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by jpatte 15y ago
IMHO this also as a lot to do with setting an appropriate work environment. On a desktop designed for work you should only have links and bookmarks related to your work. A bookmark to Facebook is a constant reminder that there might be some
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by jpatte 15y ago
What seems really interesting to me here is the ability to extend an existing class by implementing an interface (instead of a set of extension methods), and therefore becoming able to cast any instance of this type as an instance of this i
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by jpatte 15y ago
Most likeky 40k/13 = 3076 euros per month + an extra "bonus" month each year. Which should give about 2000~2500 euros net per month (depending on the local taxes) + an equivalent annual bonus.
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by jpatte 15y ago
In Paris, junior CS engineers usually start at 35k (gross), but it's not too hard to negotiate up to 45k after 2 or 3 years of experience. Wages are usually lower in the rest of France.
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by jpatte 16y ago
Also consider haXe: http://haxe.org/ It's an actionscript-inspired unified language which can be compiled into JS, Flash, PHP, C++ or interpreted on (yet another, sic) VM as an apache mod.
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by jpatte 16y ago
I'm actually more worried by the fate of the planet while we let the world population explode and keep suppressing possible causes of human death. We should first get concerned about how these trillions of people will live in a dying world.
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by jpatte 16y ago
Synthetic biology aims at producing novel biological systems to carry out some desired and well-defined functions. An ultimate dream is to design these systems at a high level of abstraction using engineering-based tools and programming la
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by jpatte 16y ago
The first album was written during colonial times and reflects the consideration European people had towards natives at this time (ie. they would be savages waiting to be "enlightened"). This is considered a racist behavior today and some p
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IPad Says No to Violence and Adult Situations in Manga(mangahelpers.com)
17 points by jpatte 16y ago|14 comments
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by jpatte 17y ago
Could anyone give some examples of instructions which are easily implemented in F# and would be really hard to implement in C#? From what I see here, F# seems nice and clean, but does not add a lot of value compared to LINQ-powered C#.
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by jpatte 17y ago
Paris :)
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by jpatte 17y ago
Dropbox website is now dropbox.com
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by jpatte 17y ago
I wonder if they were single founders from the very start or if the team broke during the program?
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by jpatte 17y ago
The mind works with automatisms and reflexes. They condition the way you interpret any situation, and the emotion you feel because of this interpretation. The key is to become aware of these mechanisms: don't let them control you. In your d
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by jpatte 17y ago
"A knowledge of lambda calculus, CSP, Turing Machines etc. etc. is of no relevance whatsoever to someone building a CRUD business application or (for that matter) another client for Twitter." Fair enough. These are used as scientific materi
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by jpatte 17y ago
1. No: The goal of Computer Science is to provide and improve methods, languages and frameworks to manipulate a computer. The goal of Software Engineering is to apply these tools in order to achieve a requested result with a computer. 2. No
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by jpatte 17y ago
IMHO, writing software is actually an excellent example of an engineering task. The reason we see all these failures in software development is, in fact, that most software developers are NOT engineers. This is where all this pain comes fro
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by jpatte 17y ago
Could you develop why you "recoil in horror" when you see a website using Silverlight (apart from "Micro$oft suxx)? I'm building one right now so I'm interested in any insight you have.
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by jpatte 17y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. But as you said yourself, just because I think YC is a better choice for me does not mean it's true, and it's certainly does not mean it is true for everyone and YC > FI. So I'm not sure why you feel
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by jpatte 17y ago
I was accepted in Paris FI program for this summer, however I didn't pay the fee yet because I was also invited for an interview at YC in 10 days. I must decide today if I enter the FI program or not, knowing that YC is clearly my best choi
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by jpatte 17y ago
"It has the potential for sexual excitement which is all that really matters" No it doesn't. Taking pictures with the potential for sexual excitement and taking pictures for the purposes of sexual excitement are two completely different
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by jpatte 17y ago
"Pornography or porn is the portrayal of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual excitement ." "In the case of the body scanners, images are taken, thus it is pornography, and a crime." Please read the whole sentence befo
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by jpatte 17y ago
I don't see how this is different from medical school examination. Should we prosecute all "child doctors" (don't know the exact english term) as criminal as well for seeing naked children every day?
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by jpatte 17y ago
I'm assuming the dude is a professional and is merely doing his job, like any woman shall assume her gynecologist is a professional doctor and not a peeping tom.
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by jpatte 17y ago
Maybe "the hell with privacy" was too strong. I reacted this way because my feeling is privacy is often an over-used excuse not to comply to a security measure. And actually my point was not that these invasions should happen to a lot of pe
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by jpatte 17y ago
As long as this random dude never meets my daughter again, I don't give a damn.
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by jpatte 17y ago
?! Not exactly sure why I was down-voted... This was a sincere question. Did I miss something obvious?
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by jpatte 17y ago
Am I the only one thinking "the hell with privacy"? I understand the need for a certain level of privacy. However people watching these monitors see hundreds if not thousands of people a day... Do you think they care a second about who wear
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by jpatte 17y ago
I did too :)
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by jpatte 17y ago
"Chrome OS is a brand new free operating system built around the revolutionary Google Chrome browser." What's that supposed to mean? I don't see how exactly an OS could use a web browser as its core. -- oh wait; it's actually a new linux di

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