maigret

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by maigret 16y ago
Very simple. It takes me 30 min to drive to work in my car and 1 hour in the good case with the train. The train can take up to 2 hours overall in the worst case. And this is partly time to switch train, going to the train station etc. Not
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by maigret 16y ago
Damn. I read the first bullet point list and everything was somewhat valid for me.
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by maigret 16y ago
On a side note, I wonder how much the German engineering innovation is producing worth of value compared to the Silicon Valley. German companies rarely call themselves startup but there are quite a lot small to middle technology companies t
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by maigret 16y ago
... And this is why proprietary formats (not software) are evil. Once the owner decide to kill the tools, the format and the corresponding documents/applications are dead also.
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by maigret 16y ago
Late response... I understand the inflation, but poor people are not less affected by the inflation that the rich. Rich people can invest in more inflation-protected goods, like gold or houses. Poor people can't, they're directly hit by pri
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by maigret 16y ago
That's really cool! Out here in Europe we just hear how the Chinese government is demolishing traditional quarters for making roads and big buildings, so that's definitely great news.
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by maigret 16y ago
That's exactly the most interesting point in that article. Not the "green town BS" I expected. Rather a "folks, let's return to the basics". And what if we applied the same in Europe by rebuilding a medieval town model with modern technolog
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by maigret 16y ago
Very interesting picture. I would not have thought that Poland could look more polluted than Mexico and California. Maybe pollution in east Europe is coming from west Europe.
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by maigret 16y ago
Your edit is so right. Note also that unemployment for computer scientist right now in Germany is at a record-low level currently.
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by maigret 16y ago
"dilution of their wealth through inflation"? Many statistics recently shown the riches have apparently never been that rich before: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/25/rich-list-wea...
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by maigret 16y ago
I think I should reuse that idea of the weekly waffle meeting (mentioned in the comments) in our team :) Anyway, I'm happy to see someone argument that: office matters, as do building architecture. Office arrangement clearly influence the w
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by maigret 16y ago
That's really a good comment. It's not a true/false issue, so thank you for reminding that. Interest for tech doesn't mean screwing the rest of one's life.
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by maigret 16y ago
Yes, because investors hope Google to pay (high) dividends soon. Without dividends, stocks are just a Ponzy scheme.
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by maigret 16y ago
Well you also have the risk of not fitting into the new company, risking the same.
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by maigret 16y ago
May I ask why you are stating "online" in the question title? I mean, wouldn't you be interesting in developing the next firmware for a tablet for example? Aren't there any computer company in your area who is looking for a student 10h/week
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by maigret 16y ago
No time to make some search right now, but I remember a few people pretend having known and spoken about the CDO dangers a few years before the crisis. Roubini is one them, but there is still a discussion going on whether he really foresaw
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by maigret 16y ago
While the first two ones are really obvious, the last three are often known but rarely applied truly. Virgin employees can think "We're a company also building spaceships". I found this article interesting and useful.
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by maigret 16y ago
I remember also having read that while liberal arts are bad paid at the beginning of their career and strugle to find a first job that jumpstart their career, they mostly level (and in many cases overachieve) the difference with engineers a
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by maigret 16y ago
I'm repeating myself as I wrote that already, but this is not the case in most European countries. The education is not so bad out here after all, and you can drink alcohol before 21.
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by maigret 16y ago
New Audis have a radio-driven clock, which means you never ever need to set the time.
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by maigret 16y ago
The article is a bit too short in my point of view, I wish there were a bit more stories told in. It feels a bit cold in that form. This is a very good article nonetheless. I think this is a good goal to be conscious of what is missing in o
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by maigret 16y ago
Right. I think that's why good toolkits have good default behaviors that you can also easily overwrite through well documented APIs. I think a good abstraction should let you also access the underlying layer for special cases.
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by maigret 16y ago
That's really a huge news. This is the first time I see a big american media company bringing such an offering apparently worldwide (correct me if I'm wrong). I mean it's working in Europe!! - Hulu, Netflix etc aren't. I think that's quite
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by maigret 16y ago
Never underestimate the power of good clothing for your career and income progression ;)
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by maigret 16y ago
I knew almost a whole promotion of economics and business majors at the university. Interesting enough, the economics folks are basing pretty hard on their model and don't somewhat have much distance with it other than the one a physics stu
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by maigret 16y ago
Yes, recycling glass needs more energy that aluminum. That's why reusing glass is better. That's how many bottles (including beer) are handled in Germany.
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by maigret 16y ago
Well Germany right now has no big unemployment problem. The statistics now are better than in 2005. I understand it's costly, and even more it's a hard step, but don't think everything is harder elsewhere. I think Americans in Europe can be
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by maigret 16y ago
Right, european businesses may be requiring degrees for most IT jobs. This is also a good point that education is less expensive on the other side of the Atlantic, so that could be a possibility. There are many state-financed languages cour
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by maigret 16y ago
Yes, I really agree with that - though I suppose many (if not most) countries also suffer the second problem.
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by maigret 16y ago
I can confirm hearing that also from flight safety experts.

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