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Have had the Vive since 1 month after launch, use it almost every day for a few hours. Just got Elite Dangerous set up as well so I expect to be using it even more. Other games I usually play are smashbox arena, and Onward, as well as Holopoint, Space Pirate Trainer, Audio Shield and Audio Beats. Tilt brush is also amazing for drawing in. There is so much content to play its great.
{_, mem} = :erlang.process_info(spawn(fn -> 1 + 1 end), :memory)

mem -> 2720 bytes (~2.7kb)
The number of times I've heard, "We can't find developers" from people in my city is uncountable. Sometimes it's for companies where the word has gotten out about bad dev culture, others it's for boring me-too projects. Sometimes the two are hand-in-glove (bad culture -> 'safe' projects).

Someone once told me that if a company has to hire from out of town, there may be a reason, and you should investigate. They may have a bad local reputation, or they may just be too big for the town (and what happens when you get tired of working there or get laid off?). I didn't listen and ended up at a place the locals wouldn't touch when I moved here.
And how would you suggest testing to see whether or not your code is dumb?
Language lessons are good at giving you the grammatical foundation you need to become literate. I agree that they're pretty bad for fluency in spoken language. To be fair, though, language classes are usually 3-5 hours per week, and you won't become fluent if you move to France or somewhere and only spend 3-5 hours per week trying to speak the language.
Racket is also a great environment for making languages. See, e.g.:

http://beautifulracket.com
My best French, accent and all, is Pardon, je ne comprend pas Francais. Parlais vous l'Anglais?
particularly with the network effect.

It gets tiring to convince people to install Signal, Wire, etc.
In my experience people through AdWords are not technical. Usually how it goes is that the people actually using the software, so the poor saps working in the call center, will get so frustrated with their existing system that they will google "call center software" and let their manager/coworkers know about any good looking alternatives they find.

Once management and IT know about the problem there's usually already a shortlist of software to check out and management makes the final decision.

Indeed it is probably self selection of our markets to a large extent :) but it worked for us. In my current and last company new tools and hardware have been exclusively pushed from below. If management doesn't know there's a problem they won't change anything, and most managers hate being told about problems without solutions in hand
Ah, interesting. That's really cool. I guess it makes things easier for them and better for their customers in several ways at once.
> b) the possibility that this was true in the past (e.g. during the 50's, perhaps because the French were eager to see stationed GIs leave)

Or amybe, you know, because of the historical rivalry between France and England :)
Ask HN: Do developers also have a block?
Writers have Writer block or Artist have artist block ,so in the same way, do developers also have something like code block?

If you had one, what were the ways you used for dealing with it?
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Paris's relationship to France is something like NYC's to New York State.

Sure, Buffalo exists, but would you start a startup there?
How favorable are France's labor laws ? Is it possible to have at will employment?
> I can't understand something so it must not be real

I never said that, don't twist my words. I said it seems bogus because I've never experienced it and I don't understand it. I never said it isn't real - it probably is; I just have a hard time relating to it and accepting it.
Looking at the incoming mail in my server, I discovered that there are big legit mail senders who have a non-matching PTR. I suppose that at some point gmail et al stopped using that rule, or they just look for certain patterns in the PTR name, or something.
Yeah, like a temp agency, but we are full employees, which means we are still paid between contracts.

The problem is knowing the market rate.
Yea he's probably wearing it wrong, and just doesn't want to put in the effort to fix anything or try any games outside of the ones he's deemed "good". Everyone I've shown the Vive too has been blown away, 2 have purchased one.
An abusive, rapey relationship is not the same thing as being "in bed".
Compare this overall bill to the total amount of public and private money spent on interstate highways, bridges, interchanges, rolling stock (aka automobiles) etc in the United States.

By back of the envelope math the comparison seems to favor China. It's not even close.

Obviously also has roads bridges etc. But with a functioning train network you can build far fewer of them compared to America.
> How is this analogy with Ireland even remotely relevant?

the point is, what is 'official', and what is 'in practice' can differ. Quoting the official language of Ireland says nothing about what actually goes on.

Similarly, The the official language of France says nothing of how easy it is to speak English there, especially in large tech-hubs (the context of this conversation), nor how this might change in the future.
Icelanders seem to find our "Ye" interpretation to be stupefying and amusing.
The OP was talking about having to refill the form, I assumed they weren't submitted using GET.
The future of developer opinions will be as vague as this question.

Hybrid app frameworks simplify life for developers at the expense of user experience. In this case, neither users nor developers are the decision pivot here, it depends on what the project requires (deep hardware/platform integration or simple app across platforms).

Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin early 2016 has caused more M$ devs to look into mobile development, but platforms are still so different (styles/guidelines/hardware) that creating a slick mobile app in one codebase is still less likely than having separate dev teams for each platform. Certainly true in enterprises where M$ banks, and startups need the speed of prototyping that only native development can currently support.

React Native is coming along nicely, but no matter what hybrid framework you use, you'll still need to test it on multiple platforms, hardware, and under various conditions to really feel confident shipping it to people. Mobile is hard. That's why there are resources like this: http://info.perfectomobile.com/digital-test-coverage-index.h...
You should pay more attention to the names on posts. It wasn't "my" hypothesis.

And while that actually is a more reasonable example, I would suggest that something like "Doesn't your entire hypothesis rest on..." rather than assuming it does and then drawing a conclusion from that, then drawing a conclusion from that, then taking that conclusion to an absurd extreme, then mocking someone for that extreme would be more productive.
US average? Anyway, all my coworkers pay 30 per person 60 per family on a popular health plan from a major insurance company.
Irish is the national and first official language.

Oh, and some of us speak English too.

Why?
Email exists.

When Slack is bought by Google and merged with Hangouts, and WhatsApp changes over to a new all-messages-delivered-by-the-NSA protocol, email will still exist.
We are lucky enough to have a quite a few of interesting tech. companies here in Montreal so you can easily find new work when you get tired or laid off! Retail business are starting to understand that having an e-commerce presence is important so everyone is hiring.
Also, most people are introduced to XMPP in ways that don't let group chats work very well, so they think that's an XMPP problem, not the service's.
European countries have signs in local language plus English. And then there is France, where even in Paris or even international places like Disneyland Paris you find hardly signs in anything but French. General joe also doesn't or doesn't want to speak English with you, you better speak a little bit French if you visit Paris.
It was a real sad day when Facebook and Google decided that proprietary was the way to go...
The leaked documents and statements from the military explicitly contradicts any claims of assessing whether military age males are actually a combatant. The leaked documents wrote that any male casualties between 18-49 were automatically classified as militants.

And I personally suspect that the age verification is beyond anything scientific.
In large it doesn't matter what you're selling anymore for the most part. People are used to thumbing through search results and every company competing in the space is at their fingertips with a single click. It's not like you're the only study site they found, they probably have ten open right now.

You need to have the most appealing intros or people will simply hit X on the tab and move on to someone that does. In short, make absolutely sure it's abundantly clear to a five year old that they've reached the right place within ten seconds or people will go somewhere else.

Also, everyone will be 1/10 qs for study skills. The keyword is far too broad for more than 1% of your ads to be targeted properly. Unless you have thousands of negative keywords I wouldn't go near that one. Google wants ads to be relevant so users will continue to click them. You will be punished severely every time your ad shows up and it's not what the user was looking for
For "convenience" substitute "having the technical sophistication to manage it properly". How many companies know enough to hire and retain top-notch people to run a datacenter and keep upgrading it?
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Actually things have been changing in the recent years. We're seeing bigger investment, so startups can afford bigger salaries. Also multinational companies (like Google, Facebook) are opening engineering and R&D offices in France, driving up the salaries.

Anyway, most of the tech jobs in France are in the IT service industry, but if you want an attractive salary you need to go to join a software company with a product.

So now you can get a pretty good salary in France as a software engineer, and while it's still lower as a number than in North America if you factor in the social system and the work/life balance it's not a bad deal at all. Just don't go to the service industry.
Yep, same as the company I worked for. Market rate is hard to discover, but harder still if you have an entity working against you - the company I worked for had a binding contract with any client preventing them from revealing how much they paid for temps.

Do you have a period of time you are contracted to work? If you can make friends in the Paris dev community, you might be able to find out how good/bad your pay is.
I agree it certainly confuses the mission. I think the Pi-zero was a mistake for them and as a result they lose money on every one they sell (hence they really try to limit selling them individually, and "package" them with things they can raise the price of to maintain a net positive margin).

The compute modules are yet again another poke at the "hey we're a education charity, oh wait we're selling to industry." It is always amusing to me how companies discover markets that they didn't believe existed actually do exist, kind of.
I followed a similar path and can only agree on the attitude. Most of the relevant CS knowledge is just that: knowledge. Studying physics is usually less about knowledge and more about general problem solving skills.
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> Alternately, we could just stop paying people to sit around being lazy. Here in India people fill these jobs and earn far less than what most western activists consider a "living wage".

I've honestly never understood why government believes they should make it illegal to pay someone a mutually-agreed-upon wage, or why anything thinks doing so is a good thing.
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obama caused that to LA almost montly when raising funds for re-election.
What the FTC link is advising against are corporate policies that require password rotation, because in practice it has been determined that this leads to users selecting even less secure passwords and/or writing down their passwords because they cannot remember them. If a user wants to voluntarily rotate their passwords, then that's in no way a problem as long as they aren't compromising password strength in the process.
I have seen a lot of companies do this and it's terrible. You get SEO mostly from long form in depth articles and dumping it into a PDF will tank something that would be page 1 to page 5. Google will prefer a well setup blog over a file download ten times out of ten. Unless your whitepaper is a unicorn the search results will go to someone else
You pay more than 37.5% on a $50K salary?
Yes, you can't have two phones, or a phone or a tablet, or two computers synchronizing. It also won't synchronize SMS conversations, it'll hijack the SMS datastore if you want to use the seamless mode and do a bunch of other annoying stuff :/
Email that is delivered via a network of NSA-managed servers?
8tb sounds too much for just development.
or never need to program: ( ) { } [ ] ; @

I have a German kezboard (sic) but I run it in US mode. I have no idea how any programmer can use the standard German layout (and many I know use US keyboards).
> Oh, and some of us speak English too.

Don't you mean most?
Ugh, yes, I don't like these chrome apps. Even hangouts randomly clogged my CPU or died silently. Also firefox is my home. Bummer :/
What features does Webpack 2 offer over Webpack 1?
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As illustrated by PGs post from a few days ago on YC startups and the ACA, benefits are useful at any age, whether you are an octogenarian or a 20yo founder with Crohns.

Most startups I know are Ramen noodle phase. Having a bit of govt help would be useful and could definitely help founders hold on to their equity rather than exchange it to pay next months rent.

In the US it's the same. You pay for it, then they guilt you into not using it. And if you need the more extreme help it literally becomes a full time job to wait in line and file paperwork week after week.

I miss the Paris service. You waive them down when you want something. They stay out of your way. Here, they are hovering around constantly asking me if I need anything. I don't think that kind of attention warrants $20 tips. If it came down to it I can pour my own damn drink.

So French Apple keyboards have some fundamental differences with accents. And if you need numbers it's 2 keys as you need to invoke the shift key to the number and calculator functions. And if you have a complex environment, ex. remoting from mac to Linux server good look finding the pipe | key.
Ah I must have been mixing up Masters and PhD.
How is that not an XMPP problem?
So currently, we only support numbers within the US and Canada. While there are plans to expand to other countries, it isn't a priority at the moment.

For people living in other countries, we recommend that they purchase a US phone number (which can be done for as little as $1/month through something like iPlum).

And I'm assuming you mean through an app or something else?
So which country would you recommend ?
I pay by the word, so this author and I have complementary perspectives (I publish a small science fiction magazine, http://compellingsciencefiction.com).

First, I certainly don't think that paying for content decreases quality in any way. Every argument I've heard against paying authors is incredibly nebulous, and it's generally accepted that statistically you'll get better work (in any field of human endeavor) when you economically incentivize people.

Second, this quote was very interesting to me:

“So far online self-publishing has been the preserve of fan fiction and erotica but it can’t be long before high-quality fiction starts to emerge.”

After thinking about the entire ecosystem for a bit, my conclusion is that the above quote is probably completely wrong. The main issue is that there is SO MUCH bad writing produced compared to good writing. I receive 300-400 submissions a month for my magazine and most of them are not publishable (and my editor friends tell me that these numbers are low). Because of this hugely skewed ratio, it is very unlikely that "high-quality fiction" will "start to emerge", mainly because readers on the internet are unwilling to sift through all the chaff. For great writing to 'emerge', it requires both someone to read it, and for that someone to have enough influence over their friends for their friends to read it. I'm not sure that those two conditions will ever be satisfied well enough to be an effective screening system. It will be interesting to see how the ecosystem evolves, though.
any feedback on using this service?
Can you explain how you define that distinction?
Things got better in recent years, but in France startups have a hard time raising much money so they often offer a salary that's below average.

They get away with arguments like "the job is interesting" (probably true compared to IT service industry) and "you'll get rich on stock options if the company get big" (usually a lie).

It's good that the government is trying to encourage foreigners to start their startup in France, but I don't think we're lacking entrepreneurs. We're mostly lacking investors willing to bet on a small, newly created company.
> All it did was add more demand for health services (hey if I have health insurance now, I should use it right?.)

That is not all it did. It increased the number of people, particularly healthy people, paying into the pool from which health coverage is funded. Everyone doesn't run out and get health services they don't need just because they have insurance.

The ACA made high medical expenses like yours tax deductible. [0]

I agree that single-payer is the right way to go but I don't think creative destruction is the right way to get there or even inevitable given the political philosophies some Republicans (e.g. Paul Ryan) are motivated by.

> Obamacare has done jack-shit for my plan costs, despite their trying to say Obamacare has slowed health insurance cost increases.

Don't confuse the weather for the climate. Maybe your individual situation would be the same without Obamacare but overall, the rate of increase is not as high as it was before Obamacare.

[0] http://obamacarefacts.com/tax-deductions-for-medical-expense...
I only had a chance to read part of the book (around the first 25% at most), but I found a lot of the ideas to be applicable to all forms of work. The ideas were well-explained and didn't require a software background. I intend to pick up a copy when I have the cashflow for it.
i highly doubt that was the reason. remember that obama magnus opus was copyright enforcement and trade deals with southeast asia. Australia and New Zealand were pivotal for this effort. see TPP and kim dot com being arrested the next year of his visit.
And the web of trust still won't work.
"Potentially permanent positions" is a euphemism for "tenure track research job."
His "replace the FDA with a Yelp for drugs" is obviously an extreme position, but it's the right direction to explore in. There are many consumers who can make intelligent tradeoffs about the risks and benefits of not-yet-approved drugs, and they should be able to do so.
> The education system you're referring to is not free at all. The very substantial income taxes in France pay for it.

That's like my whole point… You'll effectively get less money than in the US, but you're subsidising a fraternal economy which you enjoy too.
Since you weren't on the board or privy to details about my time as CEO, what you are doing in your first paragraph is simply lying.

On board resignations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654651

On "curtail civil rights" canard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721928
Whoa! I am actually currently in a physics PhD program, in my last 1-2 years, and have been pursuing internship opportunities for the summer. For me, I've actually wanted to get my PhD in physics and then work in tech for as long as I can remember (so it's not primarily that I feel like the academic job market is too competitive for me, or doesn't pay enough, but those are pretty good reasons, too...) .

I actually have often found it awkward to fit into the usual computer science bins that companies organize projects into. In addition to a hefty amount of data analysis and software engineering, my PhD has required knowledge from a wide variety of different types of engineering, including optics, microwave engineering, and semiconductor fabrication. Combining everything into a 1-page resume, I've found it's not super obvious where my placement would be within most companies. I am currently in the team-matching phase for a google internship, for example, but haven't heard anything.

For those that are getting themselves in the door, do you have any tips?
Oh. I meant, I never joined the San Francisco Tenants Union.
I assume you mean ideas of what to work on rather than blocked on a particular problem.

It's hard to this generalize to everyone, but for myself no, never. Actually the opposite. It flows like water and I have many more ideas that I can pursue at once.

I don't start coding them all, rather I'll conduct layers of due dilligence and market research continually trying to separate what's promising from what's a rabbit hole.

I have a whole process to try and make what I work on efficient and good risk/reward. When I was younger I'd just get interested in something and start. No more.
Presumably you knew he got it wrong because it wasn't *'d out for you?
>>English is most of the times more concise than my mother language (Polish) [...]

If one were to pick Polish variable names, would the default be the neutral forms[1]? I'm sure this applies to other languages that also have forms of complex declension compared to English. Which would make more sense in Polish?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_grammar#Nouns
Detailed content is great for SEO and will get you extremely well targeted visits. At least from what I've seen the majority of business comes from people that want to be told what to do and not those that already know. Chances are somebody with detailed knowledge already knows all the players in the field and are just weighing their options s. There's a whole pile of people trying to setup a phone system or call center for their existing product/company that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground :)
Regarding language: you'll surprise yourself. You will have passable French within 6 months or less, and excellent French within 2 years or less, but during the initial 6 months your life will be hell. Your pronunciation will never be as good as that of the natives, though, but if your grammar is all right, no one but complete assholes will mind.
It's funny how many on the right (not you, mind you!) simultaneously hold that

- the rich are sensitive to incentives, and big option packages and low taxes are required to align them with the shareholder and make them work hard enough

- the rich are not sensitive to incentives, being so rich that they do not need any extra money, therefore are basically immune to corruption and not really in need of any legal oversight
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This sounds right
I could say the same about San Francisco and I lived there for a couple of decades. It is insanely crowded now with Uber drivers cutting through neighborhoods obeying their GPS overlord.

As for Paris, I love Paris but then I'd have a hard time getting work done there. Being near would be enough. I worked in Milan and Geneva and would take the train into Paris for the weekend but not for work.
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There should be a Yelp for restaurants too, then we wouldn't need food safety regulations.