I doubt that there are significant development teams at the DINUM. They coordinate projects but do not build anything. On LinkedIn, here are the main skills associated with the company:

Get your ass outside at 0ºC and I guarantee you it’s 0% hot.

Every 2-3 years, the French government announces that they released a brand new homemade app that will replace some bigtech because sovereignty or whatever bureaucratic bullshit communication they fancy at the moment. Then they issue a BIG contract to an IT consulting company to develop the thing, who get tons of money to send junior devs to release a buggy tool that no one will ever use because migrations cost a lot. This new app will die like the others.

Europe: “Nice, let’s relaunch this well organized cane sugar and cotton business”

Ubisoft did nothing worth a damn for a very long time

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

my favourite Chuck Norris joke is when Bruce Lee is tearing apart his chest hair, and he makes this disgusted face… and that’s it, that’s the joke.

Thanks for hurting Bernard Arnault. We French, we appreciate the move.

it’s their natural habitat

Dutch city bikes will be the most suited for the post-apocalyptic world: nothing to repair, protected chain, robust luggage racks… they’re unbreakable.

“I don’t know” should be the most common answer in any survey.

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States said it all in 1980. The current events are only new chapters to the book.

it’s not about playing, it’s about paying. The sooner you finish the game, the sooner you buy another one.

Resolution is passed. US can’t invade Greenland. US invade Denmark. Checkmate (and world war, probably)

The Godfather is far from being a difficult movie to watch. It has a rich story, plenty of action, great scenes,… You want serious stuff? Try Nouvelle Vague French movies from Eric Rhomer or Jean-Luc Godard, German or Finnish movies where absolutely nothing happens and it’s just people eating soup. Try Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger than Paradise. It’s great, it’s a classic, but you’re going die out of boredom if The Godfather is already too much for you.

kindergarden nightmares resurface

Public Enema

On the bright side, if you have people to correct all the time, then you’re not alone. Thank you Internet for this blessing

gazpacho and summer salad.

in French, les orteils but also plenty of slang: les nougats, les arpions, les radis, les haricots…