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by renaudg 11y ago
Absolutely, And short of counting on the young & healthy expats' patriotism and sense of duty (or going the US route and taxing citizens on their worldwide income) the only way out for France is to make itself slightly more attract
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by renaudg 11y ago
I'm a French expat in London so I know what you're saying, but look at my post above and consider what comes with the salary in France... you're not comparing apples to apples here.
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by renaudg 11y ago
I've been a French expat in London for 5 years and I used to think like you. Having recently reconnected with Paris' tech scene though, things have changed a lot wrt to failure and things like that. And the difficulty of finding
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by renaudg 11y ago
France has one of the highest per-worker productivity in the world, well ahead of the US. You may want to read more
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by renaudg 11y ago
With a few 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 your average engineer in France costs them around 1.5-2.5 times the tota
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by renaudg 11y ago
But is it bad that people speak a little more considerately? Who is losing out from being kind? Likening the backlash against PCness to a fight against "kindness" is one hell of a strawman :) As belittling the damage to free spe
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by renaudg 11y ago
Thank you so much. I'm not religious but this discussion almost makes me wish I were, so I could start praying for this guy not to ever have to face the world outside academia :)
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by renaudg 11y ago
It doesn't matter what your intent is. Using 'he' and 'man' everywhere normalises men and excludes people of a different gender. Then why would 'she' (the PC/feminist recommended alternative) be any
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by renaudg 11y ago
I really, really wish I could admit guilt and tell you that I've indeed had to construct a strawman because my point required it. Unfortunately, I didn't because it doesn't. Either you are uninformed about the current levels
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by renaudg 11y ago
And you, are insulting survivors of actual PTSD & trauma by insinuating that hearing words you don't like is in any way a similarly distressing experience to what they went through.
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by renaudg 11y ago
Thank you so much. We need all the help we can get to expose & ridicule PCness like you just did, because it looks like these people really do exist and take themselves seriously, and there's a whole new generation in US colleges t
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by renaudg 11y ago
""Woman" may be insensitive, use Person, Friend, Pal, Folk" This has got to be a joke. What's wrong with these people ?
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by renaudg 11y ago
A self-censorship tool to prevent you accidentally "triggering" someone in the snowflake generation with "inconsiderate" terms, by enforcing what was first described by George Orwell as https://en.wikipedia.or
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by renaudg 11y ago
"Feel at home" also works on pay as you go, and you can get a one-off, no commitment allowance that will provide it for as little as £10 (500MB + 300 minutes + 3000 texts, I think). I've never felt the need to go for a contra
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by renaudg 11y ago
The free roaming service from Three is called "Feel at home". The good news is that it can be even cheaper than what you mention, as it is available on pay-as-you-go tariffs as well. The bad news is that there are some limitations
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by renaudg 11y ago
by their own intelligence services who have a stronger allegiance to their links with Five Eyes intelligence services than to French interests. This is probably pushing it a little too far.
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by renaudg 11y ago
I'm French and astounded too. You are exactly right. Petitions in support of Uber are being run very successfully at the moment, and most people around me (working in tech) have vowed to never ever take a taxi again after what happened
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by renaudg 11y ago
I heard good things about https://import.io/
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by renaudg 11y ago
How is that bad, and how is 4G more profitable ? At least on Three, it doesn't come at extra cost to the customer, and I'm more than happy for capacity to be repurposed towards it.
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by renaudg 11y ago
On your iPad or iPhone, you'd just add a Russian keyboard ...
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by renaudg 11y ago
Some of the travel times quoted don't even do justice to reality ! “I was really surprised how well connected Paris is. Both London and the Mediterranean coast are less than four hours away,” The Mediterranean coast (Marseille) is ac
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by renaudg 11y ago
French here : monopolistic, state-run services don't bring you any more compassion from the staff if there's a problem. Quite the contrary !
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by renaudg 11y ago
As a French who lives in London, my limited experience (London - Brighton mostly) is that they're fine, reliable, and cheaper than the French TGV (which is generally awesome and uncomparably faster, but ridiculously expensive) I have a
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by renaudg 11y ago
Is there a specific reason why you didn't use an off the shelf open source solution like Thumbor ( http://thumbor.org/ ) ?
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by renaudg 11y ago
"was that companies with flexible work policies or maternity leave benefits were actually linked with a slower promotion of women into top ranks. The explanation: Such benefits can lead to a check-the-box mentality, in which companies
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by renaudg 11y ago
"Never ever publish anything that has been automatically translated. Never. Don't even think about it. You don't know the number of times I've had to re-run the translation backwards to English just to guess what the ori
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by renaudg 12y ago
>If you absolutely need to read a PDF, Foxit Reader is free, as in beer. You're actually proving his point : on Windows something as basic as reading PDFs (yes you "absolutely" need that in 2015) requires specific knowledg
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by renaudg 12y ago
Never caught on ? No traction ? That certainly wasn't true in Europe. It seemed like every kid around me in the early 90s had an Amiga 500, a few years after they all seemed to have an Amstrad CPC (wildly popular in France, even though
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by renaudg 12y ago
That is quite an outlandish statement, encryption is absolutely not outlawed in France. The government is however, currently brewing an awful local version of the Patriot Act just as the US seems to be dismantling it.
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by renaudg 12y ago
DevOps guy here, new to both JS and iOS, forgive the naive questions : What proportion of iOS UI elements are available through React Native ? Is there a 1:1 mapping somehow, but how are discrepancies between platforms (Web/iOS/An

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