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by graniter 9y ago
I consider myself a highly patriotic American and I used to think that France was much less free than the US, but after living here I have a different view. There seem to be fewer extremes in France: not so many rich people, not so many poo
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by graniter 9y ago
Just to add one more point, on the website it says: "Dependent children under the age of 18 do NOT need a residence permit. However, an underage child travel document (‘document de circulation pour étranger mineur’ – DCEM) must be obta
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by graniter 9y ago
Actually paying French income tax is pretty easy; it's paying US taxes if you are a US citizen working in France that's hard. I'm not sure Americans know that they are taxed on their income wherever they earn it. All other co
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by graniter 9y ago
I agree that other countries are difficult, too. France moreso I think, but not alone in all of this. Which is why I'm arguing the difficulty in working in or starting a company in France is not money, it's navigating all the admi
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by graniter 9y ago
Well I did on the visa being mentioned so I have first hand experience. Not fake.
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by graniter 9y ago
I live and work in France and I am well versed in this type of Visa. It's a very nice arrangement, but it's still France. It's still dealing with the same administrative burdens for everything else. You don't get treated
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by graniter 9y ago
As an American living and working in France, this sounds like a scenario where France would love to have the results and benefits of a startup boom, but they don't want to take the necessary steps to enable it. Having a bunch of free m
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by graniter 11y ago
I finally won after about 12 tries (and not cheating). Just the other day my daughter was asking if video games are ever made using HTML and I said yes with Javascript. Well now I have an example that doesn't even have javascript. Pret
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by graniter 11y ago
This is a welcome improvement to me. I've spent many an hour trying to figure out how to put some logic in nginx but it was never very intuitive to me. I think a reverse proxy + ssl termination + web cache should be considered part of
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by graniter 11y ago
The price is being heralded as the thing to get excited about, but I'm also very concerned about the security and availability of my data. I suppose those details are somewhere, but they're not in this article which is quite lengt
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by graniter 11y ago
After writing a custom CalDAV server I agree with the author. The number of requests it takes to get the data you need is insane, and most requests will involve a DB hit. My CalDAV server is much more "chatty" than my web server e
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by graniter 11y ago
We do have incorrect reports as part of the the "As it Happened" experience. The reports of a car bomb at the State Dept is a great example and is included. A lot of 9/11 commemoration now is all done in hindsight, but like y
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Show HN: Get texts replaying the unfolding events of 9/11 in realtime
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by graniter 11y ago
Unless you really have no other option to support yourself, you really need to change jobs (or departments, etc.) if your job is requiring you to get anywhere close to needing therapy. Having learned this the hard way, I just don't thi
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by graniter 11y ago
Exactly. The platform will matter, but in this case the content is going to be king. Users are going to wherever the best content is. I saw the OP as being in a position to be able to complete with Google to provide quality content. That&#x
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by graniter 11y ago
It depends on how the data is going to be used. If you want absolute time, save it as UTC or local with an offset. But if a user is going to think of "7pm my time" then you probably are going to need to save "7pm" and th