Got me. That being said there's been quite a lot of funding happening in Paris lately, and there are a few French companies (some of them startups) which are starting to match Criteo's compensations.
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The 1-star reviews roughly fall in three categories:
- This is not how proper projects are done.
- We don't need another cult-like methodology
- This will vindicate cow boy coders
This school has its agile proponents too, though. But compared to the common practices of the penultimate decade, XP and Agile at least acknowledged that failure was the default mode of software development projects, and made contingency plans for it.
And on moonless nights I still wake up screaming remembering a RUP project I was involved in around 2000.
"No true scotsman" and all, I know.
The criticisms about no metrics supporting the book assertions are valid too (we have more metrics now, though).
That said, a lot of things in this book are now considered good engineering practices, and the methodology guys have come back with a vengeance with the Agile/Scrum/Lean/Whatever waves that filled the blanks left by XP (and ensured a nice revenue stream for pure process consultants).
Simple regular expressions can be good enough if you're aware of the domain restriction though.
Starship Trooper, the novel, is hilarious on its own, with its hawkishness and interesting political views (it's less creepy than Ender's Game in that aspect though). But Heinlein is a much better writer than Card and Stranger in a Strange land makes up for the juvenile tripe he wrote earlier. I guess Vietnam had to happen for some people to reflect on the Rah-rah-rah kind of military Sci-Fi.
(I know there's a cult of Heinlein on HN - I've always wondered if there was an intersection with the Cult of Rand and the Cult of Card)
Edit: as a thought experiment, it would be interesting (as in "depressing") to imagine the exact opposite: an adaptation of Old Man's War by the current Hollywood industry.
"Ruby is probably the best platform to learn if you're a designer and you want to learn how to code to add value for your clients."
and also I'd love some more details on why "Python is fairly mediocre in a lot of ways" (not starting a language war here, I'm genuinely curious)
(I'm in no way affiliated to Capitaine Train)
The "mariage pour tous" (="marriage for all" i.e. same-sex marriage) was opposed by a semi grassroot movement called "la manif pour tous" ("the protest for all") made mostly of our religious right. The protests were huge, and some people have compared it to the Tea Party (minus the guns).
http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-...
The Aggregate Knowledge blog is mind blowing for everything sketch related.
Yep, because as any Friedman loving economist (like Charles Gave you're linking to) will tell you, there's only one God and it's the Market.
>So one of the best doctors is paid 21€ and 7.5€?
No, you see, that's the thing about Social Security (you seem to know so much about), that's what the OP paid, the rest was paid to the doctor by the Social Security. This is well documented in http://www.securite-sociale.info/ you should take a look.
>See, this is where we disagree. It is my company, my private property. I should be able to do as I please with it as long as don't mess with other's freedom, this is a constitutional right in the declaration of human rights, private property is sacred.
"There is just one God, and it's private property". Where did you find "private property is sacred" anywhere in the declaration of human rights?
>Are you serious? The richest man in France has left and many of the top richest famillies have left: LVMH, Lacoste, Peugeot etc.
Yep and Apple, Google et al. don't pay any corporate taxes. Surely, the problem is the taxes.
On the other hand, it's refreshing to read something positive on Pincus, who has been crowned as the arch villain of the industry (does that make the OP the arch henchman of the industry?)
Like pretty much everyone else in that space, I use all
the iOS devices and a mac osx desktop. And my company's app.
My nugget of wisdom: nerds don't get laid. and I don't know about .NET 4.5, but .NET 4 was not
optimizing tail-calls on 64-bits Windows.
It's lower level and more limited than full blown FP aware TCO and it may not catch every call pattern, but it's been there for a while.