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French guy too. I have to add that’s not specific to US company : Total, Ikea, and even EDF (french electricity state owned company ) also use the same practices. I too would prefer that they fix the law. It has been decades we know this and nothing seems to be done. I hope that the fact that population is getting more and more upset by the situation will push the politics to move. Btw the way the same companies dont seem to pay taxes in the US either.

Lots of small ones too

How do you manage not having multiple people working on the same thing ? Do you have some way of distributing work ? Just talking informally without a central written document often ended up with people starting working on the same thing simultaneously in my company. Kanban did solved this for us.

Protip : Wait even a little bit after it's too late and you might not even have anything to do at all.

If you are interested in the field, it might be helpful to pay for a teacher and ask for advices. A teacher will be able to trace a path from the level you are now and help you learn just enough math for you to get started. It's way easier, take less time and is less frustrating. In France it's possible to get a math teacher from 30€ to 50€ an hour.

I used Vinai guide and these exact two advices caused issues as the api grow.

Stackoverflow definitly fit that description, I wouldn't call it uninovative. Incremental changes often make all the difference.

Criteo told in an interview that the click rate was 500% better with their tracking.

This post is obviously a troll but there is actually a very good website about the good parts of PHP : http://www.phptherightway.com/

Yes ! The Culture would make a totally awesome serie. I really liked "The Players of Games". I had more difficulties with others books (couldn't finish one ), but the universe with it's overpowered AI living among humans would make a wonderful serie. There are a lot of good questions and some humors. I would really like to watch this.

A few days ago I found this :

http://www.amazon.fr/Programmers-Rantings-Programming-Langua... 2&keywords=steve+yegge

I didn't bought it because I expected it to be the blog posts in another format, but may be there are a few newer things. I'll probably buy it anyway.

__I missed the last sentence, it's a collection of blogs posts__

I agree. I'm very weak in grammar, but I dont understand how this one would work. Shouldn't it be ?

  Expr ::= Expr + Term | Expr - Term | Term;
  Term ::= Term * Factor | Term / Factor | Factor
  Factor ::=  Int | ( Expr )

it should really go down to quantum physic, thermodynamic and up to philosophy...

You can't deduce that because oncologist patients often die in 18 month, oncologist are lesser doctors. Patient died because they were so sick when they arrive that there wasn't a lot of hope left.

50% success rate doesn't indicate that recruiting is like throwing a coin flip. If there are only 10% of people that can do the job across interviewee, then throwing a coin would get you just 10% of people able to do the job.

However if there was a pool were 80% of people are able to do the job, getting 50% would be worse than picking anyone randomly.

Bayesian logic :)

I always google in english and this is a huge plus comparing to my coworking looking for answers in french. Even when they find answers, the quantity and the quality is lesser.

Hopefully, it doesn't take a lot of english to be able to read programming question on stackoverflow. If you have difficulties reading english and you want to do programming, focusing on just that will help a lot. You don't really need to be able to speak or to listen which are harder (at least for me ).

In france there is this company. They are quite affordable. Does anyone bought one there ?

http://www.easymoov.fr/pages/fr/menu1/bureaux-electriques/bu...

I wonder if they actually did the same math on purpose to set a price just below current treatments.

I used to work 30 minutes every morning on side projects. I did it for 2-3 years. It wasn't hard to get focus as long as I did it every day. It worked as long as I did it every day. Reserving a slot of time for working allowed me to not feel guilty of watching tv, going out... I felt good about having done what I wanted and knew there would be 30 minutes again the next day. Here are a few things that helped me :

- Keeping a todo list on a paper under my keyboard to start quickly.

- Reserve larger things that takes time like refactoring for the week-end (2-3 hours ).

- I tried to use the same technologies I used at work to avoid learning time.

- I asked my wife to avoid asking me things at that time

It's quite an interesting read. Doom 3 code base use C++ in a straigforward and simple way and it is actually the style I like the most too.

The article tells also why things are used and also why things are not used. I'm not sure how the author came to its conclusions but I would draw the same.

I think I'll have a look at the source. Also author posted an answer from John about the article.

You can try mine http://emmanuelcaradec.com/qatapult which is more of a replacement for Quicksilver than for Alfred.

It's a bit on hold for the moment but you can extend it in javascript and build new skins as well.

It's definitively not as polished as Alfred and there are a few things that are broken like catalogs.

Before that I used FARR which I like better than Launchy and is more like Alfred ihmo, it has a ton of options and can trigger some plugins on regex matchs.

I agree, the building is beautiful, but it seems that there are no private office, so you are required to pick up all your stuff everyday, you can't have a good chair, or work on something other that a laptop. What do you do of your inevitable paper work, taxes, etc... We have a whole cabinet of these here for a 10 people shop. It's all fashion.

Mr Niel is also the largest personnal capital investor in France.

The 60k users 60 hours is just the end result, but the slideshow is not about quick results as I expected : it's about iterating around different things to see what sticks until you find something that works.

"Presenting one feature at a time" is a quite useful thing because it allows you to talk about yourself regularly with a slightly different angle and it create news all the time.

I bought a Filco Majestouch and couldn't use it a work as it totally hurted my wrists. I really had to adapt to not hit the keys too hard. Also the cherry mx blue caused difficulties for navigating inside code because the course of the key is longer and I often hit the keys repetedly when browsing code.

Hellbanned people may also get upset of not receiving any feedback from the community from good comments, conclude that the community is not for them and quit which may explain that you only see a few.

The perspective is very strange,

Vagrant and Virtualbox made me rethink about issues of developping webapp on Windows. I mostly do Windows dev and sometimes I also do some webdev, so I can't switch everything to MacOS or Linux.

I'm just starting to use Vagrant, and I think that it's an awesome solution. Vagrant allows to manage headless virtual machine (VM without UI ). I have a headless VirtualBox right now and it uses 48Mo. I could easily run tens of them.

You can share folders with the host and serve files from the virtual machine in a completly prod like environnement. You can also isolate projects in separated machines. For those who think that a unix box is closer to prod think of how many conflicts you can have with tons of libs installed on the same laptop : python, ruby, php, node.js, mysql, mongodb, etc... It is really different from a prod machine anyway. And Virtualbox works better (faster ) on Windows because the shared folder implementation of VirtualBox is better on Windows ;).

I'm not sure how it will turn out for me as I'm not very far in this process, but it seems to be awesome for the moment.

Or just a share on ads like adsense does...

They were able to get attention from the governement because the french gov is trying to show that it can somehow control the economy. A lot of french are expecting the gov to protect them against the big. This is good PR for the gov at the right time.

The policy in these large IT seems do often be : "don't do anything, it could go wrong". The long term damage is worse but the policy stays because, that way, there is no one to blame (or might be MS for security leaks in IE6 in 2013)

I'm not saying that the issue only came from IT. A well prepared plan that went wrong should be considered a necessary evil.