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by aragot 13y ago
Nothing personal with braces, but Java code is too verbose and it's so much pleasure, sometimes, when you can make it shorter.
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by aragot 13y ago
Explanation? You could put code elsewhere than in flat files? Elsewhere that is neither VBA nor PLSQL ;)? I'm interested. Otoh, if you're going to suggest binary structures, I wont be able to approve you if they're not easy t
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by aragot 13y ago
Is there any study that shows the cost of lobbying (in the case of moving major ideas like patents)?
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by aragot 13y ago
Ironically, PayPal's core business _is_ security. The founder's interview [1] describe the beginning as a constant race against fraud, which no other bank was willing to compete in: "You're going to go bankrupt when the
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by aragot 13y ago
... and it still involves the right of selling the account at the price he wants, even if he's squatting.
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by aragot 13y ago
Yeah why is that attacker so nice and kind? No joking, it's bad for their business.
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by aragot 13y ago
The problem is stealing @N is, someone will have to use it one day. How can they hope not to be traced?
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by aragot 13y ago
Hi Bhoomit, Is it an average for most IT workers, or do you have strong discrepancies depending on people's education or situation in IT?
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by aragot 13y ago
Most of them depend on the relationships you create with your key stakeholders: #1 3 years in Australia = Time to open a new chapter: I want to be a product manager and I wasn't on the rails, #2 Stress due to unhealthy working hours, #
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by aragot 13y ago
French here. When employee in France, the law says 25 days/yr and you can add 11 RTT (please don't look that up in wikipedia). People don't tend to use them all. I would generally take 1-2 weeks for Christmas, and 2-weeks tri
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by aragot 13y ago
Did they _actually_ write an article with a tweet as the _only_ evidence?
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by aragot 13y ago
Nonsense. Every single piece on those laptops already leaks more than a teabag, every protocol does more information broadcasting than the BBC, why would they have it shipped to the headquarters? NSA's job is to bug computers before th
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by aragot 13y ago
546 comments, including: - 530 talking exclusively about the name, - 14 mentionning the name as an issue and - 2 commenting on the real, useful, technical stuff. Thank you HN
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by aragot 13y ago
You know why it isn't successful? Because everyone will remember 'bro'. Scandal and analogy is sometimes an efficient way to do marketing.
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by aragot 13y ago
Thank you Raganwald. You are comment #500 on this page, I've read them all with an angry feeling, and you are the first one who touches me. You've made a decisive point in a 500-comment HN flamewar. Congrats.
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by aragot 13y ago
Foreigner here (French). Why is Tin funny? It stands for the small metal box with food inside, like Can, doesn't it?
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by aragot 13y ago
As read in an earlier HN post, being a programmer is all about having been socially excluded from evry circle. At 7 yo, excluded from football. At 8 from the local bike boys. At 16 from any group at high school. At student age because I&#x2
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by aragot 13y ago
> since oversensitive feminists make life much harder for women in tech to be taken seriously. Yep. In all political parties too, the oversensitive types discredit the other ones. Please fight for moderation from the extremists as much a
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by aragot 13y ago
Exactly the rhetoric which leads to the unfairness of the system. Yes, if there's a single doubt about the evidence, you _must not_ frame the person. We're talking here about the justice system refusing to return evidence which co
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by aragot 13y ago
The same can be said about pretty much any country. This article is an opinion and isn't backed by examples or facts. If anything to be said about French roads, we have automated speed controls and it's a heavy burden on our lower
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by aragot 13y ago
So many things are broken here. The crapware crumpled to OEM versions of Windows (or the Unity defect if you're using Ubuntu), the lack of trust in the PC hardware, the lack of class when going through the experience of buying a PC, th
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by aragot 13y ago
> We can be proud of that Good thing? Bad thing? Who knows? http://hany.rashwan.com/good-thing-bad-thing-who-knows Let's say we currently have an optimist faith in our system. > if only we would have the spirit o
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by aragot 13y ago
You should invent bets. If the prosecutor bets the evidence is useless and it the defendants gets the opposite, we unveil the evidence and if the outcomes turns over, the prosecutor gets double the penalty the defendant would have taken. Th
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by aragot 13y ago
> billion-with-a-big-B +1 > I, too, agree that nearly every other nation's justice system is ethically primitive. I don't have data about my own country, but I can tell you about fundamental differences between France and Co
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by aragot 13y ago
Referring to the "Bill Gates does not assume his email is taped" debate, Steve Jobs doesn't seem to care either about those written forsenics. Which is twice surprising since I've read elsewhere that he was very tight on
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by aragot 13y ago
And compelled Chizen to stay in the game.
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by aragot 13y ago
And here is how he discredited the biggest charity of the world with a single sentende.
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by aragot 13y ago
+1 London +1 Day job that you reduce to 7hrs a day or less. You'll have to be brave, and you'll probably feel alone until 2 years after you settle in any city. Don't overwork. Once you're there, say yes to all social eve
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by aragot 13y ago
They don't have to integrate all those services. Look at Mozilla Persona. Eroding privacy has a much bigger cost than the one Google extracts fom the information. And it's not like we can choose to avoid androids, samsungs and iPh
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by aragot 13y ago
Given that's a lie about her identity, she could be quickly distrusted if she ever appears in a court. And that's a preety huge consequence of the Real Name Policy.

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