Xixi

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by Xixi 17y ago
On the other hand we are a French startup, so our pronunciation probably doesn't make much sense for native English speakers.
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by Xixi 17y ago
I think you're getting close to the point but somewhat fail to nail it. The thing is that most people can't actually do anything if not forced to do it. They can't make anything on their own. They have barely enough will to put themselves i
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by Xixi 17y ago
There is no male/female imbalance in countries where the birth rate went below the replacement level naturally. That's a major problem that China will have to face, and not the other countries mentioned.
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by Xixi 17y ago
It used to be very common in Turbo Pascal, where if I remember correctly you had to use the keyword ref.
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by Xixi 17y ago
I understand your point. I've work with people at both extremes: - Negative people ruins ambiance and creates resentment. They think everything is doomed, and criticizes everything all the time. Their usual last words : "Anyway it won't wor
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by Xixi 17y ago
How would that be "a photograph of yourself" ?
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by Xixi 17y ago
It seems interesting, but US only, and my startup is in France...
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by Xixi 17y ago
That's actually exactly what I don't want to have to deal with: bogus/expired/cancelled/etc. credit cards. Hence I'm looking for some kind of middle man. But that's actually a solution I'm looking at: prepaid usage-based.
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Ask HN: How to make an Amazon Web Service style billing ?
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by Xixi 17y ago
That's because "Renaissance" will only make it in OpenOffice 3.3...
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by Xixi 17y ago
To begin with, I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone dev subscription was there simply to lower the number of apps to review, and hence the number of app reviewers needed.
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by Xixi 17y ago
pg, through his writings (I never met him in real life). I was studying in college and my AI teacher was using LISP. He redirected us toward pg's essays... and I have to say that it was truly inspiring. It took 3 more years before I actuall
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by Xixi 17y ago
Documentation is one of the main reasons we are using Django at my startup now : the documentation is absolutely awesome. On the other hand I remember doing lots of Erlang/OTP two years ago (failed startup that never launched...). Equipped
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by Xixi 17y ago
France Telecom has 187,331 employees (wikipedia). It might be "a single company", but it's 9 times bigger than Google... Even if you restrict it to France (where I think these suicides occured), that's still roughly 100,000 employees, so 5
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by Xixi 17y ago
Lot's of people here are suggesting git. I admit that I never tried it and personally use mercurial hg. I definitely recommend learning version control as soon as possible. It's a life saver, and it's incredibly easy. With mercurial you're
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by Xixi 17y ago
"Anything we missed? While these failures are big, we have restricted them to the modern-day Apple, and ignored the Jobs-less wilderness years of beige boxes and overpriced printers." Didn't I see the Quick Take somewhere in the list ? As a
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by Xixi 17y ago
Apple choosed speed, optimization and refinement over features. And I welcome this choice wholeheartedly, enough bloat already... make my OS faster, slimmer and more robust and I'll be happy. Sadly the price point of Snow Leopard, and the s
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by Xixi 17y ago
You're right, it will grow the codebase more than making the code verbose. And the code will probably be more readable. But have you actually used this in practice ? Is it tractable ? I'm actually thinking of trying this on (a rather old ve
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by Xixi 17y ago
I have to admit that the 5th point (Use many, many objects with many interfaces) leaves me thinking... On the one hand I understand where the author wants to go : by implementing many many interfaces you eventually sort of "emulate" duck-ty
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by Xixi 17y ago
Kobe, Japan too.
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by Xixi 17y ago
You have around 1 month to find a new job, or you go back home. This is often cited as the main reason why H1B holders can't negociate wages as high as permanent residents, and end up being paid much less : they can't quit easily without ta
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by Xixi 17y ago
I don't know much about the details of H1Bs or implications. But when I was working in the United States (2005 to 2007) I was holding a J1 then "upgraded" to an H1B. To move to the United States the J1 is the best, in my opinion : nearly no
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by Xixi 17y ago
Ooops, I should have added : not a YC startup.
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by Xixi 17y ago
Django here too...
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by Xixi 17y ago
Doing the source-to-source translation on top of the javascript on the client side is quite neat. I'd actually love to create a "GWT like" that would compile my python (in javascript/html/css) for the different browsers out there. That woul
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by Xixi 17y ago
Wow, I thought these would never come ! Now I just have to wait for C# 4.0 to make it to mono, and for the guys from Unity to upgrade it (which might take forever, they still use something like mono 1.2.5 I think). And at last I'll be able
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by Xixi 17y ago
Putting every single thing in the browser is exactly what Google wants to do with its future (if ever released) Google Chrome OS. From a business point of view, this way of doing things is probably seen as a good way to prevent software pir
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by Xixi 17y ago
It's quite funny because before I clicked the link, I actually wondered if they were going to include the iTunes Store or the App Store as part of their "Virtual Goods". For after all, digital music and softwares are just that : virtual goo
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by Xixi 17y ago
I respectfully disagree. a && !a is not objectively false, and neither is a && !a objectively true. You are correct within a set of accepted axioms, defined by Mr. Boole. You might be incorrect within another set of axioms.
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by Xixi 17y ago
I think this is about culture, not language. It's two very different things. Except for all the ASCII/Unicode nightmare, there's not much in a programming language that depends on country/language/culture. Who wants to see something like th

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