testing of the A350 as been incredibly
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by Xixi 13y ago
I don't even know why I'm replying... But anyway back when I was living in France I've had the chance of studying and then working with a lot of great engineers (electrical engineers mostly) coming from Africa: Marocco, Tunis
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by Xixi 13y ago
It's in production. An example of project that could consider making the jump from Python2 to Python3: https://requires.io/github/canassa/sodexo-api/requirements/?...
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by Xixi 13y ago
I have quite a few projects based on django, and these are still 2.7. There are still too many dependencies that are not python3 ready yet. On the bright side since django 1.5 has been released with python 3 support, many related projects h
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by Xixi 13y ago
Everybody hated the iMac hockey puck as you call it, but I actually quite liked it, the reason being that it was quite heavy! I've been using a mighty mouse at work recently (after a stupid incident involving coffee...), and let me jus
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by Xixi 13y ago
I live in Japan and "sofa" brings no advertisement, but "ソファー" brings three. So I guess it does indeed consider geographic location.
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I'm going to miss this one again, such a shame :(
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by Xixi 13y ago
As other have pointed out, you are obviously wrong about Microsoft Direct X being available on Sony's Playstation 4. But you are also wrong in the larger picture. Direct3D and OpenGL are first and foremost abstraction layers to access
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by Xixi 13y ago
This idiom is however out of flavor, unless you need to support python 2.4. Nowadays you would do this: truecase if condition else falsecase
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by Xixi 13y ago
Students are perfectly free to express their thoughts. I was when I took the Baccalauréat in 2000, and I did fairly well (though it was the scientific Baccalauréat, where expectations in philosophy are not very high to begin with). That sai
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by Xixi 13y ago
Super Mario Galaxy was Wii "Oh my god I have to play this!" game, at least as far as gamers go. Though technically it was announced at the same time as the Wii, but not available at launch.
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by Xixi 14y ago
On the other hand, for an overwhelming majority of people "being apprehensive about the big GUI changes in Windows 8" means sticking to Windows 7 (or even Window XP), not switching to Linux... That said Steam on Linux cannot be a bad thing,
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by Xixi 14y ago
As a former H1-B (coming from France, and now living in Japan) who used to work in a Hedge Fund in NYC, I would say that there are three factors at play: • an H1-B holder doesn't have much leverage for negotiation if she really wants to sta
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by Xixi 14y ago
I think you are forgetting an important part of the equation: the interior market. In France it was much easier for entrepreneurs to move from the Minitel to internet, than for people to trust a new medium over a trusted one that worked see
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by Xixi 14y ago
Or the recent numba: https://github.com/numba/numba
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by Xixi 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Paris (France) or Kobe (Japan) Freelancing with my associate from ShiningPanda. We build web applications and websites on top of Python/Django. Sample projects: https://www.findmyeventspace.com (in construction) h
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by Xixi 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Freelance (Kansai, Japan) Build and release expert with Jenkins CI. I love Python and Django, and have tons of experience in terms of virtualization with VMware and VirtualBox. I am also the co-founder of ShiningPand
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by Xixi 15y ago
Won't be able to make it this time, as I will be heading for the PyCon 2012 in Santa Clara. Have lots of fun!
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by Xixi 15y ago
As always with European things, it's quite complicated. I'm not even sure I fully understand myself. Arianespace operates expendable launch systems, but doesn't manufacture them (anymore). So though Vega and Ariane 5 are both operated by Ar
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by Xixi 15y ago
Awesome product, brilliant people, answered all my emails in less than 15 minutes... I so much want to become a customer that I'm seriously considering incorporating ShiningPanda LLC (or C-Corp) somewhere in the United States for this sole
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by Xixi 15y ago
Are you talking about Adobe Edge? http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/
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by Xixi 15y ago
I think you understood the point about timezones backwards. The point is for everybody to use, for instance, UTC time. So instead of working the proverbial 9am to 5pm, if you are in Japan you would work from 0am to 8am (UTC). It makes sense

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