bengalister

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by bengalister 10y ago
"Notre Dame des landes" there are no proofs at all, only suspicions coming from environmental extremists whom often lie to achieve their goal, not really trustworthy people. I am not saying that the 2 companies are clean, but let&
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by bengalister 10y ago
I recently tried to use Linux (Ubuntu 16.10) as my primary desktop and failed again. I tried yearly since year 2000. But again in late 2016 I switched back to Windows (10) and MacOs. Driver support is getting better but so are my expectatio
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by bengalister 10y ago
I bought a MBP in April this year. It was my first Mac. I am quite happy with it, the retina screen & touchpad are really good, but I don't think my next one will be a MBP. Windows has now the Windows Linux Subsystem and it is actu
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by bengalister 10y ago
Using generators can make your code look as if it was synchronous
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by bengalister 10y ago
Yes 3,5 years in Montreal (I really miss that city). I am sure that the experience is very different from Toronto and Vancouver.
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by bengalister 10y ago
It does not match my own experience. I worked a few years in Canada (Québec) and liked it very much. I found that the work-life balance was much better than in France. It was more constant throughout the year. People have fewer vacations th
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by bengalister 10y ago
In the day to day spoken french in Quebec, you can hear also a lot English words too: check, game, lang, weird... There's a funny youtube video of a French Canadian girl who lives in France and compares the number of anglicisms in the
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by bengalister 10y ago
There's a challenge response authentication scheme. The authentication method can be enforced on the client but not sure if you can exclude completely password based authentication and enforce certifcate or challenge response authentic
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by bengalister 10y ago
I don't how it is much different to other European countries but many people of my entourage went abroad. Some ex co-workers went to USA & Canada, some cousins to Scotland, Singapore and Ireland. And they have no intention to come
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by bengalister 10y ago
Maybe the lack of coordination between intelligence agencies is to blame (it cannot help anyway) but it cannot alone explain the difference. First we (I am French) have a larger muslim population: 3-3,5 millions for UK the double in France
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by bengalister 10y ago
I tend to agree with that also for US companies. Many US companies already have their European branch based in Ireland. It is closer to US and they share the same language. For middle eastern and Asian, they'll probably go to Germany.
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by bengalister 10y ago
At my company, we (developers) tend to develop mainly automated functional tests and we test our product in blackbox mode. I also prefer favouring functional tests and found that actually many integration tests become useless. For unit test
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by bengalister 11y ago
I am French leaving in France and totally agree and the culture being rotten. However I don't think all the blame should be put on politicians, unions are also their share of responsibility for the status-quo. Just a few days ago, all
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by bengalister 11y ago
French too living in France, but sorry I am fed up of hearing that. Don't you think there's something wrong with Islam and its worshippers in the current days ? Not a single week without hearing about an attack made by islam integ
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by bengalister 11y ago
The Hollywood biased or caricatural vision is not exclusive to the middle East. You should see also how France and French are depicted in US comedies and TV series. Usually people are dressed like in the 50's, streets filled with cars
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by bengalister 11y ago
It is true that we (French) say "le burnout" but it does not mean we are not affected too, contrary to popular belief ;-) A few years ago, it seems that workers of ex-publicly held companies (France Telecom for instance) were the
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by bengalister 11y ago
Not really. There's not a Napoleon cult in France and people don't talk much about it. Interestingly, for the Belgium coin I heard on the news this morning that Belgium wanted to release an Euro coin for the bicentenary of Waterlo
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by bengalister 11y ago
For payment in store, it is standard EMV contacless payment (with some specificities for HCE) like for contactless physical credit card. Therefore you should be able to pay with any NFC enabled Point Of Sale connected to payment networks (V
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by bengalister 12y ago
It is the same for French (from France). As soon as they spot your french (from France) accent, and it just starts by saying "Bonjour" , they become less friendly. Exaggerating a little bit French are seen as pedantic, think he kn
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by bengalister 12y ago
I am french and lived in Quebec for a few years. Be aware that the french spoken in Québec is somewhat different in every way (vocabulary, expressions and pronunciation) than the one spoken in France. For instance, up in the thread frandroi
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by bengalister 13y ago
Linux becomes more and more usable for non-technical users and has done a lot usability-wise on desktops but let's face it there's still a long way to go. If for instance you use Ubuntu (the most popular distro for desktop), it is