Xixi

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by Xixi 17y ago
One people, several peoples. "People" is not only the plural of person... it carries several meanings, in this context : "The entire body of persons who constitute a community, tribe, nation, or other group by virtue of a common culture, hi
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by Xixi 18y ago
"Of course they'd agree, because of the benefits for the home country (sending money home, etc.)." Sounds a bit like your first thought was along the line of "visa == immigrant == [name your third world country]". There are (still) many peo
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How to scale an asset server on a limited budget ?(cybertechnews.org)
7 points by Xixi 18y ago|2 comments
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by Xixi 18y ago
Microsoft doesn't matter much anymore, but F# will be integrated to Visual Studio 2010, bringing a very powerful functional language to all .net/mono coders. And I'm sure there are quite a lot of them. So the argument of lack of decent libr
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by Xixi 18y ago
You are completely wrong about Erlang, which is absolutely not a research language, but when combined with OTP a very pragmatic tool designed by Erlang to answer their specific needs. Now it doesn't mean that it's the right tool for any pro
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by Xixi 18y ago
The problem is not to write something that works, bottom-up, as you type it. Any half-decent software engineer can do that. The problem is maintenance : when you start to modify existing code, a function many other functions rely on (I assu
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by Xixi 18y ago
It's not that easy to calculate (and most French people probably don't even know), because it's quite obfuscated... For healthcare, retirement, various helps for unemployed people and other social benefits, companies are paying roughly the
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by Xixi 19y ago
I have to disagree: Hedge Funds usually take 20% of the profit above the High Water Mark, and above it only. Disclaimer: I'm working in a Hedge Fund with a 2/20 compensation structure, and I am leaving this very well paid job to start my ow