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by agravier 15y ago
Could it be that the surgery was deemed too risky to perform on an 88 years old person by french surgeons, and not by the american ones? I have heard similar stories, and that was the case.
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by agravier 15y ago
The dodo is just one among so many species that went extinct following human intervention, and not just in the modern age. I recommend watching http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/monsters-we-met/ , that gives a better overview of the ecologica
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by agravier 15y ago
At school, I learnt to write n and m with 2 and 3 creases respectively (so one more than the typographic n and m), so this image doesn't shock me.
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by agravier 15y ago
A detail: Scrum is not an acronym but a name derived from a rugby term, it should not be written SCRUM but just Scrum. (Great story otherwise)
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by agravier 15y ago
Moon station: Undisturbed astronomical observation (minimize earth's interference, take advantage of moon's almost non existent atmosphere)? A robotic station on the other side of the moon with a transmission station on our side?
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by agravier 15y ago
> I remember Blender loading fast as well. But are you sure every single feature of the program is available as soon as the GUI is displayed? This is exactly the point made in the article...
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by agravier 15y ago
It's barbaric too.
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by agravier 15y ago
You probably already know it, but in case you don't: you'll like http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html as well.
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by agravier 15y ago
OK, I did not understand that the term was used here as driven by short-term profit at the expense of ethics.
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by agravier 15y ago
> idealistic expectations for what ultimately boils down to a money-driven company Are there non-profit-driven companies counting more than 10 people?
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by agravier 15y ago
I'm confident that regardless of the ultimate outcome of the Battle For Freedom on Internet and Intellectual Property, it will remain that the most wealthy most often gains financially from their own wrongdoings. The judiciary system will r
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by agravier 15y ago
It's interesting how relative people's experience can be: for me, it was the opposite, as I feel that Arch has let me save a lot of time. I was using Gentoo at the time I decided to switch to Arch, and the relatively deeper understanding of
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by agravier 15y ago
This is a missing feature: selecting (ideally using set theory operators) which combination of circles gets displayed
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by agravier 15y ago
It's pretty, but it systematically freezes about 2 minutes in on my Mac with Chrome 14.0.835.202. Also, if it's laggy, try resizing the window.
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by agravier 15y ago
Next up: why 80 percent of statistics found on internet are made up: a statistician's rant.
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by agravier 15y ago
Sadly, it's true and not uncommon for academic research as well...
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by agravier 15y ago
I switched from Gentoo (4 years user) to Arch (now 4 years) and although the "close to the internals" philosophy are similar, which may make the two distros look the similar, the two are not comparable. Gentoo compiles from scratch by defau
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by agravier 15y ago
A side note: the typos, misspelling, tortured wording and grammatical errors make this article particularly painful to read. I first thought that it's an automatic translation. If you are a tech writer, take a minimum care of these things,
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by agravier 15y ago
Some explanation to counter those terrible downvotes: Pacman, the package manager of Archlinux, is not implementing the verification of package signatures. It's a recurrent issue in the Arch community.
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by agravier 15y ago
pacman cough cough sorry I just lost it for a second...
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by agravier 15y ago
I like that the GNU/Linux client is not an after-thought. Had Dropbox been acquired by Apple, I don't think the long-term prospects of the Dropbox client on non-Apple platform would be as good as they are now. Uniform features and simulatne
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by agravier 15y ago
That idea is at least as old as Emacs ;) random result for "emacs pedal": http://www.cb1.com/~john/computing/emacs/handsfree/pedals.ht...
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by agravier 15y ago
I worked for Google as software engineer. Many colleagues left to build their own business, often a start-up. Contrary to the common idea that Google eats up talent, I believe that Google is a great incubator, in fact. Personally, I left to
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by agravier 15y ago
Indeed, I am thinking so, but I am ready to doubt my beliefs. Do you have anything substantial to back this? Surely, there must be external pages presenting the problems to which you refer, on websites are out of reach of anyone in control
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by agravier 15y ago
> I half expect to get banned from this forum for taking this minority view, in fact. This kind of sentence reveals much about your psychology, and not in your favor, you should avoid it. I think your comment is a little confusing, and
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by agravier 15y ago
"Recreational outrage" well describes the reaction of many of the users complaining in that thread
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by agravier 15y ago
I didn't know it was a problem. I have a Viliv S7 (touchscreen, flip-to-tablet netbook) since maybe a couple of years, no issue with the hinge.
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by agravier 15y ago
The use of the Binary Digit is natural in Information Theory, and the use of powers of two that lead to K, M... naturally stems from it. No one is to blame if not the educative system for letting students believe that counting in base 10 is
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by agravier 16y ago
It's more of a long term investment
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by agravier 16y ago
The name is a little unfortunate, I think. I immediately thought "Zombal = Zombie + Paypal", so expected an online payment solution (for funny necromancers?) or a parody of Paypal.

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