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   by eneveu 16y ago

   Reminds me of "Guns, Germs, and Steel". I've started reading it a few weeks ago, following recommendations on another HN thread. Great book so far. Part of the book focuses on diseases, and how epidemic diseases only spread in large populat
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   Google open sources "Contracts for Java"(google-opensource.blogspot.com)

   138 points by eneveu 16y ago|35 comments
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   by eneveu 16y ago

   Add "&sout=1" to the URL. Or click "Switch to basic version" in the page footer :) More information: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?ti...
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   by eneveu 16y ago

   For those who didn't know about the newsyc Twitter bots, they were created by Jeff Miller: http://jeffmiller.github.com/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-ne... I personally prefer his RSS feeds ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc50 in my cas
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   by eneveu 16y ago

   Also works for french -> japanese translation: http://translate.google.fr/#fr|ja|JE%22TE%20HAIS
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   by eneveu 16y ago

   I haven't yet applied, but might apply once I feel I'm good enough, if I haven't launched a startup by the time. I went to one of the top French engineering schools, which, like most of these schools, is "generalist" ( http://en.wikipedia.o
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   by eneveu 16y ago

   I had the same problem, which I solved by adding the following to my user style (using Stylish): @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") { .title > :visited, .subtext &#6
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   by eneveu 16y ago

   I loved how Matt's response was mocking shady SEO techniques where you keep repeating keywords over and over. He placed the company name / website 10 times in his reply! I don't know if this will have much effect on the SEO rankings, but it
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   by eneveu 16y ago

   This is my exact situation. I'm 24, finished engineering school 2 years ago, and work as a web developer. My lifestyle has stayed the same (I even spend less on many things). I don't need/own a car and don't really care about buying exp
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Would it be ok if the journalist buys the stock 10 seconds after the publication / blog post goes live? If not, how long should he wait? What about somebody who has insider information, publishes it on his personal blog (which is read by ve
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    I think it will damage their business in the long term, as today's developers gradually move to business positions. Before Oracle acquired Sun, I was neutral toward them, and didn't really care. I thought they were a big enterprise vendor,
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Exactly. Google accounts have so many uses (gmail, youtube, google code, google docs, picasa...), it would be easy to detect how "active" / "real" an account is. Of course, anything can be gamed... But it's better than nothing. If I were to
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Hehe. Not sure you should do that though (according to the HN guidelines, one should submit the original source) ;) Thanks for the upvote, that's kind of you! In retrospect, I shouldn't have "whined" in my previous comment. As the Facebook
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Time to try out WhisperSystem's android app? http://www.whispersys.com/ Odly enough, I heard about this thanks to the US government! It is developed by Marlinspike, who was recently detained at the US border, and was mentioned in the Wire
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Now I feel bad for not posting it here as well (I posted it on reddit a few days ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/et5az/libphonenumber_g... ) :( I often avoid posting java links to HN, thinking that the HN community is more focu
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    He should use his female accounts to message his real account, and only "reply" to a few of those. OkCupid would then inform other girls that he "replies very selectively" when they message him, and would thus see him as hard to get!
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Reminds me of this best man who setup a Twitter account for the sole purpose of automatically tweeting when the newlyweds were having sex (recorded using a pressure sensitive device): http://twitter.com/newlywedsontjob
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    I had the same problem. Solved it a few months ago by using one of Jeff Miller's HN RSS feeds ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc50 ). More info : http://jeffmiller.github.com/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-ne...
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    There was an interesting discussion on this very subject 6 months ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/books/review/Collins-t.htm... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743513
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Moreover, prefix notation originally comes from maths. It was invented in 1920: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Twitter feed is nice, but the RSS feed is a lot more useful IMO ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc100 ). When I first saw your post ( http://jeffmiller.github.com/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-ne... ), I missed the RSS feed links, and
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Aside from leaving the JCP, is there anything more Apache could do? As long as Apache keeps contributing to the Java ecosystem through their various open source projects, Oracle still wins. As a Java developer, I really do not like what O
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Weirdly enough, reading this almost makes me regret donating to WikiLeaks yesterday. It's not a total switch, but it's more and more a grey area for me. Maybe it should have been all along. I wonder what would have happened, had the US acce
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    I think there is more to it than a desire to space the releases to get better PR. They may want to verify the authenticity of the documents to avoid fake leaks. They may also want to edit some documents to remove data that would put individ
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    For the late-comers (like me!), Javadoc comments were added since the parent comment was posted: $ svn log -r {2010-11-30}:HEAD http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk/groovy/groovy-core/src/main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/ArrayUtil.java
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    I'm currently reading multiple books. Some are technical, some are small enough to read in the subway, some are far too big, and are read before going to sleep ;) - La Zone du dehors by Alain Damasio, a french author. I must admit I liked
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Having read the various HN discussions about laptops these past few days, I've just ordered my first ThinkPad (X201s) from an US eBay seller* . I like the the dark look (inspired from a Bento Box: http://lenovoblogs.com/designmatters/?p=72
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Even faster, I've setup "keyword searches" in Firefox ( http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches ). I created the following bookmark: Name : [so] Search StackOverflow // the "[so]" here is just a mnemonic Location : ht
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Wha? Microsoft are a bunch of hypocrites! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748220
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    by eneveu 16y ago

    Well... You simply linked to their front page. This submission got more interest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1717172 I think such an article generates more interest because it puts everything in context, and explains GOG's strate