Wilya

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by Wilya 14y ago
I backup (and chown) archives, not directly the files, so restoring the permissions isn't much of an issue. Sorry, was unclear :s
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by Wilya 14y ago
My quick and dirty way to it is to run a cron on the backup server that chowns incoming files to another user (with a few refinements, like preventing exec, etc). But I'd definitely like something more solid.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Note that the 32bit thing isn't completely a Linux issue. ZFS seems pretty much designed with 64bit in mind. On the Freebsd side, there is whole section on tuning [0] for i386 users. Some of it might transpose to linux (at least the concept
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by Wilya 14y ago
You can do both. And actually, since the charity fundraising in question[0], which had an initial goal of 20K$, is up to 160K$, my guess is that fueling this issue, giving it press, and making people excited/angry about it ends up, as a sid
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by Wilya 14y ago
These applications (the Google ones) are registered under "Charleston Road Registry Inc." Anybody knows why ? The mail address is in @google.com, so I suppose Google has some relation to it, but still..
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by Wilya 14y ago
The guy is a Professor and publishes textbooks. My guess is that he wants a way to force his own students to buy his book instead of copying it.
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by Wilya 14y ago
To expand on that: The second table on wazoox's link give the number of fatalities scaled to the population (in death per million) for European countries. It doesn't include the USA for some reason, but you can estimate it from Retric's inf
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by Wilya 14y ago
An alias is an additional static ip. And most routers try to minimize IP variations, but it's not perfect. Mine doesn't persist IP<->MAC associations when I reboot it.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Try to turn cookies off and see what still works. Some people still build sites that have basic functionality with JS off. Nobody bothers to do the same for cookies.
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by Wilya 14y ago
You probably haven't really seen the worse of Vista, to say that. My experience, that is matched by some other people around me, is that the difference is that 7 works pretty much out of the box, while Vista could make your computer unusabl
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by Wilya 14y ago
Generally, nothing forces one DNS to resolve to one ip and one ip to correspond to one DNS. So you're losing both a simple way to do load-balancing and virtual hosts. That being said, both can be worked around by other ways. You definitely
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by Wilya 14y ago
Both Hetzner and Kimsufi offer dedicated servers which are really in the same scale. The 49€ server, which is the top of the Kimsufi line and the bottom of the Hetzner line, are virtually the same server except one has 2To disk and 24G RAM,
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by Wilya 14y ago
Two thousand servers is nowhere near the scale of the average person wondering if they have to go in the cloud. And once people have reached that size, I hope they don't follow random blog advices. Before that, for anything that fits on les
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by Wilya 14y ago
The real question is: Why does it tell me "JavaScript for Mobile Safari is currently turned off." when I'm on Firefox on Windows.
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by Wilya 14y ago
I agree. "Photocopying" an object is still way more expensive than buying it. The price of machines, especially for plastic printing, can and will probably go down (1000$ seems high, I think the small ones are more in the 400/500 range righ
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by Wilya 14y ago
This links redirects me to the local language version with the Language=mylanguage in the url . This is beyond annoying.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Because each additional story shared add contents to your friends feed ? And some things you don't want to share are the one that would interest your friends the most. ("friends" in the Facebook sense, of course). And you don't have to cl
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by Wilya 14y ago
Instead of building for the existing community, they are trying to expand the toolset to "seduce" other communities. Both are perfectly worthy goals. Just different.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Dumb luck and timing . Believe it or not, Facebook has changed a lot in the way people interact with each other. Just like Google search changed the way we do things online. And it certainly changed a lot more than GMail...
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by Wilya 14y ago
I have fond memories of Mandrake, because that's the distribution that made me discover linux. But Ubuntu ate their lunch a long time ago. Not sure what went wrong for them, except that Ubuntu has much more traction.
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by Wilya 14y ago
CS field in America is about as easy as it gets, in terms of finding a job. Demand is absurdly high. That's not the case for every field. That's not even true for CS, as soon as you get out of the country. The column is about someone in (ap
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by Wilya 14y ago
My Google searches actually fail very often. Outside of a few topics (programming and music, mainly), and excluding queries that lead me directly to Wikipedia, I'd say the success rate for "exploratory questions" (not "facebook home page")
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by Wilya 14y ago
You can't track the conversion rate from a TV ad either. That doesn't mean you can't notice a positive/negative effect related to the presence/absence of the ad. Especially at the scale of GM.
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by Wilya 14y ago
It's interesting that you mention traffic from search results. I do a lot of queries, on a lot of topics, some of which Quora could probably give me an answer to, and I have never, ever, seen a Quora question appear in Google's results. Unt
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by Wilya 14y ago
I guess it's more a question of local tradition than a question of which industry you're in. As far as I can gather, in Sweden unpaid internship are the norm. In France, the situation is a bit more mixed. Some people pay well, others pay th
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by Wilya 14y ago
I wouldn't limit it to Tunisia, and would include the whole Maghreb, but yeah, it sounds kind of accurate.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Frankly, except for the people developing the readers, the RSS/Atom distinction is completely irrelevant. RSS is used as a simplification for RSS/Atom. I am actually developing a reader, so I know the differences. They're mostly minor, and
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by Wilya 14y ago
I'm not very familiar with how PhoneGap works, and how much it depends on you, but from the docs it seems you still need the classical toolchain. But anyway, if you want to save yourself some hassle, find something that can run Lion. XCode
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by Wilya 14y ago
A naive search shows you get a 1000 sq feet house for 2K$ in MV/Sunnyvale. If it's really true, that doesn't exactly sound a huge amount. Look at the rents in Paris or Stockholm, and imagine you're paid 50k$.
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by Wilya 14y ago
To be honest, the US companies probably have also more money to throw at the problem than those of any other country. Everytime I see someone speak about the absurdly high salaries around Silicon Valley and saying that they are too low, I c

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