SFJulie

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by SFJulie 10y ago
Most of my friends who are artists will tell you: art is 3 pages dissertations to tell you how anything you produce is art. Hence the «fontaine de Jouvence» or the monochrome of Soulage. Met newly educated kids from university in Art they
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/me is often downvoted : I should not be then. I play bass, and can run 15km in one hour without breaking too much of a sweat. Humm ... better means nothing... Yet another whizz bang science that is void of any sense. But it is nice to
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by SFJulie 10y ago
The long term job killer is UNFAIR access to automation decided by the costs of automation or political decision. The revolt in late XIXth century in Europe were based on the generalisation of the steam engine that were favoring without any
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Just in case you want to use fortran code in python here is the scipy HOWTO Still up to date. https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.10.0/user/c-info.python-a...
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Technically you are right. Practically you are right, but the article is more right than you. I got into some fights with quite a few elite teachers/coders teaching the way of doing 2D arrays exactly as described, and they wouldn'
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Maybe, the value in code in production nowadays relies heavily on innovative code coming from free software that would not be done in R&D in most companies. And while people use this code to make actual value in their companies, trying
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by SFJulie 10y ago
At pycon montréal you were looking a tad tired. Maybe I mistook jetlag for something else?
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It does not: timezone (TZ) definitions are politicial, inaccurate, and stupid and non versioned. The problem with TZ is TZ in its core definition. 1) they always change: if you have not updated your TZ since 3 months they are probably inacc
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Because the bible says so. And, it has always been the taboo in biology where biologists are a tad more reverent to religions than in other science. Bibles says so: else eating/using animals would be a sin, and a lot of human «non virt
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Maybe EPSON does not know how to update their printer's firmware. Maybe google noticed a botnet of EPSON printer trying to knock them down. Or a poorly setup of uPnP/network that helps penetrate (THEIR) networks... Maybe they just
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by SFJulie 10y ago
So I love Condorcet's works .... on voting. Nothing politics ... just maths. So I love Plato's work on SiFi hypothesis : what it means to be invsible and the implication on moralilty (cf privacy) ... just philosophy. So I love Jer
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by SFJulie 10y ago
+1 I have been told that I did not understood agile/scrum rules because during code reviews of django/pylons frameworks I was spotting the SQL and shell injections. It seems agile is the new death of problem solving by suffocating
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Myth busted : printf("Hello world") is simple and is a relevant C program for a beginning. The "hello world" example is just the first step to annihilate your capacity of understanding how thinks works by relying on inst
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by SFJulie 10y ago
json + code of conduct? .... Oh dear, python going on its way to the ruby ghetto with security holes to predict.
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by SFJulie 10y ago
The initramsf case and the embedded system case are good point. Can Computer Science help us decide if some people are right? The measure of Informational entropy : a state with more compartment as more order, thus more information. By merg
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Only in * (fear of Godwin point reference) society do you fear to have opinions.
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The polarisation of opinions is a nasty side effect of some filters: people going in the web to be in conflict will click/trust/consume less. They are more aware of potential lies. Thus the algorithm must provide the best un troll
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by SFJulie 10y ago
ook Oook Oook .... ook?! -- The librarian
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It would be fun to add the possibility to know who hire while they fire. As coders we have intrinsically an asymmetry of information that is weakening us in our capacity to negotiate our wedges. Every piece of small data (hence information)
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Angular2 is «some kind of developer» friendly. The kind that loves framework but hate the underlying problem. It is like an heavy diving suits made for monkeys that loves to climb the height of frameworks complication. But there are some ot
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Donald Trump is the president former european colons have elected on concern about immigration. What an irony. Sioux, blackfeet, algonquins, montagnais, apache, yahi ... you are the real americans and the world is telling you Donald Trump i
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by SFJulie 10y ago
I had a lot of fun being a mover: just be at embauche at 7:00am, no BS required, no love of the job, being outside, seeing awesome landscapes ... being tired at the end of the day, with your job let behind and able to enjoy a simple life. I
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by SFJulie 10y ago
euh... Don't confuse Republics and democracies. Letting the people vote is a not an equivalent statement to let the people rules. Condorcet has shown how voting systems can be unfair, and a quick look to every elected assembly from the
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You can know easily know if a startup will fail: try to make them easily state how they expect to make money. Most self named startup that are as much a startup the new baker around the corner feel self entitled to be fuzzy about earning mo
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by SFJulie 10y ago
curl is a trusted way to execute unsafe code on the internet https://gnu.moe/wallofshame.md
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Just remember how Feynman described how he was opening military safe during los alamos project (one of the most super highly sensitive project of WWII) : 25% of the safe where having default combinations. I guess we can draw a conclusion he
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by SFJulie 10y ago
So far oracle has successfully turned into crap every single community of free software they put their hands on: - java, - mysql, - openoffice. Just because I believe in the power of communities over the power of license and I see a patter
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by SFJulie 10y ago
There used to be a long tradition of DIY scientists working in their house without a degree. And they were free to explore the ways they wanted. And some were published Actually opening science to hobbyists would be a good idea. I come from
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You can add this one https://www.aar.org/pages/freight-rail-traffic-data.aspx Monthly Rail Traffic Data How can USA be selling and consuming as much products as in 2007 if the railroad traffic is still 10%~15% less? An
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In term of linux design ioctl are natural candidates as an underlying mechanism for multi-process communication. Quoting Steven Doyle ioctl can be guaranteed by the kernel to be atomic. If a driver grabs a spinlock during the ioctl proces

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