mablopoule

I really dislike tailwind too, but I think there is lot of value for lots of people in the idea of having all the styles contained with the template and thus making copy-pasting of code easier without having to deal with the pesky 'Cascade' part of CSS.

Personnaly, I love the cascading part when used correctly, along with the 'latest' evolution of CSS such as 'calc()', variables, on top of using CSS selectors.

If you liked the content of the article, I urge you to read the excellent book "Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World" [1] by Dan Davies, which I believe is the main source of inspiration for this article (I'm just guessing here, I have no proof of that).

I discovered this book through another great post by Patrick McKenzie, "The fraud supply chain" [2] where he heartily recommend it, and I haven't been disappointed. On top of being informative, the book is very entertaining to read.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Money-Legendary-Frauds-Workings...

[2] https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-fraud-supply-chai...

Well I didn't knew that, thanks for the info! It's a bit like "espace" which is feminine when talking about typography.

Or "covid", but only because I'm too stubborn to accept to say "La covid".

You should try to google "Poule Soie", they are gorgeous beast :)

The nickname is a play on my family name ("Monchablon"), that was wrongly written on the first draft of my work contract (as "Mablochon"), which only needed a bit of a chicken-obsessed CTO to become "Mablopoule".

One handy habit I got from that CTO is to keep a folder of images of poultry to use as test images when coding/debugging an image-related form.

They should change it to a nicer word, like 'bonheur' (pronounced 'boner'), which is french for happiness :)

For 'string', it's funny how desensitized you get the the word until you talk to a colleague and ask him "Mais du coup t'as un string ?", and realized you asked him in public if he had a tong.

Or when you try to debug something while a little tired, and mindlessly google 'string' without any other search term, only to be surprised at only having underwear-related results.

Anyway, I need to go to the store and ask the clerk for a 32 giga-cock USB drive.

What a sad day if it's acted, as a native french I always got a little chuckle that there is a slight comeuppance for the fact that 'bit' (and also 'byte' in a lesser measure) is pronounced exactly like 'bite', which is french for 'cock'.

It's harmless fun, and also a taste of the cultural hegemony the non-anglosaxon world get (I realize the irony of saying that as a french).

You can blame both, it's not either/or.

Hamas is a terrorist group that makes everything it can do to threaten Israel, and has no regard to Palestinian lives.

In the same time, it's getting harder and harder to turn a blind eye to the blatant disregard of Palestinian lives and casualty from Israel. There is a notion of proportionality in war [1], and Israel's willingness to kill civilians is simply inexcusable at this point. Sure you can say that Hamas use civilians as a shield, and you'll be right, that doesn't give the other side a free pass to bomb an incredibly dense zone of already-displaced people.

Even Rony Brauman, the ex-director of Doctors Without Borders said in an interview recently that it's one of the first times they seen intense bombing on a population who couldn't even flee the zone, and at this point Gaza was a mass grave of kids [2].

Israel absolutely does have a right to defend itself, but that doesn't give them a free pass for everything, and right now they are actively undermining their claim on being a democracy with respect on humans right.

[1] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/assessing-israel-s-appr...

[2] (french) https://pca.st/episode/acfb00a6-2392-454c-a1e0-710ae4df6552

Too much interruption is bad, I agree, but there are some type of skills / mindset that are 100x times simpler to gain by contact with colleagues than by training on your own (even when looking at forums). Especially on the things that you wouldn't not think about improving.

I had the luck of working with a dude who was extremely good at analyzing data, simply by loading json files in sublime text, doing a mix of pretty-printing, multi-cursors changes (with usually 1000+ cursors), regex-foo, playing with buffers and other linux commands. It was a weird set of skills that was truly magic to behold, and not amount of Youtube conference or code review could have replaced that.

There are some coding livestream that can help with that, but it's not as efficient as being in the room as talented peoples.

But that's the thing: I don't want this "social service", at all.

The labor resources would ideally be reduced by only doing hosting, and to check if the deployed app doesn't contains a malware, not on whether the app follows the guidelines created by some assholes in California.

By example, I'm completely creeped by Apple's relations to pornography, and how that impact apps such as Grindr. I'm creeped by the article's suggestion that Apple may remove the Twitter app "to protect" it's user from seeing Alex Jones content. In the same way, I wouldn't want my chinese-made phone to "protect" me from political opinion unsavory to peoples in Beijing.

That is why I really prefer the web vision of just deploying stuff on a domain you own, with a server you rent, and importantly no such thing as a whitelist of accepted domains curated by the browser maintainers. Of course even then there are limits to the kind of thing you can put in there, but nowhere near as much as those done on App stores.

I'm french, and despite both being western countries, there's enough cultural differences between France and the US to make me really despise any attempt at content control by platforms who I believe should stay culturally neutral; instead I just see people having accepted this level of cultural influence as being normal, even beneficial.

This unlimited reach was kinda possible with all the printing technology, and such things as zine.

But the main point is that it's the newspaper's own editor, following the newspaper's own editorial line (and possibly the law)

But that's Twitter/X labor, not the App Store labor, the App Store should ideally be a glorified S3.

And I don't like the idea of a pen or a notebook company giving themselves editorial power over what people write in those notebook, which is basically what happens now.

I'm disgusted at how we transform such fantastic things as personal computer and turn them into such limited object.

Yeah, same. I'm not ready to shell a hundred dollars for an ebook, however fantastic it is, my upper limit is around 50 USD, maybe 60, and only if it's very good and niche content.

I think that the idea is that it's potentially more mod-friendly than if all the files resides on a physical support.

What negative stereotype? That Israel has excellent cyber capacity?

Sure, there wasn't any official attribution, but the US aren't the only player in town either.

EDIT: As an aside, an ex-director of the DGSE[1] (french CIA basically) complained that there tend to be a general misunderstanding between the communication modes of western countries and middle-east countries, the former prefers to proverbially "Speak softly and carry a big stick" while the latter prefer a good incendiary speech as a form of catharsis. As a result western audiences tend to take some speeches too literally, as if they were a plan of action while the discourse wasn't made with them in mind.

[1] Alain Chouet, in the excellent (french-only) book "Au coeur des services spéciaux" https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/au_coeur_des_services_sp... https://www.amazon.fr/coeur-services-sp%C3%A9ciaux-Jean-GUIS...

Just watched the video, that was very interesting, didn't knew about this Youtube Channel, so thank you!

It's also in the (1998) Metal Gear Solid game, where the protagonist is the unknowing carrier of a virus deadly only to specific key people.

There is a very interesting conference from Defcon 25 about this exact subject: https://youtu.be/HKQDSgBHPfY?si=N9C-5VRNMtIoCQBB

No casual antisemitism here. I would be very surprised if it turns out that Israel wasn't involved in Stuxnet.

It's not like they don't have extremely good cyber capacity, or incentives to hinder an iranian nuclear program.

Not necessarily 'unjustly vilified', but most of Edgar Hoover's biography were done before the extend on soviet spying in the US was declassified. It talked about a very interesting podcast on a previous comment [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257604

But using the '&&' operator is common enough, while using something like the Javascript void operator would not be, and so would need in a shared codebase a reason for usage other than to try to look smart.

Yeah, I'm not for mindless consumption of social media designed to make you addicted, but this article really feels like the medicalization of what would be described before as a slave revolt.

Playfulness isn't even a basic human traits, it's an animal trait, and yet the lack of any consideration in this article on whether the work/life balance might truly be unhealthy and people just need a breather sometimes, this feels truly sociopathic.

Thank you for the reference, not too surprised it's Satie, he's a bit of an odd fellow.

And this being HN, I feel obligated to reference a very interesting talk by Mouse Reeve about Erik Satie during a "Strange Loop" conference:

https://youtu.be/ANYMii3Sypg?si=S_-9Z98NlawiiLm9

Not sure if that fits, but maybe the piano piece is the Philip Glass album "Solo Piano", which is variation on the same base melody thorough the whole album?

Tangent to this idea is the concept of 'back pressure' related to data flow, and the need to have a way to return feedback in a system.

Yes and no. You should have more than this one book, but the framing is useful as it force the answerers to make a choice, and avoid dumping a huge list of favorite book.

Not so much programming than Sysadmin, but "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley and Dan Mackin.

It's a huge book covering a lot of ground, while on the same time being very approachable for anyone with some experience of linux trying to go further, and last but not least it's extremely enjoyable to read.

This book makes you feels like you're in same room as very fun and knowledgeable people showing you the ropes. It's colorful, and not afraid to be opinionated sometime.

> College is vastly more restricted in France and unavailable to the majority of the population.

French citizen here, I'm really surprised by what your saying as it doesn't match at all what I've seen about french higher education.

> French taxation is incredibly complex and heavy on the middle class

Yes and no. French taxation can be complex, but it's also mostly pre-filled and automatized. For most people, it's simply a matter of checking if the tax form is correct (and I've never had an incorrect one so far, as my employer automatically transmit my paycheck info to the government)

> Life grinds to a halt with some regularity due to general strikes

There are often disturbance due to strike, but "Life grinds to a halt" is also widely hyperbolic. The last real impactful strike I remember was the late 2019 month-long strike on parisian public transport, which was annoying (and was quickly followed by Covid lockdown)

But I also agree on many points you bring, there tend to be far less upward social mobility than in the USA (I'm always surprised by how fast people seem to be promoted in the USA), and generally more disposable income and opportunities. On the other hand, instead of having everyone thinking themselves as "temporary embarrassed millionaires", it's more accepted that even lower socio-economic classes should have decent working and living conditions, along with a better safety net.

On the plus side, apparently very few place in the USA are actually walk-able, even the malls seems to need a long drive instead of being part of living in a city. There also aren't any food desert, with unprocessed food cheap, tasty[1] and widely available. Also, while there certainly are a fair share of drugs and homelessness, it's quite also quite safe[2].

[1] I know how smug that will sound, but all the echo I have is that fruits and vegetable in the USA taste very bland, and are far less nutrient-rich than they used to be a few generations ago. A friend who visited the USA was shocked about it, and half-seriously though he had Covid when he tried them, and he wasn't the only one.

[2] There are however pick-pocketing targeting tourists, especially asian, but a "hot" neighborhood in France is waaaay safer than a hot neighborhood in the USA.