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I have hard time seeing why state needs involve itself in private market financing.

> “We need to create our champions,” Mr. Macron said, adding that his goal was to have at least 25 French tech unicorns by 2025, referring to companies with valuations exceeding €1 billion.

I see this as a rather futile endeavour, and a little bit of a personal insecurity manifestation. Just like as when Xi Jinping vent to California, been dined with all those "smart startupers," and then it hit him "Americans have startups, lets make some too!"

Second to it, why such fixation on the most egregious forms of "tech craze?" France has strong position in materials, chemicals, which strike not less hard economically, and are not less "tech" than cat video websites valued at $1B+

It is a foregone conclusion to me that $1B+ webdev weekend projects have no true economic backing behind them, and they are just artefacts of speculative expectations runaway.
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> It's true that we don't have the kind of startup culture that California has, despite attempts from the government.

Consider the sheer amount of government funding it took for Silicon Valley to become possible, before any other factors. Among other factors it took decades of massive military funding for the radio and semiconductor industry to lay the foundation and attract the talent that would later branch out.

The biggest barrier to replicating this is government willingness to pour that kind of money into tech in a single area.
This brings back memories... I was the technical half of a two person team who built the very first Thomas Cook website in 1995. Of course, e-commerce was a step too far at the time, but there was much excitement when the spec for HTML frames came out mid-project (don’t judge).
Nothing you mentioned has anything to do with the ability to test a Lambda. You’re trying to use limitations and restrictions as friction to backup your inability to test.

There’s a lot of annoying things about lambda. And a lot of stuff I wish was easier to find in documentation. But that doesn’t change the fact that Lambda is more or less passing an event object to your function and executing it.

Writing a function in node 12 and then running it on node 4 and throwing your hands in the air cos it didn’t work isn’t the fault of Lambda.
This is indeed a Pavlovic response :)

The promise of serverless is pretty simple, and pretty useful for the right use case - be it unpredictable load, or just very low load, or very frequent deployments, or pricing segmentation, or you don't have anyone as DevOps, and so on and so forth.

I don't recall anyone saying there's any magic involved. The premise is exactly same as cloud compute - you (possibly, depends on ABC) don't need to provision and babysit a server to perform some action in response to http request (or in case of aws lambda, other triggers as well).
> it's e.g. 10x easier, so that e.g. 1 programmer/ops guy can do what it took 10 before

Perhaps it's more related to the programmer than the tech stack...

It's also not solely developping, but debugging too. And serverless does make things a lot harder.
While I was working on optimizing the Python runtime (internally, at a FAANG company), an unexpected resource that I learnt a ton from was the SmallTalk Blue Book[1]. A lot of the lessons learnt from implementing Smalltalk and Self runtimes in resource constrained computing environments available back in the 70s and 80s are still very relevant today.

One of my former colleagues from that team used to often joke about how the Self[2] team was effectively cheating with hidden classes and inline caching in the late 80s, because they had workstations with 64 megs of RAM whilst almost everyone else had to contend with a megabyte or less of RAM.

[1]: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....

[2]: http://bibliography.selflanguage.org/_static/self-power.pdf
So does this partition the data out to different nodes or replicate the same data to each node?
This is just a gimmick.
France is not America. That does not mean it doesn't work; it's just a different model.
The focus should be on improving the current system rather than trying to import a model that is too culturally incompatible.
The current system is essentially a technocracy, with the government and a few large companies working together (but in a different and much better way than they "work together" in America). So far, it has remained mostly meritocratic, with a few exceptions, naturally. This has produced amazing stuff; the Minitel (first nationwide computer network in the world, as far as I can tell), focus on nuclear power, high-speed trains, Airbus, an entirely indigenous launcher and defense program and so on. And a generous welfare system that used to work.

Him mentioning "unicorns" is just silly in a country where almost no one cares about the stock market. It would be more sensible to focus on SMEs and catch up with Germany and Italy, that have a more robust network of middle-sized industrial companies.
Interesting insight yeah, I hadn't yet looked at it that way. I was thinking more along the lines of people these days expecting an unrealistic level of comfort for what they're paying (not just in transit but also theatres etc.). Social discomfort hooks into that though.

I suppose its also true that a lot of people would sooner purchase in-flight WiFi and complain about the window screen position on social media, than talk about it to the person who sits in the window seat.
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I crash FreeBSD every day :)
There's a reason they call it "Redhat Enterprise Linux" and not just "Linux", and there's no reason you have to use it. Besides, any complaint about LDAP is a red herring here: he mentioned LDAP not because he wants to force you to use it, but because of the way people sometimes use LDAP to allocate UIDs across many systems. He wants to entirely eliminate the need for that allocation to happen, whether you use LDAP or not.
I 'struggled' to use a Asus netbook for about 3 months, trying to use it as my daily driver for work. I was OK for notes and writing docs but not much else. Even web back in 2012 was terrible on it. ANd the keyboard was lame.

I started on windows, tried various Linux and ended up with Jolicloud on it, which was about the best I could hope for - but soon got a real laptop, and regretted wasting my cash on the netbook.
Yet another wake-up call.
I am about half way through the book.

Do you feel he revealed additional details in the book that the CIA/NSA does not appreciate?

IE, location and purpose of buildings?
From my personal experience: there are huge German companies that are terribly organized. Inefficient or just stupid processes are being kept up out of tradition often headed by some senior who knows it the best and whos decisions are not being questions "because he's/we've been doing it this way for ever now".

Generalizations don't help here. There is idiocy in companies and my feeling is that the bigger they are, the worse it gets.
I think it's because most U.S. cities are suburban sprawl. They lack the density for effective light rail transportation. Austin is a case in point. The best a city could do to promote public transit is to lift zoning restrictions that limit density in the urban core of a city. The more density you get, the more cost effective public transit is.

Meanwhile, yeah, the bus isn't as sexy as the train. Can we make the local bus a bit more sexy though? Could we add leather seats, tables for laptops, excellent Wi-Fi, clean floors, coffee vending, etc and make the bus experience better?

I also wonder about automation and how driverless buses might improve bus routes by making them 24/7, for example, due to lower labor cost?
I don't host a Trandoshan instance neither give access to a database of results. I Only provide access to the source code.

Why should I face legal problems?
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Ah man, those poor folks at 3-letter agencies screwing rest of the world and their own citizens. Of course it would be better for them to know everything, have everything, exploit everybody and so on.

That's not how modern democratic society can and should work though
Unfortunately, there is a large group of the population like myself that is cursed to never be able to sleep on an airplane.
Video games disprove a lot of UI/UX "wisdom" by demonstrating that people actually do learn - if they care. It's often the context that makes people not care. Do they get any personal value from caring? Can they get away with not caring and still get the same (or same enough) results? For video games, the answers are, in order, "yes" and "no", and so players easily learn to operate absurdly complex interfaces, and to do it at speed.
Just to be clear: lambdas are not stateless if you, for example, connect to a DB or use any other external service.

State could be somewhere else, but if you are not also "pure", you don't have any improvement over a normal service.
I know plenty of people that taught themselves how to program on ZX-81's.
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I have no idea whether this is illegal in Tunisia, but it definitely should be. I hope the hotel gets slapped down hard for this. Let the person who made that call do some time in prison.
This "TCO" thing usually comes out always from people interested in making companies migrate (i.e. consultants). Do you account into this TCO the time spent in retraining an gaining operational, production grade experience with serverless for all the teams involved? It's a one-shot cost, true, but it's a long one. And laying off perfectly capable employees because they are now redundant because serverless has a cost too (financial and emotional)
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Yes. And there’s also the issue that even if someone would choose to work for free, incremental bodies in an org tend to increase the org’s complexity.
You're right, it's all about the "boogeyman de jour" - at present that's China and Russia, but it could just as easily be drugs, Islam, whatever.
They do seem to be dominating the no-frills end of server hosting with OVH and Online.net/Scaleway. Perhaps an exception, but it's interesting that they have little US competition in that niche.
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Hmm, this sounds a bit naive. I'm struggling with this for my entire life, and only a certain amount of alcohol helps me to do chit chat. But after the chit chat I always regret some things I've said, the whole thing is just rubbish. I simply don't like it to be forced to talk shit. I'm quite certain it's not a learned skill, it is pretty default for the most stupid people around us.
Watched the ISS pass overhead with my family in our backyard last night. Thank you for creating this!
Consider supplying a fixed amount of power P to a load. If each stage loses 10% of the power transmitted, after one stage you need to supply 1.1P, after the second stage, you must supply that power plus ten percent, and so on, so you need to supply 1.1^N P after N stages.
I would recommend that you and your partner read Bringing Up Bébé. The chapter on sleep cycles will be a godsend.

The sooner you can get the baby sleeping through the night, the better you will be.

Also, be careful around 6 month age with new foods. There are way too many food allergies these days. I was just in the ER last night for a food related allergy.
I used to think similarly but I found that both "other people" and "small talk" can be rather interesting if you approach them with a bit of an anthropological pov: Everyone is interesting if you dig just a bit (and I don't mean that in a hippy way but actually). You can make into your own game, to see if/how fast you can stir the conversation in an interesting direction. And even simple small talk is interesting because if you pay attention to the subtexts, you can see the "real" person peaking out.

At least that what I try to do.
I encourage people as much as I can to consider doing sites to use as little resources as needed.

Shameless plug, I recently put up the Leanternet directory of lean internet sites, you might like to see more of these kind of sites and the Leanternet principles at https://www.leanternet.com
I'd say modern API deployments are either containerised or go the serverless route.

On one hand you have a docker image with your source code/static binary baked in. The other you have your source code/binary encapsulated in a serverless framework (with an Event handler of sorts as your input).

The container doesn't lock you into a particular ecosystem, but hasn't solved how you deploy and run your container (Heroku, managed k8s, AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate). Serverless on the other hand will give you a runtime for your API and allow you to go live (assuming you've setup an account or whatever).

To migrate something that already works to serverless is a bad idea. Maybe if you're pretty comfortable with serverless frameworks and you like to hack a lot of projects up quickly, sure serverless might be a good fit. But why not instead start off with a container? At least you have the flexibility to run that on whatever you damn want - Even a t2.small instance with a docker daemon running.
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Cash is base money. The Fed lists it as a liability on its balance sheet.
Does it really have to do with receiving money from state-related funds? It's not unusual for a government to stop foreign acquisition of companies they consider a strategic asset for the country. E.g. Donald Trump recently rejected the acquisition of Qualcomm by Broadcom.
Wow that last link is amazing. I love that kind of stuff!
In Germany TC is required to insure package tourists for this case. Germany won't pay for their return (or as in this case: the time they'll stay there until the insurance gets them a flight back).
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The entire biosphere is in a worrying state. I hope for the best but am preparing for the worst.
I don't think there is a country without any sort of limited liability company. But many startup entrepreneurs will only be able to borrow money from the banks if they accept personal liability and provide collateral, guarantors, etc.

Bankruptcy protection for individuals is not available everywhere and it often comes with very onerous conditions.
Completely agree with the comment on spec'ing things out. It's almost impossible to make a spec by patchwork evolution. Things don't turn out well, so it is extremely important to think out the details carefully and clearly, then having the engineers ask to clarify things as they come to them makes much more sense.
Taxes are not meant to be sudden and surprising.
I use https://www.eff.org/privacybadger for all websites, seems to do the trick for me.
Thanks to what is nowadays generally attributed to evolutionary selection, not all humans are that much devoid of empathy.
That's what I call success ;

Thanks a lot
It's actually pretty smart, especially if, for example, an insurance industry incumbent invests in a promising insure-tech business to further bolster their own future position in the industry.
Containers will be around for at least another 5 years.

If you look at where AWS makes most of their money, it's selling EC2 hardware.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/03/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Defense_Whistleb...

http://www.dodhotline.dodig.mil/programs/whistleblower/index...

Snowden is not a whistle-blower- he is a coward, a liar, or a traitor. Snowden did not use the whistle-blower protections that are afforded to him and lied that there weren't any.
If RedHat would keep their code to themselves that would be great news. Unfortunately everybody and their brother can't stop themselves from tripping over their own feet to adopt whatever RH cooks up.

Mind you, I'm all for less fragmentation in the Linux space, I'm just not for having that dictated by the likes of RH just because of their tendency to optimize for their own intended use cases and their never ending dreams of being allowed to play on the enterprise desktop.
Not really in the spin, but what about DAZN?
I don't see how PA is "trimmed down" or "dumbed down". From what I can tell, it provides quite a few more features than ALSA+dmix, which was the solution typically used previously. For example, I can now route the output of mpv to HDMI so someone can watch a movie, while I route other applications to my bluetooth headphones. Was this possible with ALSA?
The women in porn aren't enjoying it.

Also, that Nigerian prince isn't going to give you millions of dollars.
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Yeah I agree that cooking is the one most accepted in western countries right now. However, in many households it's still predominantly the woman who cooks day to day. Men tend to reserve that for dating, special occasions, or as the token "see I'm doing my share" thing.
Why are extra planes even necessary? There were already return flights planned, right? Why not have those fly anyway? Maybe they're owned by Thomas Cook and the crew won't get paid anymore, but it'd be nice if the government could step in and let those parts of the company continue operating until every is home again. That's much less disruptive than keeping the original planes grounded, and chartering different planes to step in. That's disruptive to two plane crews and the passengers. Continuing as normal would be far less disruptive.

But I'm probably missing some vital piece of red tape. It's usually an insurance issue.
Thank you so much for critcal thinking!
We need more of that!
That's a good way of looking at it.
Do you really think DailyMotion is a strategic asset for... anything? They most likely stopped the acquisition because they didn't want the founders to profit from something they built using state money (and maybe rightly so)
Yes, that was the reason they could stop the deal. Yahoo backed out as soon as they realized that they did not have a way to trump that.

Anybody that wants to argue that the Dailymotion is a strategic asset to France or the EU is welcome to do so but I fear that it will be a stretch.
"Act as if others are interesting and you will eventually find them so." - Sarah Mei, quoted by Sandi Metz, when summarizing I believe Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends & Influence People"

Sandi's talk was called "You Are Insufficiently Persuasive" and she talks a good bit about this idea, starting with that the unhappiness of programmers primarily comes from other people, and that if only we could make them behave the way we want them to act, we would all be much happier. This is one of those Sandi talks I've listened to a few times more than once, and I recommend watching it all the way through, if this is an interesting idea for you.

But to spoil it just a bit, after the major arc of the talk it is suggested that the way to get people to act better is to first change your own behavior, and that it's also often helpful to question whether your way is actually right.

I haven't actually watched this particular talk in a while, so I'm interested to see if others who did have a different interpretation, and whether you think I got it right.
DailyMotion was finally acquired 2 years later by Vivendi :

https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/30/vivendi-buys-80-of-frances...
Programs like https://www.hacksplaining.com/ exist purely as educational programs that teach you to exploit known flaws in web security and have no issue with the law.
I love this line

> Plus, she says, streaming means listeners get to pick who’s worth hearing. “It’s not a bunch of white males at radio stations and record labels deciding what the general public should listen to.”
It depends. The ideal hardware wallet is always off, disconnected, the seed phrase is encoded, split into pieces and buried in a WWII bunker.
It would be incredibly secure and unusable.

Let's take a look at U•HODL:

Fingerprint scanner (even the best one) is less secure than a long PIN code (and few people use them), but scanning only takes a moment while entering a PIN code requires tens of seconds. And after several failed scans, the device is locked.

Is Bluetooth less secure than a cable? Even if all internal communication is heavily encrypted there is still a small chance that it can be hijacked. On the other hand, the device has a MiTM protection and wireless communication is much more usable on the go.

Is it possible to get access to your data after stealing a key? It's also plausible and you may find information about attacks on existing wallets. But all vendors try to fix these vulnerabilities once they're found.

U•HODL is no less secure than any other hardware wallet, it's just designed with a user in mind.
As of today, Assange is in prison purely for publishing secrets of the US state
I can't sleep when the window shades are open...
The "block" in "blockchain" refers to a certain kind of a block. Strictly speaking it refers to the "block" that is defined in the Bitcoin white paper (which itself doesn't mention blockchain): https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Extending from this, "blockchain" may mean any structure that has the same properties as Nakamoto's "blockchain".

Otherwise, the structure is just a hash list, a hash chain or a Merkle tree.
Indeed, some of the money will surely find its way into politicians' pockets, it always does when they are on a spending spree.

There was a case of a prime minister announcing a similar initiative and his wife incidentally (and later, unofficially) being involved in founding a large "accelerator" and office rental startup.
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>>>I think guy friendships are harder because of social expectations of of what a male friendship is - especially if like me you don't enjoy drinking or spectator sports.

What kind of men have you tried to socialize with that you feel "male friendship" largely = drinking and sports?

I don't drink, and I hate sports. Most of the dudes I know are on the same wavelength, and I don't think they were that hard to find. They are content to go to a coffee shop or other business and shoot the shit about [cars; investing; tech; gaming; politics] while trying to meet more women (in other words, regardless of how many women they already have in their sex life, they are ALWAYS screening new applicants). Only one guy I can think of has female friends he socializes with that he's NOT also banging or used to bang.

"Women have platonic friends. Men don't have platonic friends, we just have women we haven't f---'d yet. As soon as I figure this out, I'm in there!" --Chris Rock [1]

[1]https://youtu.be/zywIR_ZFLts
Yes, I feel the same way, sometimes I hope I'm just really pessimistic but I wouldn't be surprised if humanity would be the first organism that could predict it's own extinction without actually doing something about it.
DailyMotion "exited" prior to this, as the deal between Telecom Orange (minority owned by France) was scuppered.

> On 25 January 2011, Orange acquired a 49% stake in Dailymotion for €62 million, valuing the company at €120 million. On 10 January 2013 Orange bought the remaining 51% for €61 million. (source: Wikipedia)

So, the Dailymotion founders, investors and (hopefully) employees got a $123 million exit. (edited to fix the sum)

That said, in my experience government-based funds and grants usually do contain clauses that limit what you can do for a set period of years, in attempts to be able to reap the fruits of the investments (not neccessarily profits, but also employment, more activity and visibility to local IT sector, etc).

As with all funding, there are always at least some strings attached.
They tried to enforce users to become a relay when using as a client but relays should be stable servers so the plan was dismissed.
>it seems to be the norm that British management is overall terrible

What an incredibly spurious, over-generalised anecdote.