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by olivierduval 3y ago
In France, like in others countries, we have the same kind of problem. So much actually that we "import" medics from other countries !!!! Lastly, the gov finally acknowledged the problem and tried to suppress the "numerus clo
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by olivierduval 3y ago
How much time before you boss says: "OK, during the last 3 months you told me that all these tool would save you in total 1 dev/year... so I will reduce your team by 1 dev but keep the work and deadlines" ? ;-)
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually, it's just considering books, licences and hardware as disposables like pen and papers... and it can usually be true for some "small" local software (like an IDE, provided that either you trust the devs with admin ri
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by olivierduval 3y ago
> a huge job to get anything self hosted last IT with their policy of 'we are in charge of the computers and we will decide how you run your business' ... because we are also in charge of: - the bills for the servers/netwo
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by olivierduval 3y ago
But corp logic: it's cheaper to raise ONE top performer when he wants to go than to raise EVERYBODY (even those not interested in leaving) to match market
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually it's better than that: medium corp will go against buying small player to avoid being subjected to DMA ! It will slow or stop growth because it will lower or cancel the advantage of being so big as having no competitor In the
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by olivierduval 3y ago
The article is quite... disappointing for a french Parisian. Let's make things clear: so called "mixed society" is actually a mix of "friends of the Mayor and allies" and poor-enough people that will vote for the so
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by olivierduval 3y ago
??? The ultimate goal of an organization (and society) is to stay alive, with minimum changes. It will evolve if it needs to, but it won't if it's not necessary. Disrupting happens in a really really competitive enironment, and is
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Because they want their car without software... ;-) It's nice to have a software for entertainment... but it takes more trust to have some software controlled brakes
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually, the contractor's boss surely did the math: * this client is giving me xxxx $ * it costs me yyyy $ for salary team... so there's so gains... so let's no lose the client (even if it means dumb work for the team) Moreo
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually I think that one of the specific problem of IT is that experience is not really "usefull" because - from outside of IT (management, HR) - there's always new tools/technology/buzzwords that SEEM to replace o
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually, websites could "not track" BY DEFAULT (so no popup) and have a nice widget in a corner asking for consent to track, explaining why they need it, without this widget being obstructive... The problem is definitly NOT THE R
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually, I think that a real features for chat would be the ability to allow "different speeds": - some questions requires "urgent" answers (for example: missing info in a meeting) - some interactions may be processed &
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by olivierduval 3y ago
OK, so the point is the "real time" interactions Actually, at work, I'm either in 2 situations: - I need a quick answer for a simple problem ==> chat (because it's more about getting a simple info and I need it now if
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Congrats for your product ! BTW: I'm old enough to remember the "forums' days"... and actually, it really seemed to me that you just rediscovered forum (you know... threads that are bumped when there an update) The only
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by olivierduval 3y ago
It's funny: I had the EXACT SAME PROBLEM !!!! Like "how is it science when a prof says: "this equation is too complicated too solve so let's erase these third and forth derivatives and pretend that it's the same - e
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually, ccTLD might be a VERY GOOD thing: if I buy something from a ".com" website, it can be from anywhere in the world... and I would have no recourse in case of scam. On the other side: if I buy something from my own country,
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Ask HN: What to do with old unused Android phone?
1 points by olivierduval 3y ago|1 comments
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by olivierduval 3y ago
It's been a long long looooong time that android doesn't use a JVM anymore (but a VM with anyway). It's doesn't even really use "java" at all but kotlin Moreover, it's a long time that VM have more or less
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by olivierduval 3y ago
This thing is not "0 deaths"... it's "be conscious of every death you're responsible of and do your best to minimize it". That's why resignation is not really an option: some humans could be better than yo
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Or they could just not track people... ;-)
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by olivierduval 3y ago
AFAIK, solutions like TeamViewer or AnyDesk may be securely connected from the outside and manage the NAT+firewall of home user... no need to have a RAT (in the "virus/backdoor" meaning)
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually, as you pointed, there's a BIG difference between - "this is free forever" (remember FaceBook moto), killing the market using this and then, when there's no nore competitor (on specific age class for example), s
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Did you notice that Google/Amazon/Microsoft are big Cloud providers? They have a lot to lose to frontally challenge DMA (like ... some market shares from some administrations or big state companies) On the other side, Apple/m
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by olivierduval 3y ago
> "At Google's scale, the external world ceases to exist and is only rarely and carefully allowed to enter their walls" OK Google... now I get why you behave that way with your users (no support, product graveyard...) ! ;
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually, Europe reasoning is quite simple: - Since "forever", laws apply to a specific PHYSICAL region (that's the basis for a concept of "government", be it democracy or other). These laws are enforced by "la
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by olivierduval 3y ago
I'm wondering if we're talking about the right thing... T. Breton is talking about EUROPE's REGULATION, not freedom of speech! And it's his job... So: * if you live in Europe (so are submitted to Europe's Laws):
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually, GDPR doesn't forbid using PII for legitimate interest like fraud detection
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by olivierduval 3y ago
> "6. Repeat this once a day" Seriously ?????? Moreover, it's not just any business that can be promoted here as far as I can tell: it has to be "innovative" in some way... you can't just promote your dad&#x
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by olivierduval 3y ago
Agreed: the study only shows that BCG consultant's work is 40% noise without real added value... I guess that customers should now ask for a 40% rebates !!! ;-)

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