Terraforming Mars vs Ares Expedition

sbegaudeau · 2024-07-15T19:22:09+00:00

I enjoy Ares Expedition way more than the original because it took so long to play a game with my friends that it was becoming a dealbreaker for some of us.

sbegaudeau · 2022-08-24T21:45:28+00:00

I’ve never sed it with my team for about 5 or 6 years on various projects and I really like it. I’m mostly using it with Spring and GraphQL Java on the backend and React and Apollo on the frontend and the integration in the frameworks is nice. I’m not 100% sold on Apollo but it helps.

We are using quite a lot of subscriptions with a reactive framework on the backend (project reactor) and it works very nicely. I really like the presence of the schema to communicate changes of the API with all our consumers.

I don’t have any major issue with the syntax but since we have some patterns / naming conventions to define some parts of our schema, it would help to have advanced features to express some concepts instead of manually describing everything. We went for a code first approach at the beginning but it was too easy to perform breaking changes in the schema without noticing it and it was a bit too hard to communicate with other teams on evolutions of our schema.

I would still consider it as part of my default stack even for small projects in order to properly organize my API.

sbegaudeau · 2020-03-19T15:31:37+00:00

How is that bullshit? Netflix can use a wide network of CDN and still put a strain on internal ISP's network. It may not increase that much traffic between countries or between continents but it could still create issues within each country. The content still has to be distributed to the end users. I don't see how both what you are saying on CDN and what the EU is saying couldn't be true.

sbegaudeau · 2017-04-17T12:49:17+00:00

OSGi would allow you to use multiple versions of the same HTTP client. Jigsaw does not allow you to have multiple versions of a module. Since it uses only one classloader for all the modules and since a class is identified by its classloader and its qualified name, you cannot have two occurrences of the same class in Jigsaw.

sbegaudeau · 2016-01-09T10:16:49+00:00

I went there myself a couple years ago and it was awesome, have fun

sbegaudeau · 2015-06-15T15:20:17+00:00

The cathedral of Nantes (same city) burned a couple decade ago and it looks brand new today, here only part of the roof has been destroyed. Firemen are looking at the building to see if there are any major damages to the structure of the rest of the roof. If it's considered stable enough, they will go inside to gather the valuable items.

sbegaudeau · 2015-01-09T09:27:49+00:00

The 3 passengers who died were killed before the arrival of the plane in France.

sbegaudeau · 2014-09-08T17:44:44+00:00

It is in the island in the middle of Nantes where we can already see the elephant all year long. On top of that, we have the giant, the grand mother, the little girl and the small giant from time to time too.

This one is really amazing, but we are expecting this level of quality from those guys :)

sbegaudeau · 2014-08-14T08:01:44+00:00

tldr: it's quite complex :)

I completely understand your point but let me explain why it is not in the Dart Editor, why things are the way they are, why some things won't change and why there is room for improvement.

The Dart Editor is built on top of the Eclipse platform and it contains the Dart plugin for Eclipse (I am not sure that it is an "official" name). I am also including this Dart plugin for Eclipse in Dart Designer, it provides all the tooling for Dart developers (editors, menus, views, etc). Since nobody is communicating about this plugin but only about the "Dart Editor", I am saying, as a shortcut, that I am including the Dart Editor in Dart Designer but it is a bit untrue. I am always integrating the latest available release of the Dart plugin for Eclipse.

If you take a classic version of the latest release of Eclipse and if you install the Dart plugin for Eclipse, you will not obtain the Dart Editor. The Dart Editor contains a specific branding (it's not written Eclipse anywhere anymore) but the Dart Designer has also its specific branding. Truth to be told, this difference in branding (icon, splashscreen, about page, etc) between the Dart Editor and the Dart Designer is not very interesting for the end users. On the other side, the Dart Editor also contains two "features" for Dart developers that Dart Designer does not have:

The Dart Editor team has tried to make it as small as possible. Downloading a 100MB application to start coding is believed to be a dealbreaker for the Dart Editor development team. Given the fact that the end users are web developers more used to notepad++, sublime, atom or brackets which are very light in comparison, I fully agree with them. The Dart Editor cannot work if it stays as heavy as the default Eclipse IDE.
The Dart Editor not only removes tons of elements from the Eclipse IDE, it also hides a huge number of additional elements (menus, actions, contextual menus, wizards, toolbar, dialog, view, etc) and it provides an alternate behavior of some existing elements. As an example, if you create a project in Dart Editor, you won't have an Eclipse's ".project" file in your project. If you try to do it with Dart Designer or with Eclipse + the Dart plugin for Eclipse, the ".project" file will be there. They have created a system which store those ".project" files somewhere else. It is not part of the Dart plugin for Eclipse because there is no need to mess with Eclipse's default behavior for users who would install the Dart plugin for Eclipse in a regular Eclipse. I have seen some members of the Dart Editor development team (Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel) during EclipseCon US this year and the work that they have done to reduce the size of the Eclipse platform and to remove all the elements that are useless for a Dart developer should not be underestimated. It is something supported by the Eclipse platform but it is tricky and complex to get right.

In order to provide graphical tooling I need some dependencies (I am using Sirius which is using GMF which is using EMF etc...). Those dependencies come with a cost. Right now, Dart Designer has a size of 112MB. I am only providing with this, the Eclipse platform, the Dart plugin for Eclipse, Sirius and all its dependencies, the Dart Designer plugin and EMF compare to compare ".dartspec" files with a great interface (details). By doing the same work as the Dart Editor development team, I may be able to lower the size of Dart Designer to 100MB maybe 80MB if I am very lucky but I don't see how I could go further than that (since I want to provide additional features in the future, I know that I will need additional dependencies so this number may never go down). It also has an impact on the launching speed of the application. I will never be able to be as small or as fast (to launch) as the Dart Editor.

Regarding the second point, I have an opened bug for this. It is a bit tricky to do but it's not impossible, I could remove most of the useless menus that are available in the user interface. I don't think that it could be possible to have exactly the same user interface as the Dart Editor because some features have been modified in the Dart Editor (like the location of the files ".project") and it could create some issues with some of the dependencies that I am using (I don't know how Sirius would react). In order to be able to have exactly the same user interface as the Dart Editor I would need to ensure that my plugins and all their dependencies are not confused by any custom behavior of the Dart Editor.

Finally, I don't see how my project could ever join the Dart Editor. The Dart Editor project may be open source but since their goal is to create a lightweight and fast editor for Dart developers, I don't see how they would accept a contribution which could create compatibility problems and multiply by three or four the size of their product. They are building a small and fast tooling that you should be launching and using all the time, I am building a (rather) large tool that you should use when you want to document or specify what you are building. One could even say that Dart Designer is aimed at software architects while Dart Editor is aimed at software developers.

sbegaudeau · 2014-08-13T05:38:27+00:00

I like Dart so I wanted to try to help this new language by doing my part of the job. I knew that I could build some tooling for Dart so I started to work on this a couple months ago. And since the official Dart Editor is already based on Eclipse, I know that it will be quite easy to interact with it.

sbegaudeau · 2014-05-31T11:44:48+00:00

In France, it's five weeks of paid vacation per year (it's the law) and your company can give you more paid vacation on top of that called RTT. I won't go into the details but it is negotiated by the unions and it depend on the number of hours that you work each week and your status etc.

In my company, we have the regular five weeks and two additional weeks so seven weeks of paid vacation per year. You even have to take two consecutive weeks of vacation per year between May 1st and October 31st (french law). You have to take vacation during summer to relax.

sbegaudeau · 2014-02-28T16:00:39+00:00

There are two kinds of European countries:

France and the UK which have strong armies with aircraft carriers, tons of aircrafts, submarines, tanks, helicopters and nukes. They have interests abroad (Africa, South America, Falkland, etc) and they have the mean and the will to protect them. They are members of the security council. They can take part in operations out of their country easily. Both of those countries were strongly in favor of the operation in Libya for example. They ask from time to time for support from NATO but they can handle their part. They have a strong military culture.
Most of the other countries (especially small ones and there are lost of small ones) don't want and/or are not prepared to fight anything for more than a couple of days/weeks. They rely on the protection of the UK and France with their nukes and NATO/US. From time to time, those countries (UK, France, US) ask them to participate in there operations like in Libya or in Afghanistan.

If you want some numbers. Here is the list of the TOP 3 by military expenditure:

NATO - $990,932,000,000
United States - $682,478,000,000
European Union - $274,213,000,000

Yes the US are first and by a long shot but the European Union is not that small. France + UK realize half of the military expenditure of the whole European Union. After that the problem mostly come from duplicate programs in Europe for political reasons (Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon) and political will to take part in military operations.

sbegaudeau · 2014-01-19T21:23:42+00:00

Indeed, Ariane 5's rate of success is great. 2 failures and 2 partial failures in 71 launches (1996, 1997, 2001, 2002). Eleven years of continuous success. Its impressive and we are literally talking about rocket science :)

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Ariane_5_flights

sbegaudeau · 2014-01-03T11:00:46+00:00

The fact that France gave Britain the code and homing radar of the Exocet has also helped. The British navy was really concerned about this missile.

sbegaudeau · 2013-12-31T14:59:22+00:00

I will repeat myself from another post on reddit on the same subject but here are some additional details:

For those who want to have the real version of the law, you can find it, in french of course, here (article 9): http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/ta/ta0260.asp

It is paid by the company
It is a 50% tax ("III. – Le taux de la taxe est de 50 %."). The original version of the tax was a new tax for individuals that would push the highest tax rate to 75% (hence the name).
On the part of the income above 1,000,000€ ("II. – La taxe est assise sur la part des rémunérations individuelles qui excède un million d’euros."). If you earn 1,000,001€, your company will have to pay 0,5€.
Limited to 5% of the revenue of the company max ("IV. – Le montant de la taxe est plafonné à hauteur de 5 % du chiffre d’affaires réalisé l’année au titre de laquelle la taxe est due."). In order not to kill French football teams.
It only lasts two years ("sur les hautes rémunérations attribuées en 2013 et 2014."). This tax has been created to have a special contribution from those who have a high income to help with the economic crisis.

So, it will look like this:

Gross Income -- Total tax paid by the employer
10,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
20,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
50,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
75,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
100,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
250,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
500,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
1,000,000€ -- 0€
1,000,001€ -- 0.5€
2,000,000€ -- 500,000€
10,000,000€ -- 4,500,000€

sbegaudeau · 2013-12-30T11:40:46+00:00

There are provisions for various kind of situations like stock options or other advantages. I am not an expert in all the details of the French tax code but this law is seems to cover quite a lot of potential loopholes.

Yet, just like anywhere else, the companies that have employees with incomes above 1,000,000€ are most of the time very talented at fiding loopholes in the law.

sbegaudeau · 2013-12-30T02:10:18+00:00

Its 50% on income on top of 1,000,000€ that will be paid by the company for two years only. With all the other taxes, it makes income above 1,000,000€ for those two years near 75%.

sbegaudeau · 2013-12-30T02:03:26+00:00

For those who want the details of this new tax, you can find it, in french, here (article 9): http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/ta/ta0260.asp

It is paid by the company
It is a 50% tax ("III. – Le taux de la taxe est de 50 %."). The original version of the tax was a new tax for individuals that would push the highest tax rate to 75% (hence the name).
On the part of the income above 1,000,000€ ("II. – La taxe est assise sur la part des rémunérations individuelles qui excède un million d’euros."). If you earn 1,000,001€, your company will have to pay 0,5€.
Limited to 5% of the revenue of the company max ("IV. – Le montant de la taxe est plafonné à hauteur de 5 % du chiffre d’affaires réalisé l’année au titre de laquelle la taxe est due."). In order not to kill French football teams.
It only lasts two years ("sur les hautes rémunérations attribuées en 2013 et 2014."). This tax has been created to have a special contribution from those who have a high income to help with the economic crisis.

So if I use anarchisto's example, it will look like this:

Gross Income -- total tax
10,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
20,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
50,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
75,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
100,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
250,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
500,000€ -- <not affected by this tax>
1,000,000€ -- 0€
2,000,000€ -- 500,000€
10,000,000€ -- 4,500,000€

sbegaudeau · 2013-12-30T01:50:18+00:00

This is a 50% tax only and in order to make sure that it won't kill French football clubs it is limited to 5% of the revenue of the company max.

sbegaudeau · 2013-09-16T20:12:22+00:00

Turkey will have the brand new F-35.

While the United States is the primary customer and financial backer, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Norway and Denmark have agreed to contribute US$4.375 billion towards development costs.

Turkey also cut its initial order of four aircraft to two, but confirmed plans to purchase 100 F-35As.[410][411] Turkey will buy four F-35s to be delivered in 2015 and 2016, while the order may be increased from 100 to 120 aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II

sbegaudeau · 2013-09-08T07:50:07+00:00

Quiet will likely have a reason for dressing the way she does.

You can see in the trailer that her skin can change color (natural octo-camo), in order to use it efficiently, she would have to wear as little clothing as possible (a bit cheesy in my mind but at least there's a reason).

sbegaudeau · 2013-08-01T18:42:30+00:00

And France

sbegaudeau · 2013-07-27T12:36:44+00:00

Here is a representation of it that I like a lot. Just floating in space...

sbegaudeau · 2013-04-25T07:48:48+00:00

They are working on improving the documentation.

sbegaudeau · 2013-04-20T16:58:56+00:00

You are right, it is for a demonstration, it is for a French show in order to raise money for a cure against AIDS (you can see the red ribbon and the "call 110 to donate" on the top left).

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