raphaelj

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   by raphaelj 9y ago

   What a wonderful idea, putting your savings in an highly volatile currency! Have you ever heard about people buying gold to store value?
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   by raphaelj 9y ago

   I did the same. Asked my employer to work 4-day weeks to lower the pressure after the stressful period during which we released our first product. Life satisfaction I get from that extra day off if quite huge, as I almost get twice as much
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   by raphaelj 9y ago

   How does this compare to Heroku?
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   by raphaelj 9y ago

   Bitcoin is just pure speculation at this point. Like gold, Bitcoin's value comes from the fact that more and more people are interested in buying it. Unlike stocks, it does not generate real money through dividends. For every person th
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   by raphaelj 9y ago

   I backup this. I've been using SQLite for some low to moderate load CRUD apps, and this always worked like a charm. SQLite also make backuping, testing and moving apps so much easier.
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   by raphaelj 9y ago

   These cities are already connected through high-speed rail, so the added value would be lower I guess.
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   Show HN: Tool that generates Firebase rules from a schema(github.com)

   1 points by raphaelj 9y ago|0 comments
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   by raphaelj 10y ago

   I got the same feeling here. Implicits in Scala can act as statically checked dependency injection, I don't know why they are going for this runtime dependant injection instead.
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   by raphaelj 10y ago

   Good thing is that you can use almost any powerbank with it, thanks to it's charging through USB-C.
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    They provide an estimate in their paper: > The monetary cost of computing the second block of the > attack by renting Amazon instances can be estimated from > these various data. Using a p2.16xlarge instance, > featuring 16 K80
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    You can't be sure that you are going to sell a good product, but you definitively know when you are going to ship a bad product. And a lot of "startups" are just selling bad products.
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    A generational GC is way more efficient than `std::shared_ptr`. `std::shared_ptr` is implementing a reference counting garbage collection, which is like the most inefficient way of implementing a GC. FYI: - Allocating memory in a generation
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    Thank you for this answer. The answers from OP were not convincing me.
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    Infant mortality is also 75% higher in the US compared to France: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    > My individual burden, however, is far more reasonable than > an American might assume. I pay an annual income tax of > about 23%. How comes this number is that low? Tax revenue in France account for about 48% of the country'
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    I think Tesla was relying on MobileEye for Autopilot. Now they are using NVidia chips instead.
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    I think you forgot to take into account the fact that that Europeans don't work as much as North Americans: https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm That doesn't entirely explain why revenues in the US are
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    And everybody knows that Model S is not an expensive car.
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    Audi, BMW, Volkswagen and Peugeot all sell electric or hybrid-electric cars.
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    Maybe more open regulations, smaller city (they seem to be mapping all the streets) or better road-markings. Or a combination of these three.
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    I think you read the parent comment wrong
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    Bloom Technologies | http://bloom.life | Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Hasselt (Belgium) or Liege (Belgium) | Full time | ONSITE ===== Who we are ===== We're a startup driven to improve healthy living and pregnancy outcome u
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    A single socket can be shared by multiple cores. That means that the kernel must both protect the socket descriptor from concurrent writes, and can't enforce a TCP link to be handled by a defined core (CPU affinity).
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    I implemented an highly-scalable user-space TCP stack as part of my Master's thesis [1], last year. One doesn't use an user-space network stack because the Linux's network stack is slow (it's fast), but because it doesn
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    Bloom Technologies | http://bloom.life | Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Hasselt (Belgium) or Liege (Belgium) | Full time | ONSITE ===== Who we are ===== We're a startup driven to improve healthy living and pregnancy outcome u
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    Garbage collection is not slow. Actually it's probably the fastest dynamic allocation method. Allocating data with a copying garbage collector is O(1), which is as fast as allocating something on the stack, while malloc() is usuall
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    Dad. Entrepreneur. (In that order.)(medium.com)

    2 points by raphaelj 10y ago|0 comments
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    Thanks for the answer. We think that we will have to move toward this kind of architecture at some point. But the time we have at this stage is very valuable, and we don't know is it's a good idea to move there now.
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    Ask HN: Best way to build a backend shared by iOS, Android and the Web?

    4 points by raphaelj 10y ago|4 comments
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    by raphaelj 10y ago

    A basic income could make low-pay jobs more interesting than ever, and companies could benefit from it. In most developed EU countries, a "social" income is given to unemployed people. In Belgium, it varies between 550€/month