LarryL

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by LarryL 7y ago
Most people read VERY slowly, because they were taught to do so (at school)! That's something that makes me angry, because reading fast is a HUGE advantage in every setting (even taking into account the speed variability, depending on
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by LarryL 7y ago
> it is highly unlikely that a "senior colleague" can't understand simple logic. I've met plenty of people like that. To tell you the truth, it was SO BAD that had I not seen it with my own eyes, I would have difficul
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by LarryL 8y ago
I'm french, and live in France, near Paris. In France, there is only (AFAIK) _one_ love hotel (inspired by the japanese ones). It's pretty small and the rooms are not big at all, but okayish (I only visited once). What's inte
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by LarryL 8y ago
I find this story disturbing & the implications are frightening (many are addressed in the article). But one thing strikes me as REALLY worrying: they call it the "MAGIC" box. IMO, if there is ONE thing that you DO NOT WANT in
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by LarryL 8y ago
> So when people felt power, they really did have more trouble getting inside another person's head. Interesting research, I'll be curious to know if it gets confirmed. Anyway, I can offer a REAL, striking example of how peopl
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by LarryL 8y ago
I fail to see how "we" are forgetting. I also fail to see how "something similar could strike again" is news, since it's a recurrent -scary- topic every flu season. The 1918 flu outbreak is regularly in the news, es
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by LarryL 8y ago
> licked the cobra to full extension should be > flicked the cobra to full extension The cobra is a weapon in the Neuromancer's universe, something like an extendable knife/club.
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by LarryL 8y ago
Ignoring the moral/ethics concerns, how would a potential buyer know that the data is legit (if it even exists at all?). Give me a couple of days and I'll create a fake -but real looking- set of records with millions of false cust
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by LarryL 8y ago
> graphics and charts, do you use any specific tool? Usually, I used Visio, not really by choice but because it was available and sometimes used by other coworkers (usually for the specs flowcharts). There was another tool available, tha
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by LarryL 8y ago
Great articles (there is a part 2 here: https://blog.stoplight.io/writing-documentation-when-you-are... ) The article is about API documentation, but the points apply to every documentation. I think however that a few thin
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by LarryL 8y ago
The last line of the article: > This article was originally published in our “Selection” issue in October, 2016.
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by LarryL 8y ago
> homophobic undertone Undertone? The whole sentences are designed to be trollish & are _obviously_ slurs & attacks. The GP account was created 22 hours ago and has already been downvoted to oblivion... It's a pure TROLL, le
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by LarryL 8y ago
Some people seem to have _evolved_ to be able to hold their breath (over 12 minutes) and work. Look for the "sea nomads", there have been articles about them recently, a recent (2016) research ( https://www.cell.com&#x2
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by LarryL 8y ago
I'm french, I live near Paris and very often walk in Paris for various reasons (shopping, etc) The BIG problem is that the automated public (and free, which was not the case before) toilets are NOT numerous enough (400 only according t
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by LarryL 8y ago
The title of the article is misleading, it's not programming that is the real issue, it's billing (the progamming issues are just a part in the article). Since the Credit Card companies & banks create lots of problems as soon
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by LarryL 8y ago
I find that kind of research disgusting, because their ONLY purpose is to manipulate customers. I also question the ethics of such studies: how can you justify this, ethically? Treating your customers like that is also simply unacceptable.
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by LarryL 8y ago
The article is interesting and raises interesting points. For instance about the "face-recognition" impairment in police officers, which is a serious problem. I was however surprised that this ability was not well known, I remembe
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by LarryL 8y ago
Neat, but for a book about HCI, they sure don't put their knowledge in use for their site! The irony. Without Javascript enabled, you cannot scroll down with the mouse nor the scroll arrows, there is some strange behaviour: you must fi
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by LarryL 8y ago
> why is there such a hard dichotomy between "commercial - binary blob" and open source? I see at least 2 reasons. 1) Mindset (and ignorance) I've worked in big telecom companies, in their technical teams, which means peop
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by LarryL 8y ago
The article is quite interesting, it sums up many numbers and projections I had read in several places. But there are 2 other interesting factors to an aging society that they did not mention: - what will the retirees (~60+ y/o) do wit
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by LarryL 8y ago
A very interesting read. I did not know that alcohol effects varied that much between societies & context/circonstances. I found especially surprising the part about how in some cultures drunkenness is used as an excuse for violent
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by LarryL 8y ago
Not to mention that MANY (too many!) websites don't display anything AT ALL, if you don't have Javascript enabled. Why? I'm not talking about "app"-like sites (like Gmail), where it -somewhat- makes sense to use Jav
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by LarryL 8y ago
I completely agree, I was about to write the same: that name is VERY badly chosen, it conveys the wrong idea to anybody who has not read the origin of the term, and makes it sound horribly pretentious (something I hate). Whereas the ideas a
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by LarryL 8y ago
> Marder and Henderson worry robo-graders will just encourage the worst kind of formulaic writing. > they will quickly learn they can fool the algorithm by using lots of big words, complex sentences, and some key phrases - that make s
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by LarryL 8y ago
> Contractors aren’t humans Real story from one of the (big) french telecom companies I worked for, as a contractor (a few years ago)... In that company, a regular employee was given a full desk, contractors were only given 2/3 of a
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by LarryL 8y ago
> I don’t believe for a second that someone who would torture or abuse or kill someone on the orders of someone else was ever a ‘good person’ That's easy to say. But context matters a lot! What about this: your family is held hostag
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by LarryL 8y ago
> Last, the marxist culture. As long as you earn money, you’re assumed to be an asshole, [...] The above quote is simply false, it's nonsense, a HUGE generalization and a big exaggeration. I'm french. And I'm 47, so I&#x27
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by LarryL 8y ago
[I'm french] The contractors market is BIG in France. At least in the computers industry. And it's getting bigger and bigger. The current trend is to externalize ALL the computer-related work, which is crazy as in the companies I&
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by LarryL 8y ago
> what does the EU offer other than a lot of regulations The fact that there have no longer been wars between the participants? After thousands of years of endless strife, wars & massacres. Ask people from my great-parents generation
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by LarryL 8y ago
> Why Quicksort is the best sorting method? This must be some kind of joke. That's first-year student level of naivety here! (And I'm unfair to most students.) I remember learning about sorting functions, when I was a teen (in

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