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by bbrizzi 14y ago
I might not understand the article correctly but only the contacts seem to be made of graphene. The canal is still made of SiC with far lower conductivity than graphene so it seems to me that the speed improvements wouldn't be as tremendous
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by bbrizzi 14y ago
Well, the reasons I started learning PHP were: 1. It was the most popular web language when I started (in 2000), the alternative being ASP... 2. It's extremely easy to use and set up. Most starting programmers/developpers work on Windows. I
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by bbrizzi 14y ago
So just because you don't have the proper settings on your news feed, you're quitting facebook altogether. I agree that facebook is a lot less personal than it used to be. Personally, I rarely update my facebook status or stare at the newsf
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by bbrizzi 14y ago
My only thought seeing this was "SF has an incredible 3G/4G coverage".
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by bbrizzi 14y ago
The first graph doesn't mention units (thousands of US dollars assumed). No mention of the methodology used. No analysis of the results. The article is split into 10 different pages. Tab closed.
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Isn't there an app for that?
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
I'm afraid the author of this blog post doesn't know what a SIM card is. First of all, it's a secure element: it allows authentication of the user's credentials with the cell phone. SIMs and smart cards in general provide security at the ha
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
If you consider that an e-mail is a type of instant message, it makes even less sense.
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
That makes more sense, thanks! Here's the version I get if anyone's curious: http://i.imgur.com/HIb4d.png (Notice the 1 $ = 1 € conversion...)
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Had to read quite a few comments to understand what was happening. Accessing the site from France, I only see Android apps and games. What is on the US site exactly? Movies and music? Would anyone mind posting a screenshot?
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Pure speculation here, but would it be possible to use some kind of exotic Content-encoding HTTP header to avoid the DPI checks? Of course it would also have to be implemented on the server-side but that's another problem.
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
I'm still waiting for the list of lists that do not contain themselves.
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Exactly. I just spent 20 minutes reading the Wikipedia article on Kanban but I don't see what sticky notes have to do with JIT manufacturing...
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
That's especially true as the SATs are not very challenging... Anyone with a decent math knowledge can get a 800 on that part. There's no way to discriminate the very good students from the truly exceptional ones. Also your high school leve
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
I love how there's an unwritten rule to never talk about HN on Reddit. I never even saw it mentioned, and myself try to avoid mentioning it while I see talks about Reddit and proof that a lot of HNers are former redditors almost daily on th
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
The mere fact that SOPA uses DNS to identify particular web sites and their "origin" shows how little these lawmakers know about internet and its technologies.
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Also Kant wrote about it quite a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant#Moral_philosophy
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
It seems pretty weird to design it that way, using a global config. At least name it some other way to avoid name collisions. Maybe add it as an optional second parameter and define it as static. Also, the mysqli extension should be preferr
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
This year: - I wrote my first C++ app using Qt - I tried getting into Django and RoR, coming from a PHP background. Unfortunately, I haven't yet had a chance to code anything worthwhile in either Python or Ruby. My goals in 2012: - Create a
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
The demo is pretty cool but I have a few questions: - Since all the templating is done on the client-side, isn't it bad for referencing? Note that this isn't specific to Knockout but to all javascript templating libraries in general. - data
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Niiiice. I just spent 5 minutes turning it along all 4 of its axis to find an angle from which it looks like a cube.
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Actually one of the ways to prove that requires the fact that R completes Q. The concept of completeness was introduced by Cauchy in the 19th century and it might not have been completely popularised in 1869.
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Is learning OpenGL from wthe ground up really the best way to go? The trend nowadays in programming seems to be to dive directly into the deep end. Wouldn't it be faster to just download a game engine like Unreal Engine 3 and go through its
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
I find this low too but the job title is "Astronaut Candidate". This probably does not guarantee that you'll actually go to space. If you manage to go through all the training and get on a real space mission, the salary will probably be hig
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Ah, I didn't know it was a "thing". Looking it up comforts the idea that the post is silly and childish. I was indeed playing devil's advocate: it's not because the ad is clumsily worded that its author's intent was to exclude females.
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
I agree that the post's title is not very tactful or professional but I don't think it's sexist. The term "bro" refers to values like fraternity and solidarity. Even the word fraternity comes from the latin frater which means brother but
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
That's how most (if not all) banks work in France. They charge you overdraft fees as a loan at the maximum legal rate (which is about 20% annually, or 1.5% monthly according to Wolfram). That way, if you have a 2 € overdraft for one month,
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Back in Denmark, de Hevesy did a remarkable thing. He reversed the chemistry, precipitated out the gold and then, around January, 1950, sent the raw metal back to the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. He "reversed the che
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
If you want to be picky, I'ld go with: if ((x >= 'a' && x <= 'z') || (x >= 'A' && x <= 'Z') || (x >= '0' && x <= '9')) As in a regular text file you're more likely to
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by bbrizzi 15y ago
Signs you're a bad writer: - Your blog post only consisting of lists - Using only -ing verb forms in your lists - Not having an introduction in your article - Not having a conclusion either - Having only short 2-line paragraphs - Lack of an

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