Thanks to the SACEM automation system (with dynamic blocks) you can have a train arriving at the platform while the previous one is departing, it's pretty impressive.
They also used to offer webhosting if you were subscribed to them and would never delete your website even if your contract expired (I've got an ugly one from 2006 that's still up even though I've changed ISPs a while ago).
And the subscription itself was free for their RTC per-hour plan, hence the name.
It means it was one of the most popular web host in France during that time, it was literally free, with decent space for the time (upped over time, I think it started at 100MB to 10GB now), a MySQL database, PHP support, no ads, no weirdness. You didn't even have to use that RTC plan you subscribed to.
Debian modifies Firefox builds to set a build flag to allow this preference to work, I believe? The default Windows and Mac builds of Firefox ignore this preference.
Don't forget that junior developers... are junior. They might not be the best devs in the world yet, but I'm pretty sure they can fit in any mold if you give them the right resources.
In your case, I'd say someone passionate enough to provide good value for the team. Just make sure you don't scare them away by making them feel they might "waste your time" ;-)
Any good lawyer would say that the two weren't necessarily connected. All the author knew when he contacted this kid's family was that he was owed $380. He was attempting to collect on that debt by using embarrassment and threats of police involvement.
I still don't see how this is a debt. A debt is something you willingly take and make your best to pay it back. If you can't, you stay in contact with the other party. You don't just delete your account and play dead. Playing devil's advocate is sometimes a good thing, but that 22 yo dude was just being plain shady. He clearly never intended to pay.
No. What I'm saying is that until it has been declared as theft/stealing by a court of law, the author here is probably taking on some liability by notifying his family and publicly relishing in the aftermath via this blog post.
There's a little concept that you may have heard of: innocent until proven guilty. No crime has been committed until a court of competent jurisdiction says it has.
Yeah it's a weird one. Why a broom-handle? Nobody knows. Doesn't matter.
"Con comme un manche" is stronger than "idiot like a handle" might first seem. Bête is idiot whereas con is etymologically equivalent to cunt. Semantically, however, it conveys something closer to fucking retard. "Asshat", maybe? Too funny. There's nothing funny about having to deal with a con.
Edit: tangentially related, but [0] this prank call is pure comedy and swearing gold. If you speak French and you haven't seen it, you're missing out. If you don't speak French, you get to hear a Corsican accent and Mediterranean rage (starts around 1:25). 10/10.
Unfortunately, I don't speak French, so I wondered whether there was a translation of the video. As it turns out, YouTube has automatic sub-titling, and even automatic translation of sub-titles, from French into various languages - fortunately including English. But the text it produced, while entertaining in its own Dadaist way, was obscure and unhelpful. I guess machine translation still has a ways to go, particularly when dealing with enraged Corsicans!
Here's an example... from 12 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCj0yQacKVE
Nowadays these older trains have been deprecated and only double-deckers run the line.