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by bru 10y ago
There are currently such controls for the EU, actually, and done on the French side of the channel. Those may go as well.
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by bru 10y ago
I'm sorry but I believe most of that is FUD, which some prominents economists have been calling out, e.g. this short Krugman piece: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/about-that-frenc... The sad
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by bru 10y ago
> The education system you're referring to is not free at all. The very substantial income taxes in France pay for it. That's like my whole point… You'll effectively get less money than in the US, but you're subsidisi
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by bru 10y ago
Indeed! But then you get great health insurance, good public infrastructure and services, free top-notch education, etc. Basically if you're without any dependent, you may not see it as worth it, but once you have a family it really st
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by bru 10y ago
Given France history (and bagage with England), many French people are very proud of their language. I believe that if one wants to really enjoy France, develop good friendships there, etc., one has to speak French. Or at least be learning
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by bru 10y ago
> Isn't it like super hard to setup a startup in France? It's been getting way easier each year. This book[1] by Criteo's founder explores the question in details. > the talent coming out of all the grandes ecoles seems
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by bru 10y ago
AFAIK age groups are by 5 years. He held the record for the 100(-104) age group, now he holds it for the 105(-110) age group.
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by bru 10y ago
(1) A grep can identify all the occurrences; a sed might even fix them. (translated to Google internal tools obviously) (2) Apparently setting a __dict__ key works; they could be implemented like that.
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by bru 10y ago
About the patch at https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/pull/516/files , couldn't the update simply have been the following? - return Data_Wrap_Struct(klass, rb_redcarpet_rbase_mark, NULL, rndr);
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by bru 10y ago
> why the website is sending docents of requests to Ebay’s servers. "dozens" maybe?
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by bru 10y ago
Full story by one of the 2 finders on the oss-security@openwall mailing list: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/18
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by bru 10y ago
Interesting, even though it's now 5 years old. I'd be interested in the evolution. Also, a pie chart? Really? I can't fathom who thought it'd be a good idea…
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by bru 11y ago
Doesn't work here. None of the given examples triggered the feature.
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by bru 11y ago
Some differences are outlined in this insightful post: http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/06/09/choosing-a-python-r... Overall I'd say that OCaml is more pragmatic.
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by bru 11y ago
The designed is compared against Spanner's several time in the interesting design doc: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
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by bru 11y ago
> libav [...] promoted as a concerted effort to create a better API True, but that was biased and unfair. Some developers leveraged their Debian influence to get Debian to switch from ffmpeg to libav, but the technical merits were debata
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by bru 11y ago
In the source you'll find every occurence of pi as <span style='font-family:Symbol'>p</span> Apparently the Symbol typeface has π as p: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(type
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by bru 11y ago
No, that's really different. - nodequery source (and ecosystem) is closed - "periodically store various system data" "minute" VS "low-latency" - email notifications only - no query language, but a JSON API
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by bru 11y ago
Looks good, but... what's the version I'm to read? The first one or the second one? They seem like different versions of the same document... Since the table of contents is close to being the same it looks confusing. Looks like th
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by bru 11y ago
Looks down (503), here is a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Bf9Iv63...
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by bru 11y ago
That's what last.fm does. You don't need a paid account for that, just add a last.fm scrobbling plugin to your music stack.
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by bru 11y ago
$ curl http://deepart.io/ curl: (7) Failed to connect to deepart.io port 80: Connection refused
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by bru 11y ago
Prolog seems like a good fit for that. Any PhD student wants to publish a paper on a Prolog translation of the TPP? :-)
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by bru 11y ago
How will you handle special key combinations such as Ctrl+C to interrupt what's running? It looks like it will be the second-generation democracy mode. That looks a bit too easy: in theory we would simply have to follow the install gui
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by bru 11y ago
Some of the weaknesses can be tempered by not using HTTP to communicate between the microservices: - "slowdowns on the order of 1000%" - " bunch of code necessary to marshal/unmarshal data [...] there are always dragon
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by bru 11y ago
His Ted talk ( https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_fo... ) is very interesting.
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by bru 11y ago
Isn't that exactly what tabulate has been doing very well for a while? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate Note the variety of formats: 'ascii', but also html, latex & co.
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by bru 11y ago
1-page article: http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-17-hottest-tech-startups-i...
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by bru 11y ago
Ah, I feel dumb for not catching it. It is fair indeed. About the article: that's not what I understand... > a group approved by HBO to receive [the episodes] What I understand is that the leak did not come from HBO but from one of
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by bru 11y ago
That you for that "typical HN comment". >This is a stupid blog post. Have you seen the topic discussed on the Internet? I looked for it and I haven't, so I simply started it. Given the score of the submission and the numbe

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