Renaud

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by Renaud 12y ago
Stoicism is a personal philosophy. It doesn't concern itself with the whole of human kind but with you. That much is clear in that stoicism advise you against the temptation for fame, power, money, vice. It's a philosophy that emb
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by Renaud 12y ago
Which becomes even more useful over a field when you can do: public int Foo { get; private set; }
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by Renaud 12y ago
There are things that regulation can do that go counter to what the market want. Forbidding snack and soda vending machines in schools, mandating healthy and balanced meals in school's cafeterias, making it mandatory for kids to receiv
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by Renaud 12y ago
There is a slight, but nevertheless substantial difference between a company that relies entirely on its customers to becomes is sales workforce and a company that offers bulk prices for people who may want to resell. The former will rely o
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by Renaud 12y ago
Not yet available apparently, but they mention[1] the printers are capable of printing chocolate, sour apple, etc. The fact that they can get such vibrant and detailed printing makes this even more interesting. I can see a market for high-e
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by Renaud 12y ago
The execution could need some polish and the UI isn't doesn't seem very friendly (lots of fields to fill in) but such an app fills a real need. This certainly doesn't replace official complaints but having independent data co
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by Renaud 12y ago
Couldn't these issues be mitigated if the video recording was encrypted and simply archived for a set period of time unless there was a judge ordering its release? Wearing cameras has a lot of potential for good if there are string saf
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by Renaud 12y ago
This has been a pet peeve of mine, the fact that, even in an organisation paying for Google Apps, you were required to enable Google+ to use Hangout. The issue is that Google+ leaks information: your profile picture and full name get return
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by Renaud 12y ago
>I would guess that I could upload a shaky video to youtube to get it smoothed out, download it, and speed it up with similar to their rate and get similar results. No you certainly wouldn't. Watch the technical video at the bottom
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by Renaud 12y ago
Xapo isn't the first to do this. ANXBTC[1] in Hong Kong has been doing this for a couple of months now. And they ship the card to the US, among other countries. [1]: http://debitcard.anxintl.com/
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by Renaud 12y ago
A related story, the amazing Dr. Temple Grandin[1] whose life was documented in a BBC Horizon documentary a few years ago: "The woman who thinks like a cow"[2]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
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by Renaud 12y ago
They shouldn't be. When we registered a .re TLD we were asked to provide a business license to prove that the business in question was local. Desirable local TLDs get taken by squatters and opening them to the world at large dilutes th
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by Renaud 12y ago
On top of that, you can only use a .re TLD if you are a EU citizen or a company that resides in the EU... http://www.afnic.fr/en/products-and-services/the-re-tld/
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by Renaud 12y ago
It's a pretty lousy 'after the facts' metric though. Driving dangerously is generally not visible until you're faced with a situation that requires all your attention, and then it's probably too late. Too many peopl
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by Renaud 12y ago
I could see something like this being used in large cities to monitor noise levels, especially from construction. You could then build real-time maps of the noise in the city, identify illegal construction noise on the week-ends for instanc
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by Renaud 12y ago
Even in the US, where labour laws generally don't favour the worker, it wouldn't make much sense to set the bar too low and count on being able to fire people to eventually get the right one. Hiring people is resource consuming an
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by Renaud 12y ago
As you pointed out, really not the same use case. Firefox and Chrome use SQLite. Imagine if you had to download and install PostgreSQL just to browse the Internet. SQLite is not meant to be a multi-user shared database. It's never goin
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by Renaud 12y ago
Accusing someone of communism in those witch-hunting days was a dangerous thing to do. It seems a bit improbable that Feynman would have done that to himself, knowing that it could jeopardise his participation in other committees/proje
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by Renaud 12y ago
IE still represents abut 20% of Browser usage, it's still more than Firefox and a lot more than Safari. You never know, the new direction MS is taking with regards to openness may bear its fruits. It's going to take a lot for MS t
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by Renaud 12y ago
I'd like something like this add-on to work flawlessly, maybe giving me the option to selectively save the page rather than doing it systematically. I may not be useful when you are checking your email, and you may not want it when doi
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by Renaud 12y ago
If they skipped the 13 out of superstition, they should also skip 14, it doesn't bode well in Asia where in some countries, buildings often don't have any floor numbered 4, 13, 14, 24... not that these floors don't physically
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by Renaud 12y ago
It's actually F9. F5 opens the Go To dialog box.
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by Renaud 12y ago
But the whole point is that the money not spent in the war on drugs would then be re-directed to control other criminal activities. I'd rather gangs go into white-collar crime than violent crimes. The Mafia, Yakuza and the Hong Kong tr
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by Renaud 12y ago
I believe the parent meant "paederasty". From Wikipedia: Pederasty or paederasty (US /ˈpɛdəræsti/ or UK /ˈpiːdəræsti/) is a (usually erotic) homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or ado
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by Renaud 13y ago
That view seems a bit restrictive. There are cases where having more on screen is useful and actually helps readability, in particular for technical and scientific documentation. Reading an article or a story is pretty much a linear activit
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by Renaud 13y ago
Lucky you! What kind of work were you doing there?
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by Renaud 13y ago
I feel so safe in Hong Kong that, by comparison, I feel unsafe almost everywhere else. Even though local people bemoan the rise of petty crime and violence compared to the old days, it's still not an issue and I feel safe going anywher
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by Renaud 13y ago
Yes, that re-shaped the area by making it easy to travel along that steep slope. There are lots of elevated foot paths as well in Hong Kong, interconnecting buildings with each-others, usually going from shopping mall to shopping mall in a
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by Renaud 13y ago
I arrived in Hong Kong in 1996, too late to see the KWC but I would certainly have taken the risk to experience it had it still be there. Hong Kong is still filled with weird little wonders that you can only uncover by chance if you take th
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by Renaud 13y ago
I love how this integrates with Photosynth. It can also use videos to create a panorama and appears to have lots of useful options. MS Research projects pages are a real treasure trove of useful (and generally free) tools.

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