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by Fiahil 10y ago
> There is a pay off in optimising berth scheduling, whether its large enough to build a company around I'm not sure... It's a small but quite lucrative market. We're talking about less than 10 players for 10M+ contracts.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
> I'm impressed with how quickly Niantic achieved a playable experience. I have mixed feelings about this, didn't they drop more than half their peak user base to achieve playable experience?
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I had the same experience for the 3 years I was teaching assistant. Some people "clicked" very early and some didn't, but it's not set in stone. I've seen people succeed with only hard work and motivation. Once you&
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by Fiahil 10y ago
This isn't my experience, at all, with "Tier 2/3" schools. I have yet to find a single one that doesn't have -at least- an alumni network. Try to open your mind a little bit, and maybe you'll see that others do
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by Fiahil 10y ago
> Problem with coding is that there are 1st,2nd,3rd, and 4th level programmers. I'm a star-guy-from-big-name-cs-school, and I'm developing complex systems from scratch. However, few people from my promotion are actually doing t
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Not all of us are Americans, and we have no problem leaving children alone in an apartment for an hour.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I was more asking about the song than the brothers, but nevermind, I will take your explanations anyway. They're more interesting. Thank you from Paris.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
> and verified using proprietary patent-pending verification technology Is "proprietary patent-pending technology" really necessary? It's the kind of phrasing seen on uninteresting product trying to pretend they're in
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by Fiahil 10y ago
But why? How could we, as a society, let that happen?
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by Fiahil 10y ago
One key role of the "forward deployed engineers" is a political one. Once you've let them tie up all your data into their platform, you're already pouring some insane amounts of money into this. Now, whatever the results
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Thanks for bringing ag to the world. It's my favorite code searching tool because the letter 'a' and the letter 'g', from its name, feel easier to type than the ones of any other code searching tool. I am definitive
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Unfortunately, the game kind of died from the hand of its creator already. Sure, there is a residual interest from a small amount of people, but nothing like last July. It's also been tainted by the gigantic exposure it got at the begi
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I'm not sure our settings for considering endangered species are quite right. Someone told me a long time ago that "[...] like any other wild animals , their biggest threat comes from mankind". With 2000 giant pandas alive a
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by Fiahil 10y ago
> I agree it was rather cruel of the local council to stick a magic roundabout right outside Heathrow's car hire[1] The inverted pentagram shape (facing east) of that thing was made on purpose, right? It seems, somebody on the city
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I'm kind of surprised. I live in France and spent my time growing up in the countryside. I was aware of common cycling regulations, all the do and don't, by the time I was in 5th grade. I know biking in a city is very different fr
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by Fiahil 10y ago
> [...] since not that many know how to ride a bicycle. Come on, seriously? It gives a pretty poor image of the average american. Manual transmission? Don't know how to use that. Bicycle? What is that thing?
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by Fiahil 10y ago
yes, your 4G connected phone. 50GB of data for 19.99, isn't that great?
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I'm almost tempted to try becoming an "ambassadeur téléphonique pour la France", but I would need an extra temporary number "à la google voice". I really don't trust them enough to let them have my real number,
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I used to play a lot with Lego when I was young, and programming is not much different from that. Given a simple manual and a set of basic pieces you learn on your own the basics, and then move to higher order constructions by experimentati
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Sometimes, scraping a website is the only way at your disposal to fetch relevant information, you've paid for (or not). It could be simply the opening schedule of your local administration or the status of different pieces of public in
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by Fiahil 10y ago
> 2-e. Global stability & peace for 3.3% of GDP, I'd take it in a heartbeat. Is this irony? Because, the gigantic mess we have now in middle east is absolutely not the result of massives US military spendings, a little more than
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by Fiahil 10y ago
> I wonder if the original HN "Heroku is Dead..." title will cost Heroku money / market share in indirect ways. This would be true for an average BuzzFeed-consuming-crowd, which -to my knowledge- isn't the case here.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
They should, at least, rebrand themselves. "BuzzFeed" toxicity is so high, I can't see why they wouldn't get a massive malus for it.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Saying you can't be a data scientist without a Bachelor degree in statistics is like saying you can't be a software engineer without a Master's degree in software engineering. Your educational system is not really a good envi
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by Fiahil 10y ago
When the only journalism you see is from BuzzFeed, you know this world is really fucked up.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I can almost feel the "bored scientist" moment behind this idea :)
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Indeed. Too late for edits, but thanks ^^
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I am, indeed, quite angry towards Niantic. They made a very fun and addictive game, I'm not denying that. However, they behaved in a way that really makes it difficult for us, players, to support them. They weren't ready for their
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by Fiahil 10y ago
How about putting some actual efforts into proper engineering before launch, stop blaming third parties for your 6h+ downtime and proving ban effectiveness with a graph missing its Y axis? The only edge Niantic have over their fanbase is th
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by Fiahil 10y ago
With the recent shut down of KAT, we're kind of in a "low phase". It always has been a game of cat and mouse, but now, we've sadly lost two big mouses. I hope someone will quickly take up the torch.

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