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by brmgb 6y ago
If only the state could heavily tax empty apartments and cap resell price to counter that. But wait, it actually can. Pushing renters and speculators out of the housing markets in favor of people who actually want to settle in the city is p
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by brmgb 6y ago
No, that was random non sense from Frogwares. The court explicitly disagreed on this point in October (two months after the article you are posting). They seem to have a terrible lawyer. The appeal court threw away the Force Majeur argument
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by brmgb 6y ago
Both are. The 50,000 euros per day of delay is what Nacon was asking for when they lost in July 2020. Then, Frogwares lost the October 2020 appeal. The French appeal court decided that the contract dismissal was actually unlawful. Therefore
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Hindsight is 20/20, but it sounds like you're saying that even with hindsight closing AIM was the right call. It was the right call. AIM was losing money with no obvious way to monetize it. AOL was not in the same position th
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by brmgb 6y ago
Facebook didn't have chat functionnalities until four years after it's started. AOL might have been able to enter the social network market at the time but the link with instant messaging was far from obvious then.
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by brmgb 6y ago
Lync was MSN and was fairly popular and Skype for business was an evolution of the Lync client not the Skype client. So Microsoft did actually pick MSN. They just kept the stronger brand. Also it always had chat history. Teams is a differen
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by brmgb 6y ago
> It was such a senseless destruction. People miss AIM, people miss MSN Messenger and just a couple years later it turned out instant messaging platforms were worth billions. > It's still insane to me these corporations shut dow
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Partners (third party developers) should have access to provide Merchants much needed services and get paid for that but as I see it Shopify has to regulate what those Partners are doing so that neither their Merchants or Customers ar
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by brmgb 6y ago
Heartily disagree. Half of the serie first season (the complex episodes) is somewhat interesting. The rest is mostly the usual sci-fi trops and goes from mostly avoidable (the other half of the first season) to plain bad (everything after).
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by brmgb 6y ago
I actually mostly agree. I don't even know why I'm grumbling like that. I guess it's juste getting long and I somewhat despair at the obvious ineptitude of my government (but to be entierely fair they had already been shown t
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by brmgb 6y ago
Most certainly, don't get me wrong. It is not a value judgement on my part. I don't think people who enjoy coding are wrong and I can conceptually see how it can be fascinating. I just wanted to highlight that this is not some uni
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by brmgb 6y ago
Meanwhile, I have now lived through two multi-months complete lockdowns, have been under a curfew since the beginning of October which prevents me from being out after 6pm and there now is rumors of a third lockdown with no end in sight. In
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by brmgb 6y ago
> People have done the math. Land availability is not a bottleneck on this. I'm sorry but people have done the maths and consider land availability to be a major bottleneck for solar and wind (with the fact that it is intermittent).
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by brmgb 6y ago
To be honest with you, I'm quite amused by our exchange because you obviously enjoy programing a lot and so seems to have difficulty even fathoming that someone could just dislike the craft which is the point I am trying to make. I don
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by brmgb 6y ago
> And that's not to say "good" is a fixed target... The interesting thing is that once you get to a certain point, you can see the infinite world that you haven't explored yet. > If you like math then there is a to
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by brmgb 6y ago
While I somewhat admire the author feelings, as a direct answer to the chosen title, I have to say I don't share them at all. I view programming with a mix of indifference and boredom and the sad few years I had to do it as a job are e
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by brmgb 6y ago
I am French. Most of my friends have PhD. You still get the usual "you must not be very practical" during interviews and your salary is never better that what someone from a good engineering school would get.
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by brmgb 6y ago
I find the situation even funnier when you consider that France, Germany main partner in the European Union and direct neighbor, views having a PhD outside of research as a waste of time and something which will be held against you. The cul
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by brmgb 6y ago
Have you considered that maybe everyone is not stupid and you are the one being wrong? Maybe people realize that the relationship between relatively small and disparate local media companies and the giant foreign tech companies aggregating
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by brmgb 6y ago
> You can't seriously keep on talking about the "terrible design" of C-strings when you put Ada and Pascal in front of it. Of course I can. I have used Ada strings extensively. As long as you don't mix bounded and un
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by brmgb 6y ago
> C strings, no matter how much people have complained about along decades (often quoting Pascal as a good counter-example!), Because Pascal is a good counter-example to the awfulness of C strings. I need to point to you that any strings
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Indeed it baffles me a little that we're not experiencing a renaissance in films, what with cameras and lights being cheaper than ever. Heck, Truffaut famously argued in the Cahiers du Cinema that you could make a film for a lot l
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by brmgb 6y ago
It's a large color screen with a good resolution, visible from any direction and under any light condition, and which can keep showing an image for an unlimited amount of times. With a battery and a gsm modem it could probably stay una
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Does anyone have any knowledge about whether Gold use spread like other ideas or if there was convergent discovery all over the world? Commodity currency (using a common commodity as a currency) was convergent discovery. Using gold spe
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by brmgb 6y ago
I think that statement was about the first three paragraphs and those are pretty clear and to the point. Then again, I doubt most people are going to be particularly alarmed. The flaw means that people who know the nursery ip and the passwo
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by brmgb 6y ago
I used Bromite for a while and went back to Firefox with Ublock. From my experience, the privacy enhancement breaks enough websites to negatively counter balance the compatibility benefit of being Chrome based. Of course, you might view thi
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Think the programming talent pool is increasingly getting split into run-of-the-mill and superstar developers. That doesn't conform to my experience (European / working in the industrial sector / hiring developers but no
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by brmgb 6y ago
> It is actually completely unacceptable on what is advertised as a secure platform to engage in targeted marketing AT ALL. If any information about what my company is doing on your platform is shared to other companies, then you are not
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by brmgb 6y ago
I like how the vocabulary you use imply there is something highly nefarious happening here whereas it is all fairly standard direct marketing based on an exchange of data clearly highlighted in the TOS. I don't really understand why ev
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by brmgb 6y ago
If it makes you sleep better, most household fans are designed to not severe fingers. They use plastic blades (please don't buy household fans with steel blades) which are both light and dull. You might break it but a major cut is high

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