corentin

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by corentin 18y ago
> I'm still looking for ways to optimize things Re-implement your crawler on a FPGA. Just kidding :) It's great that you got what you were expecting, but as Paul said, you have to profile before you optimize (otherwise you will "optimiz
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by corentin 18y ago
I'm not sure that saying you're too busy writing code to deal with every other aspect of your business really is a good thing. That being said, if you intend to sell your service to nerdy Unix sysadmins, not having a shiny website requiring
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by corentin 18y ago
> Not only is it fatter than IE 7, it's also more resource-intensive I've also noticed that programs tend to become more resource intensive over the years. Could it be that they also do more things, as permitted by advances in hardware?
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by corentin 18y ago
It was created years ago and it's called the world wide web.
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by corentin 18y ago
Looks like a 2600 meeting, minus the open-minded spirit.
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by corentin 18y ago
Well, you can replace malloc() and friends.
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by corentin 18y ago
We, the hoi polloi developers, work for industries (retail, transportation, insurance, etc.) we hopefully know some thing about, yet without having the same level of expertise (or even the same point of view) as our customers. He should get
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by corentin 18y ago
On the ScrewTurn website, I can read: "ScrewTurn Software - Developers for Passion ". Whatever that means, I don't see them spending the money they got to hire someone.
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by corentin 18y ago
Maybe he didn't know he had those skills before trying...
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by corentin 18y ago
That's what I did as well. I think it's the best thing to do when you are depressed and bored with your life: try another one! You can't start from scratch, but if you switch country, friends, job, etc. the result can be interesting.
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by corentin 18y ago
And where do those subsidies come from in the first place?
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by corentin 18y ago
The money the government took to fund stuff would have been used in another way. But maybe they are better investors than the market; how would we know?
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by corentin 18y ago
It's as bad as a dramatic event happening in a cheap soap opera; which, for that matters, perfectly describes what this so-called computer security industry actually is. Some of those guys are very brilliant engineers indeed, but at some po
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by corentin 18y ago
There is a huge difference between a $200 device and a device whose bill of materials happens to be $200...
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by corentin 18y ago
By hard, we don't mean "difficult to understand and master"; one can learn electronics on his own in the same way he can learn programming. The tools and skills required are on par with software (well, the tools are usually better); it's ju
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by corentin 18y ago
> hardware scares me What you describe is something like 90% (if not more) design and software (including embedded software). The hardware part mostly consists in integrating a few existing high-level components, most of them dealing wi
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by corentin 18y ago
Let's try: "At this point, anyone proposing to write their software in Lisp should be prepared to explain what they know about programming that Google, Yahoo and Amazon don't." How does it sound?
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by corentin 18y ago
Google is supposed to organize the world's information or something like that, but apart from their decent search engine I'm seriously not impressed by what they currently offer (I can't even use Google Maps to plan walking trips!) Are they
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by corentin 18y ago
Your logic is broken; it's a little bit like saying that the Third Reich or the Apartheid wouldn't have existed if the jews and blacks behaved nicely.
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by corentin 18y ago
Well, as far as I'm concerned the real, evil bastards are the ones attacking their competitors through the government using lawsuits instead of working to improve their products and services.
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by corentin 18y ago
Just because "The People" democratically wants something doesn't mean it's right.
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by corentin 18y ago
Just like by not paying for a car you can't go home from the store driving it.
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by corentin 18y ago
Three businessmen are sitting in the hallway of a court, waiting for their trial. After some time, one of them starts lamenting: "because my prices are way higher than my competitors, those bastards want to convict me for profiting from a m
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by corentin 18y ago
The source code for the Prex real-time kernel is very well-written: http://prex.sourceforge.net/src/
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by corentin 18y ago
I'd rather hire someone who is comfortable in any situation (mechanics clothes or business suit) than a rigid smartass who won't change they way he or she dresses no matter what...
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by corentin 18y ago
Basically, there are two kinds of companies: the ones that do care about dress code, and the ones that don't. The first kind would like you to wear a suit (with a tie). For the second kind: well, since they don't care, you can wear a suit a
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by corentin 18y ago
Problems find me. And, unless you're a very lucky person, I bet they find you as well, so just pick the one that annoys you the most.
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by corentin 18y ago
You can't; by definition, your reputation belongs to everyone but you.
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by corentin 18y ago
I'm talking about power and not about voltage; the diameter of a conductor is mostly defined according to the current (hence, power) it will carry through (we're talking about a 300 MW line, at peak time). You simply can't have conductors a
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by corentin 18y ago
You can't have above-ground lines for such a high-power line.

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