abolibibelot

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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Well, being French and all, I beg to differ: "une lande désolée" can be translated as "a desolated moor". But it's a bit quaint, and yes, désolée usually means sorry (feminine form).
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Ok. My take on it: this reads like some apocryphal Larry Wall's apocalypses. What this means is simple: _why switched to Perl 6.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
"désolée" also means..."desolated" or "forlorn" when refering to a place instead of a person.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
I don't understand. Are you saying that map, filter, reduce and al. on lazy sequences in functional languages are inferior to loops, or that Python list comprehensions and generators are inferior to loops? That's basically LINQ to objects.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
I'm not disagreeing about the complexity, but you can choose to use a sane subset of the language and do away with all the other stuff. You're aware that's the classic counter-argument to "C++ is too complex"? Like with C++, t
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Should be called "the sociopath handbook" then.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
"A couple hundred grand" is what a freelancer who charges well makes in a year.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Said the man who was a fierce proponent of the Vietnam war without setting foot there.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
France Telecom basically did that to some of its employees too when it muted from monopoly to oligopoly. It led to a surge in suicides.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
The paper is at http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/170528/msr-tr-2012-79.pdf (the redirection fails, but the url is in the query string...)
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
What could "Grand Central Dispatch is a better way to handle threading, queues ("threading for OO")" possibly mean? A better way than what? Erlang/Akka Actors? Java concurrent libraries? Clojure STM? Single-threaded async callback fest? Thr
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Because the norm is working at a startup in SV?
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
You're right it's not, and that's what makes it infuriating since both Google and the French government storytelling benefit from lumping these issues together ("look at ze seellee control-freaks French" vs. "we raise high the light of Just
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
You're conflating two entirely different issues here (though you're not alone in that, the French government itself is likely to play one issue as a leverage to the other). The French newspapers that are whining about google indexing their
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Ok, I'll give the first point a maybe. As to the second point, the risk is overblown (but yes, geotagging is stalker heaven). But, when to make a point, the expert says: "Do you really want everyone to know the exact location of your h
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
It's what Bruce Schneier calls Security Theater, or movie plot threats, with a dash of "beware, the enemy is always listening", and self-proclaimed security experts to hint at vague threats from terrorists. It's true that there are privacy
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Extract from http://pubnub.com/jobs : Our ideal person is someone who lives and breathes code, and understands the difference between C, Python, and Javascript. Well Python doesn't use as many semicolons as the others. Am I hir
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Nabokov, which incidently is one of the too-impressive great writers mentioned in the comments, beside writing some of the best novels ever, taught literature for years in Cornell. I cannot recommend enough his "Lectures on literature". Hi
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Well, it seems that Coursera business model is either issuing meaningful certificates, or offering other companies potential hires (the latter being what I've understood of Udacity business model). In both cases, the certificate is supposed
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
How to be a great [developer|dad|founder|hustler|manatee trainer] in 11 easy steps 1-7. Do what I did. 8-10. Learn what I learned. 11. Listen to advice from random people on the Internet.
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
There are several memes in the United States psyche that are quite puzzling for the rest of us (non USans), military fetichism being one of the weirdest. That said, turning the experience of making sure bombers can safely carpet bomb Vietna
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
The upside of the VB6 IDE, used on a recent computer is that it's amazingly fast and snappy (it was meant to run on 1998's PC's). That's what I kept telling myself when I had to work on a legacy 600k LoC VB codebase last year. If you ever f
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Phalanger ( http://phalanger.codeplex.com/ ) is an implementation of PHP running on the CLR with a fairly good compatibility story and sometimes much better performance. Phalanger worked well even without using the DLR (dynamic language r
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
Very insightful. Best quote from the article: "There’s people that will read this and find it completely ridiculous. "
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by abolibibelot 14y ago
From the screenshot: "One moment. Looks like you're on an iPhone 4S and running Windows?" Let me get this straight. The user is sitting in front of its windows machine, and happily taps on its iPhone to chat with customer support for a piec
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by abolibibelot 17y ago
Another clueless, technically infeasible, bound to be rejected by the EU and/or the Conseil Constitutionnel (our kind of Supreme Court) law from our beloved President who's striving to be ranked as high as GW Bush (and hopefully, it will on
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by abolibibelot 17y ago
What's the point of the createid fields? And why do you hardcode two related companies instead of going for a N-N relationship?
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by abolibibelot 17y ago
There's a lot of people here who seem to think .NET bytecode (or Java for that matter) is run by the VM. How 90's of you guys. It's compiled on first run, so technically there's no difference with (iPhone) Objective-C apps. The GC may facto