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by epsylon 13y ago
> there was a lot of turnover in the London office That's a huge red flag imho. I don't think your experience speaks against remote work in particular: it's a just a communications problem between teams / departments,
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by epsylon 13y ago
Thankfully for us, business isn't science.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Why would I want a crippled, vendor locked-in OS inside my fully capable and free OS?
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by epsylon 13y ago
That's what meetings and meeting rooms are for. Otherwise email is perfect: you can't consult face-to-face communication for reference months after.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Well, I apologize for having gotten a bit carried away; of course not all comments in this thread are worthless. That being said, I stand by my opinion that reddit-style pun threads [1] or random and unrelated politically biased ramblings [
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by epsylon 13y ago
> That being said, being french, the level of defiance and incomprehension the people in charge in France show for the internet is beyond ridiculous, and border on dangerous. Yes, but as the news show regularly, there's nothing spec
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by epsylon 13y ago
Not to mention the fact that software engineering salaries are notoriously low in France compared to the US. Thus most people who have emigrated have strong financial incentives to stay there. (Well, at least until they have cancer and crap
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by epsylon 13y ago
The comments here are atrocious. I expected more from HN than senseless French-bashing and 'Murica flag-waving. A few informations for context: - Two bloggers were fined, one French, and the American one for quoting the French. - The
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by epsylon 13y ago
Consolas beats it hands down (with ClearType enabled or similar font rendering patches on Linux) as far as I'm concerned. It's a matter of taste.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Go, Scala, Clojure All of them languages which are mostly used for web.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Counting the average size of black-colored connected components would work as well.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Well, North Korea (and many other dictatorships) are technically "democratic republics"... Doesn't mean that they are.
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by epsylon 13y ago
That's 1,670,000 satoshis!
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by epsylon 13y ago
Even more impressive considering this is only North America.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Unfortunately coinbase is US-only.
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by epsylon 13y ago
For a few cherry-picked definitions of better and C++.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Browser vendors are free to integrate the VM into their products No they aren't. Integrating a Google-controlled VM into any software project (for example, Firefox) isn't trivial (you need lots of resources for it) nor is des
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by epsylon 13y ago
I can build a JS interpreter in 1 line of JS.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Good maths proofs proceed step by step, with intermediate goals written in clear English (or French, for me). And to go from step to step, you don't need explicitly long names, just like you don't name your index loops "index
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by epsylon 13y ago
> The breaking of bread is one of the most important social aspects of humanity. It's even in our languages: etymologically, a companion is literally a person with whom you share bread.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Seeing all my fellow french moving to the US, Canada, Argentina, Asia, and after only a few weeks, being so glad to call those places home, and saying they would never go back to France, because anywhere they are, it's so much bet
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by epsylon 13y ago
Reddit does that as well with PostgreSQL. It surely doesn't show a win for NoSQL if two of the biggest sites on the internet would rather traditional SQL RDBMS as KV stores.
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by epsylon 13y ago
The elderly and the disabled already get discounts or free transportation. Do you find it discriminating against young / able people?
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by epsylon 13y ago
In French train stations, there are installations which allow you to charge your electrical devices by pedaling. I'm sure these must have been installed in other countries as well.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Well, since this answer in this thread might interest people other than OP, feel free to make a suggestion where you explain the pros and the cons!
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by epsylon 13y ago
Books and Usenet.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Why switch to Debian? It's not like his customization does transform it into a radically different distro. For one thing, he keeps the Ubuntu repos (which I personally find better on a Desktop).
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by epsylon 13y ago
There's been a lot of code that's been written / rewritten for QL.
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by epsylon 13y ago
They already required an installer, since it was a plugin.
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by epsylon 13y ago
If you're already an Ubuntu user, you can just sudo apt-get install xfce and sudo apt-get remove unity*.

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