Renaud

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by Renaud 13y ago
But in that case the patent would probably offer little more protection than what copyright already provide? Why do we need software patents in the first place?
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by Renaud 13y ago
Isn't racism just ignorance of the fact that others are just like us? I don't really see why this particular example contradicts what the Stoics believed. We could say that racism as an idea rose out of the need for the self-prese
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by Renaud 13y ago
Thank you for that. It's helpful to have such a high-level, yet concise, view of the book.
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by Renaud 13y ago
There is at least one reason for me that metric is vastly superior as a way to describe the world than the UK or US version of Imperial: the relationship between mass, volume and length is trivially easy to understand. A small cube of 1cm r
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by Renaud 13y ago
I'm not Asian but I live in Hong Kong and I never had this impression. Most countries look at Bitcoin with some interest and suspicion. I don't think that being Asian gives you super powers just like being Westerner gives me any m
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by Renaud 13y ago
But isn't that a crime of premature optimisation? Perl's integration of Regex makes them easy to use and they fit naturally in the language, a lot more than in most implementations. Being able to use Regex easily is a plus in my b
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by Renaud 13y ago
That out of the 300+ plants described about 12% could match some existing ones doesn't really allow anyone to make definitive conclusion as to whether these plants could be real. I'm sure you could match some of the simple ones to
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by Renaud 13y ago
The templates for building setup projects. Even though it was limited, it was very useful. I lost a fair number of days trying to rebuild setups from scratch using other solutions.
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by Renaud 13y ago
Well, it certainly point toward a rich patron in any case, someone who could afford all this manual labour. But what is more likely? That this is a forgotten language of which only a single mystifying example exists (ignoring the completely
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by Renaud 13y ago
Exactly. Imagine if that was written a few centuries ago and was recently discovered without being able to know who wrote it or be able to replace it within its context. I'm pretty sure all sorts of people would speculate wildly about
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by Renaud 13y ago
I'm not sure why we only consider that this manuscript is either a hoax or a forgotten language. Why can't it be an expression of whimsical fantasy? When I was 12, as an introvert kid with too much imagination, I started inventing
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by Renaud 13y ago
You mean like a large number of people with no qualification and experience went looking for the Boston bombing suspect? I'll leave it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22214511
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by Renaud 13y ago
Except that: - most text-based programming languages have no purely graphical counterpart. - Most purely graphical programming languages have no purely textual counterpart. - a graphic language is generally meant to abstract at a higher lev
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by Renaud 13y ago
Really? Scott Adams' mild political satire is understandably censored because it is comparable in offensiveness to porn?! By the way, Google doesn't censor porn. They categorises it. If they were either dropping all porn or replac
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by Renaud 13y ago
I love music and experimentation but I find those pieces portrayed there quite devoid of emotional content. I like the idea of procedural music being created automatically, but I believe that the end result still need to inspire and transpo
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by Renaud 13y ago
Apparently god is overwhelmingly male at 99.998179%
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by Renaud 13y ago
And even sex[1] is sometimes not as binary as we make it to be. [1]: http://www.chw.org/display/PPF/DocID/22620/Nav/1/router.asp
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by Renaud 13y ago
I'm curious as to what sort of things you are building with Node.js in the context of systems programming.
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by Renaud 13y ago
I almost always use truecrypt to erase my disks completely when I'm re-purposing them or before throwing them away or giving them to someone else. You never know where they are going to end-up years later. I just bang randomly on my ke
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by Renaud 13y ago
What stops him from selling his bitcoins for cash the same way he got them, face-to-face?
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by Renaud 13y ago
JK Rowling analysis was post-facto, she wasn't outed by the analysis, the leak came from her lawyer's wife [1]. The analysis added weight to that revelation but it wasn't enough in itself to confirm it for sure. 1 : http:&#x
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by Renaud 13y ago
I'm both eager to see what they do and a bit afraid that their weight will stifle progress in that area (if only because any competing tech will have no chance of being allowed on that platform). Having a secure way to pay with your ph
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by Renaud 13y ago
I kind of like Azure and its management portal that makes it easy to setup and manage all their services, but I find the costs to be too high. An Extra small VM (1GHz CPU, 768MB RAM) runs at US$15/month without considering the addition
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by Renaud 13y ago
Not everyone has -or can have- a credit card. Bitcoin also allows anyone to accept payment which could vastly increase the range of products and services available: we can imagine that a lot of individuals and small businesses who do not ha
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by Renaud 13y ago
They've been into bobsleight on and off for the past 26 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_national_bobsleigh_team Their story inspired a comedy, Cool Runnings : http://www.imdb.com/title
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by Renaud 13y ago
>At the moment, MS seems to have sort of backed off on enhancing C# I assume you are talking about enhancing C# itself, because Roslyn is the next big thing for C# (and VB.Net) with a compiler compiler rewrite that will allow anyone to b
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by Renaud 13y ago
I just noticed that there is a huge variation on the premium price depending on where you live: US: USD 9.99 UK: GBP 9.99, that's about USD 16.30 FR: EUR 9.99, that's about USD 13.60 HK: HKD 48, that's about USD
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by Renaud 13y ago
I wonder if there shouldn't be a place for an activism Kickstarter where an NGO could pitch projects, such as financing a radio station or releasing these balloons, and get them financed by a wider, worldwide audience.
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by Renaud 13y ago
I discovered TBBT through a friend who nicknamed me 'Sheldon' due to my tendency to be somewhat socially awkward, geeky, and sharing some of Sheldon's OCDs. I fell in love with the show, and I don't really agree with the
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by Renaud 13y ago
In what way is this different from any other retailer allowing me to pay in EUR, GBP, HKD or whatever while the only currency they manage is USD? The vast majority of companies only manage a single currency and have the payment processor or

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