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I used a EeePC 701 for a few months. I found it perfectly fine with Window Maker, though the keyboard was awful - but it did work and i'm not a big keyboard snob anyway so i just went with it.

I was able to play old games, chat on IRC and read the occasional web page (though only one page at a time) and even watch videos. That latter part was a bit annoying though since i had to transcode most videos to a lower resolution and simpler codec, otherwise the CPU wouldn't be able to keep up (i do not think there was any video decoding acceleration). This usually meant that if i wanted to watch a 30m video i'd had to wait around 2 hours :-P. But i allocated time for that, doing transcoding while sleeping or going out.

Sadly one morning i destroyed the screen by stepping on it - i often used it at bed and left it at the side and one morning i stepped on it when i woke up. I later bought an Acer Aspire One as a replacement - that one was much faster (though some video still needed transcoding) and it had a much better keyboard. Sadly i lost it by forgetting it at a bus station.

Recently i bought a used EeePC 701 from eBay for a few dollars. It is in almost mint condition and instead of Linux it comes with Windows XP. I find it funny that at startup the OS always complains about the resolution (800x480) being too low despite being the native one :-P.
Why would anyone trust statements about whistleblower protections are truthful when the top brass lies to Congress?
Are you sure your assumption that Amazon still has to dedicate a full server permanently to the application is correct?
They can use their own money to invest in those and they do, not policy funds.
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I have heard to social security laws are strict in France, and thus, after hiring an employee, you are basically stuck with them and can't fire.

Could you elaborate on that? How true is the statement above?
Assume 100 pages on each onion address (it’s probably power-law but let’s just assume that’s the mean). Latency with Tor is super high. Assume average of 5s to load a single page. This is generous because tail latency will probably dominate mean latency in this setting.

These things can happen in parallel but let’s also assume no more than 32 simultaneous TCP connections per host through a Tor proxy.

So we’re looking at ~75k1005/32 seconds = 14 days to run through all of them. You may not need to distribute this but there are situations (e.g. I want a fresh index daily) where it is warranted.
No, it's not influence. Their devs essentially started removing support for other init systems in GNOME under the pretense of reducing maintenance load.

It has to be pretty strongly changed to actually work with something else and then incompletely. (Read Gentoo patch list.)

It's the same story with other sound servers than Pulseaudio, including pure ALSA.
Probably another US-specific issue... I am not really a frequent traveler but I've accumulated around 10 legs of flights from Asia to Europe and within each continent. I do not remember encountering anything similar.
In France, if you are an engineer (Grande Ecole), you go work for companies like EDF, Thales or Safran.
If you're BTS/DUT (c'est ca la puissance intellectuelle... bac + 2, les enfants), go work for a small company, preferably outside of Paris. But never work for a bunch of assholes from HEC who are copy/pasting some American ride-sharing or social media startup.
That's more of a real villain. To be a Bond villain, you need more grand standing and scenery chewing. The biggest real villains prefer to do their damage quietly without anyone noticing, while Bond villains make for a better story.
I think it's mostly down to human nature. People are tribal. If there's more people around one who are risk taking and trying to innovate, then others feel also more inclined to go down this path, whereas if there's almost nobody around one to do their own startup, then other people will also be less likely to do it, because noone wants to be alone in their risk taking.

It's seen everywhere in life and starts with kids. When you have one kid alone, he/she is less likely to jump of a 10m cliff, but if you have a group of kids who all jump into the water then others will follow. It's the same with adults, except you replace cliff jumping with risk taking/innovation/startups.

I base that opinion, because I've seen a lot of friends/family who come from a very risk averse culture/country move to a different place and then instantly change their attitudes as they see that it's more normal elsewhere and therefore they acustom to the thinking that it's more normal and ok to do it.
> So, the Dailymotion founders, investors and (hopefully) employees got a $123 million exit.

The SIF invested in 2009, they could have blocked any kind of exit involving a foreign (likely American) party after that point.

> As with all funding, there are always at least some strings attached.

Yes, but usually those are to make sure that minority shareholders also play ball if/when the bulk of the shares can be sold, not to stop a deal from going through based on Nationalistic grounds.
And in related news there's apparently a loneliness epidemic.
You forgot who funds these developers, most of the time, so no big projects are not free to choose. Even Debian desisted after longer time.
Real reason is buried in the text:

"While Sugar was an elegant operating system, some potential buyers were dubious of anything that wasn’t Microsoft Windows. They wanted students to learn an interface they’d be using for the rest of their lives, not just with the XO-1."

They bottled out of Linux, so no free OS . . . the rest is history.
Or just have a bit of consideration and leave the blind down when the people around you are sleeping.
It seems like such a rude thing to feel, but I too struggle with actually taking interest in what my coworkers think. Is this what happens when you begin to see a different generation enter the workforce? I'm not too much older but I'm not their age, so the divide seems to be forming ever so slowly.
The French model of innovation is very much that it is a thing that happens in a lab buried deep in the bowels of a giant state-backed enterprise, by salaried workers with absolute job security but no equity participation.

The entrepreneurial French all leave for London or Berlin.
First of all, user didn't suggest that people would benefit from learning the basics of car maintenance but instead said that the car owners should learn how to do it.

But to get to the real point, you are talking about two different issues as if they are one and the same. The car discussion is about not being interested in learning some things because you can just pay someone to do it while you do something else that you enjoy more. That it is easy to learn has nothing to do with it.

The parent poster here is talking about intelligent people being unable to complete basic tasks on a computer, even though they are sincerely trying to learn how to do them and sometimes even having them explained in detail.
I am not aware of any of those ever blocking deals for such reasons as the one what stopped Yahoo! from acquiring DM from Orange.

If you stifle the ability for such deals to be consummated you remove the oxygen from a lot of the lower levels as well.
What is BTS/DUT? What's the advantage of working for a small company outside of Paris?
I think you are right with your assumption that Docker images that don't resemble the production environment aren't sufficient to test.

But isn't the idea of Docker that you can recreate the production environment? If you can't why use Docker in the first place?
In a savings account.That way if the checking account gets compromised, the majority of your money are safe. A common way for a checking account to be compromised is for someone to steal the debit card associated with it. That way is has access to most of your money. There are withdraw limits that kind of limit the impact of such scenario, but you can still loose plenty of money. Also, money associated with a debit card are your own money, so if you loose them the bank can not do many things, in contrast to credit cards, where they can cancel transactions.

The main idea is to keep separate accounts for "everyday life" and savings.
Set up by default for about 10 years.
Agree. I have seen Airbus trying this 'lets do what the Americans startups do' model for a few years now and it went no where. It's not their strength.
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'Affording flexibility' means accepting higher costs in order to get short-term leases, which is exactly what companies like We offer. Going the normal office rental route has longer-term leases and thus much less flexibility.
Agreed.

~2 years ago I seriously looked into Serverless and very quickly discarded it after seeing a large production deployment of it. I didn't have access to the billing info but the site loaded much slower than a regular site and developer productivity was quite low.

I'm going to stick with good old servers for now. If anyone is curious, a few years ago I did a write up on "Should your next project be built as a Serverless app?" which compares deployment styles in a bit more detail: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/should-your-next-project-be-b...
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Yep. There is only one case where plastic can be reused high efficiently (during molding any bad parts or scrap are chucked right back in).
But otherwise it's a nightmare of problems from being able to clean out contaminants, the inability to remove the color dye, the various mixtures of plastics, etc.
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It's easier to run pulseaudio on top of Jack with its module. It's manual setup though, something like Cadence can make it less manual.
I'd say OLPC did change the world in a myriad small ways, just not in the big lofty way they imagined.

As other commenters mentioned, it was a direct inspiration for Asus eee PC, which spawned an entire category of netbooks and ultrabooks. I wouldn't be surprised if indirectly it also was a part of inspiration for iPads and Android tablets by letting Apple and others realise there's a strong demand for sub-notebook consumer "computers".

As another commenter mentioned, Raspberry Pi was also in part influenced/inspired by OLPC.

And on a personal note: around 9 years ago I was working on (porting some Linux software to) a touchscreen-capable netbook directly inspired by OLPC. In my spare time, frustrated by the lack of touchscreen-friendly drawing apps I built a small web app to scratch my itch. Several years later, it's used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, many of them teachers and kids in elementary schools.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of people out there with similar stories to tell.
All Lambda does is spin up a bunch of containers to handle that. Why is that any different than traditional options? You would just horizontally auto scale in the exact same way. You don't HAVE to pre-provision anything.

Plus, receiving 1 million requests in one second, you'll have cold starts for every new container that gets created for you, so achieving consistent low latency would be impossible since you don't control that.
This is all strawman. There are valid reasons for serverless, most people choose it for reasons other than hype, and the savings and security of not self managing servers is tangible. All technology can be misused or poorly utilized, and even the best can have pathological edge cases. For the 80% or more, serverless works just fine.
Sure. But the side effect of all this was to kill French investment for a while simply because founders had to argue why they thought they would not be given the 'dailymotion' treatment if successful. That these particular founders had already sold to an intermediary doesn't matter, after all it could have been Yahoo! knocking on their door as well, and it was the SIF clause that allowed them to block the deal.
France blocked the previous deal just because it

They blocked it because of a misplaced sense of isolationist protectionism. That's arguably very wrong in a global economy but it's not 'just because they could'.
Your statement is mostly true, but you can fire someone for economic reasons.

Still, most startups rely on armies of unpaid interns as a workaround.
> I don't understand coworkers who say silly things at the lunch table without a second thought

I'm such a coworker. Two reasons I do this:

1. I don't care about "upward mobility".

2. People don't see me as a threat to theirs, which is a good thing, because you don't want an overly ambitious junior developer trying to prove his(or hers) worth by picking on you.

Reason 0. is that weirdly enough it's good to appear somewhat "incompetent", but still in reality be able to deliver.
SeedTable sent out a newsletter last Friday about this but with additional insights on the French tech scene. Also worth a read: https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?u=32b602d9ab9d238ceb45e3f0...
"tone-deaf" is the new "cultural fit" - fits any situation without explanation.

What is the "evil" of ICE's actions? FUD about "cages" that where fine when it was Obama doing it?
There's abstraction confusion here, though. All SQL injection countermeasures and all it would take to protect the above CLI call is respecting the actual language you're using. That is, not gluing a query/command from strings.

Starting a subprocess via shell is could in particular be solved by a simple API of the form of:

system('yourapp', ['option1', {'option2' : 'something'}]);

in your favourite language. Handling pipes and redirects gets more complex, but I see no prima facie reason why it couldn't look like this:

pipe(system('yourapp', ['option1', {'option2' : 'something'}]),
system('grep', ['n', 'i', 'foobar']),
system('somethingelse', [], null, file("/dev/null")));
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Plenty of startups coast along on VC money for a really long time before admitting they're not actually thriving and shut down.
Our company has customers who install our SDK, and that SDK pushes and pulls data from our service.

We service ~400 million API calls per month. Half of the calls pull static cached data from a CDN (Cloudfront), and the other half ingests data pushed to it from the SDK (anywhere from 10kb to 400kb per call).

We run of Elastic Beanstalk, which is basically an abstraction later on top of an autoscaling EC2 cluster.

Back when Lambda (and API Gateway) first came out we were excited. It sounded like the perfect way to break free from our “legacy” server architecture.

Until you do the pricing calculations. It wasn’t even close. Managed services like Lambda and API Gateway were prohibitively expensive. (Thank god we didn’t begin development with the services before scaling - we would have never been able to scale at those prices).

Not only price, but performance was horrible. Lambdas take forever to warm up (unacceptable for latency sensitive use cases).

I’ve never really thought of Lambda / API Gateway as anything other than a cool pet toy. Although maybe thats being a little harsh..?
IIRC, Chrome OS started as that very concept, although it's kind of evolved since then.
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> it will make a difference between 2 otherwise identical cakes.

If we go into "all else equal" territory, you could get a promotion and not neighbour because you created your dog an instagram account that your boss likes.

Or you could have built a Minecraft world that was pretty cool when your coworkers checked it from one of your sns profiles.

Or you could be the only one not annoying your boss all day long, and they show their appreciation on bonus day.

Or your release announcement mails have funny gifs.

Or your have a name that's easily remembered.

Or really anything. I think the goal to build trust and reputation is for things to not be equal and not have to play weird games of popularity.

Don't get me wrong, communication is key, but chit chat is a single very specific form of communication, among so many others.

I think in any decent organisation you get better ROI from having good written communication than top of the game chitchat, if you had to focus your attention somewhere. If chitchat is an important part of your professional life, I hope it's by choice and you're not just stuck in a company you hate.
But weren't there also ones with a "grounding cable" that was supposed to help with "radiation"? I'm sure it was quackery, but I seem to remember those as well.
I remember hearing about this many years ago, and then finally writing about it[0]. I should have written about it earlier, and by the time I did, of course XKCD had already got there.

Oh well. I thought I'd mention it.

[0] http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/MilesPerGallon.html?si23hn
It is mostly true. There is more flexibility for smaller companies, but generally you need to justify firing someone and courts tend to protect employees more.

The issue in France is that you basically have tons of small companies that can have exemptions on things like that, taxes, etc. and a few very large companies that can deal with that, but almost nothing in between. Running a 500-employee company in France is basically hell, you get crap from everywhere.
One of the results from happiness research is that people rate their expected enjoyment from an interaction with a stranger as very low, but if you ask them after such an interaction, they usually rate it very highly.

Maybe we're risk averse because most interactions are mildly positive, but a tiny number are exceptionally bad, triggering the availability hueristic. Not sure.

Either way, we're probably more avoidant than we should be.
I think you missed the point that the opportunity is not equal, as a person if you grew up in rural Georgia and not knowing what to do with your life because you didn't get the memo kinda screws your future. It's about giving the opportunity for the smart minds to work on impactful things and frankly, if I would have that chance of a privileged kid, I would take it. Basically there are ways how to fix it, the question is what is the most effective way... Think about cheating on dropping the dice based on a pattern that always grants you two threes.
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> correct me if wrong

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Exactly. Like anything, right tool for the right job.

I was hosting my personal website on EC2 with an RDS instance and it cost around $20/month. But since the site gets little-to-no traffic and I got sick of EC2 upkeep, I switched S3 & Cloudfront: now my bill is $0.80/month.

Another example: at work we inherited an old EC2 instance that was set up solely to run cron jobs on other servers. Occasionally it would lock up or go down, for whatever reason, creating chaos for the servers that needed specific jobs run frequently.

We switched to AWS Lambda functions for those cron jobs and they've never failed once.

If you're running a games website that gets pinged 24/7, don't use Serverless. But the notion that it's slow and overpriced is misguided if you're applying the wrong use case.
True! Your comment actually made me go through some exits from BOM (who have invested in us) and I saw a fair bunch that exited to non-EU owned buyers.
Or Amsterdam, or Barcelona. If they stay in Europe. But the vast majority leave for Silicon Valley if they are skilled enough to get hired by any one of the larger players.
Oh, I'm not. But I may be annoyed if you say that happened "at a banker's whim" when in fact it happened because of written regulations.
Gooey could use a GUI that generates the Gooey config at the press of a button.
I’ve been reading the book this article is excerpted from. So far my key takeaway is that just because you did something interesting doesn’t mean that your life is interesting or that you have anything interesting to say.
> It's true that we don't have the kind of startup culture that California has, despite attempts from the government.

I've been part of an Amsterdam startup and 'started' my own companies with various people a few times, and my impression is that there are a few reasons for this:

1. much as it's easy to start a company, it seems difficult to get funding. The government seems to be trying, but it still feels less than what I read about SV (or at least SV in the past?).

2. the market is much smaller. once you need to deal with other countries with other languages, (tax) regulations that are often much more complicated and bureaucratic, cultural differences, etc., things get much more difficult, and I've noticed multiple small startups around here just don't bother.

3. for tech startup type workers at least, but probably for most workers here, there's less of a culture of jumping into a startup. we like our steady jobs, we are quick to complain about overwork, and there's all sorts of (good) protections that possibly make it more difficult to find employees and grow.

In regards to 3, the startup I worked for consisted of a just-out-of-school programmer, a wealthy-and-connected but inexperienced CEO, and a fantastic and experienced designer who, in his forties, decided to do something 'risky' and 'new'. He also came from wealth but had done very well for himself too. and later a social media/marketing person who was just out of college.

So the startup either involved people who could put it on their CV regardless of how well things went, or people who could afford faffing about for a while. I suppose I was in the latter camp, although that's more because I just don't spend much money and make enough as a front-ender currently that I can do 'cool' things without much skin in the game.
You would think this to be shortsightedness or outright stupidity... Until you realize, that depleting your fish stock quickly and putting the resulting wealth into the stock market will yield higher total wealth than fishing sustainably. While small time fishermen in question might not be thinking in these terms, these conclusions do get reflected into their reality. E.g. via observing what does the corporate fishing do.
I suspect if you were to put "your money where your mouth is" those 80% of yours would turn into 20 or less. ;)
That's a great rule, but often an awkward conversation that can end in an even more miserable flight.
The thing about 'gift cards' is that people think they are money. They are not, they hold no actual monetary value, which is why you can't request the issuing company to convert them back to cash. Also MANY gift cards have expiry dates on them. It doesn't matter if the gift card is 'worth' £3,000, if it's past its expiry date, that £3,000 is effectively gone.
I was trying to show this to a ton of people for a long time in general none cares :)
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> One problem with the British upperclass, is that they tend to be educated at private schools like Eton, where they primarily learn confidence. So tons of British politicians and managers know how to appear to know what they're doing, without actually knowing what they're doing.

Having worked with certain interested underwriters from Lloyd's, it was an easy upvote for me.
IDF is a great Israel’s advantage. This high quality manpower is not only highly qualified, but also understands hierarchy and is not afraid to take responsibility when needed. The same is valid for Switzerland and their mandatory military service. University cannot replace army.