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by benbataille 14y ago
I kind of doubt the econ department of UChicago needs this kind of advertisement. It's probably the most famous in the world. They have the record for econ Nobel prizes as a university. If I had to take a guess, they are probably overwhelme
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by benbataille 14y ago
Interesting application but I think they should bring a native french speaker on board. The french sentence provided in the only screenshot isn't correct. "Puis-je avoir le menu encore, s'il vous plaît ?" is a word for word translation of e
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by benbataille 14y ago
To be fair, France is insanely biased towards maths. The typical curriculum if you want a correct career in CS outside of research is to go through an engineering school and the amount of maths (and physics) you need to enter and then to gr
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by benbataille 14y ago
Well, don't panic. Grass is not greener on the other side. France nº1 is a phone provider, nº2 football and nº3 is the French equivalent of Big Brother. The presidential election is not even in the TOP 10. Oh, and yeah, McDonalds is nº5. So
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by benbataille 14y ago
To be fair, with all due respect, while I understand the concerns of Messrs. Berners-Lee and Cerf, I think they are also kind of missing the point. Unless newspapers are intentionally or not misleading us which is another possibility. If yo
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by benbataille 14y ago
>I don't see how this particular response was arguing in favor of laziness. In a referentially transparent language, you don't care about order of evaluation because whatever the order you will always end up with exactly the same result
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by benbataille 14y ago
They do. Which is with they don't care for the USA. Naively, some readers though this thread was going to be about a car. Some of them actually fail to see how where a car is produced should influence its merits. They didn't realize that as
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by benbataille 14y ago
Doubtful. In the same way being an hobbyist programmer will never give you the same skill set than a CS degree. It's highly unlikely you are ever going to study extensively algorithm, os and databases design, compilation or declarative and
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by benbataille 14y ago
Indeed, it is. As long as you operate from Ireland that is. The French tax authorities apparently have proofs that the whole business is done in France by employees of Google France but billed in Irland. So, technically, if I understand cor