Renaud

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by Renaud 13y ago
I wonder if instead of focusing a handful of courses on virus making we shouldn't instead re-brand the the whole endeavour with a more positive spin and focus on something that could be called 'nanogens' for instance, whose m
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by Renaud 13y ago
Old debate, it's a core philosophy or the language. It's a bit like complaining that there are a 100 ways to cook chicken. Personally, I like the freedom that Perl offers. Perl 5.x is still widely used in some industries, finance
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by Renaud 13y ago
Way to make the whole flying experience even more awesome. I'm all for booths though, where you could isolate yourself if you really need to call and where calls would be limited in duration.
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by Renaud 13y ago
Chargebacks are a double-edged sword, so much so that a whole class of scams is using them to defraud people of goods and services. It's even worse for the small business if you consider how much money is tied up by the bank/paypa
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by Renaud 13y ago
While these old photographs have a certain aesthetic appeal, none of the people depicted in them appears particularly glamorous. Most of these pictures bear witness to a harsh life. It would be interesting to find out the charge for each pe
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by Renaud 13y ago
It's only wasteful if you consider that bitcoin is of no value. If you only look at bitcoin as a money transfer system, requiring computationally difficult proofs is at the heart of what makes the system trustworthy. Do we think the sa
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by Renaud 13y ago
Well, we can satisfy both our needs for geekiness and culture by watching Sir Patrick Stewart play Shakespeare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnaXDRwu84
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by Renaud 13y ago
Madagascar is such a beautiful country, with lots of natural resources (oil, rare timber, minerals) and 90% of its fauna and flora is endemic. It's huge, has almost any kind of scenery you could wish and is easily one of the most inter
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by Renaud 13y ago
It took decades before the tide turned, and it did because of external forces or it would have continued for a lot longer. There is no reason to think that today's system would end up the same way without some huge counter-balancing fo
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by Renaud 13y ago
>Historically, this doesn't end well. Doesn't end well for us the little people. Those who operate in the shadows, those have the power to play these games probably have it a lot better since they undoubtedly operate outside th
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by Renaud 13y ago
Just donated some BTC fraction as well and I must say that bitcoin really does shine in the area of charitable donations: it's quick, you get the confirmation of your donation almost instantly, all of the money goes to the charity inst
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by Renaud 13y ago
Being in Hong Kong and having lived through the SARS era, I'm happy when someone brings us back to reality and doesn't play the OMG-we'll-all-gonna-die scenario. In the case of SARS, even though it killed more people in Hong
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by Renaud 13y ago
Certainly won't happen anytime soon. English is certainly the lingua-franca of the modern world and will probably stay that way for a while. While mastering English is hard, you can get quite far with a modicum of English. Latin is a
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by Renaud 13y ago
After waiting almost 3 months for my money (3 separate transfers), I asked them to revert the transfer and they quickly re-credited my account. Their support will answer, except that they won't tell you how long it will take to get you
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by Renaud 13y ago
Exactly, UTF-16 perfectly defines surrogate pairs for code points that do not fit into the 16 bit plane. A perfect implementation of UTF-16 should have no problem, unfortunately, most are broken when it comes to surrogate pairs. Many langua
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by Renaud 13y ago
>America is sex-negative? I wish. We've sexualized every inch of women's bodies[...] And that's not sex-negative?
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by Renaud 13y ago
Wouldn't TypeScript help a lot in handling these changes? You break/change something and then the rest of your code wouldn't compile until you fixed it everywhere (and it would show you where). You wouldn't have to worry
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by Renaud 13y ago
BlueRay in 1080p is encoded at most at 35Mbits/s. You only need a decoder on the other side and stream the video data to be decoded by the remote device. There are a few protocols out there that manage to send high-performance video ac
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by Renaud 13y ago
> TL;DR: cheat at games and you will be punished I would rather say that the moral of this story is: "cheat at games and learn more about computers and electronics than you ever thought possible".
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by Renaud 13y ago
The pixelised version leaves more to the imagination and ends-up looking more NSFW than the uncensored version.
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by Renaud 13y ago
I fail to see the need to authorize a third party to visualise your Dropbox when your files probably all sit at least on one of your machines anyway and there are perectly fine open source tools that do treemap visualisation very well: * Fo
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by Renaud 13y ago
Holocaust Memorial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_o...
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by Renaud 13y ago
I think you over-estimate the complexity of the data being exchanged between data centres and underestimate the capabilities of these well-funded agencies that can afford top-notch PhDs, developers, engineers, mathematicians. The article se
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by Renaud 13y ago
This comes at the perfect moment for me: I'm building an inventory web app used in warehouses on tablets and I'm faced with connectivity issues (incomplete or fluctuating WiFi coverage for instance). Making the app less prone to t
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by Renaud 13y ago
What an impressive amount of work! Absolutely beautiful though.
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by Renaud 13y ago
The issue with drugs is that it takes a huge body of evidence and experiments to be able to assert, with a margin of error, that a drug is safe or that it does what we think it does. For something like a 'truth serum' of any kind
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by Renaud 13y ago
Highly recommended. Very interesting documentary about the origins of the type, it's use, those who love it, those who do not.
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by Renaud 13y ago
I really do not understand how LinkedIn is still in business after all the crap they have pulled over time: they have been trampling on their users for years. Is everyone so cheap that they wouldn't pay for a professional that would no
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by Renaud 13y ago
Scott Hanselman just posted his experience with Snap Circuits. They look awesome and there are plenty of kits to keep curious kids busy exploring and building stuff. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TeachingKidsElectroni
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by Renaud 13y ago
For every picture taken, how many atrocious acts were not recorded?

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