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Most of the job offers in Paris seem to come from agencies (for junior developers). I used to avoid sending resumes to agencies but now I'm trying to be less selective.

I look good but I speak too softly and I don't know how to improvise in conversations. So for a one-to-one technical conversation I have no problem but for casual chats within a group, I just listen and get nervous if the attention is on me. It's due to a lack of experience in talking (and being talked to) combined to perfectionism. The problem is that I need a job soon, not after several years of trying to gain this experience.

I chose to learn programming thinking the job would just be me and a computer, referring to one boss, but there seems to be more meetings and customer interactions than I hoped. Other commenters said that more quiet programming jobs exist so I'll keep sending my resume to companies who build their own softwares instead of agencies. I'm just a bit despaired that no one wants to let me work.

In a more long-term way, I'm trying to create my own business (disrupt Facebook!). If I can't be the employee, I must become the employer.

Say they ask Amazon for your password, if you reuse the same password elsewhere like 99% of people, then they can access all your other accounts without any permission to ask. In this scheme, only one 'traitor' company compromises all others. People should really use unique passwords.

Nope. I have a monochrome image. I don't receive any notification.

> These declarations will only be used to shame public figures once the list is leaked.

LOL. On my Twitter account I have a public list for porn. It used to be a private list but most of those girls are pretty cool so there's no reason to be ashamed.

I'm not a public figure of course but I think this shame toward sexuality is a generational thing. It's only taboo for older people.

We don't hear a lot about non-American startups in general. Or even those outside SF and maybe NY. It's the ecosystem effect.

Someone should build a prototype of such a tube and see if it's efficient. The mystery around Hyperloop generates a lot of ideas that should be tested. Railroad infrastructures are ageing, maybe some tuberoads can replace them.

They will delete your account if you upload pornographic images. Since your data is private, the only possble reason for this policy is to make the job of spies more comfortable. The way it's meant to be.

Instagram had a similar redesign recently.

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/hand_bea...

I recommend subscribing to the Brand New blog if you're interested in logo redesigns. (They got the news about MailChimp weeks ago.)

It's not a space. The l and the C are at the same distance as before. She just remove the ligature. I looks more natural I think. Writing with a pen on paper, I wouldn't write the l and the C with a single line. There's a natural cut here.

Dudes, the word for "non hierarchical" or "structureless" is "anarchist". Either a social organization is a hierarchy or it's an anarchy (or a mix of both).

A corporate culture is certainly defined by its political structure: some companies are monarchies if not tyrannies, some are democracies and some like Valve are closer to anarchies. This is decided by the founder's preferences.

It looks like with the nuclear bomb: all countries want the world to know that they have it. Are secret attacks becoming the norm and governments are telling they have the means to uncover any hidden identity?

Anyway, it would have been surprising if intelligence agencies didn't collect as much data as they can. What was the most scandalous with Prism is the methods of bullies used by civil servants against businessmen. It's fair if they can catch data discreetly, not if they threaten to imprison or kill to gain easier access to all databases.

There's UC Browser. It probably uses IE's rendering engine since the big names (FF, Opera) are missing.

You can't have IE in Kid's Corner (the guest mode) so you'll want UC Browser as an alternative. There are also alternative phone dialers since you can't have the default phone dialer in Kid's Corner.

Yes this article was specifically for Americans. I studied at the Sorbonnne in Paris and it cost me around 100€ per year. I thought most courses were a waste of time, though.

I think universities are like libraries: they are becoming obsolete in the age of the Internet. Knowledge is easy and cheap to access now.

I think Kerry is 'troubled' because if a Russian whistleblower revealed FSB secrets, it's obvious that the USA will now feel entitled to offer them asylum and ignore Russia's demands.

Everyone can be a certificate authorithy. The problem is that browsers only recognize a small number of authorities and display a scary message for others.

Google could still turn off the balloons above the hostile nations. Saying: we can give you cheap Internet if you want of nothing if you don't want.

If balloons have a camera, they would at least provide higher-definition data for Maps.

I remember the BBC's Dirac codec uses wavelets. i don't know how it performs today, no one has adopted it.

Taiwan is as rich as Japan. I've seen a documentary on Taiwan this week and considering people's fashion style, the high-speed trains and other cultural signs, I was totally convinced that it was a documentary about Japan.

The main thing I dislike is the Helvetica typeface. It's such a bland conservative choice that we have seen in every magazine for decades. The Light style is even worse (less legible). I've only seen the demos of iOS 7 and I'm already sick of Helvetica.

Also it's very white. I use the black theme on my Windows phone (which itself is imperfect). I find dark themes more pleasant.

Otherwise the redesign feels more modern and clean than the current version.

It doesn't happen if you use a local account but you can login to Windows 8 using your Microsoft account (from Hotmail or whatever). Of course they store those credentials on their servers.

It's worth repeating that the name for people who are constantly being watched is 'prisoners'.

"All our masons must be architects."

Well, Microsoft Office supports ODF and can use it as the default for all new files. At least since the 2010 version. If even MS recognizes that ODF has won, we have no reason to use OpenXML.

Yes for mobiles. Licences are sold by each state separately. If they were sold by a new EU institution, there would be EU-wide operators instead of state-wide ones.

I like to daydream about space colonization too. Each world has its own challenges:

* Mercury

Advantages: There's rocks we can mine and water, no need for a heating system in the underground cities, strong-enough gravity and magnetic field.

Inconvenients: Spending over 6 years in a small spaceship is quite insane, the water may be irradiated, underground cities are extremely expensive to build compared with surface cities, there's only room for two megacities at the poles unless we do a Death Star kind of urbanization (then there may not be enough water).

* Venus

Advantages: less than a year of travel away, good gravity and a big atmosphere that compensates the lack of magnetic field, rocks we can mine, the high pressure and heat are manageable with our technology (the Russian probes had insufficient protections against heat), no need for underground cities.

Inconvenients: No water (there's H and O in the sulfuric acid but the collect and transform process may be expensive), there may be no nitrogen sources to cheaply make our air, the cooling system is a critical infrastructure.

* The deep sea of Earth

Advantages: only a few hours of travel away, warm (5 to 0°C), cheap geothermic energy, extremely resilient to asteroid impacts, more than abundant water and rocks we can mine, no need to build underground cities.

Inconvenients: much worse pressure than on Venus, total darkness and the layer of sand/dust make it hard to find potential mines.

* Moon

Advantages: only a few days of travel away, rocks we can mine, gravity may be sufficient.

Inconvenients: water is expensive to extract from the dust layer, requires underground cities (or does the Earth act as a shield?), there may be no nitrogen sources to cheaply make our air.

* Mars

Advantages: less than a year of travel away, water and rocks we can mine, no extreme temperatures thanks to the atmosphere.

Inconvenients: sand tempests, no magnetic field so underground cities may be necessary, the heating system is a critical infrastructure as with all worlds beyond the Earth (but we know how to heat stuff), there may be no nitrogen sources to cheaply make our air.

* Callisto

Advantages: the only Jovian moon we can colonize (it's away from the radiations of Jupiter), water and rocks we can mine, would enable the robotic mining of all Jovian moons.

Inconvenients: several years of travel away (5?), requires underground cities, extremely cold.

* Titan

Advantages: abundant water, nitrogen and hydrocarbons, a thick atmosphere, no need for underground cities, may host life.

Inconvenients: at least 7 years of travel away, there may not be rocks we can mine on its surface (which would make it impossible to build cities), extremely cold.

Those are the low-hanging fruits of our solar system, and they're all hanging higher than we would have liked.

"Just (+5)" is not a function. This would have worked with:

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I'm pretty sure that when they give the name of a city, they include the suburbs as well. Paris is a huge metropolis with some cheap areas but it's small and overpriced if you exclude the suburbs.

Or http://europa.eu/index_en.htm which has a massive amount of informations. From a government, we expect transparency rather than design.