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by fermigier 12y ago
One small nitpick: the supposedly "bad looking" Python example: SimpleTestCase(unittest.TestCase): def runTest(self): self.assertEqual(true, true) can be made more pythonic by using a modern testing
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by fermigier 12y ago
This will be addressed in the following years by the WENDELIN project ( http://www.wendelin.io/ ) which has recently been financed (well, we're still waiting for the contracts and the money, actually) by the French gover
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by fermigier 12y ago
http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/emploi-rh/siege-de-moz...
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by fermigier 12y ago
OTOH, Paris is the open source capital of the World :) http://www.paris-region.com/sites/default/files/brochuretic.... "With a €4 billion turnover, the French market represents 26% of the European open s
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by fermigier 12y ago
1. What makes you think I have never been to Naples? I've actually been there, and many places in Italy, over the years. There are amazing places, and crappy tourist places, just like everywhere in the world. 2. I said "decent&quo
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by fermigier 12y ago
You can have a nice pizza for 8-9€ these days in Paris, a really good crepe for 5-7€, tasty bo buns (vietnamese noodle dish) are usually less than 10€ in the asian neigbourhoods, etc.
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by fermigier 12y ago
Tax reduction schemes for R&D (JEI and CIR) are indeed a no-brainer for most people that are serious about it, given that: - The form-filling part is better left to your accountant, as part of your annual tax return. - The R&D speci
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by fermigier 12y ago
The distance is actually 500 km, not 750 ( https://www.google.fr/maps/dir/Paris/Amsterdam,+Pays-Bas/@50... ). And yes, the 4h figure is for travelling by train, not by car.
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by fermigier 12y ago
"The weather is awful, it rains 40% of the days." -> According to Wikipedia ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climat_de_Paris ) this is untrue. "Paris connaît en moyenne 111,1 jours de pluie par an, mais s
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by fermigier 12y ago
This document ("Open source, a booming market") is more focussed on the open source ecosystem in the Paris Region: http://www.paris-region.com/sites/default/files/brochuretic.... (PDF, 1MB).
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by fermigier 12y ago
I remember, about 20 years ago, when some people started making and selling Linux CDs (Walnut Creek or some others). Some people on the Linux mailing list (or newsgroup, my recollection is only approximate) were upset that some people were
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Lego’s letter to parents, and how not to tell a fake when you don’t see one(medium.com)
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by fermigier 12y ago
You'd probably shave much more that $400 by using dedicated servers (rented monthly) rather than EC2 instances. Example pricing (from OVH): http://www.soyoustart.com/en/essential-servers/ (You'd probably
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by fermigier 12y ago
Interestingly, it seems that on what might be the last autographed document publicly available from him, he signed "Alexandre" and not "Alexander": https://ztfnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/gr
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Some of the best papers about his life and his work: From the notices of the AMS: http://www.ams.org/notices/200409/fea-grothendieck-part1.pdf http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothe
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Alexander Grothendieck, 1966 Fields medalist, dead at 86(en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Genevieve Fioraso, French Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, had declared just 18 months ago: "Au regard de l'importance des enjeux, sur les plans scientifique, économique et sociétal, le gouvernement français r