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by brmgb 7y ago
> Exactly. If I move to France on a temporary work visa with my 10 kids, they don't automatically get to stay indefinitely or get granted citizenship somehow just because their parent has a work visa. That's a very poor exampl
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by brmgb 7y ago
It's not about the parent (which is not a job by the way). We are talking about actual people turning 21 and having no choice but to leave the country where they spend their whole life based on the situation of a different person. I pe
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by brmgb 7y ago
I tend to avoid the ternary operator because in my experience even people who think they know how it works are often unaware of its edge cases when it comes to silent numeric type conversion (looking at you Java). If you don't put the
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by brmgb 7y ago
> - mount on the center console where I can put my own touchscreen device if I so choose (iPad, Android, phone, etc) That's probably never going to happen. Devices on mount are a securiry nightmare during a crash and car manufacture
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by brmgb 7y ago
> I'd argue that to make their supporter model work they've had to drop their editorial standards lower still. I personally mostly stopped reading The Guardian because for all intents and purposes they have become an American j
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by brmgb 7y ago
Qt sees far more industrial usage than GTK. It has a nice C++ API and the licensing situation has always been clear for companies. GTK was never really a success outside of the Linux open source desktop community.
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by brmgb 8y ago
I'm not sure I follow you here. You seemed to be implying that after witnessing Blackberry failure to properly make their own modem you found the idea of Apple doing it laughable. I was pointing to you that : 1. Contrary to Blackberry
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by brmgb 8y ago
Apple has an extremely competent team of chip designer, decades of experience in manufacturing and plenty of money to snatch top talents. If they want to be serious about modem design and it seems they want to, they will most likely succeed
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by brmgb 8y ago
> They all work. I haven't found them to be of poor quality. It does works but the quality control is questionable. You will often find poorly done and finished sewing or pieces which are cut approximately. They also often use the c
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by brmgb 8y ago
> that sounds an awful lot like something one might call a "staging" area. Not at all. When you stage something in Git, you add a snapshot of the current version to the staging area. If you modify the file after doing "
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by brmgb 8y ago
> What would be really nice is some sort of "pseudo-commit stack" whereby you can do this workflow, but every mini-commit goes into a stack that you can unwind to whatever point you want if it turns out that you've been go
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by brmgb 8y ago
You should also ask for an email to send a free trial/inform people of the release in order to build a first prospect list.
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by brmgb 8y ago
> It seems kind of short-sighted to me to say that the people who are trying to build those aren't doing "real science." I don't understand the theory there... that they haven't figured it all out yet, so it&#x27
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by brmgb 8y ago
If you are interested in the subject, The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages by Simon Peyton Jones is actually freely available on his Microsoft Research page : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research&#
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by brmgb 8y ago
> because that is literally the only way Ada would allow you to do something - by the book GoF style Ada is a very flexible language and the first versions didn't even support OOP so I will hasard that there was more than one way to
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by brmgb 8y ago
> I like having an app store I can trust to not have malware, I like knowing the apps I download have had a human review them for quality. I like having hardware with an OS where the developer of the OS controls when I get updates, not a
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by brmgb 8y ago
> Why? They've made the hardware. Why should they have to let Spotify run on it in the exact way Spotify wants? (You can Airplay Spotify to Homepod.) I perfectly understand why Apple would be as anti-competitive as they can away wit
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by brmgb 8y ago
For 4G data, your bandwith get capped ridiculously low after 60GB. For broadband, it's seems really unlimited yes. As it's often supposed to be for residential use only, I guess they will start asking you questions if your usage b
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by brmgb 8y ago
> They would open each ballot, and if it was for the "wrong" candidate, they would discretely mark another name That's impossible. You don't write on French ballot. We use a card of a standardized format on which the
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by brmgb 8y ago
Hand-counting is done in public in any respectable democracy. Each ballot is shown and you can constantly see the current tally. My parents used to take me to our polling places tally when I was a kid. For a mistake to happen, thirty person
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by brmgb 8y ago
I don't understand why you need a machine at all. Counting ballots is trivial to parallelize. You just have each polling place count its own ballots publicly, display the result in a permanent manner, reseal the box and communicate the
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by brmgb 8y ago
> No, the idea is that you don't set hard deadlines for the team - they're pointless. I think the issue stems more from the prevalent confusion between deadlines and milestones in part of the IT world. I used to work on ship co
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by brmgb 8y ago
> And how quickly is France's number going to grow given that France's second largest ISP recently cancelled its plans to deploy fiber? https://www.reuters.com/article/altice-sfr-france/altice-aba... .
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by brmgb 8y ago
That's mostly because France never used copper cable as a TV distribution system and is going straight to fiber. Deployment is admittedly slower than it should be especially in the countryside where it will never be profitable due to
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by brmgb 8y ago
Search engine and ride-sharing don't seem to be natural monopolies however. Communication infrastructure in most part of the USA clearly is. Still I agree breaking up Comcast is not the solution. You will just end up with smaller more
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by brmgb 8y ago
> The people who created that technological leverage are far from median workers, and earn many times the median wage. If the issue was, as you are implying, one of distribution, we should be seeing income inequality growing while the w
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by brmgb 8y ago
> If we accept that your "good" and "mediocre" programmers are commodities, there's no basis to call them "good" and "mediocre" because they're fungible to their employer. Being fungible
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by brmgb 8y ago
> France needs reforms and has been postponing them for decades. France needs stability a lot more than reforms. As a country, France still has a highly educated population, great infrastructure, a rich internal market and a solid canvas
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by brmgb 8y ago
Actually, I think Shannon might be more known than Turing. Pretty much anyone doing signal processing, which is part of the standard physics curriculum where I'm from, will be introduced to the Nyquist–Shannon theorem while Church and
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by brmgb 8y ago
> What I don't like, and completely disagree with, is systemd not working with the community they directly effect to reduce disruption. > Rather than turning around and requiring everyone to change, they could have said, "So

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