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by tajen 10y ago
It's not about estimates, it's that my output isn't enough to be ahead of my customers' requests, so that they wouldn't have to ask for them, or I wouldn't have to provide a workaround until I develop the speci
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by tajen 10y ago
I do. As advised by others comments, I sell a plugin on a platform that takes 20-30%. It's great because they handle the invoicing to big companies, which removes the hassle of being a referenced provider. I'm ok on the sysadmin s
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by tajen 10y ago
Setting objectives keep my focus on the race. Of course you first have to reach some level of fitness (otherwise it just feels like failures — You need to be able to reach 1hr every time, for example), but when you find a lap of 10-15 minut
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by tajen 10y ago
I know I speak to a computer 99% of the day (programming, games, movies, sms, maps, etc), but please kill me before my future son gives me an AI to talk to. I agree with the cooking and showing me movies, but our jobs as sons can't be
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by tajen 10y ago
I chose my accountant because I could record my spendings online. He can just generate my yearly reports on one click in his backend, which he bills €80 for, " per click ". He gives better advice because he has more customers,
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by tajen 10y ago
Intra-auricular earphones do the trick for me, temporarily. It's not earplugs but cancels enough to let me sleep.
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by tajen 10y ago
You may be better off striking out the paragraphs, sign it, and wait and see. It's a no-fuss attempt to fix something that you/we don't think is right, and if they don't raise the point, it means they're ok with the
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by tajen 10y ago
Beyond ethics, there's also geopolitics involved. Weaker patent guidelines in USA gives a competitive advantage to the USA over the rest of the world. Of course any country is free to submit patents as they please (in accordance with t
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by tajen 10y ago
I concur. But then I tried to classify Google projects in 3 categories and find for "obviously useless things that only exist so engineers can have fun", and I didn't find so many obvious things: - Obviously productive ones:
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by tajen 10y ago
I didn't know – and haven't found – the 2 versions of Windows 95 you're talking about. Source? Is it Windows 93 vs 95? Is it 95 vs "Plus!" ?
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by tajen 10y ago
About donations: I believe PostgreSQL now deserves more advertising and marketing to develop its adoption in major companies and, hence, get more funding. If I donate on the website, it says it will help conferences. Where should I donate?
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by tajen 10y ago
— When I was a student, I barely had room for the desk and the bed, said the 32-year-old German engineer, – Well, when I was a student, we were two people in that room, 2 desks, a sink and a fridge; and our showers were shared between 4 peo
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by tajen 10y ago
> Emmanuel Macron, as an economy minister tried to (...) Besides that Emmanuel Macron absolutely made things worse for companies, it's the Politics Detox week on HN, so please refrain from talking politics: https://news.y
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by tajen 10y ago
> pessimistic person France makes people sad. One in 3 adult takes psychotropic drugs[1]. I lived in Australia and I was happy every day, in France there's just no good news. A brilliant example is, GP mentionned buildings are un
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by tajen 10y ago
According to personal examples, Atos (service company in IT) paid 34k. If you're good, you may indeed change jobs 6 months later and get 40k, but for 50k out-of-school as a programmer, no. To me the real problem with housing in Paris i
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by tajen 10y ago
My sister refuses to receives photos by Dropbox because, she says, it's less usable than WeTransfer and it looks like a virus to her. When sitting with her, I noticed: - Dropbox aggressively suggests to create a new account to recipien
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by tajen 10y ago
> Given how everything in most phones is by default encrypted these days Android isn't encrypted, is it? You can encrypt it BUT say goodbye to your pattern-based login, you'll have to type a password on the Qwerty keyboard ever
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by tajen 10y ago
Can you please remind me what is the problem with fingerprints? It's not akin to searching for furry porn on your computer and blaming it as child porn depiction – Fingerprints don't link you to supposed-crimes-that-everyone-has-d
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by tajen 10y ago
I confirm: I don't go to USA conferences because of the TSA/CSP. If Europe follows USA with a 15-year delay, I'll either have to stay in France or reconsider my policy.
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by tajen 10y ago
In the adult world, I'm much less mixed with people of different background. Sure in my coworking space there are translators, NGOs, ecologists, motion designers and programmers, but the thing is: They all work. If they beat or insult
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by tajen 10y ago
Bully: Canonical's stance also means that startups who create a business on an Ubuntu derivative (e.g. Elementary.io) may not be able to raise money, or they'll have to raise money at a discount, because of the huge risk of litiga
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by tajen 10y ago
I publish a Saas product and I carry my laptop from my coworking to home every day. It's just that I also have my personal stuff on that computer.
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by tajen 10y ago
In the case you plug two Macbooks together and to the powerpoint, it charges the electricity back on the grid, which paves the way to infinite energy. More seriously the macbook can choose one source for its power.
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by tajen 10y ago
He was also a politician, and their expectation of privacy is less than ordinary people anyway (e.g. sex life, earnings, people they meet, donations they do, etc.). So I'm happy he made a case of himself for privacy, demonstrating in p
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by tajen 10y ago
Or, as another comment awesomely suggests, we'll have drive-safe modes that apps can support, boosting both the ergonomy (it's annoying on an iPad that the large screen only displays a tiny 24px icon to switch tracks) and the dri
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by tajen 10y ago
I think at this point it is clear that it takes tremendous energy to have a very little say on topics like net neutrality, surveillance, and more. That's the case is most western countries: Our leaders have a great latitude, in paralle
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by tajen 10y ago
I've learnt from previous discussions on HN that it is indeed a major source of concern for everyone involved, especially since it's also tilting and since it's a seismic area. They build the sidewalks again a few times a yea
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by tajen 10y ago
Let's not forget the China has acquired this position by providing the world with goods for 30 years, for a price that meant misery for their workers. It's not entierly undeserved that they are now able to execute whatever grand e
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by tajen 10y ago
@jjuhl answered that question somewhere else in the thread with homomorophic encryption (Numberphile : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRTvoZ3Rho ): The hash out of the machine doesn't tell who you voted for, but the su
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by tajen 10y ago
I'm not an expert of swing/fling states, but FiveThirtyEight listed 22 states as potentially competitive; Trump also won 194 of the 207 counties that voted for Obama either in 2008 or 2012; and finally I count 8 states that shifte

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