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by herge 14y ago
Good, then, because early investors will be more willing to take a chance and give money to a start up since there is a clear path to getting that money back. Also, that means that there is a lot more opportunity for your start up since pub
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by herge 14y ago
I wonder if the period of 2009-2015 will have a bumper crop of content entering the public domain in Europe because so many young people died in the Second World War.
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by herge 14y ago
Python has often been called an easy to learn language and a good first start because it tries to be easy to read. Does that mean that it is also a beginner's language that people eventually are supposed to move on from?
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by herge 14y ago
Which was only done to get it narrowly passed by the U.S. Congress.
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by herge 14y ago
As great as virtualenv is, it won't help you with outdated versions of libc.
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by herge 14y ago
Can a lot of money make people keep a bad job? How badly can you treat your employees if you pay them bucket-loads?
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by herge 14y ago
How big was your team? How much were your IT costs?
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by herge 14y ago
> When you build your own system, you decide how reliable you want it. Ha! You mean that you discover how hard and expensive it is to build your own reliable infrastructure or how hard it is to hire people to do it for you.
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by herge 14y ago
Well, if you care about the green house impact of his use of his car, it's pretty good. Driving a regular car 12k miles will net you about 4.6 tons of CO2. His 36 gallons of gas, plus his electricity consumption if we assume that he uses ab
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by herge 14y ago
There was a talk about OpenERP at Montreal-Python about a month ago. The video of it is not up yet but will be some time soon here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MontrealPython Also, there is a Montreal (EST time zone!) based consultancy co
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by herge 14y ago
Taxes. The tax benefits often is worth the risk in most jurisdictions.
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by herge 14y ago
If I use sql parameters in my queries, am I still vulnerable to SQL injection? What about using a (sane) ORM? Basically, is it only php apps that hand-build queries that are vulnerable to SQL injection?
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by herge 14y ago
If you read the article carefully, he talks of an opposition who "offered themselves as alternate protectors and arbiters of justice" and set up a road block, all this to push the mob to execute the insurgents who attacked a bank. This is e
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by herge 14y ago
If Guido van Rossum wanted to work on python full time, I am sure that there would be companies like Red Hat that would be very happy to pay him to do exactly that.
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by herge 14y ago
Maybe it's proof that you should host your own version of jQuery instead of trusting, say, the google cdn.
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by herge 14y ago
Only from James Bond villans. I am sure that the U.S. armed forces have a very secure scheme to prevent this.
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by herge 14y ago
A recruiter improves hist relation with his client for every good C.V. he sends. My time is not worthless, why should I let a recruiter profit from it?
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by herge 14y ago
> You will never, ever get a single recruiter pay $500 to see your CV. Good, then. I have never found a job through a recruiter, always through word of mouth.
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by herge 14y ago
To anyone who gets harassed by clueless recruiters with doubtful job fillings, I have a much better idea than answering with angry or rude responses. Simply send them a stock email that tells them that you have had bad experiences with othe
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by herge 14y ago
Also, one character variable names are much harder to search for in code review tools and source diffs. I saw code that always used ii, aa, etc. to make searching easier.
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by herge 14y ago
Good on him. I had a New Zealander friend explain to me that residential bandwidth gets metered into two categories: local to New Zealand (cheap or even free) and any data that comes from overseas, which I find a complete ripoff.
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by herge 14y ago
Because they would gladly go work for republicans if Obama did not listen to their opinions?
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by herge 14y ago
I have the impression than anyone who has issues with this never experienced programming in assembly.
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by herge 14y ago
The banks in Ireland are another affair entirely, but in terms of government regulations, things are surprisingly light weight for a country in the euro zone, and are probably better than the US in many domains. As I heard a startup founder
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by herge 14y ago
Well, the issue is not hiring one or two good people, which is completely possible in Dublin. It's how to go from a team of 5 to a team of 40 or 50 within a year. Silicon Valley is one of the few places that have the depth of talent to do
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by herge 14y ago
PyCon 2014-2015 is hosted in the Palais des Congrès, which is downtown, so you will not need a hotel room for PyCon and another in town for tourism.
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by herge 14y ago
To be more precise, Pycon 2014-15 is in Montreal, Canada, not, Montreal, California.
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by herge 14y ago
The oposite opinion can also be argued, that now politicians are a lot more connected to the populace, and that the will of the people is now represented much better than it was in the past.
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by herge 14y ago
With regard to the environmental costs, specifically in terms of greenhouse gases, 15 kwh per day in electricity in New Jersey will set you back 6.5 kg of CO2, while your 4 gallons of gas per day will emanate 36 kg, so almost 6 times more.
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by herge 14y ago
This reminds me of the pain of dealing with python's twisted library, albeit before inline callbacks were implemented. Inline callbacks as implemented in python can make asynchronous code a lot easier to read: http://hackedbellini.org/deve

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