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by invaliduser 9y ago
If you live in France, it seems that UPS made you pay abusively the custom duties (not due if the value of the package is below 150€). You should only have paid for the VAT, which tops at 20%. http://www.douane.gouv.fr/artic
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by invaliduser 10y ago
You usually can't tell from one single sentence if a parser handles garden path sentences, which involve backtracking (hence the name). Plus, there is a part-of-speech tagger that provides an intermediate layer of nlp analysis, which m
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Currently doing that, with the following differences: - I am the cto for both companies - one of my startup is already 3 years old Even with a very low maintenance mode on my first startup, it's insane. Actually just one startup creati
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by invaliduser 10y ago
So the author rejects what is basically syntactic sugar around the Promises because it _looks_ _like_ imperative programming, even though it's 100% promises, and makes the code cleaner to read and easier to understand? It reminds me wh
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Usually, why a cofounder leaves their startup is relevant for the next job. Specially when they say it's not relevant.
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by invaliduser 10y ago
It shouldn't really matter whether the units tests are written before or after. What matters is how testable the source code is, and making sure the units tests add value. Of course, writing the tests before the actual source code of
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by invaliduser 10y ago
I think we should make it more widely understood how bad we human are at science. Our brain is full of what we call cognitive biases, that prevent us from processing data correctly, our sensors are specially bad, even the ones we mostly rel
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Besides calling Array.sort()? When was the last time a front-end developer, or an app developer, or any developer actually, needed to implement a sort algorithm? I started programming in the 90s, so I did a lot of it, implemented sorts, btr
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by invaliduser 10y ago
This list is very funny, straight out of the 90s, because we are in 2017 and most developers just spend their working days basically writing forms and storing/fetching data over the network/in a database.
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by invaliduser 10y ago
"John Smith" I personally found that having a very very common name provides a lot of privacy. If you look me up by my real firstname/lastname, you'll find out we are borg, we are 1000s, and I'm burried somewhere fa
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by invaliduser 10y ago
I wouldn't exactly call them "regular". They are mostly in the center of cities, their price are high-ish, but not crazy, so you often see people with no car (old people but also students) living in the city shopping there, a
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Increasing the GDP is easy. First, pay me 50$ to dig a hole. Then I pay you 50$ to fill the very same hole. We created nothing but the GDP increased by 100$ (well, tax aside). original source of this example: https://ploum.net&#x
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Imagine most of your income comes from Adsense, how would you feel about revealing something as disturbing as google involved in a case of corruption in the european parliament? This is just a fictional example, but the point is this is the
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by invaliduser 10y ago
This is probably bad practice, and I don't hire much anymore, but when I did, I could usually put the resumes in three slots: 1/ Good match, want to see 2/ Maybe 3/ No I generally give an immediate answer to 1 et 3. 2 ar
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by invaliduser 10y ago
This was the company used by the kickstarter-funded «Secret Hitler» game to send the game to backers. I sent them an email support on sept 15th regarding my package. Never got an answer. Never got my package either. Experience is awful. I&#
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by invaliduser 10y ago
I'm one of those guys that develop for a living (mainly from home) and play a lot. I love developping with linux, but need windows to play, so here's my story. I tried a lot of things, linux with Wine, linux with a virtualbox wind
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by invaliduser 10y ago
In my humble case, Docker solves the problems I have to manage the systems on which my application runs (and that's mainly it). A single dockerfile of 20-30 lines describes a whole system (operating system, versions, packages, librarie
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by invaliduser 10y ago
European countries were not really «prospering» on their own. They have been in war for centuries before. That's the point of having Europe as a community, play cooperatively, not free-for-all. Of course, not all countries were hit by
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Could we rephrase it? «A program written by a clever human being, using randomness, probability, and natural language processing techniques, has passed literary prize screening».
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Happened to me. Was hired as a freelance in a company that had the "no telecommuting" policy. After 1 year and a half there, I got slightly bored and wanted to leave (long-commuting, like 2h, is too long when the job is not that a
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Unit Tests are not the one and only metrics for software quality. Believe it or not, before unit tests were coined, we managed to build reliable software too. Actually a lot of the internet was actually built that way. But your assumption i
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Ho wow, you are totally correct, and I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing that out!
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by invaliduser 10y ago
You are right. I suppose there are many parameters, for instance countries trying to live from tourism are probably more likely to accept visa-free travellers from wealthy countries even without reciprocity.
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by invaliduser 10y ago
It's just a matter of reciprocity. Look for instance at Gambia: it's visa-free to go there for citizens of countries where Gambian citizen can go visa-free too. this is just how countries managed/refused treaties with each ot
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Yep, sure, governements giving so much to refugees, and nothing to you. I can't count how many times I heard this myth. Actually, the money really comes mainly from the European Union, so as a eurocitizen (not italian) I'm actuall
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by invaliduser 10y ago
Ratings (for movies or whatever) are not broken, they just are a limited model of appreciation by a cohort. All statistical models have their limits, that does not make them «broken», just somewhat inaccurate (ie. with varying levels of acc
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by invaliduser 10y ago
If by «fabulousness» you mean in terms of static typing, the language may not meet your expectations, but it seems to me it's a bit harsh to say it's a dead-end, considering it's on par with many other languages, and still im
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by invaliduser 10y ago
By table you mean index, right ? What matters most is the size of the index, and most index data structures (see btrees) work so that very few disk seeks are needed, even if the index is large.
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by invaliduser 10y ago
I've been following this technology for a few years, but never got involved in it because it does not solve any problem I have (although it may, or may not, solve others, never seen it solve any real world problem so far). First, the b
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by invaliduser 10y ago
I guess the wrong signal is not that you have a cert, it's when you highlight it in your résumé.

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