@jfix

Making the world a better place ... through scalable fault-tolerant distributable databases with ACID transactions - Silicon Valley!!!!

 somewhere near Paris, France
Joined March 2007
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Countries are best summarized by their corporate income tax schedule description in the OECD tax database, a thread.
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Replying to @Brilliant_Ads
In Finland we have done this for years. Now being socially distant just comes socially acceptable everywhere else too 😎 mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/suom…

Suomi, älä ikinä muutu! Kuva bussipysäkiltä kiteyttää kansan jäyhän luonteen

Oma tila on suomalaiselle tärkeä, ainakin jos tästä kuvasta on päätteleminen.

mtvuutiset.fi
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Love to have credit to my work and @FinancialTimes cropped out by a Nobel prize winning economist. I think in economics they call this the free rider problem.
Paul Krugman
@paulkrugman29 Mar 2020
America's response to the coronavirus is the worst in the world, which is shocking and has a lot to do with a leader who is completely unfit, temperamentally and intellectually, for the job 1/
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@GettyMuseum25 Mar 2020
We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home. 🥇 Choose your favorite artwork 🥈 Find three things lying around your house⠀ 🥉 Recreate the artwork with those items And share with us.
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Gary M@garymphoto28 Nov 2019
Replying to @Askalaunad @mykola
Companies no longer value "institutional knowledge" and will lay off experienced life-long tradespeople who know the how and why, in favor of someone who will do "good enough" for half the pay. But that's no secret. It's Idiocracy.
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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight? Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you Me: Not now Dad Dad: Not asking for a programmer to help, are they? Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now Dad: Go and see if "rm -rf node_modules" helps
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As @Theresa_May arrives in Brussels with 37 days till Brexit, we’re here to welcome her with this giant billboard in the Place de Brouckère in the city centre. What do you call a Prime Minister whose only policy is something she thinks is *against* the national interest?
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Today I've learned from @ndw the ideal algorithm to estimate development time: Double your estimate and move to the next unit → 10 min = 20 hrs
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We start shortlisting candidates soon, but we'd still love to hear from #Java developers with #XML experience to contribute to our #opensource development project. Please forward to anyone who might be interested.
DAISY@accessibledaisy14 Nov 2018
The DAISY Consortium is looking for a new developer to contribute to the Pipeline 2 project, please spread the word: daisy.org/news-detail/1596 #opensource #recruitment #tech #vacancy
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This is too much 😂
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Baéchamel@Bad_Kate23 May 2018
DO YOU STILL WANT TO GET OUR EMAILS AFTER GDPR TAKES EFFECT?
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Déjà vu.
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Jebbery...@jebbery13 May 2018
Machine learning job interview
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AI is taking over the world
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"As a tall person I don't ever remember experiencing "shortness" so why would short people be experiencing it? If shortness is real then how come only short people complain about it? It seems like tall people would be short sometimes too." Me, if I thought like most white people
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Facebook: "This is their information. They own it" BBC: "And you won’t sell it?" FB: "No! Of course not." Please help this 2009 interview of Facebook's CEO get seen by people who don't use Twitter. Here's a download link so you can pull and repost it: sendspace.com/file/wqwtq5
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BREAKING: #RBLeipzig FINALLY beat @FCBayernEN! 🔴⚪ #RBLFCB 2-1
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Vincent Finat-Duclos@twitvfd13 Mar 2018
Which countries are closing the gender wage gap? Take a guess draw your estimate! 👉 oecd.org/gender/ #Gender @OECD
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.@OECD presenting the O.N.E Sight application running on @MarkLogic. User quote: « it makes life easy ». #BigDataParis @bigdataparis
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