mamadrood

I used to drink really heavily, I got 2 blackouts on two nights of extensive drinking and smoking. It's really like two hours of my life were gone, I was conscious, I talked to people and stuff like that, but I can't recall anything between the beginning and the end of the blackout.

It's a really strange feeling because I can remember pretty well what happened before and after the blackouts but in the middle it's just nothing.

Talk about a niche.

Then what would be the difference between <h level=1> and <h1> ? Or is that sarcasm ?

They are launching a sequel called CP Island. So don't rejoice too soon.

I use ~80 cols terminal because everything is designed to fit in 80 anyway. More than that and it's just whitespace.

We only speak this english in France, so now you're prepared.

46k is really low in France for an experienced dev and that's outside of Paris. Junior dev engineer earn at least 45k when they begin in Paris, and it gets to 60k in about 5-10 years. Also corporate taxes are about 23% but you're right on personal income.

Yep, we have this status, it's called "Cadre" in France, and you don't even have to be a manager, you just need to have a certain autonomy on your work, which basically apply to everyone that work in an office.

I have a part of my family that lived in pretty unstable foreign countries, and they were more than happy of being french when problems occurred because your country will make sure you're safe, so it's a little benefit (plus having one of the best passport in the world).

But I find it strange that you don't have a "citizen abroad" representative, I don't know how many of US citizen live abroad but since, as you say it, you pay taxes you should have some representation. Here in France we have 11 representative for expatriates and I always thought it would be the same anywhere.

Okay, I've never worked with a designer that would touch code, so there is that. Macros seem a bit redundant with partial views in my opinion, except they take fixed parameters, but this is a interesting concept.

I've been using PHP for most of my life, and used various template engine and it always end up with one question : what is the real purpose of a template engine in PHP instead of just using PHP ? When I see the examples in twig homepage it just looks like they tried to make PHP examples verbose for the sake of it.

I don't really mind them, but I find it extremely boring to have to register in the template engine every function that you will end up using somewhere else in your code and eventually have a language with less feature than plain old PHP and an other layer of cache.

So which use cases make you need Twig, for instance ?

I've had this discussion yesterday with a colleague of mine a bit older than me, he doesn't think that technology will kill jobs, he thinks that the government will probably prevent self driving cars and the like.

I think the opposite, I live in a country where transport is the main employer in the country, I think that in the next two decades all these jobs will be lost and transport company will have enough lobbying power to pass any laws they want.

We were talking about retirement age and I was wondering how we could push it later when there will be less and less jobs, and eventually we will have to admit that a big portion of the population won't be able / needed to work, and that I will probably be part of it.

A lot of people already did that and it's already cheap anywhere in the world. The thing is, to be able to sell it in the US you would have to be approved by the FDA and that's why Shkreli got away with it, there can't be any legal competition before at least a few years.