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by Wilya 14y ago
In quite a few countries where weapons are heavily regulated, you can get a permit. The structure obviously depends on the country, but if you have a genuine reason (mostly hunting or sport) and satisfy some basic requirements (no criminal
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by Wilya 14y ago
Honestly, if someone wants to sell me a database, I'd prefer they spend money on database engineers rather than on designers. To each his own, I guess.
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by Wilya 14y ago
I don't think he's really aiming to measure the influence of logo color on rating. The title, or the way he describes it, is a bit misguided. What he wants is just something that is good enough, and colors that are "just" used often are lik
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by Wilya 14y ago
Code is at https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/... Fwiw, I just ran it after fixing the time call, and it doesn't seems to significantly change the result on my (low spec) machine.
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by Wilya 14y ago
I like their blunt feel. If people don't like something, they will say so. Loudly. I find that a good thing. Plus, in my experience, they are not so bad. The number of rational and moderate people is quite higher than, for example, in new
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by Wilya 14y ago
That's not very surprising. They are forcing everything towards integrating everything into Google+, one way or another. And I must say, when I read in one of the screenshots "And if you change your mind, you can switch back to your usernam
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by Wilya 14y ago
Honestly, I don't feel a need for AdBlock. I don't consciously see most ads (with the exception of Youtube ones, like I said). They don't even reach my mind. I instinctively know where they are, and my gaze just routes around them. And in t
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by Wilya 14y ago
I find it fascinating that, with all the talk about new and creative ways to do ad business, the only ads that I find myself interested in are Youtube ads, which are, in some way, a very old school and tv-like technique. I tune out ads on G
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by Wilya 14y ago
They (also) exist for basic Java strings. aString.equals("SOMETHING") will throw an exception if aString is null, while "SOMETHING".equals(aString) will just return false. In some cases, that's one 'if' less to write.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Err, yeah. Except at the end of the day, the goal and outcome of the relationship is the programming (or, well, the technical side in general). The business relationship is supposed to be just a construction between us, in order to be able
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by Wilya 14y ago
Why is it how it should be ? The fact that I know how to sell myself makes me better paid, better treated, and better recognized that others who have the same level of programming ability as me but are less good at shouting it to whoever wa
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by Wilya 14y ago
Fun fact: In 1999, Mozilla (around its M11 release) introduced a "Search" button to the location field [0] which meant a unified input box. Firefox and its two-field setup is, absurdly enough, a later move. I can't point out when it happene
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by Wilya 14y ago
IIRC, links replaces images by some [alt-text] or [IMG]. Turning the images off in a graphical browser just.. well.. turns the images off.
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by Wilya 14y ago
I doesn't usually happen like that for me. More likely, I stumble on a point where I have to reuse part of an old code, but with slightly different goals, or with some steps added/removed in the middle. Copy-pasting and just dropping the us
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by Wilya 14y ago
I definitely disagree. Maybe sometimes, paying twice as much gives you something that lasts ten times longer. Or maybe, you will pay five times as much, and get something that (hopefully) lasts a bit longer. I use a lot of earphones, and th
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by Wilya 14y ago
Given that SeaMonkey was initially (and still is, as far as I know) a community-driven effort to keep alive Mozilla-the-browser after the foundation had decided to stop supporting it, I suspect there is very little to be gained on that fron
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by Wilya 14y ago
See [0] and [1] for a bit more context. It seems the very high latitude is good for a satellite base station. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Satellite_Station [1] http://www.ksat.no/node/77
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by Wilya 14y ago
I think simple and automatic local caching is the hard part. Having access to your distant files isn't particularly hard. Take sshfs, samba, nfs, openvpn (or whatever equivalent you happen to know), mix them in a big bowl, put a server unde
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by Wilya 14y ago
21 French out of 39. Once again, I'm proud of my country. Sigh.
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by Wilya 14y ago
That's one of the things to do in college. Gaining a shiny degree that will help you get a better job is another. Meeting people who will help you in your career is yet another. There are many reasons to go to college. Learning interestin
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by Wilya 14y ago
I don't think Chrome is especially lightweight. It tends to be optimized for speed by using as much resources as available. It might be better than IE in that regard, but it doesn't have any huge advantage over firefox.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Yep. The azerty[1] layout is pretty much standard in France. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerty
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by Wilya 14y ago
> The other day someone sent me an e-mail or text (I forget) to invite me to an event. On the other hand, maybe you've missed a dozen of other events, where you could have had your share of "real" communication. I despise Facebook as a
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by Wilya 14y ago
There are quite a few ways to automate that. Lastpass, Keepass, KeepassX, 1Password, ...
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by Wilya 14y ago
There is no talent shortage. There is a shortage of Berkeley/Stanford/MIT grads. Just look at the difference between grads of those school, who basically get money thrown at them, and the rest of graduates, who have a hard time finding a jo
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by Wilya 14y ago
For about the first half of the clip, I actually thought they had taken a real movie and added a few Java references. That sort of makes the second half look a bit strange. But it's still hilarious.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Some discussion on this yesterday : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148524
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by Wilya 14y ago
(I'm not an expert) I think the HTK doesn't use neural networks at all. What it does is simply computes the MFCC of the sound signal and use it as input to a chain of HMM models. Well, "simply" that, plus the dozens of refinements and tweak
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by Wilya 14y ago
That's an interesting question. Does uploading a project to github from a foreign country qualify as "importation within the United States" ? It would make sense that it does, but I haven't ever seen the point raised. Could github receive a
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by Wilya 14y ago
From the linked paper: "Although this compiler-testing approach has been used before [6, 16, 23], Csmith’s test-generation techniques substantially advance the state of the art by generating random programs that are expressive—containing co

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