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by laurent92 5y ago
You’ve succeeded to say in the same sentence that the city was doing an appalling job while asking the company to fund their plans, and that it’s the company’s fault for showing the city that they can leave if it keeps worsening. Maybe Amaz
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z) Customers are gonna complain anyway and ask for more, so better make 80% of the feature and see what they focus on. z’) If we deliver 20% of the wrong feature, the customers are going to say it and we can reorient before we make the othe
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by laurent92 5y ago
*for ritual purposes, as they always qualify in archeological articles.
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by laurent92 5y ago
Leave the cart, full, in front of the fridges. They’ll understand soon enough.
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by laurent92 5y ago
I was so happy moving houses because I’ll stop hearing that jingle. I now have the choice between two supermarkets, and I purposedly avoid the old brand because of the jingle, even though the other seems a bit more expensive. It’s driving u
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by laurent92 5y ago
Maybe our FMI didn’t do such a good job at implementing capitalism in Russia. I know the World Bank criticized it a lot for its actions during the 1990 decade, namely Joseph Stieglitz.
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by laurent92 5y ago
France chose to build in bulk of 5-15 plants, as seen in this (extremely interesting) Gantt diagram: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Chrono-p...
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by laurent92 5y ago
> unplug their chargers after their phone is charged To me, that’s a flaw of the charger if it keeps working when no device is connected. As for TVs and others, we need to mandate a front-facing power switch, because most TVs/device
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by laurent92 5y ago
The most obvious is that rods naturally fall into water now, which dampens the neutron exchange to a stop, which works automatically in case of power cut (The rest of improvements are about preventing water from overheating and forming H2,
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by laurent92 5y ago
Apple’s stock app is awesome in that matter. “Why NASDAQ:_____ ticker is bound to go down in the next months” – the day after it gains 20% and doubles within the year…
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by laurent92 5y ago
The ISS was built to prove we could collaborate scientifically across nations despite wars. Today, Germany has proven they can’t.
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Almost everyone would choose freedom over anything else, even if it costs their death. Ukrainians do.
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by laurent92 5y ago
The “let’s turn luminosity to 0 to drive up the sale of screens with 5000000:1 contrast” got me as much as “let’s make the sound inaudible on stereo to drive up the sale of 7.1 sound systems.” VLC should have a setting such as “flatten soun
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by laurent92 5y ago
+1, each time I return 404 for an object which is not found in the DB, the customer gets a red error message in their UI as if something failed more severely than an object being unavailable, and the metrics believe something is unavailable
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by laurent92 5y ago
> I did not realize Precision 55xx series is even better built than XPS15 Bought an XPS15 for an intern. I pulled the screen to open, and it remained stuck with the base, because they didn’t even tune the hinge. How can someone work with
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by laurent92 5y ago
The trick is results in French are extremely bad quality, tech articles are dumbed down, tutorials in French lose nuance, and, well, good luck finding Hacker News in French. It was a revolution for me when I gained access to the English web
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by laurent92 5y ago
Isn’t it a bug of the chat app, notifying someone for each message despite having a UX which incentivizes sending a message each time you type Enter?
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by laurent92 5y ago
The usecase of minibuses with a joystick for command and a red emergency button is legit. We have this in France, not only for airports.
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by laurent92 5y ago
Go live in Europe. Start with a 1-month exchange program in a French family (although I don’t think this is possible for adults). US foods are full of sugar: bread, prepared dishes, I bet even water has added sugar…
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by laurent92 5y ago
On 16:9 screens? 16 screens wide, 9 screens high…
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by laurent92 5y ago
From a back-end position, front-end seems more enjoyable. Then from front-end, everyone still wants to move to be a designer ;) I have to admit that, after starting my own product, I’ve found my thing (doing features with a bit of backend a
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by laurent92 5y ago
I pruned trees in Kununurra, Northern Australia, and there was a spider in each tree we’d cut (500/day). Harmless or not, they tend to climb once they’re on you, so those of us who are afraid of spiders would just let them climb and sh
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by laurent92 5y ago
When industrial partnerships are broken, there is no incentive to go back. No trust either, neither from the two sides, neither from companies to government not to shut down the transaction again at the first whim.
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by laurent92 5y ago
You’re so right! Tech has become a job! It takes so much time to build something without bugs and with correct error management, that a new exciting feature is just yet-another-project. And every new NPM dependency feels like installing a R
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by laurent92 5y ago
There were many posts which reached the front page about the war in Ukraine. Although I devoured them with interest, they are off-topic, therefore it’s good that HN doesn’t dwell on it. Other social media became single-topic about the war f
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by laurent92 5y ago
If you pay, you still get tracked. PS: And now they have your name, address, email and CC on file.
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by laurent92 5y ago
What if step 2 is Russia declaring that, as a sanction against economic sanctions, Yandex is nationalized? Can it avoid duty to existing stockholders?
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Visa and Mastercard banned international payments with Russia.
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by laurent92 5y ago
Does Jetbrains have ties with Russia? If so, I see a major blow that Russia could inflict tothe Western world…
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by laurent92 5y ago
But beauty is essential for a lot of people in the workplace in 2022, and you can’t get beauty when you wake up naturally after only 6hrs. It’s sad but it’s a reality, as a manager in IT.

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