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The only thing that chocks me is that there's only one Swedish-speaking school in Finland that teaches Latin (ofc the US public system thing is alarming, bu it's nothing of a bombshell). Am I the weird guy here or ..?

Well it's EU-related, so anything other than conceited BS would be paranormal.

My worry is that even though it's an Easter egg there, it could very well be used to introduce malicious code inside the production code.

I've long contemplated the depths of technological stacks (and knowledge as a whole, it pertains to epistemology as well), and my opinion is that knowing the intricacies of them isn't that important, as long as we manage to archive their fundamental principles somehow (may it be in our heads through studying and transmission, or in data).

That's an interesting matter and people comment on it. Related enough to HN for me.

Well, eggs are easily produced everywhere. Shipping it across the world seams hardly cost-efficient and wouldn't do much for better and fresher eggs (especially considering the cost of air-shipping versus sea-shipping).

1. Why would anyone ship eggs across the pond ?

2. I don't buy "clean" eggs. They look fake. Eggs come out of a hen's butt, deal with it. But then again, I'm neither American nor British (but French).

France is larger than Paris. The countryside isn't populated by cows only and I'm very much concerned about it.

I doubt being well versed in philosophy is relevant to most scientists nowadays, at least from a practical standpoint. As I heard Michel Serres put it a couple years ago : « Today's society produces ignorant technicians and cultivated [put any word describing someone that can't count up to two] » (roughly translated from the original French). And they do fine by it, apparently. But it is damageable to ignore some fundamentals, from Pythagoras to Descartes (regarding science).

As I think about it, it comes to me that whether philosophy is or isn't necessary isn't relevant. Empirical necessity doesn't sums up human aspirations, and music or poetry play in the same field. Philosophy is a way or structuring certain angles of thinking, and that's pretty cool. As a developer I have absolutely no use of Heidegger or saint Thomas in my activity, but I'm glad they exist.

It looks fun and all, but I really wonder about the implementation and practicality of it in C. But once again, it does look really cool.

I've always felt attracted by low-level systems and I'm currently one of many students in Comp. Sci. For the moment all by love goes to all kinds of bare-metal stuff, optimization tricks etc. I'd like to go all the way through it but being about more abstracted development (although the term looks unproper to me, since being able to grasp a machine's ways is a valuable effort of abstraction itself) seems like what is and will be expected of me.

So I'm asking : career-wise, are the optimization ghettos (video games, embedded systems, critical systems etc.) all that one could expected when refusing to code and manage projects around buzz-words or is there actual innovation / change and a shiny future to come for bit nerds ?