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by nraynaud 8y ago
There was the author, Bill Bryson, moving back to the US after a few decades un the UK. He would take a stroll, and his neighbors would constantly offer a ride, thinking his car broke down or something.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
> setting down at 8:30 uh, in France it's more like 10pm in Paris at the end of June, and 10:20 in Brest (western France).
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by nraynaud 8y ago
To me it feels more complicated: sometimes I can tune out discussions and sometimes I can't.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Does anyone else feels like human distractions are worse than other distractions? I mean that if I read an article while something is compiling, I can switch back immediately when the compilation is done, while talking so someone provoke a
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by nraynaud 8y ago
That's very interesting, it looks like there is a natural tendency in private market to go to corruption. We see it where retailers ask money from the factories to put the product in some height on the shelf. Online we see it with &quo
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by nraynaud 8y ago
> Complexity seems to beget more complexity. it's funny, I see it a lot in software too, people who "write a script to manage/hide/tame complexity". Cool, a new layer to go through when something doesn't wor
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I think there is confusion, on the videos and picture they are using medical equipment, it's just used in a different way.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
when I was the kid they were a Rhythm in my life, twice a day, at 11am and 5pm
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by nraynaud 8y ago
thanks!
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I am a bit puzzled by the pollution remark, wealthy people are flying private more than ever, the general public has more cars that are each bigger, and the General Aviation is recovering form 2008
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I suspect Rolex is a bit victim of the bullshit job culture. I know that their very expensive models are slid in the production schedule with a planning manager. I would expect that if I paid my watch $10M, either it's been made by a v
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Can we get to the text and videos without all the school-ish crud? (starting a course, timelines etc.)
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by nraynaud 8y ago
That's quite some newspeak to call Germany and Japan's situation "nation building". I'd call it "managing an invasion".
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Careful with this comparison, Africa is still mostly a continent of primary resources and factories, so it would more natural that their trade balance be positive.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
The whole story is crazy, they were 2 women, and they couldn’t get the papers to open the orphanage, so they legally adopted the kids, one woman adopting the girls and the other one the boys (the idea is to let them inter-marry if they want
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by nraynaud 8y ago
My aunt opened an unlicensed orphanage in northern Ivory Coast after WWII, and she had the Queen of the Netherland as a donor. Every year around Christmas the Dutch diplomatic mail service would come, heavily armed and very serious, to deli
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by nraynaud 8y ago
it's not my code, it's there, I can only send PR and hope.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Careful before using LWT, it produces unhelpful stacktraces that just show the thread starting point instead of the actual running code. I have some production stacktraces where I have to guess where the error lie while the customer's
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by nraynaud 8y ago
It doesn't just work for me, no detailed error message I'm 3 or 4 levels down (vscode->plugin->homebrew->opam->jbuilder-> doesn't work). https://gist.github.com/nraynaud/deeacbb67c88646fd67
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Thanks, I'll download it, but it's really disruptive to switch IDE. (I do a lot of langages at the same time hence the jetbrains suscription) edit: it's a nightmare of dependency hell to install merlin, I'm giving up for
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by nraynaud 8y ago
It doesn't, it colors some keywords, it tries to follow symbols, but doesn't know the difference between 'let rec' and 'let', so it's tricky.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I am currently doing some interventions in some Ocaml code written by Big Co. The world is completely different between you writing your program in your corner, and stumbling in a codebase with a serious history and a task to do on it effic
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I am a foreigner in the US, and I am not eligible to health insurance at home anymore, there is a residence condition.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Yes they do, but they circle the risks with statistics, when the life expectancy and quality of life goes up vs the current best treatment, the unknowns side effects can’t be that bad.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
it's even mandatory, bilateral treaties are mostly forbidden.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
So now you have to know or invent a list of euristics that tend to go fetch the results first.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I'm French, I went to open a BoA account, it took almost 2 hours. Best part is that the humiliating procedure was done by someone with a Spanish accent.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Can't they split the project and try to introduce the tool or fail by pieces? I know management and sales wants big figures to compute a mass discount and be in the press, but in the nitty gritty, isn't it better to screw up only
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by nraynaud 8y ago
employee stocks are engineered to be lower gain (impossible to sell, liquidation preferences etc.), take the cash and use it to take some risk you can control. You like risk? take the money and go to Las Vegas.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
How to drop a green card application and be able to visit the US afterwards? (I’m French, an ESTA country).

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