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  1. I would prefer a simpler solution on French Banks Offer Credit Card Numbers That Change Every Hour (thememo.com) · · Score: -1

    One card with no card number on it just chip and pin for on site payment and withdrawal.
    Another one that I keep home for online payment.

  2. Re:Which problems? on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    * Long-distance highways
    * Julian calendar

  3. Because solving real problems is hard. on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    First nobody agrees on what is a "healthy functioning society".

    How could I write an App that make irrational people to think rational. Do I have the right to do that ?
    I think it will quickly be called propaganda by people with different opinions.

  4. Re:not gonna happen on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    oops I made  not maid lol

  5. Re:not gonna happen on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    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

  6. In India our engineers easily solved this problem on Parents Are Worried the Amazon Echo Is Conditioning Their Kids To Be Rude (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They named the bot Kudhjiupleez

  7. I figured out that nobody use latin numbers anymor on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    So my password is: iiiiiiivvviviiviiiixx
    (but in caps /. yelling filter prevent me to type it)

  8. Re:A little confused by the summary on World's Largest Shared-Workspace Startup WeWork Is Cutting About 7% of Staff (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you just go to the library and get a desk and computer for free?

    Usually rented desks have 24 hour access and no kids, teenagers or old fat lady hanging out.

  9. Is it really the world's largest ? on World's Largest Shared-Workspace Startup WeWork Is Cutting About 7% of Staff (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like Regus have more location worlwide

    http://www.regus.com/business-...

  10. I saw an electric scooter last week on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    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.

  11. NGIS would be a good TV show on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    Imagine a mix between Star Trek: the Next Generation and NCIS, where captain Picard send Gibbs team to collect samples and investigate deaths of alien monsters.

  12. PR video of the data center on Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    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.

  13. I'm a developper without a degree. on Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    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.