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> I wanted to write something that would have gotten my attention and would have made me stop and think and avoid wasting time. So that's what I wrote.

And that exactly what happened for me as a reader: I've read it because of this introduction. It was really eye-opening in a way ‑ it is so easy to forget how much work is behind the non-code side of a start-up project.

I find it even more sad when in the meantime, the button named "Learn more" on the same page doesn't link to a valid page (as https://www.influxdata.com/pricing leads to a 404).

To improve the "conversion", it would be a way better way to fix that link instead of forcing me to use the Web Inspector to remove a rude modal dialog…

> For example, every company with 50 or more employees needs to establish a works council (Comité d’Entreprise). This costs money and time.

Actually, not that much. You have one year to install it, and it mainly consists of an election you have to organize. If you can't organize that kind of stuff once every two year or so, I don't understand how you can face other business challenges.

> It is also one of many examples of regulation that brings about the culture of hostility between employees and employers.

In most of the companies, it only consists of giving money to employees and managers picked charities and giving perks like theaters tickets.

All of this is really manageable for startups with more than 50 employees, and most of the time, it is already done by them to attract employees.

French here: no, it is not common.

It is sometimes referred as "lemonde.fr", but the space is never omitted if we are not citing the web domain (with its TLD).

> Spent hours doing work […] whose purpose I can’t understand (that has been entirely new).

I don't think it is related to the employee condition, but more with sub-optimal top-down communication.

I never worked without knowing the purpose of what I was doing, in my professional life. And I think that I will quit my job if this happens — I didn't choose to work in a startup to work blindly on tasks without context and being able to participate.

Your employer risks some (huge) fines, depending on where you live. Here in France, we have "Work Inspectors" who verify sponteously those rules − they can be called by employees themselves, too.

Of course, if you are self-employed, there is no way that those rules can be enforced… but it will be frowned upon by your relatives, because we know that it is wrong in the long term.

> how many of you actually read through the entire article, WITHOUT checking your email, or flipping to twitter/fb to tell the world about this good article you just found?

Err, I don't know, but I was very surprised by reading all the comments (and original blogpost) implying you can't handle reading a 3000ish signs post without any interruption.

Of course, I see that we are "jumping" frequently, like every ten minutes or so, to find "brain fresh-air"; but if you have that much trouble to focus on a so simple thing like reading a simple article, maybe there is something more serious that you have to check without waiting.

(…honestly, I don't know how you can work in any environment with such an extreme rythm of "brain jumping".)

Me.

It will, for sure, improve some human-computer interactions in a few domains where it is easily deployable (mainly entertainment and industrial manipulations).

Other than that, I don't see it used that much. It is still cumbersome to wear, doesn't seem to be usable in mobility, and won't solve common problems in a business environment.

(But I'm still waiting for it, heh.)

I think the parent comment was sarcastic.

I've heard of D. It seems like a great idea, but all that stuff with proprietary compiler, poor online documentation, and zero public approval from any organization (except Facebook but it's lately) were a big no-no for my side-projects, keeping aside any commercial ones.

Now, Rust seems to be the perfect drop-in replacement in my heart for "new language that makes coffee while being readable and awesome to use".

> LinuxFR: Why Go?

> Jérôme Petazzoni [co-founder of Docker Inc.]: On the non-technical terms, Go is a little Switzerland of modern languages. If we chose Python, Ruby community would growled. If we chose Ruby, Python community would growl (and we probably would have gone for fools, because at the beginning of the project, the majority of the team was more comfortable in Python in Ruby). If you chose Java, everyone would have bitched!

"Go is a little Switzerland of modern languages" is my new favorite expression.

Using OCaml and darcs won't help this project to find contributors outside French academic world. It's unfortunate, IMHO.

You should try to run

    $ python3 --version

...instead.

> make it illegal to say anything critical about the French government.

What?

I'm sorry but I think you don't know anything about France, french politics, citizens or whatever related to the Hexagon.

A taxi license cost over 240,000 euros in Paris.

You're wrong. Expedia has no longer Voyages-SNCF.com parts since this "alliance" was condamned by French Autorité de la Concurrence (anti-trust autority).

Nowadays, the only Voyages-SNCF.com shareholder is Groupe SNCF.

Please note that it can be as difficult for French people to move to the USA (sometimes, it's even worse, thanks to your TSA guys).

It's sad Schengen Area[1] does not cross oceans...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area