corentin

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by corentin 19y ago
Ever heard of Windows Mobile? Symbian? etc. etc.
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by corentin 19y ago
Well, whatever happens when a population is more educated. So a slightly better economy, I guess.
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by corentin 19y ago
Up to now, I trusted my guts and went without much thought to the path with the best profits/effort ratio (that is, I usually chose the easiest, satisfying enough path). The good thing is that you avoid analysis paralysis (by not thinking t
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by corentin 19y ago
Maybe because they're good? Even the Uncov guy likes it! :)
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by corentin 19y ago
A toy application on a proprietary platform is definitely not a startup (it's just cheap, outsourced market research for Facebook).
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by corentin 19y ago
Much better!
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by corentin 19y ago
> How would you raise consumer awareness for a service like this? I'm not sure that "diluting" your message in the press will be very efficient. I may be wrong but I guess people don't really care about emergencies unless they need it.
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by corentin 19y ago
Why would it be different than the societies we have?
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by corentin 19y ago
Yes, if by "something mean" you imply that there is some damage (e.g. if you break your neighbor's window when no one is watching). When you download some file, you can't do damage. I both pirate and buy movies, music, books, etc. Whether I
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by corentin 19y ago
I like the idea but it's hard to make something that is generic enough to be useful, easy to use and not too expensive: you can't both provide a complete framework and promote quick prototyping of innovative devices (by definition, a framew
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by corentin 19y ago
> All I ask is that you consider that there are probably good reasons things are the way they are. Should I call you Pangloss ? :) (kidding aside, I agree with you on the rest)
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by corentin 19y ago
> Please. Tell us what you really feel. That's what I just did! I could have sugar coated my words into a more politically correct form so that they don't look like the typical reddit comment, but what's the point? That's precisely what
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by corentin 19y ago
> The question is whether the current security system is appropriately tuned to the security threat. Does it do more harm than good? Let's see... The current "security system" of the US seems to consist in attacking other countries, tur
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by corentin 19y ago
My only explanation is that a country is globally as intelligent as the mode of the 51% less intelligent of its citizens (it may even be much less than that due to bipolar politics). I can't explain the braindead politics we have to deal wi
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by corentin 19y ago
You seem to imply that abstract data types and data structures are in some way similar (or related). It's not the case; an ADT is not a kind of, nor an alternative to, a data structure (and vice versa). They are different things for differe
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by corentin 19y ago
An abstract data type is the specification of an interface; it's a set of operations whose behavior is defined. A data structure describes how data is organized in memory. Let's imagine a stack ADT with two operations: push and pop. We can
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by corentin 19y ago
MTV get off the AIR! :)
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by corentin 19y ago
Looks more like a letter from Mandriva to its users/shareholders ("look at us, Microsoft is bullying us"). Microsoft couldn't care less.
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by corentin 19y ago
persai.com edit: oh, you mean what do persai do? I think it's some kind of "intelligence" application to notify you of stuff you're interested it.
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by corentin 19y ago
> Abstracting away the "relational" part of the RDBMS sounds like a great idea in theory [...] Abstracting away a model doesn't sound like a great idea to me.
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by corentin 19y ago
That is, until the 70s call to get their hierarchical model back.
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by corentin 19y ago
It's called ransomware. Fabrice Bellard ( http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr ), who is not your average hacker, tried this model with kqemu and as far as I know, despite the great quality of his work, it didn't work (he finally decided to relea
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by corentin 19y ago
There are two kinds of sloppy: sloppy because it's micro-managed by pointy-haired bosses (in this case, yes, run away!) and sloppy because they just don't know better. In the latter case, you can experiment as you like and bring improvement
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by corentin 19y ago
Funny you forgot an obvious choice: sleep. Better than pills.
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by corentin 19y ago
It would make sense: while they would spend their time debugging and fine tuning their beloved baby of a kernel you would just use their work and add value on top of it.
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by corentin 19y ago
I really doubt you have 'finished' C (and C++ is even harder to really master). There is not really a language that is absolutely more powerful than another; but some languages are more suited to certain tasks. You should read this, it answ
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by corentin 19y ago
Yes, everything in life is as easy as in movies! To write web applications, popular programming languages include PHP (the most popular one, used by many companies and open source projects), Java (mostly used for "enterprise" applications),
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by corentin 19y ago
> We could relicense components that they need under a less business friendly license so that they could not take advantage of future improvements to the platform. Why not doing it in the first place, then? > The most important way
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by corentin 19y ago
The best Scheme IDE probably is DrScheme (plt-scheme.org)
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm sorry to say that but what you're looking for is called the desktop (not that it's a bad idea). Unless you really like ads, privacy issues, slow applications and inconsistent user interfaces.

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