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by eloisant 5y ago
I'm actually using my moleskine quite a bit, but it's frustrating because everything is chronological, all mixed up. I'm not using it enough to justify having different ones for all activities. And when it's full and I g
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by eloisant 5y ago
Because you might be taking work-related notes on your device that you don't want to be stolen as industrial spying.
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by eloisant 5y ago
I think the term he's looking for is Embezzlement of Public Funds indeed. It's not just "poor use of public funds", but illegal use of public funds. For example when a public institution picks a supplier in an illegal ma
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by eloisant 5y ago
I think it's a good point. Also everything being in the same place, easy to link or retweet means the small weirdo community will invariably see outside people coming to make fun of them or explain them that they're bad people who
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by eloisant 5y ago
> Let me tell you I know why you don't see an "Amazon of Japan", apparently in here I'd have to calculate the sales taxes for every country where my products are sold through agreements of Japan-{said country}. Some c
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by eloisant 5y ago
That's because Opera (and now Vivalvi) cares more about building as many features as possible than stability or even consistency of the experience.
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by eloisant 5y ago
Unlike the startup founders those don't get a 4 hours week after they're successful. Yes they can because wealthy, but they have to keep working 70 hours weeks to keep their business afloat.
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by eloisant 5y ago
I think the interesting point that the article is doing is that contrary to the common assumption the revenue of the 1% didn't grew that much in past decades, however the revenue of the 0.01% really exploded in the same period of time.
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by eloisant 5y ago
Your average business owner also wants his site not to be defaced, and security for Wordpress is pretty bad.
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by eloisant 5y ago
I've had great pair programming sessions in the past. But it was always occasional, and short. Sometimes longer or more often if it's someone I really like to work with, but there have been only a handful in about 20 years of care
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by eloisant 5y ago
Except for Amazon, that would still be extremely successful without AWS, the others had their original business model disrupted. So far Google still have a stronghold on search, they've been able to secure it with Android and Chrome by
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by eloisant 5y ago
No, in 2008 Yahoo was already seen as a failed company. The biggest mistake they did in the late 90's is to stop being a tech company and be a "media company" instead. So in 2008 they were still big but mostly running on mome
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by eloisant 5y ago
On the topic of "reversing outsourcing", a few French shoe brands have decided to bring back production to France, and stop outsourcing. One of them was Le Coq Sportif. It was challenging because they realized that manufacturing s
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by eloisant 5y ago
Honestly most businesses think they need a lot of customization because they think they're oh-so-special, but in fact something like 1) would work great for them. I know, I've worked in consulting and built software for companies
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by eloisant 6y ago
This is the right thing to do, however Google has ways to detect multiple accounts from the same individuals. Cookies, credit card numbers, IP addresses, etc. It's really hard to separate them enough so they can't link them. And s
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by eloisant 6y ago
Yes, so many people seems to be dreaming of that "phone that turns into a laptop" but I don't see it becoming a thing. It might have made sense 20 years ago when everything wasn't online and sharing files was a pain, but
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by eloisant 6y ago
If the 25mph speed limit doesn't make sense on that road it needs to change. If it makes sense, then the self driving car going at speed limit is the right thing to do and human drivers should do the same. It's as simple as that.
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by eloisant 6y ago
You can have a driver in the truck for the city portions (at the beginning and the end of the trip), but sleeping on the highway rather than having to stop the truck for a full night.
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by eloisant 6y ago
I think those presses are to make sure the electricity is completely drained out of the laptop.
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by eloisant 6y ago
The article makes it sound like it's a secret code like a Konami code that the laptop will recognize, but it's not the case.
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by eloisant 6y ago
I don't think DRM changes anything for the legal aspect of going public domain. I imagine that copies that were illegal with copyright (with DRM stripped) become legal once it gets to public domain.
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by eloisant 6y ago
It's too bad because music proved that DRM doesn't make any difference for piracy. Spotify and competitors are successful despite piracy. Movies piracy is still just as big with DRM.
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by eloisant 6y ago
Thibault Duplessis is actually an ex co-worker of mine, and this guy is truly impressive. Not only he is a very talented developer, he really sticks to his beliefs and made what Lichess is today. He used to take up a job for a year or so, s
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by eloisant 6y ago
Well, maybe because they extort indecent amount of money from their students to pay top researchers more than any other country. More than half of the Ph.D. students in US came from abroad.
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by eloisant 6y ago
They might operate it but anyone can register a .dev domain. So being on that TLD doesn't make it obvious that it's Google.
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by eloisant 6y ago
Additionally being rich gives you a network of friends who are also rich, resulting in even more opportunities. Your friend who owns a house in Chamonix and will let you use it for free during your vacations, your friends CEO of a big compa
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by eloisant 6y ago
The way he's using Github is as a basic host, he could move to a different service and the blog would look the same, the URLs still work, and the visitors couldn't tell the difference. That's day and night compared to publish
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by eloisant 6y ago
Wireless makes sense in the country side, because it's expensive to pull optical fiber for just a few houses. In cities however, where most of the population is: - Bringing optical fiber is cost effective because of the population dens
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by eloisant 6y ago
Same for me, however you can be sure I do my research before buying to make sure it will be compatible. You can't just blindly buy a Windows laptop and expect it to work flawlessly on Linux.
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by eloisant 6y ago
The article is specifically about a blind person, so clearly service animals are not well accepted by many Uber drivers.

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