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@aeronautic, there's a typo on your website front page : "acccount" with 3 c.

Thanks for showing what's the mega drive was capable of ! :-)

signed : a forever mega drive fan, snes sucks ! :p

I read the whole trilogy when I was 16 I think.

What a great set of books, and I secretly hope it will one day be made into movies or a serie (HBO please ? ;-) )

http://www.ncrafts.io/, 2 days in May in Paris.

No focus on specific languages, just on making good software. And it's all in English.

You can find videos of the talks of last year here : http://videos.ncrafts.io/

2 things :

- they tell you explicitly you can contact the consulate, that's when you're not in France

- If you're already in France, there is a big chance you've already been in contact with the prefecture, so you'll know what it is. Besides, it's very googleable.

Finally, yes, the prefecture is definitely not the best place to hang out, but I'd be surprised if they did not get very precise and direct instructions on how to take care of those candidates.

I'm sorry, but ... typical French reaction (I'm French myself)

The government and the administration is trying to improve the climate on founders/visa/startups/tech, and yes, it's far from being perfect and there are a lot of pieces missing and a lot that could be improved, but, at least, they seem to be trying.

And then you come, and just tell people they should go somewhere else "because it will be too hard".

So, I'm all for warning that it won't be all pink and easy, but I don't think it ought to be as hard as you seem to imply.

One thing which is definitely true is learning a few words and know how to say "Hi" in French and that you don't know the language will go a long way.

After, that, if you feel like you want to stay in the country, you will naturally go towards learning the language anyway.

I lived 7 years in the Netherlands, and you can go mostly fine with just English (even though, in some more rural areas, it can still be hard despite the reputation of the country), but learning Dutch helped me integrate and "unlock" situations where English would not have been enough, just because it showed to the people involved I was willing to integrate better in the country and make efforts to be understood.

Hey Kentiko,

I don't know if you will read this post, because it's a bit late and you don't have any mail/twitter on your profile.

But we are looking for developers, including junior ones, in Paris or Nantes, if you're interested :

http://www.welcometothejungle.co/companies/lucca/jobs

Cheers, Guillaume

I don't know how altitude is calculated on Mars, but, for instance, there are some landing strips of Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam) that are below sea level and I expect an altimeter to give a negative value there. But this value is correct though !

Not everything is as easy as it seems.

Not to be snarky, but NASA also had its fair share of failures. I mean ... it's rocket science after all.

Looks interesting, is there any precise roadmap ? (could not find one).

Would be particularly interested by C# support, and with the tooling that Microsoft lately, I think it would be a perfect fit !

Yeah, that's why I don't use newsblur for instance.

I want to see EVERYTHING that are in the feeds I follow.

Yes, from what I heard, it could be a good fit, but I only see negative comments about evernote so ... :)

I'm piggy backing on this.

I still have found my holy grail : a kind of knowledge management software where I could just stuff things probably with tags. Not only links (I have pinboard for that) but ideas, snippets of knowledge etc.

This would be online (not necessarily self-hosted) and I'm willing to pay for that.

Accessible via smartphones and potentially with an email gateway would be great.

I don't think mindmapping software fit the bill. I really would like tag and/or full-text search.

Wikis come close but it's quite cumbersome to add a piece of info.

I lost countless hours reading the archives of The Internet Oracle : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Oracle

I'm actually wary of woodchucks because of that now :D

I think the more relevant functionality is called in France "e-carte bleue" : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paiement_sur_Internet#La_e-car... (Sorry, only in French).

You generate a fake card number, this number is linked with an expiration date AND a maximal amount that can be charged.

Might be too late, but I couldn't find a "staging area" like in SourceTree.

Does it exist or is it like a lot of other git GUI with no separation between staged and not staged files/hunks ?

I don't know about Shaarli, but yes, Wallabag is a read it later service, not a bookmarking one.

You can self-host or use a hosted version here (that's what I do) : https://framabag.org/

How do you think it compares to the Chip ?

Sure, but you were talking about Germany previously.

Because you don't think it's also true the other way around ?

Same in France, probably most of Europe actually

Yeah, except a community effort would have never solved the problem of PFC in the atmosphere for instance.

I don't think all those efforts are mutually exclusive you know :)

Yes, same in France

Well, I can't answer this question for 2 reasons : 1. This is the first year this has been done (well, apparently, it was like that also in the past when there were only 6/7 people but that's a different dynamic I guess). 2. I will myself be part of this process only from next January on, so I was not in the room so to say.

Everyone is free to ask what they want. They are assessed by the others though. The process is the following (again, I'm not part of it yet, so it's only what I remember being told) : - You give your number in front of everybody else (here it means people in the "choose your salary category"). - People can make remarks directly or later if they choose to do so - 1 week later, people meet again, and give a possibly updated number based on the feedback they got. They can also justify this number (be it because it's too "low" or it's too "high". For instance, you have the right to say "I had a hard year last year, I prefer to take it a bit more easy this year, therefore I put a lower number").

If there is a very big mismatch, then it can be decided there is no agreement and we should probably stop working together. Anyway, with a "normal" system, an employee would not have had the salary he/she asked for and would probably have looked elsewhere for a new job. Here at least it's pretty clear. It can also be decided that the salary is granted but he/she has a year to prove he/she's worth it.

The goal is to have transparency, so all those decisions are clear from the beginning and throughout the process. Otherwise, it's useless.

You can smell whatever you want, but that's not at all what is happening.

Is there politics within the company ? Yes, of course, like in any assembly of human beings.

This is not a management trick at all. Not everybody does have the same salary, some are better than others at negociating. But if there is a too big difference of people with the same level, then that is what creates problem.

By the way, it happened more than one time that we told a candidate he should up his salary, because it was too low compared to what we are paying similar employees. So, it goes both ways. And that's exactly about "what someone deserved to earn based on what he brings".

People are not "put into the room". Simply, the final step of a recruitment is an oral presentation on the topic of the choice of the candidate. Anybody can join. And whoever is in the room has a right to say something while the candidate is here, and once he's gone and we decide if he's hired or not.

This is a ritual of the company, everybody had to go through this (except trainees who were later hired).

My company has transparent salaries since the beginning 14 years ago.

Funnily, in the words of one of the co-founders, it's more a mere accident than a clear will from the beginning : "we did not really plan it that way, but back then, it was easier to let the document listing the salaries open for everyone than restricting its access to a few persons" and they decided to keep it that way ever since :) We always ask a new recruit which salary he/she wants publicly (by that I mean in front of a not insignificant part of the company, we are 50) and show them salaries of other people in case it does not really fit.

We are also experimenting with allowing people to choose their salary after 3 years in the company (there's a process and some caveats of course).

And we did not really see any downside so far

Thanks, I want to upgrade to Win 10 eventually, but don't really have time to do it before the deadline, your post could really help me !

Except the German banks are not as clean as they would like you to believe, particularly the regional ones.

This a thousand time !

it's not intern, but inter, which does not mean internal at all but "between"