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Comment Re:not gonna happen (Score 1) 630

Hi, I'm living in europe in a country known for heavy taxes. I maid a rounded example of a 60k / year income

5000 / month income
Taxes:
600 healthcare
200 family social aid
250 unemployement insurance
850 retirement
50 professionnal education
550 general tax

2500 net left after taxes

So it's a 50% tax

What do we get for that price

100% cover for medical cost of serious desease like cancer
90% for dental and optics
50% pay for sick days

1600 / month if unemployed (lasts 2 years, you have to be actively looking for a job)
450 / month after those 2 years

2000 / month for retirement after working 42 years

Comment I saw an electric scooter last week (Score 1) 271

The one I saw was an high-end BMW http://www.bmwmotorcycle.com/c...
At 15000€ it's out of reach and it's also too big but if someone manage to do something smaller with lesser top speed it could be great.
Scooters are for inner city so autonomy shouldn't be an issue also it could resolve the two main problems with scooters nowadays: noise and air pollution.

Comment PR video of the data center (Score 1) 157

http://www.interxion.com/fr/Im...

Google maps location

https://www.google.fr/maps/pla...

It is not in Paris city itself, it's in the suburb. This place is a mix of housing area and old industrial facilities being slowly converted.
There are lots of data centers around here, the article say 10% of french capacity.
As you can see one the map, north of the data center is a highway, railroad and others industrial buildings. Only the south part is next to private houses.
I don't think the data center will shutdown they will appeal in court and add some noise reduction system.

Comment I'm a developper without a degree. (Score 2) 241

I failed my high school exit exam, then stayed six month at home doing nothing until my parent put pressure on me to find a job. I was like huh I sleep all day
and live the night so logically I became a night guardian.

Then a friend of mine, who was also a drop out, found a job as photocopier repair man in interim and told me they were looking for more people. I ended up repairing printers. From that I went to repair PCs so I became a technicien, then I did a little bit of sysadmin and helpdesk. It was in the mid 90s, I knew modems and became a hotliner for an internet provider. Went back to sysadmin and a little bit of coding in a startup to more and more coding to the point I stopped sysadmin.
For a long time a was insecure to present myself as a developer, today I can.

I don't know anything about math nor algorithm. I can't tell the difference between O(n) and O(log(n)).

All my colleague are engineers or have a college degree, most of them are brilliant and they can do stuff that I can't nor learn by myself.
They create business algorithm but often the code they make can't fit directly in production, or they miss some simple things.

As an example we had a daemon written in python which loaded tons of stuff from files at startup and stored it in a dictionary of numpy arrays.
My boss was proud of this code saying that this way the data was cached and it let us do things faster than calling the files everytime.
It could take one minute or more to start. That was super annoying if you had to change the code. I just stored the data into Redis at
first launch so I could relaunch the code at will without losing time, no big deal. Now they trust me for technological choice and practical
solutions.

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