That SQL is still relevant after 25 years.

Something interesting is that the way Epitech (and 42) work is completely different from what you would have in public schools (at least in France).

For example, one key part for me was that the school allowed me to practically don't go to classes as long as I could prove that my work wasn't affected. It's something that you won't find everyday. I'm 100% sure I'd have failed university otherwise because the lack of freedom would have bored me to death Conversely, friends of mine have dropped from Epitech in the first two years because they didn't get enough support, so it shows that the most interesting thing the school has to offer is its learning devices. They understood that one size doesn't fit all (which is against the French public school philosophy).

So yeah, the tuition is expensive (and frankly given how the school works you sometimes wonder whether they eat luxury cars for lunch), but there's simply no public alternative.

One other factor I've also wondered is if people paying for their scholarships weren't more invested in making it a success? I knew my fair share of people who weren't thriving as developers at Epitech as well, mind you, but most of them dropped before the end.

I live in Paris, am french, and have been working at the same startup for more than a year and some months now.

The scene is very active, any new company these days will always brand themselves as a "startup" no matter how they function behind the scenes. So alot of "false advertising" when you postulate, "we're cool and all, we SOMETIMES allow a day of remote work a week" and typical bs like that.

Your french will need to be good, because it has been proven time and time again that we are bad as flip at learning languages and if you watch statistics online you'll see we're worst ranked in the entirety of Europe in languages.

Used to be that there were some "startup heavy" districts inside Paris, still is the case, but now we also have the brand new "Station F" that sells itself (or rather Macron sells as) the next Silicon Valley of Europe.... Never heard that anywhere...

My SO is currently in internship at station F and she told me the turnover is pretty crazy, it's more of an incubator that helps new startups get on their feet, so they'll probably stay around 6 months and then move far away to get cheap offices. Also apparently their selection process is run by old investors that have no idea what they are doing and if you simply sell your sh#t product/service well enough you'll get in. From what my SO told me about 50% of the startups over there are your typical "marketing" based "services" that sell you vaporware and invest 99% of their revenue in better "packaging" and what not, if you know what type of "company" I'm talking about...

Last thing, you'll probably get a good pay since your resume mentions the words "worked at Silicon Valley", but from my experience, every single HR will try to f#ck you over when you are being hired, so you better be a tough negotiator. For reference I currently earn 30k eur (about 21k after tax) a year as a junior (2 year xp) full-stack dev (mainly node, php and alot of sysops)

I'd resume by saying that overall, startups in Paris are more akin to those in SF than the Silicon Valley if you know what I mean. That might be your sort of thing, but I'm more of a "I want to build the future with my new js framework" type of guy... So have been considering moving out of France.

This is the bailey in the motte-and-bailey defense of diversity. Of course people from different backgrounds will contribute differing perspectives. But in practice, it always ends up being race, gender, and sexual orientation. No talk about getting representatives from groups that actually think in ways that are different. Where are the quotas for libertarians, green party members, immigrants, aspies, former attorneys, artists, competitive athletes, scoutmasters, stamp collectors, gearheads, all shades of personality types?

Could it be a case of correlation vs causation?

Age discrimination is bad. Firing employees because of their age, or maybe more cynically, because if their elevated salaries, is a shit thing to do.

But what about getting rid of the employees who hold the company back? The ones who drag their feet. The ones who are more concerned about protecting their political standing than accomplishing good work. The ones who try to avoid change, sometimes literally defended by "Well that's the way we've always done it."

That breed of employee tends to have been at the company for a long time. Often that means they're older in age, too. Making a clean sweep of folks like that could appear to be age discrimination while actually being due to performance.

Now here's to hoping that Heroku supports this soon. That will to mean I can a last migrate a number of apps that require wildcard domains to their platform.

We wrote the same sentence, but I am posting it anyway...”greed and speculation today becomes genuine mass distrust and dislike of all things cryptocoin/token tomorrow.”

It’s all fun and games until the IRS comes knocking at your door for failing to pay taxes on each and every cryptokitty transaction.

People thought blockchain and Bitcoin was a way to escape fiat...turns out mining is taxed as ordinary income, investing transactions as capital gains, and the IRS only accepts fiat.

People thought Ethereum smart contracts were a way to escape the legal system (the code being Law and all)...turns out people could’nt trust these smart contracts to do what they thought and were marketed to do (DAO); turns out the code isn’t the Law because the parties to the smart contracts could just fork and break the contract; and it turns out the SEC can actually regulate and prosecute ICOs that violate securities laws.

Who wants to file a tax return and pay ordinary income on every cryptokitty they birth or capital gains on every cryptokitty they sell?

Maybe I can get ahead of the ball and start offering “stripe atlas for self directed IRA LLCs for tax free cryptocoin/kitty trading”.

There’s a typo in the HN title: it’s 'La Marseillaise', not 'Le Marseillaise'.

The parent comment is saying that the economic success of China should be encouraging America to step it's game up, not that it should become a single party system.