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by song 12y ago
I was in a grande école and it was their policy not to have multiple choice questions and for all of the exams to be open book. I do believe that there are differences between schools and universities in France and I was pretty lucky to be
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by song 12y ago
I studied at RIT for 6 months as an exchange student in the Software Engineering department. The worst classes in term of rote memorisation were AI, Graphics Programming, Cryptography (the teacher was actually quite good though, just the ex
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by song 12y ago
I had the same experience when I was studying in France. All of my exams were open book and I found that the exams actually reflected understanding of the subject instead of rote memorization. I was an exchange student at RIT (Rochester Ins
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by song 12y ago
Well the problem is that the ones at Walmart that sell for $7.87 taste awful. So, yes, I buy free range organic chicken from the farmer's market. But I also know that this is a luxury that I can afford because I"m lucky enough to
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by song 12y ago
I use funtoo for my personal server... It's partly because I've used gentoo for so long that I understand it well and I find it very easy to mainting. I also love the fact that it's just easy to install newer versions of any
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by song 12y ago
The 35 hours week is a mythical beast in French startups. People talk about it but few have seen it.
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by song 12y ago
I always think that having a better understanding of statistics and the mathematics associated with Bayesian calculations would be useful but I don't know where to start. What would be a good book for me to learn?
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I would first read the agreement they want you to sign though. If it's not bad and you can live with it, it's sometimes worse it to compromise. Some of the bigger clients cannot be flexible on contracts. Of course, one important t
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by song 12y ago
> Prisons are terrible but honestly does anyone believe the world would be better without them. I completely agree that they're a necessary evil and that there's a need for a type of prison. I think rehabilitation is really wha
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by song 12y ago
In this case, it could make sense to give internet access in lower security prison where they are unlikely to be exposed to threats and blackmail? I agree that psychologists, social workers and drug therapy are needed but I do think that ac
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by song 12y ago
I'm French but from what I've seen and read about French prisons they are not much better. I know that people see it as being only punishment but it's rather self defeating as proven by the high reconviction rates across coun
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by song 12y ago
I don't really understand the logic behind preventing inmates from accessing internet. It seems to me that if the aim of prison is rehabilitate inmates and reduce crime then giving them access to internet would be beneficial. I can und
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by song 12y ago
I had 4 years of experience when I started freelancing. I quit my job with enough reserve to last one year and an half and moved to Southeast Asia. I still continued to do a bit of work for my previous company but it was actually very diffi
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by song 12y ago
I'm not a digital nomad per se but I think I found a good compromise. Instead of traveling often like he does and dealing with having to travel light and not having all of the conforts, I move to a different country every year or so wh
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by song 12y ago
United Family Hospital is very different though from the typical public hospital. It's a private hospital where a simple consultation with a doctor costs about 2000 RMB (around 325 USD) and is geared towards expats with good health ins
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by song 12y ago
I agree for the no isolation part but in term of CPU and RAM I find that chrome tends to be worse than firefox actually. The reason I switched back to Firefox from Chrome is the Self Destructing Cookie Extension which is just great.
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by song 12y ago
I live in France but it worked right away. I still have an old address in the US on my amazon account from when I studied there which might explain why it works. My credit card's billing address is in France though so I think they&#x27
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In that case, he left with some of my customers contracts so that was the screwing over part... The training thing is the fact that I spent a lot of time training him hoping to do great things together and eventually making him a partner of
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by song 12y ago
That's what I really hope when I think of an employee who screwed me completely over after I gave him a chance and spent a lot of time training him... But from the last news I've heard being a snake has been very successful for hi
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by song 12y ago
That's actually a very cultural thing. But yes, I agree, in the US, apologising too much comes off as weak and so it should not be done often. This is why while it's acceptable and necessary in some cultures to apologize in advanc
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by song 12y ago
I was the same. Meetups are not as helpful as groups where you actually do an activity together, be it theater, climbing, board games, ... The problem with meetups is that you don't have the common activity to help with really interact
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by song 12y ago
The one thing that helped me the most when I just finished university and lived alone in a foreign country without any friends was to take a look at activities and clubs nearby and become a member. Since I was shy and found it hard to expre
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by song 12y ago
Thanks, that's something I'll look into. For me it started happening often with the latest update so that's why I ascribed the issue to software but could be just a coincidence...
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by song 12y ago
> Apple has proceeded from being OK at walking and chewing gum to being good at it. That may be so but honestly the last release of OS X that really worked for me was snow leopard. Just as a quick list of common well known issues with Ma
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That might be the case in Russia, but, as a counterexample, the Chinese post offers banking services and is rather efficient. Likewise for the Japan Post.
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Right now hiring women is a competitive advantage. If you're not an asshole and make sure that the work environment is sane, you get an employee who is grateful for the opportunity to do her job in a nice environment and who is more li
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by song 12y ago
I did read Starting Strength, that's what convinced me to make sure that I find a good trainer and I don't trust myself enough to evaluate based on the book...
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by song 12y ago
That's exactly my issue with starting training. I'm very worried about back injuries and want to find a coach to teach me proper form but I've got no idea how to evaluate him. It's a bit the same conundrum as a non techn
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by song 12y ago
Yes, shit happens. It's how you solve it and make sure that it doesn't happen again that's important. With the way they're communicating, they seem to be on the top of their game
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In some ways, I could say I'm successful. I have a stable source of income, a wife and I can afford to go on holidays. But, I feel that I'm an NPC. If I didn't exist, the world would be the exact same. When I think back on my

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