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abolibibelot commented on With Station F, Paris will have the world’s biggest startup campus techcrunch.com/2016/12/05... · Posted by u/programLyrique

user5994461 · 9 years ago

Obviously. You are at Criteo?

I don't think it's fair to say "there are" when "there IS" only a single company that pays this kind of money in Paris.

abolibibelot · 9 years ago

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.

abolibibelot commented on With Station F, Paris will have the world’s biggest startup campus techcrunch.com/2016/12/05... · Posted by u/programLyrique

RhodesianHunter · 9 years ago

I'm an American senior developer who also happens to be fluent in French. I would kill to work in Paris, but every time I have looked the rates for senior engineers were 1/3 what you're describing and there's no way I'm moving for that.

abolibibelot · 9 years ago

For senior developers in Paris the median may be around 50-60, (most of software engineer jobs are in consultancies) but there are tech companies that pay up to twice as much . I know mine does, and is looking for developers from all around the world, if you're interested :)

abolibibelot commented on Knossos: Redis and Linearizability aphyr.com/posts/309-knoss... · Posted by u/m0nastic

abolibibelot · 12 years ago

That's a glimpse of an alternate universe where technology choices were backed by actual proof. Well done Kyle Kingsbury. Moreover, all his Jepsen series are a great writeup on distributed DB theory and issues, and nurture an healthy skepticism to the wild claims DB authors/vendors throw around.

http://aphyr.com/tags/Jepsen

abolibibelot commented on 1-star reviews of 'Extreme Programming' amazon.com/Extreme-Progra... · Posted by u/narfz

MartinCron · 12 years ago

gossip magazine diet plan

In four words you managed to perfectly encapsulate the problem I have with so much writing about development processes and tools.

It's not good enough to claim to be just incrementally better than what you're probably doing, you need to be the best most super awesome EXTREME thing ever!

abolibibelot · 12 years ago

I wish I had coined the term, but it's taken from an actual comment: http://www.amazon.com/review/RDZBBO2Q4MI6V/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm...

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

2 and 3 may have a point.

abolibibelot commented on 1-star reviews of 'Extreme Programming' amazon.com/Extreme-Progra... · Posted by u/narfz

MartinCron · 12 years ago

Good for you. Some of us old-timers have lived through pure waterfall, waterfall-inspired, and guilt and shame for not doing waterfall right.

abolibibelot · 12 years ago

The guilt and shame is so spot on. Living though such projects illustrated so well the "the beatings will continue until morale improves" project management school of thoughts.

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.

abolibibelot commented on 1-star reviews of 'Extreme Programming' amazon.com/Extreme-Progra... · Posted by u/narfz

praptak · 12 years ago

> the clean cut from waterfall

...was in fact a strawman. The whole horrible waterfall process was an urban legend: http://postagilist.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/the-perennial-wa...

abolibibelot · 12 years ago

Don't know about the formalization by Royce, but I've witnessed and suffered waterfall in practice - let's call it ad-hoc waterfall if you will - and it was no urban legend.

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.

abolibibelot commented on 1-star reviews of 'Extreme Programming' amazon.com/Extreme-Progra... · Posted by u/narfz

abolibibelot · 12 years ago

Some of the criticisms are still valid: there's a definite "gossip magazine diet plan" vibe to the book, even if the clean cut from waterfall or iterative process horrors (Rational Unified Process anyone?) was sorely needed.

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).

abolibibelot commented on Common Regular Expressions Made Simple github.com/madisonmay/Com... · Posted by u/madisonmay

phorese · 12 years ago

The time regex is, too. In German you can expect to encounter the text fragment

> um 6:00 am 05.12. (at 6:00 on 12/05/..)

If i read it correctly, the time regex would extract "6:00 am" as time, but the "am" is wrong (German uses 24h format).

abolibibelot · 12 years ago

When dealing with this general problem, the proper tool would more likely be language/culture detection + Named-Entity Recognition.

Simple regular expressions can be good enough if you're aware of the domain restriction though.

abolibibelot commented on Common Regular Expressions Made Simple github.com/madisonmay/Com... · Posted by u/madisonmay

JazCE · 12 years ago

I'm gonna be That Guy and say that the e-mail regex isn't upto scratch and probably should not be included.

generally, very good.

abolibibelot · 12 years ago

I'm gonna be That Other Guy and say that the date and phone regex are respectively english-language and US specific. So it's common for a narrow definition of common.

abolibibelot commented on Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever theatlantic.com/entertain... · Posted by u/ValentineC

lmm · 12 years ago

I've never understood the praise for Old Man's War; I read it, and it felt like a Heinlein tribute act, with no creativity or originality, and saying nothing that Heinlein and his contemporaries hadn't already said. Did I miss the point?

abolibibelot · 12 years ago

Old Man's War is an ironical counterpoint to Starship Troopers (something that becomes more blatant in the later novels). It's a bit like Hadelman's Forever War mixed with slapstick. It's no masterpiece, but the humor makes it a great read.

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