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by aragot 12y ago
> certain there is nothing in it logging any data Even the reading times of the crew in a submarine would provide precious patterns. Incidentally, should we consider this would be the cost of consumer electronics if we needed proper priv
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by aragot 12y ago
Should we start? "Arm yourself with a quote and every coffee looks like a mic"? "Scalpels don't plant nails easily"? "If we had all those tools, we wouldn't be working here"?
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by aragot 12y ago
They should patent the algorithm using their own generator.
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by aragot 12y ago
Today I noticed my French insurance contract for my company explicitly forbid me from storing data in the US. It's certainly not related to privacy, but I'm happy they push that way.
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by aragot 12y ago
One step left until the "recently viewed" filesystem, where paths are a backwards-compatibility bug. That's when you notice you didn't age well...
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by aragot 12y ago
Ubuntu practiced configuration removal and I dropped them. One of the 3 reasons why I dropped Ubuntu for Mac OSX was that Ubuntu... didn't allow me to configure my mouse speed. They "merged" the speed and acceleration control
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by aragot 12y ago
Because he has users and he wants to keep their private info under encrypted channels? Hobby sites quickly become apps (even as small as phpBB) and it would be good if we SSL'd everything.
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by aragot 12y ago
Better even: I once waited by mistake until the departure time instead of the boarding time. They search for your case in the checked luggage to expell it. If you arrive before they found your case, you're allowed to take the flight. H
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by aragot 12y ago
The boarding time for an A380 is 45min to 1hr before departure. When you count how much money is being spent, they probably wouldn't mind printing sequence numbers on the boarding pass. The article doesn't state how much time woul
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by aragot 12y ago
Same for the title. It's unsubstantiated. There are reorgs, but nothing in the article confirms that G+ is dead.
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by aragot 13y ago
That's creative enough to have potential to win the game of AI.
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by aragot 13y ago
As a first approximation to machine learning, it would use Amazon Mechanical Turk?
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by aragot 13y ago
"Extreme vacations": I think he emphasizes on disconnecting during vacations, maybe doing extreme sports in very unique locations.
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by aragot 13y ago
They also refresh the page every so on, which usually prevents reading for a normal person.
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by aragot 13y ago
...but I'm learning"
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by aragot 13y ago
> It's also quite the mystery how this culture happened Maybe the language didn't have powerful tools in its core? What if getters/setters weren't mandatory, like in Scala, wouldn't we write more tiny expressive
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by aragot 13y ago
Right, I once calculated the tax and social payments (incl. retirement, health care and tax agent) for a 75k€ business without employee, and it was ~53k€. You can't get rich in France. We hate rich people anyway, you'd be subjecte
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by aragot 13y ago
French entrepreneur here. It's called "communication channel overflow": When I used normal channels like talking to my "deputee for French people living abroad", I got rejected based on the tone. I feel like other c
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by aragot 13y ago
> flat out kill you This is just speculation. You don't know what they would do if you gave them a chance, a second chance, a third chance, lots of love and a few material means. As a proof, incarceration rate is lower in my country
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by aragot 13y ago
Native English is the new Latin. Born French, I'm good in English, but I remarked I had something to learn when I noticed I couldn't understand anyone in that country [1] although they could understand each other and were speaking
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by aragot 13y ago
1) Subwords Why not using: MY_COLUMN ~ '. wurst\y. ' ? Here is the doc for LIKE, SIMILAR and regexes: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/functions-matching...
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by aragot 13y ago
Same bad experience here. I have 2Mo/s on my hard drives and they claim everything is normal on their side. I could trigger an investigation but if it comes from my config, they'll charge it on me. I don't know how I could ha
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by aragot 13y ago
And he works 70-80hrs a week, which explains parts of the successful implementation of his ideas.
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by aragot 13y ago
Might I recall that competing with foreign companies using Gmail accounts is silly too, but we still do it, betting they're not organized enough yet to find the information. On the plus side, it shows that even Microsoft internal enn
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by aragot 13y ago
I'm French. I can tell programming is downright painful in Azerty, so I end up buying Qwerty computers and use the "switch to International US" shortcut whenever I need to write French. On that one, quotes and double quotes b
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by aragot 13y ago
This. We're living a tech shift here. The way we used to respond to absolutism has been to require the our layman policeman doesn't have enough info to bully us. It has proven not to be possible, since technology is so accessible
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by aragot 13y ago
Sorrt, what is RP?
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by aragot 13y ago
+1. If only they had introduced syntactic sugars for nulls, like user?getAddress()?getStreet(). It just doesn't have to be so painful. Writing functions used to be one of them and I'm happy it's solved.
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by aragot 13y ago
> I suppose if heated debate leads to polarization of opinion, that's an issue, but... It definitely leads to my polarization, along with other (seemingly unfair) events in my life. Plus, it is hard to express any other opinion than
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by aragot 13y ago
Good point, when we ask pictures not to show our ex, we're asking for a history rewrite, as if they never existed. It may be hard to face them but we may have to.

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