Elucubrations, divagations, perceptions, illusions et idées en vrac
Episode #7 of my story starting here. In the early nineties, me and my business partner were still struggling with the issue that whatever revenue we generated with new applications, maintaining the preceding ones was eating too much into our margin. We had tried to approach many types of businesses but the process of building custom …
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Episode #6 of my story starting here. At the end of the eighties, I wrote my first Digital Photography software. I was working with a Canon distributor, primarily for their printers, and they introduced us to an interesting device called iON. It was basically a small camcorder modified to only take stills, it was small, easy …
Episode #5 of my story starting here. After the army, I wanted to keep working with my clients, but to avoid being an independent because of the tax+duties nightmare it had been to brutally stop doing business. This is a very important learning: create an actual company, put a limit to your liability in case things …
Episode #4 of my story starting here. It feels strangely weird to sit at home, in confinement because of COVID-19 measures, typing my story. It feels reminiscent of the kind of H.P. Lovecraft novel told via the pen of an unfortunate hero, prisoner of his hiding place, putting his story to paper before the untold happens… …
Episode #3 of my story starting here. In the 80’s, my bread and butter was writing software that would print quotes+invoices and manage a leads+customer database. The word database, at the time, really covered ISAM files together with separate B-tree files mapping a key to a record number. To me, it feels a bit ironic that …
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Episode #2 of my story starting here. By the mid-80’s, when my friends were making pocket money by giving lessons to kids, I started writing programs for my friends’ parents. After IBM had made micro-computers a serious thing, everybody was buying PC’s; only to realise you could only go so far with BASIC or Multiplan. …
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After almost twelve years at Intel, the company has decided to let me go. Like I often say, with a job at an American company, the ejector seat is fitted as standard; so, no hard feelings. It feels quite strange, though, to sit down and put a CV together at this stage in my career: …
Parfois on a juste envie de partager un instant, pour le prolonger.
Quand ton personnage est dans la scène, c’est la réalité. C’est ce que Christopher Nollan a dit à Michael Caine, quand il lui a posé la question de ce qui est réel dans le film. Quand j’ai entendu cela, j’ai trouvé que c’était tout bêtement de la direction d’acteur : quelque soit l’interprétation qu’on fait …
Séparons l’image du texte. L’image nous raconte une histoire, celle de la petite graine qui prend racine sous la terre, fait percer quelques feuilles, grandit et, pour finir, fleurit. The end. C’est une histoire incomplète, dans la réalité elle continue, le vent et les insectes dispersent le polen, les fleurs donnent des fruits, les fruits …