Fiahil

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by Fiahil 10y ago
We've been using Python (2.7) and Postgres, where I work, and I must say I really miss the async feature. It's really convenient to be able to parallelize and saturate I/O very quickly. Right now, we're using a combinati
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by Fiahil 10y ago
You can also use your favorite terminal emulator, and stop worrying about icons, file extensions, and "clicking on the wrong one".
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by Fiahil 10y ago
It's quite frequent to see the same ideas repeated over and over by "young" entrepreneurs. I've spent a years in multiple incubators, and they're _always_ a bunch of projects ("a social network for xxxx",
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I wonder if this could work when confronted with "hivemind" twitter accounts shared with lots of different people. I don't see how it could get enough signal from the noise to allow someone to unmask any identities.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
This hit home close enough. But at least, your virtual activities didn't cripple your following social interactions, in the real world, for the next 8 years.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Ah. Yes. "Thank you" for enriching so much my life. http://imgur.com/MpO82Ta
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by Fiahil 10y ago
> say you're cleaning if anybody asks Why would anybody asks? But, your point stands: I've been absolutely amazed that nobody had blown up our (Parisian) metro at 8:30 in the morning already. If you want a maximum casualty coun
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by Fiahil 10y ago
They can't produce a bug-free version of their game, already. Why would they start implementing automated systems to ban people?
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by Fiahil 10y ago
> Designing a back-end to expect and support that level of usage out the gate would have been poor execution. It would have been good engineering. But anyway, it's been almost 3 weeks, and they still haven't fixed anything. You
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Billions? Certainly not. The game's fad will be over at the end of summer. Nobody is going to stay outside in parks by -10C. Plus, the game is constantly crashing, draining battery, crashing again when the network goes down. It's
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I worked for this industry some time ago, and, to my knowledge, you would be right to assume that "95%+ of Adtech Companies Are Full Of Shit". Even in big Corporations like Criteo, someone will occasionally omit a portion of sampl
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I first, somehow, misread the title, and changed "Swift type" for "Swype". Made me wonder how an Android keyboard would be affected by an exponential time complexity algorithm and why would it be a big deal. Everything m
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by Fiahil 10y ago
From my experience with the game, I believe their progression margin is quite large. For example, they don't cache anything client side (even Pokestop assets), nor do they timeout/retry/prefetch after a network disconnect dur
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Five Things You Won't Believe BuzzFeed Has Done To This Industry.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Indeed, Germany accepts more asylum seekers than any other in Europe. However, here in France, the problem is the bureaucracy involved. It's legendarily slow, inefficient, and painful. There is little political incentive to change it s
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Well, I work way more than I should, because I have no other occupation outside of work. That's all. I'm not seeing myself competing with more experienced people for one thing or another. I'll take care of my work-life balanc
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by Fiahil 10y ago
As a former TA, I can say that finding out if a student completed a project/exercise on its own is _very_ easy. Poking around the code asking questions for around 2 minutes is largely enough. Instead of DMCA-ting github repos, I find i
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I was thinking the same thing, Turmoil in Europe, Trump president, a few more natural disasters (earthquakes in California, maybe?), Russia eating another part of what is currently eastern Europe, and a few more large scale terrorism attack
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but nuclear reactors have nothing to do with climate change. Reading GP then your reply seems ambiguous about the "environmentally conscious".
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by Fiahil 10y ago
So, when should we start our preparation for the apocalypse? 2020? 2025?
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Are we seeing these event more frequently than before or is it just a matter of perception? Anyway, despite being a tough time for them; it's good to know they live in reality and not in a "unicorn-themed-chase-party".
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I'm also considering doing the same. Every single time I open a webpage on my phone it takes forever to load (even on a fast and reliable wi-fi) and I often cannot read anything until I have closed the cookie consent panel, the "i
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Ad blocker guilt? Never felt that.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Thank you! I had absolutely no idea there was 3 different units named 'ton' with 3 different conversions factor (<- this is nuts). Obviously, "regular tons" were -to me- the ones weighting 1000 kilograms.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I would really like if americans could stop using deprecated units like gallons and miles. Especially when starting a paragraph using regular tons. It would really make the whole thing more meaningful.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I've worked with multiple retargeting company and advertisement departments in the past, and I got the exact same conclusion. Most of the time the people in charge of "digital innovation" or "e-marketing" have absol
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I guess, if it was possible to build towers and bridges at the same speed we build software projects, we would see the same level of nebulousness appear.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
I was equally surprised when I learned that creationism was also subject to debate in american public schools. In France, this would draw some major criticism, even in private catholic schools where they are allowed to talk about it but gen
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Yes, it's a very common practice for news/buzz sites, broadcasts or anything else relying on content written by a person paid per view (let's say everywhere, it's easier). Thanks for posting the abstract.
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by Fiahil 10y ago
Yes, it's called "advertisement". Sad welcome to 2016.

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