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by pjerem 3y ago
Yes, but that’s also the only one self made billionaire I can think of so that make him more an exception than an example. Granted I limit myself to people who created successful businesses with real added value and mostly satisfied custome
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by pjerem 3y ago
A lot. Me included. A lot of people eat caloric food to compensate for stress. It’s a very documented behavior and it’s just a different poison from cigarettes or alcohol to get some lacking dopamine. Then it activates the same reward mecha
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by pjerem 3y ago
The more I learn about the modern food industry, the more I’m convinced we are already there. I mean, what is a Snickers or a Big Mac ? Food ? Or a compound of the highest rewarding substances (sugar, fat and salt) for the human brain ? (A
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by pjerem 3y ago
The Future Is Now.
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My experience is that while sales can have good tools at department level, they do not have a lot of buying power However it looks like marketing people have a lot of buying power, probably since their job involves buying a lot of random th
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by pjerem 3y ago
I agree with you, and French people have nothing against riches as long as they don’t try to evade taxation. We have plenty of rich people who just contribute to the social system and live their life. What French people don’t like is when e
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by pjerem 3y ago
lol, no ! That’s a myth. Ultra-rich and rich people are as powerful in France than anywhere else. The myth "French people eat the rich" probably comes from the fact that our system discourages social upheaval. It’s not the French
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by pjerem 3y ago
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for news outlets methods (at least in my country) but each time I read "$megacorp threatens to cut $service" it infuriates me. Do it, close your service and ftsu, I don’t care if you can’t agree with
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by pjerem 3y ago
Paper is in fact pretty durable. A lot of History came through millennial papers. I’m not saying that computers manuals will for sure stand the test of time for a the thousand years to come, but as long as they are protected from fire, they
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by pjerem 3y ago
Wow, reading something positive about ADHD is … refreshing.
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For once, they are probably not acquiring users but the tech & the brand (fighting with iMessage was a genius marketing move).
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As long as they can sustain themselves and/or grow without profits, who cares ? Also they hire all around the world where $100k/yr is the exception and not the norm.
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Because you need either to write your own html or to use a static site generator, none of which are accessible solutions to normal people. WordPress (.com) is accessible to my grandmother.
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They are doing it and I hope they succeed and prove me wrong but last time I checked Loco was still far from Rails.
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by pjerem 3y ago
Yes you can. But then, you have an account. Most people that dont have an account on social medias just don’t want to accept the TOS. Also worth noting that it sounds like meta thinks like they already have all earth population in their pro
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by pjerem 3y ago
This is a real everyday pain that anyone with social media accounts can’t fathom. Most (like 90%) businesses don’t have a website or when they have, it’s a static website. All the news are on social medias behind nag screens.
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by pjerem 3y ago
OK now I understand where you are coming from. Still I’m not convinced that people wouldn’t gladly adapt. People in Amsterdam are really happy of their situation and still, Amsterdam was a totally car centric mess up until the 70s-80s. Sure
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by pjerem 3y ago
Not only, most of twitter’s features are in fact not public facing and are those which are making money. Public facing features are just the loss leading part of Twitter. It’s even probably a little portion of the company’s code base.
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by pjerem 3y ago
Honestly it’s pretty hard. We are talking about frameworks with decades of development. It’s not something that can be done by one developer, you need corporate levels of investments at least to bootstrap it.
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by pjerem 3y ago
Express is simple but it’s pretty barebones, nothing comparable to Django or Laravel. But yeah Django is nearly perfect, my dream framework is Django officially typed in a world where the python community get its shit together with type che
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by pjerem 3y ago
Django is comparable. A little harder to deploy (well we have docker now so who cares) but still incredibly productive. I mean, with Django, literally just defining your database models in models.py and not touching anything else is enough
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by pjerem 3y ago
> It's only easy to start up to hello world kind of projects. Sure but the important part here is it’s also easy to deploy to the internet for free or a few bucks. All you said is right but still, I don’t think there is anything com
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by pjerem 3y ago
I didn’t touch PHP for a long time but it have a nice place in my heart especially for the reasons you gave. I have a hard time with people joking about PHP because while it wasn’t perfect back in the day, it’s probably the culminating poin
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by pjerem 3y ago
0 to full platform in 5 months doesn’t seems impossible when you are Meta, especially for a Twitter-like. Still impressive, but the hard part of launching a Twitter competitor is not technical, especially when you already have a virtually
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by pjerem 3y ago
> I'm trying not to have a panic attack that "Windows 98" unambiguously counts as retrocomputing now though. Oh you can totally go up to Windows XP for this denomination. Some would argue you may even go to 7. Windows 10 i
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by pjerem 3y ago
I don’t see your point, in most European cities (and I don’t know Tokyo but I believe it’s the same), mass transit is much faster than driving, including walking, escalators, and elevators. Yes, you have to walk a little, but we are not tal
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by pjerem 3y ago
You are interpreting this wrongly. It’s not because there is a cost-benefit that the cost for a high benefit can’t be high. Healthcare budget is not infinite but in most countries, it’s high enough per operation that, for a given individual
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by pjerem 3y ago
In my experience, Unit tests are interesting when they are inlined with the function they test, i.e. in the same file (like python doctests). Of course it’s harder to set the testing environment but that may in fact be encouraging you to wr
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by pjerem 3y ago
I agree with you but there are two prerequisites for this to work : - as you said, this can’t be too soon in your career : gathering requirements and knowledge is something that you can’t do without experience - you need to be 100% confiden
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by pjerem 3y ago
Same here, and that’s how you start your career with an authentic burnout.

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