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by renaudg 10y ago
>> And then they are only allowed to work 35 hours a week. They said the "employment police" would stake out their building to ensure nobody worked too long. This is a myth. 35 hours a week is a reference figure (likely to
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by renaudg 10y ago
Several French mobile phone carriers have run a yearly Black Friday sale that got you that kind of 20€/mo plan for 3.99€/mo or so for a year !
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by renaudg 10y ago
>> * Healthcare insurance ~ 40 euros / month, the company pays half for it. (240 / year) For the benefit of non-French readers, let's clarify that the kind of 40€/month health insurance you're talking about is
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by renaudg 10y ago
...and has "preexisting conditions" clauses, right ? This doesn't exist in France.
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by renaudg 10y ago
You make some good points, albeit most of them quite exaggerated. For example "almost impossible to fire anyone" : the up to 1 year trial period is pretty much hire-and-fire at will. After that, it's never too hard to fire a
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by renaudg 10y ago
Regarding French salaries again : yes they are lower than elsewhere but with some exceptions, French employers are not the problem : they do pay the same price for you as in other European countries, more or less ! The difference is that yo
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by renaudg 10y ago
Raw salary comparisons miss the point : you can't really compare pre-tax salaries between countries with such a completely different taxation and benefits structure. The take home pay certainly is much, much lower in France than in the
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by renaudg 10y ago
To me (working in London), the biggest difference in France is the attitude towards healthcare : it's not a business, rather a right. I first heard the words "Preexisting condition" when I moved to London and researched priva
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by renaudg 10y ago
Definitely not a problem with French investors. They're business people who will of course speak English. The real challenge for a non-French speaking founder would mainly be in dealings with local authorities. You can't expect pu
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by renaudg 10y ago
There's a healthy number of startups in Paris where English is the working language. It's true that day to day life may be more challenging without speaking any French, but probably less so in Paris than elsewhere
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by renaudg 10y ago
I'll reiterate my comment above : the view that those candidates were absolutely fit for purpose and got rejected only because they didn't fit some mold, is the disgruntled recruiters' opinion (the people that missed out on a
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by renaudg 10y ago
> The other beef I have with hiring is the attitude "we only hire A players". Really? If you are doing work worthy of "A players" then that's fine. But if you aren't (and this is true in most cases), please
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by renaudg 10y ago
The entire article is based upon former recruiters' frustration that the diversity candidates they brought (the ones that gave them "double points") often did not make it through final scrutiny. They blame "risk-averse w
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by renaudg 10y ago
Technically lowpass :)
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by renaudg 10y ago
>If the Tor user has his phone somewhere nearby and if certain types of apps are on his phone, then his mobile device will ping back... Surely the user would have had to approve microphone access for the app first, and it'd better h
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by renaudg 10y ago
I used to think like that in my idealistic 20s (card-carrying member of Free Software organizations, regular attendee of RMS talks, etc), and given the choice I'll still favor free / open source building blocks (especially in a pr
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by renaudg 10y ago
I think the latest poll is at around 66% support in France for remaining in the EU. Also, Marine Le Pen (FN) may make it to the final round in the April/May election, but I don't think any poll sees her winning that round (I know,
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by renaudg 10y ago
For British workers yes, but a large portion of London bankers are EU citizens.
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by renaudg 10y ago
>Carbon dioxide (chemical formula CO2) is a colorless and odorless gas that is vital to life on Earth. Paint Poland and Estonia green. Green as in Greenhouse. Painting it black may suggest some form of blame for some imaginary "poll
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by renaudg 10y ago
> Nothing is wrong with Poland. If something is wrong then your ability to read presented data. This is, unfortunately, what nationalistic pride clouding otherwise smart people's judgment looks like.
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by renaudg 10y ago
> If others were screwing it to build their economy, other countries also should have that ability Because of course building one's economy matters more than screwing the planet we all live on ? What Poland is doing (as others did b
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by renaudg 10y ago
> Germany has spent a lot of effort into diversifying and upgrading their energy system Evidently the outcome is still nothing to be proud of, especially considering the country's wealth and claim of leadership in environmental poli
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by renaudg 10y ago
What do you mean ? This was a bug, but FV2 is clearly designed as FDE that works even if the computer is sleeping.
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by renaudg 10y ago
It unfortunately doesn't work on the boot volume of a Hackintosh, but pretty sure it does on other volumes.
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by renaudg 10y ago
There are no memory chips to remove on recent Macs, making this attack much harder if not impossible to perform.
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by renaudg 10y ago
Downvotes for saying this, really ?
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by renaudg 10y ago
It's definitely not, see my link above.
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by renaudg 10y ago
I don't have any insider knowledge, but here's a good account : http://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-mark-zuckerberg-booted... In a nutshell: when Zuck & friends moved to Palo Alto for the summer to work on F
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by renaudg 10y ago
The real Eduardo Saverin story is not the one depicted in the "Social Network" movie.
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by renaudg 10y ago
Which modern Ops environment do you find difficult to set up on macOS and easy on Linux ?

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