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by Xixi 15y ago
Cost of bare hardware is not what makes companies move to the cloud. Hardware / software licenses is an investment, cloud is opex (operational expense): it means you don't invest much upfront (Zencode, Amazon, etc. made that investment for
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by Xixi 15y ago
> unfriendly tax and small business legislation In France though the tax situation and small business legislation is far from ideal, it has gotten much much better over the last few years, with things like the JEI (Jeune Entreprise Inno
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by Xixi 15y ago
> There isn't now, but there well could be. Or not. On touch touchscreen it feels natural to just touch the part of the screen you want to interact with. I hate the word, but it's intuitive. It doesn't feel like something you need to le
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by Xixi 15y ago
The hover is not an iPhone vs developer problem, it's a touchscreen problem. Hover feels very natural with a mouse, but there's no logical equivalent on a touchscreen. "on hover" is a side effect of pointing at things with a mouse. With a t
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by Xixi 15y ago
I have 2h45 of shinkansen from Kobe to Tokyo, it's not that bad. The HN Tokyo Meetup is worth it, so keep up the good work!
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I won't be able to make it this time :/ Did the schedule changed from once every two months to monthly?
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by Xixi 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Japan, Kobe. Remote, travel or local ok. I'm a doing some freelancing while bootstrapping ShiningPanda ( https://www.shiningpanda.com ). My expertise lies in: Python (Django, RabbitMQ/Celery, etc.) and Continuous Integration
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by Xixi 15y ago
Actually, my last sentence is incorrect: my role is not to "solve problems" but to "create value", the latter being a superset of the former.
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I think that if jacquesm was living in Japan like patio11 (I also live in Japan), he wouldn't call himself a programmer either. Because a programmer in Japan is someone that takes a spec or a task, written by an engineer, and "translate" it
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by Xixi 15y ago
MacPorts is a pretty good packaging system, though as its name imply more like ports than aptitude. Since it's hosted on Mac OS Forge, you could say it's the "official" Apple packaging system. As far as I am concerned it fits the bill, I ra
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by Xixi 15y ago
You are not necessarily doing it wrong, you may simply not have enough ressources ($$$) to buy enough hardware for complete redundancy. When you get evicted from an EC2 instance you just switch to a new one, the cost is constant. When your
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by Xixi 15y ago
I see that there are some people living in Kansai here ! I'm living in Kobe too, let's catch up some time.
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There's so much (unintended) irony in your post. Firefox was supposed to be the fast, light and simple replacement of Mozilla... And I would be glad if it could come back to this original intent: on my rather underpowered laptop I use mostl
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by Xixi 15y ago
« Why anyone would think this is a great idea to "accommodating" other languages in this manner is beyond me. » Why anyone would think that forcing a large part of the world to use a foreign alphabet is a good idea is beyond me. Do you real
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by Xixi 15y ago
This ban has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of resentment of Anglo-Saxon culture (though such a resentment does definitely exist). In France citing the name of a commercial entity when it's not relevant to the news/show is considere
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by Xixi 15y ago
It's inefficient to carry electricity over long distances, so I don't see Germany buying energy from say Ukraine. That said it seems that Poland is big on coal and crude oil...
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I don't think Germany is surrounded by countries that flagrantly pollute the environment. What is more likely is that more power will be imported from France, which massively use nuclear energy (>75% of the national electricity producti
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Thanks for the link, this book seems to be what I was looking for !
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by Xixi 15y ago
Erlang recipes, not that much. Make that Erlang/OTP recipes with a strong emphasis on the OTP side of it, and a million times yes ! Or to say it slightly differently : I'm not that much interested in recipes about the Erlang language itself
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by Xixi 15y ago
"10. Dependencies need a home too" I agree with this statement, but that home is definitely not with your code. There are tools better suited for that. For instance nexus & maven. Nexus store artifacts (which are really any piece of d
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by Xixi 15y ago
There are tools to solve this problem. And these tools are not source version control. In my company we setup the following workflow : -> commit code -> code is built and tested using Jenkins -> generated artifacts are stored on
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by Xixi 16y ago
I can only speak about France. In Paris you could expect maybe a little bit more than in Vienna, but it vastly depends on the company of course (small or large). What you need to know if you get an offer in France : Official working hours a
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by Xixi 16y ago
What about Larry Page and Sergueï Brin? It seems from the outside that they their relationship didn't go sour.
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Sadly I can't make it. Please have lots of fun, and see you all at one of the next events!
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Even though Prolog and Erlang are very different languages that rely on very different paradigms, they do have one thing in common: recursion. Learning Prolog will force you to learn how to think recursively, and will make it easier to then
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by Xixi 16y ago
I should be there.
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I'm in France for Christmas, so I won't be able to join. Have a great party !
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by Xixi 16y ago
IE6 was a gigantic improvement over IE5.5, too. The problem is not there, the problem is that people are still stuck with IE6 today, close to ten years later... IE8 seems not so bad today, but without any support for html5, css3, canvas, vi
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Thanks for the feedback, HN(shiningpanda.blogspot.com)
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by Xixi 16y ago
As a European, I think the largest problem is the language barrier: at the very least you need to translate everything, and then be able to answer customers requests. Not being able to talk directly to your customers is a gigantic issue, su

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