Loic

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by Loic 14y ago
The author is from the UK. If you read a bit more, you discover that the EU has already been doing a pilot on the FP7 research framework for 20% of the publications and has already built the infrastructure to support the open access. A lot
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by Loic 14y ago
You cannot do money laundering in a McDonald because you need to buy everything from McDonald. It is too easy to easy to control for the authorities. In France, money laundering is normally performed in small pizza restaurants or way easier
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by Loic 14y ago
At the time of my previous comment, 3h ago, it was freely available (I always access Google in incognito mode).
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by Loic 14y ago
It was a freelance work, "the company decided to stop paying me until the project would be completed due to the multiple delays" . The post is fairly well balanced by the way, he totally agrees that issues were on both side. The biggest mi
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by Loic 14y ago
The author is right but the problem at the moment is that more and more, you cannot correlate quality with price. That is, expensive gears can be of low quality. It is harder and harder to even be able to pay more knowing that you get more
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by Loic 14y ago
In France, Germany and Denmark (where I have been employed) you can do this for something like 10 to 20 days (usually 10 days). But sometimes, you can do this but some of them need to be taken within 3 months of the next "holiday" year (the
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by Loic 14y ago
I suppose it depends on your field. In my highly technical field (thermodynamics) this is what I am doing, in fact more about 3 to 4h a day. This is long term work (100+ days/year) at about $750/day. This is why I always recommend people to
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by Loic 14y ago
Because the Q can then get a microphone and you can start to interact with it using voice recognition only. It means that in your living room, you do not need your tablet or something else, you just speak and get the information you want on
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by Loic 14y ago
Do you have a pointer to some data? I am especially interested in the minimal latency even when serving from memory a response under light usage (100 concurrent users). This would be at first to provide "backend" services to currently runni
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by Loic 14y ago
The fact is, in no other fields you would have people thinking about doing this. It is just that they do not care. It is not part of the culture to focus on women from a sexual/stalking point of view. They only care about lack of women in m
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by Loic 14y ago
Yes, with respect to the situation of women in your community this is a problem. When you have highly visible people having such behaviour, it cripples down. It is always easier to cripple down bad behaviour than good one. More about it: h
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by Loic 14y ago
It is not creepy in all fields. It is creepy in computer programming/science. The problem is the culture in this special field with a lot of allusion to pornography, sexual abuse, etc. When you have well known figures in the Ruby community
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by Loic 14y ago
Directly from the research center: http://www.mpl.ucsd.edu/resources/flip.intro.html and image gallery: http://www.mpl.ucsd.edu/resources/flip.image.gallery.html
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by Loic 14y ago
Interesting, but not at all new. A really interesting article on the subject would be how to do it while having nearly consistent data across the data centers. In the case of the proposed approach, you have simply no communication between t
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by Loic 14y ago
Update: "bite" is a typo, but it fits well :)
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by Loic 14y ago
From the post: > build compelling alternatives and make sure these alternatives are equally pervasive, as easy to set up and use as possible. A bite later: > We've got a long way to go. [...] The best way to fix the PHP problem a
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by Loic 14y ago
France Telecom was a company which happens to have the government as shareholder. The company itself was making money by providing telecommunication services. As someone living in France, you did not had to pay France Telecom money if you w
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by Loic 14y ago
2002 was way after the Minitel and it was after France Telecom financed France to meet the EU conditions to have the Euro. It was for about $7 billions in 1997[1]. And the BBC is biased, really, especially if you look at it from a non Weste
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by Loic 14y ago
The article is very biased and for some points with factual errors: > This meant that even the poorest of households contained a set, subsidised by the taxpayer. It was a freemium model, France Telecom was making a lot of money and was
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by Loic 14y ago
You and the article are missing several things, Germany is already one of the most energy efficient industrial country in the world and the regulations are drastically forcing companies and people to save energy. Houses which are built nowa
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by Loic 14y ago
Starting with Ford for line workers in production, we know that long hours are not equal to quality. They know it in these law firms, software companies, basically nearly everywhere (people are not stupid). So why this still done like that?
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by Loic 14y ago
Very limited tests, one PECL extension for my projects was updated to support 5.4 only recently. The biggest win will most likely be for the POST payload (multipart) parsing because 5.4 is faster on array/strings. The good point is that wit
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by Loic 14y ago
You can do everything with Mongrel2 because of its beautiful asynchronous architecture. The really nice side effect is that you can share easily information between all the elements of your application which is not necessarily streaming of
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by Loic 14y ago
Not any more nowadays. I am the original author of Photon and today PHP is extremely robust and you can catch all the exceptions/errors (outside the ones which are making your code invalid, but hey, do your homework). The current PHP 5.3 is
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by Loic 14y ago
Excuse me but I am surprised. I read a lot on HN and on several planets (feed aggregation) about harassment, but in my field (engineering) I have never seen/experienced/heard about such cases even if the ratio female/male is pretty low is s
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by Loic 14y ago
My wife is working in a big corporation. What you describe is a fundamental problem at all the levels which is very hard to overcome. The company is doing regular training for the people hiring just to show them how they effectively discrim
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by Loic 14y ago
You can easily do it in PHP, Python or your language of choice using Mongrel2[0]. Because of the asynchronous nature of the messaging between your processes and the Mongrel2 webserver, a single process can efficiently serve 1000's of client
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by Loic 14y ago
An IPO is firstly here to make money for the company. FB masterly made the maximum money they could, they sold as high as possible. It was a perfect IPO for FB. Nothing more.
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by Loic 14y ago
If, then wait a bit, at the moment he is focusing and having a lot of fun writing books. We can expect (or hope) to have him back to the code in a couple of months :)
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by Loic 14y ago
This would be a cultural change, a big one. Jobs said many times he considered his products as perfect and was against the ability to be able to open them (hardware and software). This obsession not to be able to open the system extended ev

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