Raph++

[Jake @jakeperry97]

Mental that there’s a level of scouse where you sound like you’re from the soviet eastern bloc

[Nolimit @CoderNolimit]

Le golemisme du café au bureau bordel

C'est l'heure, on lance le fameux "Un ptit café?" dans le silence de l'open space rempli de collègues qui se détestent secrètement.


La horde se lève, sourire idiot aux lèvres, tasse à la main, et rejoint la salle de pause.

On y est, elle est là, la machine, le totem, le monolithe, l'autel.

On fouille dans le tiroir à capsules Nespresso en espérant trouver du "Brazil intenso", c'est le meilleur celui-là :p

Mais malheureusement ce jour là il n'y a que du Risretto basique, du déca et de l'expresso vanille. Va pour le Risretto.

De toutes façons au fond on sait très bien que la seule différence c'est la couleur de la capsule et que ça reste dégueulasse, mais on a nos petites habitudes.

On fait la queue, mug dans une main, capsule dans l'autre, bientôt on aura sa dose, on aura son pass pour rejoindre la discussion sur le sale temps qu'il va faire ce week-end que les premiers servis ont déjà engagé.

Ça s'annonce passionnant.

Et c'est le cas, après la météo du week-end on apprend que Thierry a sa voiture qui fait un clac bizarre, que Ludovic emmène les affreux au trampoline park demain soir, et on se met tous d'accord qu'il doit y avoir un problème avec la clim car on commence à avoir chaud au bureau avec les beaux jours qui arrivent.

Un petit coup d'œil collectif au calendrier au mur pour savoir si quelqu'un doit ramener les pains au choc’ bientôt, c'était une idée de Nathalie, elle a toujours des idées un peu fofolles Nathalie, elle met de l'ambiance c'est bon pour la "cohésion d'équipe".

Et puis voilà, entre le désespoir d'un énième moment de liberté gâché par tant d'insignifiance et le soulagement de quitter ce malaise, on se lance un petit "Allez, on y retourne?" et on y retourne, petit mug à la main, petit sourire niais, petite procession jusqu'à son bureau, en essayant vraiment de croire qu'on a partagé un bon petit moment de convivialité entre collègues.

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

ASSENAL!!!!!

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

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[vas @vasuman]

Incredible

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Eyal Waldman hired 20 engineers in Gaza, donated $360K to a Gaza hospital, and spent years building partnerships toward between Israeli and Palestinians.

Pro-Palestinian protesters screamed “murderer” at him in Venice this week. His daughter was killed at Nova on October 7.

[Jesus ⭐️⭐️ @susoppe]

Kvaratskhelia siempre será el 2 mejor extremo izquierdo de la historia de Georgia

[Keats @KeatonFisher19]

Imagine losing your life savings and then you’ve got fucking Wall-E & his mates Gegenpressing you as you try leave

[TJ @salesxsaas]

Low hanging fruit you should go after if you’re new to a sales territory

1. Closed lost accounts
2. Churned accounts
3. Free/low tier users
4. Customer competitors
5. Last activity >90 day reports
6. Inbounds w no activity >180 days
7. Referrals

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

On aggregate:

Chelsea (2.88) 2-8 (2.23) PSG

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

“Dear diary, day 74 of pretending to be a football coach… they still haven’t realised I’m actually Memphis Depay.” https://t.co/UMAzT6LZJZ

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Perfect European career:

18yo - Start bachelor studies
19 - Go on Erasmus to have sex with foreign students
21 - Finish bachelor
22 - Start master studies
23 - Get unpaid internship
25 - Finish master studies
28 - First well-paid job (€1,200/month)
29 - Get second master's degree
31 - Move out from your parents house
32 - Get online MBA from University of Südwestfalen
33 - Find new job (€1,600/month, can never be fired)
35 - Get online certificate in Sustainability Leadership 67 - Retire with €650/month pension

Life in Europe is simply paradise

[Alain-Sam Cohen @alainsamjr]

We asked 5 lobsters to brainstorm a Replit Animation contest entry. One of them founded a religion instead. This is what happened. #replitanimation

[big john the boshfather @Johnfis08605918]

Chinese in Dubai Marina ? Oh go on then. Bosh

[Tulip King 🌷 @tulipking]

Modi (not autistic) grabs sam's hand. Guy next to dario (not autistic) grabs his hand. Dario (Autistic) & Sam (Autistic) are unable to negotiate the hand hold, this should surprise nobody who's ever been to a San Francisco house party

[Raph++ @RockyTheMouse]

@typesfast What would be the OTE package?

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is different. You should experiment to see what works for you!

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

French-American here — spent 20 yrs in France, 13 in the US. Let me speak to this.

I think the only reason Europoors tolerate their miserable existence is because they tell themselves lies about what the rest of the world is like. They eat gruel in their AC-less social housing while the most awesome party in history is being thrown just next door.

If you hang out in France, you'll routinely hear them say things like: "in the US, people die in front of hospitals" (they literally believe this to be the case) or "our social system is the envy of the world."

Their image of the US is completely delusional, and they are often shocked to discover that when they visit here. Their Marxist media brainwashed them into thinking America is some Dickensian horror, with Monopoly-style fat capitalists running around with their top hats and monocles, exploiting dirt poor workers.

The reality is that:

* Social security is (unfortunately) the largest gov expense in the US
* Hospitals are by law forbidden to refuse care to people
* Americans are so much richer than French people it's not even funny. The *poorest* of our 50 states (Missisipi) has a GDP per capita of $53k, 36%(!) higher than France's $39k.

Now, how do Americans perceive the French (and Europeans at large)?

Well, the tragic reality is that they really, truly don't think of them. They may cross their minds once a month, at most. Why would they think of that irrelevant backwater of a continent?

The few times they do come to mind, it is, at best, as a quaint vacation spot. A nice place to sip espresso and spend their American dollars — which go such a long way in these third world countries! The closest comparison is how Europeans think of Thailand or Cambodia.

That's at best. At worst, they think they're a lazy, entitled, smug, snobbish, rude people with a bright future behind them, who confuse regulation for progress, don't realize their economies were left in the dust a very long time ago, simply stopped innovating because they've lost the will, ability, or both, and who would rather brag about their 60%(!!) public spending to GDP ratio than fix their communist shit hole of a system.

Nice wine though.

[Haseeb ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

Advice to men in their 20s:

1. Get better at speaking. Do embarrassing stuff like record yourself, Toastmasters, study good speakers and try to emulate them to try out their verbal techniques and see how they fit you. Charisma is the omni-skill.

2. Drink less, or not at all. It will force you to become a better conversationalist.

3. Buy art that your friends make and hang it on your walls.

4. Never lend money to family or close friends. Instead gift it to them, and if they pay you back, consider it a pleasant surprise.

5. Spend most of your money on experiences, not things.

6. Make sure your spending scales sublinearly compared to your income, and you will always feel rich.

7. Take a lot of risks. More risks that you think you should. When you're young, the downsides are never as big as you think, and other people's memories are short.

8. Every man is cobbled together from people they surround themselves with, both physically and mentally. Surround yourself with people you respect. If you never lose friends or never try to acquire better ones, you're doing it wrong.

9. Whenever you feel comfortable that you've made something of yourself, it's time to move on. Move to a bigger city. Try for a more prestigious company. Find the biggest games, and try your hand at them.

10. Say yes to every adventure, at least once. Your 20s are the only time you'll get to do that.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

Jeff Bezos is worth $238 billion, even though Amazon has a $2.6 trillion market cap. In other words, he’s created $2.4 trillion of value for other shareholders—plus trillions more for employees, customers, suppliers, governments, and other stakeholders.

Jensen Huang is worth $164 billion, while NVIDIA’s market cap is $5 trillion. That’s $4.8 trillion of value for other people (not to mention the immeasurable value created for non-equity stakeholders).

Larry Page and Sergey Brin? $300 billion vs. $3.3 trillion. That’s $3 trillion of value for everyone else. And remember how bad search was before Google and how clunky email was before Gmail?

Mark Zuckerberg? $248 billion vs. $1.8 trillion.

The list goes on. There are hundreds more examples across technology, energy, medicine, manufacturing, and every other industry that keeps the American economy running and our society flourishing.

Billionaires don’t extract value from the rest of us. They create value FOR the rest of us, in exchange for just pennies on the dollar.

We should be grateful for every last one of them.