abolibibelot

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by abolibibelot 10y ago
Got me. That being said there's been quite a lot of funding happening in Paris lately, and there are a few French companies (some of them startups) which are starting to match Criteo's compensations.
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by abolibibelot 10y ago
For senior developers in Paris the median may be around 50-60, (most of software engineer jobs are in consultancies) but there are tech companies that pay up to twice as much . I know mine does, and is looking for developers from all around
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
That's a glimpse of an alternate universe where technology choices were backed by actual proof. Well done Kyle Kingsbury. Moreover, all his Jepsen series are a great writeup on distributed DB theory and issues, and nurture an healthy
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
I wish I had coined the term, but it's taken from an actual comment: http://www.amazon.com/review/RDZBBO2Q4MI6V/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm... The 1-star reviews roughly fall in three categories: - This is not ho
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
The guilt and shame is so spot on. Living though such projects illustrated so well the "the beatings will continue until morale improves" project management school of thoughts. This school has its agile proponents too, though. But
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
Don't know about the formalization by Royce, but I've witnessed and suffered waterfall in practice - let's call it ad-hoc waterfall if you will - and it was no urban legend. And on moonless nights I still wake up screaming re
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
Some of the criticisms are still valid: there's a definite "gossip magazine diet plan" vibe to the book, even if the clean cut from waterfall or iterative process horrors (Rational Unified Process anyone?) was sorely needed.
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
When dealing with this general problem, the proper tool would more likely be language/culture detection + Named-Entity Recognition. Simple regular expressions can be good enough if you're aware of the domain restriction though.
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
I'm gonna be That Other Guy and say that the date and phone regex are respectively english-language and US specific. So it's common for a narrow definition of common.
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
Old Man's War is an ironical counterpoint to Starship Troopers (something that becomes more blatant in the later novels). It's a bit like Hadelman's Forever War mixed with slapstick. It's no masterpiece, but the humor m
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
I love Verhoeven and the long running joke he played at the expense of Hollywood (mostly with Starship Troopers, Robocop, Basic Instinct and Showgirls - Flesh + Blood is great but not as sarcastic as his later american movies). Starship Tro
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
In terms of threading, Ruby and Python are in the same, sad, GIL boat. The speed issue is the same, but the C libraries alleviate this somewhat (Numpy, scikit-learn and lxml come to mind). Tail recursion is really needed when you have a fun
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
An interesting retrospective. What would be interesting would be to know the challenges you've encountered once you started working as a developer. I have two questions though: I'm curious to know why you state that "Ruby is
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
Capitaine Train is super useful. The official SNCF (French State owned railways company) site is unusable and tries to upsell you everything but the actual tickets. Capitaine Train has a minimalistic design, fast search and has niceties lik
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
The lack of self-awareness was hilarious: http://americablog.com/2013/07/frances-gayest-homophobes-str...
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
Yep, as much as I despise Zemmour, the lawsuits against him are inept. He's the ultimate troll and thrives on contreversy (and whines about "la pensée unique" while being invited pretty much everywhere on TV). Even the laws a
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
I'm curious to see some references and figures here. As far as I know, only Hate Speech, and holocaust-denial are forbidden. Libel laws apply too, and some people are trigger-happy with them though.
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
A little context here. The FDeSouche blog (a pun on "Français de souche" which could be translated as "stock French" or "purebred French", really meaning "White French") is an extreme-right blog whose
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
According to this comment http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-... , it's custom made and based on d3.
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
Well, there you are: a nice explanation of HyperLogLog, along with graphs, and a javascript demo to play with. And a tribute to Philippe Flajolet who came up with the algorithm. http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/1
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
The main article, though nice formally doesn't say anything new about subcultures and the alleged end of big C Culture - my main gripe with it being it generalizes from cultural microcosms. The Appendix (which takes the lion's sha
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
Well, the way the SQL code in that file is ripe for SQL injection, it's possible that the database has been compromised for a while...
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by abolibibelot 13y ago
>God is Public spending, the clergé is the public workers that pay no taxes and get to retire early with big salaries and lots of privileges and the Tiers état is the people paying for the rest. http://leblogalupus.com/20
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
I'm surprised you're being surprised, since that post is pretty much on par with everything from svbtle which gets submitted here: preppy energetical pieces, self serving straight-from-the-heart musings on how hard it is to be successful o
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
And why would you (I assume you're from the US) nuke, bomb or invade Iran?
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Pinboard it is for me too. And you can't beat Maciej for diligent customer support and sardonic PR.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. Ender's game is pretty much Atlas Shrugged in space, written in a slightly less abysmal style. Same complexity in characters, same vindication of the megalomania/resentment of the introvert male teenager reader, same
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Cliff's notes: Like pretty much everyone else in that space, I use all the iOS devices and a mac osx desktop. And my company's app. My nugget of wisdom: nerds don't get laid.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
and I don't know about .NET 4.5, but .NET 4 was not optimizing tail-calls on 64-bits Windows. Actually there's a .tail CLI Opcode in .NET for tail call optimization which is not usually emitted, but the JIT does tail call optim
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
I'm not sure switching to a document model with multiple indexes (MongoDB) to a key/value store (Redis) is something that can be done easily "later on".

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