City growth cannot be endless. Everything has an end. It is the same thing for Paris. With the "Grand Paris", we try to build new subways, but it is tremendously expensive.
Solving the wrong problem is a very common thing in software development. That is why I always take time to think (sometimes during three days) before starting a development.
All those people who protest ... They protest against what ? In France, we have the "Gilets Jaunes", who also protest, there is also the young people who protest against climate change. They protest, and they go nowhere ...
It is sad that the photo illustrating this article shows cheeseburgers. Cheeseburgers haven't killed anybody. Cheeseburgers are not junk-food. Stop making amalgams.
Totally agree on that. Premature generalization is the root of all evil. It breaks the YAGNI principle. Over-engineering is often seen in java programming, because creating a new class is so easy, that people often create huge amount of ridiculously small classes.
18 month or 24 month, this is not very important. I was essentially talking about the fact that the cost per transistor was steadily going down, which is almost finished now.
It depends what you call Moore's Law. For me, Moore's Law was essentially that the cost per transistor was divided by two every 18 month. Nowadays, it's not true anymore. But of course, it doesn't mean that progress has stopped.
In France, Mac Donald is an integral part of the French landscape, just like KFC or Burger King. Attacking this chain for primary anti-Americanism makes no sense.
Of course, old Paris is no more ! I live near Paris, and I go in this town only when I am forced to. Residential intensification, insecurity (pickpockets in the metro), migrants, Paris nowadays has nothing to do with the romantic vision of American people. Real Parisians now live in the suburb, there is some very nice towns in the suburbs. (Others not so nice, it depends where you go).
I'm french, and I have a mother that always told me "non" when I was asking something. It traumatized me, now I have difficulties to ask something, because I always think the response will be negative. So, when my daughter ask me something, I mostly respond "oui", to give her self confidence.