agravier

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   by agravier 16y ago

   You should beware not to be too enthusiastic, because this year's organizers were pretty aggressive when I politely asked (over PM) if there was any specific problem with adding Clojure. I still don't know what the problem was.
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   by agravier 16y ago

   Thanks for posting this explanation. I am curious about that part: > inadvertently blocked all mentions of the phrase "lamebook" on Facebook. Inadvertently seems to imply that this was not voluntary, more like the result of some "miscli
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   by agravier 16y ago

   A Macbook as ssh client? There are cheaper and smaller options out there. I use an Asus eee 901 (and a MiFi router to use one 3g plan for all devices I carry around), it was very cheap and it's been working very well. My macbook has not lef
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   by agravier 16y ago

   My understanding is that they did try to sell Xmarks, but noone would want of them until this announcement and the subsequent massively suportive reaction from the community that revealed that people seem do infact be ready to pay for the s
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   by agravier 16y ago

   This nonsense ruling allows the bank to avoid responsibility.
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   by agravier 16y ago

   Is there a video recoding of the talk?
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   by agravier 16y ago

   It was possibly mostly associated with the river in people's mind at launch time. Amazon is a smart name, exotic rivers and books go well together.
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   by agravier 16y ago

   Registration does not support email+stuff@domain.wut. It should.
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   by agravier 16y ago

   > People aren't stupid. They can distinguish between Froyo and Cupcake. No, they can't, normal people don't know that there exist different versions of Android. They don't care, because they don't want to care. > People do in fact g
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    by agravier 16y ago

    After a few games (1 to 5), new formations stop showing up and other players stop moving. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100724 Firefox/3.6.8
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    by agravier 16y ago

    There is no Nobel prize for Mathematics.
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    Where is the new Hacker News?

    38 points by agravier 16y ago|35 comments
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    by agravier 16y ago

    you are right.
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    by agravier 16y ago

    The "sharing" that goes on in most scientific fields is not of the friendly kind. The race for publications (-> money, fame) is the root cause. Ethical values are a facade.
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    by agravier 17y ago

    GMX is not too bad
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    by agravier 17y ago

    Many ex-googlers I know are now startup founders.
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    by agravier 17y ago

    I see, they cloned the first 4 they hired.
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    by agravier 17y ago

    FYI, $1 is insignificant in Singapore. Average household monthly income probably around 4000 USD (personal estimate, I live there, didn't look for official data)
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    by agravier 17y ago

    Did you try both? Can you work better on your internet-hooked box?
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    by agravier 17y ago

    I'd like to point out that if we assume that the infrared wave travels at the speed of light in empty space (I know it's somehow slower but good enough for the back of this virtual envelope) to a subject 1.5m from the camera and comes back,
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    by agravier 17y ago

    The issue is that - success on a simulator does not mean being able to "scale up" to real life - success IRL would does not imply success on some simulator The link is particularly weak for crude simulations of multi-agent, dynamical, stoch
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    by agravier 17y ago

    Pople who couldn't get somehting to work can click on "Symblos" and train it.
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    by agravier 17y ago

    It's likely that you're the only one able to answer that question (if you don't see any psychoanalyst).