babebridou

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by babebridou 13y ago
"Bonjour(tm), tu as touché(tm) du doigt un vrai problème durant ton exposé(tm)." "Hello, you pointed out a real issue during your talk."
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by babebridou 14y ago
Some people have the "unfair advantage" of being able to pick up a domain of expertise and excel at it really fast. As the startup grows in reach and complexity, those guys really stand out. The reason might be because they can spin every p
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by babebridou 14y ago
Very satisfying post. It confirms one of my opinions about proficiency in general. Proficiency has a lot to do with pattern recognition and having access to multiple tools, each tailored to solving a particular problem. Figuring out which t
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by babebridou 14y ago
I completely agree with you here. fullscreen web doesn't really work in 16:10, even in portrait. It's among the reasons why I preferred my iPad to my Xoom for web browsing a couple years ago. Now I wish you could switch to portrait on this
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by babebridou 14y ago
Exclusions happen, when you need to make do with libraries that have different release schedules or are poorly organized but critical for your current priorities, needs and time constraints. One should see exclusions pretty much as Technica
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by babebridou 14y ago
I picked the one with the longest distance between the T and the E. That was the wrong answer. This quizz is an excellent training though. I didn't know anything at all about typography prior to taking the test (never bothered to learn the
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by babebridou 14y ago
That was due to bad wording on my part, my bad. I meant that one should accept that at any random moment the data might be inconsistent with the reality, but after the cut-off time the data for the previous period is guaranteed to be consis
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by babebridou 14y ago
IFRS and GAAP require real-time consistency? Because that's what I meant with edge cases, entries that are split between two accounting periods. You deal with them in eventually consistent systems just as you would in an ACID system: wait a
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by babebridou 14y ago
Isn't accrual accounting the use of an account to log transactions at the time of sale rather than at the time of payment? If so the same technicalities apply, you can log your credits and debits in different accounts, no need for ACID tran
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by babebridou 14y ago
In practice you can work around transactions in double-entry registers with UUIDs, and then fixing the inconsistent edge cases at reporting time.
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by babebridou 14y ago
"Moderately interesting"? This article is a gold mine on the subject! I'd like to read his take on idempotency in logging system, as this has always been among the harder problems to solve when designing IT architectures for me. Edit: Here
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by babebridou 14y ago
Actually they don't need to use transactions at all in accounting. All they need is a debit history and a credit history. Using transactions locally could be done but the resulting software would be far too complex for ATM hardware. Using t
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by babebridou 14y ago
...and I use my gmail accounts to feed my Thunderbird. I hate having to sign out/sign in every time I need to switch from personal to professional google account.
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by babebridou 14y ago
I tried to be careful with my wording so as to come out as neutral as I can on the subject. My intent was to turn this into a design discussion about the importance of carefully choosing default settings - I failed obviously :P My personal
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by babebridou 14y ago
The problem is that an ISP is altering legitimate content that it's supposed to serve to their customer by contract, that they took this decision unilaterally without suggesting a change in the contract, that the feature is opt-out, that th
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by babebridou 14y ago
Just FYI, having a DUNS code is also part of the requirements for publishing on the Windows Store. Symantec is the third-party doing the verifications for Microsoft.
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by babebridou 14y ago
I might be going on a tangent here, but I can't help thinking there's something wrong with product names for the past few years. We're now naming things with incredibly common words, changing their very meaning into something else. Facebook
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by babebridou 14y ago
Sometimes I manipulate a touch screen when I read a long and dense text but that's just to prevent the mobile device from sleeping.
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by babebridou 14y ago
The experience of going for an all-nighter is akin to watching a full season of 24 in one go, only you're the protagonist. It's memorable, and yes, especially if you manage to pull it off. I tell it as a tale of inspiration: do it, once .
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by babebridou 14y ago
Great, simply great API that just works. Keep up the good work! What I would love to see now would be the ability to send compressed text to shorten the url.
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by babebridou 14y ago
Minecraft and Frontier EliteII conveyed pretty much the same feeling of absolute freedom, yes. Of course, Minecraft was based on a completely different premise - changing the world instead of exploring it. It can be argued that there has al
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by babebridou 14y ago
Sometimes you're not calling or SMSing a specific person but rather a place or a community ("Is John with you?", "Is everything alright over there?", etc) Sometimes it's even weirder to have to choose between calling Fred or Julie whenever
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by babebridou 14y ago
There is a specific and yet extremely widespread usecase for switching account on a phone: to distinguish between personal and business use. I'm a different person at work with my phone than I am at home or at a pub. I don't want to clutter
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by babebridou 14y ago
Something that also doesn't carry over this interesting approach is the land area. Paris is only 105.4 km2, New York City is roughly 7 times as large, Berlin 9 times and you could fit 50 Paris inside Istanbul as a whole. Those tiny segments
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by babebridou 14y ago
It irks me whenever a company takes a common word in a language and turns it into a name or a brand. It feels like the language is being pillaged.
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by babebridou 14y ago
Of course people are thinking about games right now. The first implementation I thought of was to reproduce the "hand seal/hand wave" spellcasting in traditional fantasy lore - and thus introduce a new genre of fighting video games: sorcer
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by babebridou 15y ago
Well, small-size icons are not going to be the source of the application package size issue, are they? I mean if pixel-perfecting 16x16, 32x32 and 64x64 icons is something we do already, using svg against the other end of the scaling proble
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by babebridou 15y ago
You're right, that was my plan actually, but I got sidetracked by the cygwin beast, sorry. I timed the fib(36) function from within a clojurescript repl inside a clojure jvm repl, and it returned in 86 seconds. Then I timed the generated js
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by babebridou 15y ago
I wondered, too, so I ran the benchmark on a clojure repl on the JVM on my desktop, it timed at 1028ms.
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by babebridou 15y ago
I agree. The "big problem" is the low-ish revenue due to poor app sales figures compared to iOS, and probably nothing else. You can blame it on the device's architecture, I'd rather put the blame on the business itself and the way it works.

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