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by aragot 12y ago
My dad earns 2.5x my graduation salary (which in France is a huge difference - I'm 31 now). Don't worry about your kids knowing the figures, I've always rationalized about my father: He's from a business school (earns mo
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by aragot 12y ago
It doesn't seem so. I've tried with 3 windows (FF Dev, FF and Chrome) and it says "There are already two people in this conversation."
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by aragot 12y ago
There's already an FAQ entry [1] on "Where is the Firefox Hello button?", and the answer is not an intuitive one. It would have been OK to display the button by default. [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US&#
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by aragot 12y ago
I agree we can't reproduce Microsoft Word with isofunctionality with 25 people (obviously). I agree my past comment made it sound like that. I currently feel negatively from the readers, so I'm testing that again: I've writt
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by aragot 12y ago
Let's take public figures I can talk about: According to Wikipedia [1], Atlassian has 1148 employees and 20 products. It's 57 employees by product. BUT Atlassian also grew by 44% in 2014, [1] and recruits intensively, so we can es
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by aragot 12y ago
If you planned on making a competitor of Word, would you copy all its features and throw 5,000 people at it? Of course not. No, I don't think Word is 25 people. But a relationship of mine made an Excel in js with 3 people and sold enou
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by aragot 12y ago
Please provide your own estimates on how many people are required to make great software. Not talking about Word in particular. I've worked in large companies, now I make a living off my own company, so I must know something about soft
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by aragot 12y ago
Yes the most interesting revelation in Cringely's rumor was that IBM made software. Let's be honest: An big IT product is about 25 programmers and 25 diverse people (incl marketers, designers, accountants) working for 3-10 years.
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by aragot 12y ago
And Russia? Not even on the map: 110 people own 35% of the wealth, more than $1bn each. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-billionaire-wealth-inequ...
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by aragot 12y ago
I've worked with IBM ClearQuest and IBM FileNet and I concurr, those products are retarded bloats of off-market junk. The free golf courses in Orlando are nice, though, so I've renewed the purchase for two more years.
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by aragot 12y ago
> the clean merge that actually results in a logical bug Theoretically possible, Probability < 3%. Besides, if master has tests and your branch has a test for the branch's feature, and you still have this problem, then maybe the
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by aragot 12y ago
So genuine question: How should one manage their marketing intern so data doesn't leak?
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by aragot 12y ago
The focal point is a problem. It is advised to keep your screen at >65cm so your eye doesn't have to accomodate (coincidentally, the length of your arms). A big problem of Google Glass is the focal point is a few cm away and it is k
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by aragot 12y ago
> intelligence on the surroundings In case any reader here weren't aware how Kinect works, it sends to the developer a 2D image of the depth. Of course as walod says, there's work to do to identify surfaces (as you can see on t
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by aragot 12y ago
#2 is under NDA. I'm damn serious here. Be wide minded when you attend those events, and large converging interests will meet.
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by aragot 12y ago
I, French, once chatted with a German and a Russian guy. We've all been students in excellent universities/schools. The German said: "My studen room was so small, like 16sqm, you could just fit a desk, a bed, a shower and a s
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by aragot 12y ago
Paul Graham once wrote an article on the curse of implementing an idea when you had enough money: http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html
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by aragot 12y ago
Also, it seems like no-one is ever pursued to justice for creating such software, and this is the opposite of the greater public's expectations.
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by aragot 12y ago
Yes, thank you PG, it lands on the very day I'm supposed to have one of those meetings. But PG sold ViaWeb to Yahoo, didn't he? So if we shouldn't talk to CorpDev, how should those deals happen?
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by aragot 12y ago
And do you know what happens with the global warming? Permafrost melts. Houses in a swamp. \o/ http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/impacts/signs/permafrost....
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by aragot 12y ago
Dalke, care to explain this one to us non-natives? Sounds funny, is it like "film", "cell" and "watching" should be replaced by "movie", "mobile" and "netflixing"?
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by aragot 12y ago
> Memorizing passwords isn't a workable solution Correct analysis, > recommend password managers No! Passwords should never be considered as secure material, period. Centralizing in a password manager centralizes the burden. Ther
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by aragot 12y ago
After working in 4 different international places, I came back to my hometown, the third biggest city of France. Most people I meet were born here. Not only, but they've never moved, never been unrooted. When you live in a left-driving
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by aragot 12y ago
In case you're asking for an order of magnitude, the last vessel presented on HN talked about 10 levels of containers outside and 11 inside. I recommend at least looking at the pictures. And they're building 20 of those ;) https:
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by aragot 12y ago
> how mainstream newspapers in France are careful not to make the amalgam between these few barbarians and a whole religion Although it would be nice, from a PR standpoint, if some French Muslim organizations could condemn those events,
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by aragot 12y ago
Not to sound posh, but I miss the Maps feature. I have a basic phone and the only reason I hold to my iPad at all times is the fear of being given an appointment at a place I can't find.
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by aragot 12y ago
Why are you all looking for base-10 hours, when it's rather the base-10 which is wrong??? Numbers should be switched to base-12. I mean we often need to divide 1kg by halves, quarters and thirds, and it should fall even.
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by aragot 12y ago
No, you can't single him out like this: Since Mavericks, OS crashes are very often reported, and Chrome tabs seem to be often reported as a cause. I myself have never had crashes with Snow Leopard and I see them often in Yosemite. That
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by aragot 12y ago
And you're not afraid? Do arrests seem legit when you hear about one?
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by aragot 12y ago
A good reason is the zero-bug policy. In my previous company, we introduced this policy to limit the expansion of the backlog. Project Managers have to close issues that they don't actually plan to tackle, which is a very difficult exe

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