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The really sad part is all the missed positive externalities. Think about what could happen if a few companies owned up to it and said "hey we'll let you have one day a week helping children with their homework or working on a shared vegetable garden or... or... because [insert outreachy marketing speech]"

How do you enforce the use of a formatter in a project -- pre-commit hook? pre-receive hook? both? And is there a convention to put a specific dotfile at the project root to hint at your IDE/editor that it should use a certain tool for automatic formatting?

The French École Normale Supérieure will pay you around 1200 euros per month to study there. There are strings attached though (10 yrs public service commitment).

No, that is the median EQTP. The average is around 2250 euros/month EQTP.

> The "Social security" pays around of 10% of most usual costs, the mutual fund pays the rest...

What? The basic insurance scheme pays at least 60% of a set of reasonable, negotiated fees and the "mutuelle" covers the rest. There are a few corner cases (complicated dental work, optics) but these are being addressed. Usually the out-of-pocket expense is minimal to nil (a "forfait moderateur" of around 1 euro per doctor's appointment for instance)

Not sure. An ariane 4 rocket exploded due to a leftover cleaning rag in a water line. I would guess the launcher + payload price would top the price of an F16?

Carreyrou :) By the way, the book is really good. Should be suggested reading for anyone in the workforce or about to enter it.

And debt; and favors work. Seems like a very good thing in moderate amounts.

Yes except that it is not black and white, working or not working. There could be a real case made for working less and directing efforts towards technology improvements that result in less environmental damage. To me, it does not make any sense to think in absolutes.

That's been debunked by examples where hiring (literal) team players that are not shining on their own enhances a team above the level of an 'all-star' team. So why do we keep repeating this nonsense?

Is there a prescribed SW development methodology at large technology companies? (e.g. Google). Google in particular seems to be heavy on tooling but, perhaps intentionally discards SCRUM et al from the outset.

True. There should be a hard cap on the amount of pollution (carbon emissions, etc.) that an individual may generate each year, wealth notwithstanding. Of course, this would be almost impossible to enforce and trivial to circumvent :(

Thanks so much for that :) I needed to hear that I'm not alone in this.

Or event a decent 20-30 euros bottle of St Joseph or a Côte-Rotie. No need to go into three figues.