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by malaporte 8y ago
Maybe the deductible part is a fixed amount and not a % of the total bill? (I have no knowledge of health care in the US - both countries I lived in have free health care)
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by malaporte 9y ago
Any special insight here?
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by malaporte 9y ago
We started doing challenges like this in our hiring process some years ago. Our challenges are open-ended so the time spent on it really is up to the applicant, but you can come up with a good solution in a few hours. The feedback from cand
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by malaporte 12y ago
Indeed I remember seeing ads for Chrome on the Paris subway, back when it wasn't yet as ubiquitous as it is now.
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by malaporte 12y ago
Well, I wasn't thinking of specific skills for a given language/framework, but maybe more how those frameworks help you evolve along with the tech landscape. I started my career around 15 years ago, working on a complex server sys
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by malaporte 12y ago
I don't think age as a numerical thing is the issue here. The problem is probably more related to people that stopped learning / being interested in new stuff when they landed a stable job. So they've been using the same skil
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by malaporte 12y ago
Hmm I'm not sure I agree with that. From my experience the period where family is most likely to be a problem with a demanding job is when kids are very young. The short nights, demanding daycare schedules, having to clean them, feed t
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by malaporte 12y ago
Wow. I've never heard about him, but reading the article I realized he used to live not 500 meters away from my house (a long time ago).
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by malaporte 12y ago
I've been using a Pi running XBMC for about a year. It's connected to a big hard drive. I can copy stuff there from my laptop (movies, music, etc.) It works pretty well; I don't remember having to "service" it in an
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by malaporte 12y ago
You seem to be forgetting the folks writing the code running on those servers...
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by malaporte 12y ago
Yes. If only JetBrains could release an IntelliJ-based IDE for C#, that'd be nice.
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by malaporte 12y ago
Seems pretty interesting. And official MS support for running the whole thing on Mono, right now, isn't that pretty big?
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by malaporte 13y ago
Funny how this post made me realize I've often been confronted with people wanting to implement 'agile' by imposing us to follow strict processes. I'd never seen it that way, even if the irony is pretty obvious.
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by malaporte 13y ago
In my experience, Typescript support in IntelliJ/Webstorm has always been sketchy --- so much that I find it quite unfair that they would mention this as a feature of the paying version. I still use it, but I often get invalid highligh
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by malaporte 13y ago
Hmm technically you don't need an IDE to make good use of Typescript. It works very well as a standalone compiler installed using npm, and you get static type checking etc. which is really the point of Typescript IMHO --- if you don&#x
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by malaporte 13y ago
Lucene does have competition, mostly in the commercial world. I know, since I work for one of those companies :p Solr, ElasticSearch, etc. are mostly concerned about the index/search features, and they do quite a good job there. But th
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by malaporte 13y ago
Remote worker here, I agree with most things he said. I work with an on-site team, and I'm the only remote worker in that group. We use a permanent Hangout that I can keep opened in the background, in order to hear what's going on
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by malaporte 13y ago
I think they are. I'm a Canadian living in France, and I pretty much hate McDonalds here. Fries are soggy and not salted enough, burgers are completely messed up, and the service is impressively slow. I tried several places, it's
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by malaporte 13y ago
Given the beard, a wizard staff would be more appropriate. Gandalf fighting against software patents! Good tidings indeed!
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by malaporte 13y ago
Coveo, Quebec City, Canada We're in the enterprise search business. That's Google for BigCorp. Our own search engine. It's hard, and it's fun. We use many technologies. The top ones are C++, C#, Java, Scala, JavaScript,
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by malaporte 13y ago
"their provider changed the imap server" "learning english" Funny, I had to fix a very similar issue with my french in-laws IMAP just yesterday. Just for science, are your in-laws French and using Free.fr as an ISP?
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by malaporte 13y ago
A colleague of mine used to be some kind of manager/director at that company (in another country though). He once described his former job as "milking the government". They hire the lowest quality engineers (e.g. the cheapest
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by malaporte 13y ago
I wasn't speaking about the tech, especially the recent one which I find to be pretty nice (well, some of it at least). My point was about perception of MS tools in the larger tech community. At some point you get tired of fighting thi
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by malaporte 13y ago
Another thing to keep in mind is the political aspect of choosing a tech stack, especially for a startup... As you'll surely notice right here in the comments, MS tools are not what you could call fashionable in many tech circles, and
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by malaporte 13y ago
Errr, it says Visual Studio will limit the path length for now. Windows already support longer path names, if you use the right APIs. My understanding is that it's not worth going over all of their code to use the newer APIs since they
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by malaporte 13y ago
Maybe we should stop putting all older engineers in the same basket, and same thing goes for the younger ones. I've known some older engineers (older than me, heh) make crap decisions because they didn't like change. Then I'v
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by malaporte 13y ago
Well said.
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by malaporte 13y ago
Maybe that was the outcome Nokia's board looked for from the start? I mean, they did choose Elop, and it was pretty clear where that would lead them. Nokia was on a downhill slope way before Elop came onboard.
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by malaporte 13y ago
Hmm I sometimes wonder if I might not have this thing. I do share quite a lot of characteristics they describe...
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by malaporte 14y ago
So I'm going to buy a "Don't compromise" and put it right in front of a "Done is better than perfect".

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