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by song 11y ago
It's funny how mainstream media still associate working for IBM as being a "wunderkind programmer". Not really my experience at all I must say... But then the prevailing wisdom of "no-one ever gets fired for buying ibm&q
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by song 11y ago
When doing projects on the side, I like to play with node.js or Elixir but when I have to develop projects for paying customers, I tend to gravitate towards Rails... Few reasons for that: 1. I'm extremely productive and fast at develop
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by song 11y ago
Rereading my message, I wasn't clear at all :) What I meant is that if you love your work, your stress levels do not rise and if it's enjoyable enough as a hobby, you can spend a lot of hours working but still be happy because you
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by song 11y ago
Well, that's true but then I love my work enough that I have fun learning about new things and playing around with new languages/frameworks/whatever triggers my fancy. I think loving ones work is the only way to really mainta
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by song 11y ago
Based on the prices they have in Europe, I'm not sure how predatory their prices are (I know that they operate at a loss in China and India). In term of treatment of drivers, there's also been a lot of issues before in countries w
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by song 11y ago
Well, in France, I've been cheated more than once (often in Paris), had very rude service, I often end up having taxis that fail to show even though I booked and as I mentioned taxis are not at the taxi stand from the Train station or
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by song 11y ago
I wish that were actually true in France and in Portugal...
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by song 11y ago
Right now Uber is beneficial because it brings competition in a sector that used to have none. There's a huge difference in term of service in cities that have Uber and cities that do not. Taxi service in cities without competition is
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by song 11y ago
Uber is still available in Paris. Only UberPop has stopped. They still have UberX and UberBlack which are legal according to French law since they rely on licensed drivers.
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by song 11y ago
Yeah, this and the pollution is what made me leave China two years ago. Looking back, I don't regret it.
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by song 11y ago
Well, to be fair, in my experience hiring, I've had far more freshly graduated potential hires that couldn't do the FizzBuzz test than senior devs. So much so that I usually gave something more complex to do than just a simple fiz
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by song 11y ago
AVS which checks the billing address only really works in US. It's pretty much useless in any other countries in the world (it's partially supported by some banks in Canada and UK but that's it)
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by song 11y ago
Some countries do that. For example in Portugal the yearly tax on real estate is around 0.3% of the price of the house/apartment but if the owner is a country based in a tax haven (and that include countries in the Grey area like Hong
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by song 11y ago
So they are now better because they stopped discriminating against one group and advocate instead discriminating against another group? I'm against discrimination in all its form, I'm against amalgamating a group of people and gen
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by song 11y ago
While I'm disappointed in the French governments reaction (which is stupid). I think you should refrain from making prejudiced comments (especially since a) it's a stupid statement if you study France's military history b) ot
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by song 11y ago
True, but there were very few people calling it childish then (I don't remember any then) whereas in this thread there's a sizable minority that calls it childish.
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by song 11y ago
During the SOPA/PIPA legislation, multiple websites went dark to protest against the legislation. People in HN applauded it. Why is it now childish for an opensource software developer to express his disappointment in this way? What is
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by song 11y ago
Their political stance is still pretty similar (albeit sugar coated to be easier to swallow). They are still a racist nationalist party. The only thing they've really stopped doing is making embarrassing revisionists statements.
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by song 11y ago
I only have an iPhone because I need to have one for testing and developing. I've always kept my iphone jailbroken for this very reason.
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by song 11y ago
I avoid buying from the mac app store as much as possible. If Apple ever decided to change mac os x to no longer allow external applications, I would switch to Linux right away. I don't want to do that because I do like the os X better
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by song 11y ago
I think the biggest impact of subtitling instead of dubbing is when kid shows are subtitled. Small kids cannot get the mean from the subtitles since they cannot read or if they can often cannot read fast enough. This means that those kids g
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by song 11y ago
That's pretty specific to Paris. In the smaller cities there's been a small increase of VO/VOST movies but it's still not that popular outside of the arthouse kind of cinemas. For example in Rennes, only one of the two m
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by song 11y ago
I wish it were so but I'm not very optimistic. In the past 20 years, I've seen overreaction from politicians in the face of any terrorist attack. And Germany doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to spying on it
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by song 11y ago
We had French politicians talking about limiting encryptions this time. Censorship doesn't work. It just drives the discourse underground and often enough makes it even more attractive. The only way for censorship to work is to take it
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by song 11y ago
That's exactly what disgusts me. I listen to politician's speech that takes advantage of those attacks to push for more censorship, for more sniffing, for a ban on encryptions. It's a tragedy yet the actions of politicians af
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by song 11y ago
That's the thing, I love fresh orange juice. It tastes great. I do not really like Orange juice and I absolutely loath soda (it tastes awful). So I drink Orange Juice (and Apple Juice) because it tastes great.
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by song 11y ago
Oh, I've noticed that... That's why as a French I tend to love UK comedies. We tend to use less dry sarcasm in France. So much the pity.
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by song 11y ago
Plus a linkedin profile only really shows if someone is skilled or not at presenting himself in a good light. It's not necessarily a useful skill for the startups in question.
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by song 11y ago
5-10 years is very optimistic... I'd have said 10-20 years in most companies I've seen (Sharp is way more than 10 years behind foreign companies for example).
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by song 11y ago
In Europe, capitals tend to have a much less racist behavior. If you go to Paris or London, for example, then I agree with you and it's true that you have less segregation and a tendency not to have strong racism (but even then it depe

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