babebridou

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   by babebridou 15y ago

   It works pretty well... except for software input method (the other name for the touch keyboard). A simple example: make a webview that scrolls down and ends with a textfield a couple screens below. Activate Hardware acceleration, scroll, t
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   by babebridou 15y ago

   Nah if you speak any European language you can land that kind of gig, just elsewhere in (Western)Europe. That won't pay the bills, though. In order to do these jobs you need to be near one of the bigger cities, where the cost of life is exc
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   by babebridou 15y ago

   In France we benefit from a system called "Entreprenarial Vacation" - anyone who spent 5 years in their company can ask to take a year off in order to start their own business. The company can accept or refuse. After 12 months, the employee
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   by babebridou 15y ago

   I don't know about Scandinavia, but the typical beginner consulting gig in Paris, France is 40-50€/h. More experienced are at 60-80€/hr, vets are ~100€/h and super experts are at 125€/hr & more. Do the maths. That's before taxes of cour
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   by babebridou 15y ago

   To think a business can only survive if the savvy feel at ease is itself naive, though. Most people in the world are deliciously ignorant about the dangers of any activity. People still take hitchhikers for a ride, still cross the road with
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   by babebridou 15y ago

   My rule of thumb: - if you see "java.awt" or "javax.swing" in any package import, run away. - if you need to download a native library to run a hello world, run away too. The rest is/should be fair game. Try to run a hello world on the dev
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   by babebridou 15y ago

   Give it time, and people will get out in the streets again (terrorist attacks), people will eat meat again (mad cow disease), people will buy cucumber again (killing cucumber), strangers will shake hands again (H1N1 influenza), hell, people
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   by babebridou 15y ago

   I meant for the company. It's not needed to involve the company's money in this case. As a side note, how big are those appartments in San Francisco? Here in Paris for that kind of money each month you get 60 square meters and no single per
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   by babebridou 15y ago

   Java APIs are not designed to "just work" but rather to "eventually work with anything".
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    by babebridou 15y ago

    The thing is, there's no reason why it should cost 10k bucks in the first place. Okay, well, unless there are travel costs included. Fact is, before anything else, this is a personal matter, so do it as a person - ideally on your spare time
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    by babebridou 15y ago

    I believe the answer to the question "what can AirBnb do?" is really only somewhere deep within the subconsciousness of the victim, and can't be found in a book, nor on an internet forum. Just move your butt and go ask her in person what sh
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    by babebridou 15y ago

    Let's be blunt: when there's a fire, the first thing that's required is to contain it. They failed at containing their public presence to a specific website/social network and now there are little flame wars sprouting everywhere and no way
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    by babebridou 15y ago

    This situation is in fact a very understandable vendetta of the unfortunate victim towards the rest of the world - and she is right - everyone should pay for what she suffered. The actual word is compassion, and there's never enough of it i
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    by babebridou 15y ago

    Mine patents. Build grunts. Give all grunts the same unoccupied office suite in Texas. Sell patent to grunts with revenue sharing clause. Select a grunt, scroll to target, right-click.
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    by babebridou 15y ago

    Unity3d has its own javascript-like language and introduced the keyword #pragma-strict - it enforces static typing within a script. I imagine an IDE could make good use of such toggle, for the best of both worlds. http://unity3d.com/suppor
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    by babebridou 15y ago

    I wish there was be something, actually, that would match what you can do with the Eclipse/Java combo for other languages. Eclipse turns java into a ctrl-space fest. People yell at java for being verbose and statically typed, but all this v
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    by babebridou 15y ago

    Try France & Germany: €629 all included, that's $910 USD.
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    by babebridou 16y ago

    I'm in no way an expert, but from what I could gather, here's a link to the (probable?) patent: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=tpqzAAAAEBAJ