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by eloisant 5y ago
It's not simple, it's a calculation to do but at the end of the day the calculation gives you a number of years you need to live in your house to make buying worthwhile. If you sell your house 2 years after buying it, unless the p
902.
by eloisant 5y ago
It's not about multiculturalism but about social classes. Do Czechia have social classes? If yes do they live in different neighborhoods?
903.
by eloisant 5y ago
I'm curious, which Asian countries are you talking about?
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by eloisant 5y ago
Yeah that sounds pretty different from other countries like France or Japan where there is no such distinction. When a developer builds a housing building, they sell the apartments to people who will either live there or rent it to someone
905.
by eloisant 5y ago
Well, it might not be true for the tech workers roaming HN, but there are still people who are forced to live in a big city to get a job!
906.
by eloisant 5y ago
I'd say since the pandemic not really I guess, most companies accept remote, however since 10 years or so SF really became the center of the Silicon Valley (while it was more south bay/peninsula before). It's going to take so
907.
by eloisant 5y ago
If my teenager figures out DNS and manages to bypass it, I'd be proud.
908.
by eloisant 5y ago
What you're saying is true (although I'm not sure about 3, all the Japanese people I've talked to are annoyed by that), but it really sucks that we're dealing with problems that were supposed to be fixed by Unicode. Han
909.
by eloisant 5y ago
Behold, the Macbook Wheel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
910.
by eloisant 5y ago
I don't think it's useless if everybody recognises it, there are many cases where you can show the sign to someone without it being visible by your abuser (i.e. hidden by your body).
911.
by eloisant 5y ago
Well, Apple decided to stop digging their grave and finally recognized that the 2016 MBP was just a big mistake. No port other than USB-C, no magsafe, touchbar, crappy keyboard...
912.
by eloisant 5y ago
Occasionally, when asking for a return to Amazon, they'll say "we've refunded you, no need to return it!" It kinda makes more sense than having it mailed back to be destroyed.
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by eloisant 5y ago
I don't know much about funding or selling a company, but it seems to me that the smart move was to shut up about the buying price, shut up and nod even if Steve Jobs gives a low-ball price, and let the negotiations take place later on
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by eloisant 5y ago
More generally, in my experience performance isn't looked at because it's "good enough" from a product point of view. "Yes it's kinda slow, but not enough so customers leave so who cares." Performance only
915.
by eloisant 5y ago
> If you follow the grammatical history of French, the neutral gender just got folded into masculine. This is not just grammatical history, this is the current grammar rules. However some people are trying to force a change of the rule b
916.
by eloisant 5y ago
The one good thing about music streaming is that all the competitors pretty much have the same catalog. They have almost every music on earth, except the few remaining artists who decided not to publish to streaming platforms. So if you&#x2
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by eloisant 5y ago
My experience is not very different from yours but I do that using multiple vendors, without being tied to a single one.
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by eloisant 5y ago
You can still find a few Quick Burger but they're going away. They got bought by Burger King and all Quick restaurant are slowing changing into Burger King.
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by eloisant 5y ago
Correct - and if you compare world record marathon runners with average (but seasoned) marathon runners, the difference is even smaller.
920.
by eloisant 5y ago
You should read the article. To sum it up: the web beat desktop apps because traditional OS were not designed for a networked world. The iPhone however was designed for a networked world so it didn't have all the limitations of desktop
921.
by eloisant 5y ago
Because when you add non dispatchable energy sources to your grid, without storage you have to keep the rest ready to function. Unless you agree to have enough electricity only when the sun shines or the wind blows... Otherwise at best you
922.
by eloisant 5y ago
Cost of the mail forwarder service + import taxes are going to increase the price a lot. So if you really, really want it right now I guess that's an option... But then it becomes a really overpriced laptop.
923.
by eloisant 5y ago
Godot was named after "Waiting for Godot" to start with! The word "Godot" doesn't mean anything else.
924.
by eloisant 5y ago
Interestingly, if you like games Linux is by far a better OS than macOS. Thanks to Valve's Proton, now most Windows games work flawlessly on Linux. When you install them from Steam, you don't even have to know they're Windows
925.
by eloisant 5y ago
That's a different strategy - you can be shooting for a sustainable medium size company, or try to become a tech behemoth. Both choices are valids, but investors tend to push you towards growing forever. So if your board is already con
926.
by eloisant 5y ago
It's not necessarily money they'll have to pay back, it can be investors getting a share of the company (and existing investors getting their share diluted). Sometimes they might want to raise to grow faster than your competitors.
927.
by eloisant 5y ago
Yes, I don't think the kind of people living in poverty in red states can get a job with an interview over zoom with the company that will pay relocation fees.
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by eloisant 5y ago
Yes, I moved from France to Japan in 2001 and at the time it was almost impossible to have French accents and Japanese characters on the same OS. The web was where it was working best (because web browsers know to switch encoding for pages)
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by eloisant 5y ago
If the speed and acceleration is correctly configured, the mouse doesn't have more travel to do at a higher resolution.
930.
by eloisant 5y ago
Not only they need a "surprise effect" at release, but once you played it enough you get bored and move to something else. Harder to keep contributors engaged. Unlike tools (i.e. text editors) that you can keep using for 20 years+

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