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An uncomfortable question for business owners and shareholders

An uncomfortable question for business owners and shareholders

What are shareholders bringing? Money in exchange for ownership.

What are customers bringing? Money in exchange for a product or service.

What are employees bringing? Work to deliver the product and service to customers in exchange for money.

Mission/Value/Strategy statements all have similarities on how they refer to employees and customers, always along the line of “our people are our most…

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I got a bug on my island

I got a bug on my island

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Click on a picture to get to the full…

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It hard to say I love you

It hard to say I love you

After the first year. At least that’s what I am discovering while searching for a “I love you” card for my wife.

With the set of cards in front of me, I see birthday cards, boyfriend/girlfriend love cards, engagement card, wedding and first anniversary, then nothing!

Love has to be undusted regularly and the card business indicates that we are not doing it often enough. So go out, buy a card,…

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Long-term is incompatible with Startups

Long-term is incompatible with Startups

Ok, a polemic title, let me rephrase, Long-term is incompatible with most startup. You don’t do long-term strategies in a startup (unless 1 month can be seen as long-term). Startups are based on having one idea, one product, one vision and you try to make it work.

The philosophy is different in a startup

If it fails, you change the product and start again (Pivot in the Lean Startup world ). This…

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Phone with camera of phone + camera?

Phone with camera of phone + camera?

Hi all

One of the effects of being on vacation for a year in La Reunion is that I made so many photos that I now see photo opportunities all over the place. Since coming back to London, I don’t carry any of my good, but heavy cameras and missed many opportunities to take good pictures.

So when my phone died some weeks ago, I checked for new phones with a particular eye on the camera quality.

I…

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[Technical, short] Lazy-seq in Clojure

[Technical, short] Lazy-seq in Clojure

Hi all, a pro-memoria for myself about lazy-sequences (lazy-seq) and how to use them. Using lazy-seq is, at the moment, the hardest topic in my Clojure journey.

Frank (I told you it is a post for myself) the next time you think about creating a lazy-sequence in Clojure remember:

This is a good summary page of the struggles – http://www.thesoftwaresimpleton.com/blog/2014/09/08/lazy-seq/

The…

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A father should kneel

A father should kneel

A father should kneel

Important conversations are done between peers. As a father of a 4-year-old son, this means that when I listen to my child, I kneel.

The message I want to send is: I’m listening only to you, I care about you, and what you want to tell me.

This is the right thing to do for a father, it’s also the right thing to do as a man.

a bientôt

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Experimenting on myself and sharing the results - No news

Experimenting on myself and sharing the results – No news

Often, I will read an idea which I find stimulating and interesting in theory. I want to make such idea mine and share it. But my experience tells me that unless something has been tested on the field, you don’t know if the beautiful theory is really useful or only a beautiful theory to ignore.

This is where I test things on myself and share my discoveries.

Experimenting on myself and sharing the…

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[2018-04-08] Websites from a Clojure Beginner to others

[2018-04-08] Websites from a Clojure Beginner to others

Some links I find useful while learning Clojure

Clojure is a language we use at work, and as a real geek, I want to learn more about it. I’m going to use this post as a bookmark of the good Clojure links I find.

Beginner

I started learning Clojure last week, so the beginner section is where I stand, and this is why it is the only section with some content in the first version of the article.

Cloj…

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2018-04-03 Lies and Statistics - a book

2018-04-03 Lies and Statistics – a book

I’m reading

I’ve read half of the book and it is interesting to see all the ways statistics can be “adapted”. It also shows how complex generating fair, honest and valuable statistics can be.

Nice read until now, makes me become a better critical thinker.

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[2018-04-01] Happy Easter

Happy Easter

A reminder that on Easter 2018 life is good!

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2018-03-27 [Technical,Short] run git and Gradle and Java from docker without installi

2018-03-27 [Technical,Short] run git and Gradle and Java from docker without installi

Docker is not a light-VM it is much more

Docker is often used as a light-VM. But this is the wrong way to see it. For me, it really shines when you use it to run complex programs, with complex dependencies without installing anything on your computer.

As a developer I often need to have multiple versions of the same software. For example, as a java dev, I might have Java-8, Java-9 and now Java-10…

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2018-03-26 [technical] using Docker to do clean development on a mac

2018-03-26 [technical] using Docker to do clean development on a mac

Here is how to clone a git repository, run Gradle on the code without installing git or Gradle on your mac. I’ll be using Docker (already installed on my computer)

Creating the dev folder

mkdir ~/dev cd ~/dev> mkdir gdax-java-gradle-home

Running git without installing git docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/git -w /git alpine/git clone https://github.com/irufus/gdax-java.git cd gdax-java#edit the source…

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2018-03-24 and 25 - Last two days of the Paleo-diet (De Vany)

2018-03-24 and 25 – Last two days of the Paleo-diet (De Vany)

Hi everyone. I’ve now finished by one week test of the Paleo diet (De Vany diet). It was interesting and here are some facts and information:

I lost one Kg (2.2 Pounds) in one week. Nothing to scream about, but positive

My mood over the weekend was crap, I was impatient with my kids. Bad

Missing on important food event with my family like pizza, crepes etc… is a real no go. Such experiences…

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[Technical] Setting up a Java development environment on Windows

  Becoming a java developer, again

Once again we are at that time of the year when I want to do code. And as my time is limited, I will focus on Java, and as usual, most tools have changed and being able to code from the command line, and an IDE requires doing complicated things

My goal is to set up a Java 10 8, Git, Gradel available from the command line.

Where to put the files

The first step is…

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2018-03-23 De Vany - Day 5

2018-03-23 De Vany – Day 5

I feel better, following the diet is more comfortable since I discovered that POD (fast, healthy restaurant chain) has the kind of recipe I need.

The morning I still miss the bread and having a big plate of pasta is now becoming a recurrent dream 🙂

Thank god it’s Friday! Two days of full-blown diet to go, then definitely fewer carbs in general, some skipping lunches and some high intensity, low…

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2018-03-22 De Vany diet day 4 and Today's journal

2018-03-22 De Vany diet day 4 and Today’s journal

De Vany diet – Day 4

Today I woke up in good shape, no head pain and in good mood. Most importantly, not hungry! I had a good breakfast with egg with bacon, melon, and black coffee (no sugar). I felt satisfied for the first time in a while. Maybe something is really happening.

News of the day –  two types of articles for this blog

Today I decided to differentiate between two types of articles.…