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by C4stor 8y ago
No, because he also probably typically had hundreds of wins at lesser ranks, making the thing overall less spiky.
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by C4stor 8y ago
It's really disappointing when people keep thinking of important life decisions as purely economical ones. No, I didn't buy a house because it's an "investment". I bought a house because I wanted the freedom to modi
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by C4stor 8y ago
Switzerland hosts, among other things, the EFPL, which does a great deal of technlogical achievement. The EFPL itself leads the Scala language development, among a lof of other stuff ! I'm not familiar with other countries as neutral a
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by C4stor 8y ago
I think the important point is that it's bound by laws, and nations will (and must) enforce their laws. Right now, it means revendicating parts of that place that is internet as waving their flags, and holding accountable individuals a
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by C4stor 8y ago
It's Switzerland.
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by C4stor 8y ago
> there are countless examples of prosecution that would be summarily dismissed here in the States. Care to provide let's say 2 such examples ?
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by C4stor 8y ago
Even if 10% of employees like their jobs, that's still a market of 10 million people. If somehow this extension could reach them all and bring 1 cent a month per user to it's creator, that's still 1M$ a year for what's p
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by C4stor 8y ago
What makes you think Google chargers are any better ? I would be surprised if there wasn't a single factory providing the same chargers with different stickers for at least a dozen of brands, including Google.
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by C4stor 8y ago
Haha, I don't know either Duke or UNC ! (but I'm french, so there's that I suppose...) Around there, GAFA is what you said except it's Amazon and not AirBnb
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by C4stor 8y ago
Well, I'm guilty of that, but it's because I don't assume people actually know the specific company I work at, or the university I went to. Even if the latter is generally deemed "prestigious", in the end, only a sm
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by C4stor 8y ago
My comment is a bit extreme in its tone indeed ! It's just that it's the advice I've given the most by orders of magnitudes, and I'm still amazed (and a bit weary) it's worth even mentioning. And to make it stick, I
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by C4stor 8y ago
Read the error messages. Reread them. Extract every piece of information from them. Never close an error popup without having read and understood what it means. Always read stack traces when you're blessed enough to have them. 100% of
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by C4stor 8y ago
If I read correctly correlated informations, the guy sold a company for 130 million dollars in the early 2000s (a story which also provided him with much needed experience in patents laws). If his only hobby in the meantime has been challen
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by C4stor 8y ago
Maybe Uber is big enough that noone in the legal team even thought about asking for an engineer opinion on the claims to begin with ? You know, like "This thing is a matter for our department, we'll take of it for sure !"
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by C4stor 8y ago
Except your house is heated by literally anything that's doing anything inside it (like your own body, cooking, using a computer, taking a shower, ...), meaning it never reaches the outside temperature except if it's inhabited for
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by C4stor 8y ago
Finally someone reasonable, thank you. It looks like a mistake, FB is actively communicating it's trying to restore the content but still everyone is witch hunting. I thought people here were more sensible to the fact that developers a
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by C4stor 8y ago
That's right. But while there are a lot of domain where I don't accept the reasoning "someone else must have thought about this before", finding vulnerabilities is somewhere where I can't help but believe that every
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by C4stor 8y ago
I fail to see how dejanseo put the people at risk. Exposing how a tool is dangerous and poorly conceived isn't the same as conceiving a dangerous tool. In this case, Google put millions of people at risk, and dejanseo actually contribu
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by C4stor 8y ago
I think the key quote here is : > "Listen, the very last thing I want is to sound ungrateful. At that first job, I learned all of those things I listed, and more, because the senior engineers patiently sat with me and put up with my
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by C4stor 8y ago
I don't understand your point. It seems to me you mix statisticals approaches and algorithms, meaning you completely ignore the fact that code runs on computers, and that computers have mechanical characteristics, making two implementa
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by C4stor 8y ago
Even after choosing a technology (like Hadoop), there's a lot of difference between the best and the worst algorithm to solve a problem. For example, the reduce phase of MapReduce is pretty much "apply the algorithm you want on th
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by C4stor 8y ago
If I sum up : a guy "pesters" (good way to make sure people do a bad job !) a lot of people to draw a bike, selects the 50 most flawed drawings, and HN commenters conclude "people are bad at drawing bikes"? The experimen
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by C4stor 8y ago
I highly doubt an insurance company would give any money prior to recovering the art and without a solid reason to think they'll recover them, but that's just a gut feeling.
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by C4stor 8y ago
I think it's still not exactly easy to call up basically admitting you've stolen the pieces, and end up with the money and not in jail. Even though I suppose there's more anonymous preserving ways to transfer money now than e
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by C4stor 8y ago
While your point stands, you may be interested to know that a company actually successfully sold a patent for jpeg at some point, and made about $100M doing so. So I wouldn't say nobody made money on jpeg ! But it's also interesti
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by C4stor 8y ago
"Diversity" related words are used thrice in the article, "inclusive" ones six times, but neither rich or poor related ones are even mentioned. Seems factual enough !
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by C4stor 8y ago
Because when forming teams of people, their total merit is usually not the sum of individuals merits. I do not work in the field, but I can easily find papers (like https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii
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by C4stor 8y ago
Assuming there's 4k possibilities for width and 2k for height, that's 8 millions possibilities right here. Compared to ~2 billions of people accessing the internet, the odds of having a unique one seems really really low.
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by C4stor 8y ago
I think we have different views of what leadership, and it'd be interesting to compare them. To begin with, in my opinion, leadership isn't stopping doing, but reaching the point where the interesting work isn't humanly doabl
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by C4stor 8y ago
You mean, exactly what we are doing right now, causing all kind of outrage in France ? Funny you should bring that up, because it's a very hot topic currently :-D

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