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by fermigier 2y ago
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain".
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by fermigier 2y ago
Who could have guessed?
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by fermigier 2y ago
Whoa, good to know that Henri Cohen was involved in this story. He is the co-creator of PARI/GP, the algorithmic number theoretic C library that I used for my thesis ( https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ ) as well as four b
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by fermigier 2y ago
Good. For a couple of seconds, I feared something like "The next step of our wonderful journey...".
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by fermigier 2y ago
Strawman argument. It would have been (semi) interesting if the title was "Software productivity can't be measured by lines of code" (but already very eloquently stated in https://folklore.org/Negative_2000_Li
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by fermigier 2y ago
"lfi is a lazy functional sync, async, and concurrent iteration library for JavaScript and TypeScript" Looks good (I understand all the word and even the whole sentence). But what is it good for? ("What's in it for me?&q
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by fermigier 2y ago
So these "particles" are actually not particles, but "quasi-particles". In other words, throw away scientific rigor as soon as you can get a clickbaity headline.
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by fermigier 2y ago
"We shut down the company at the end of 2019 and I felt it would be a shame if Helium simply disappeared from the face of the earth." I appreciate the effort. Thank you M. Hermann.
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by fermigier 2y ago
I remember watching Intolerance (1916) by D.W. Griffith at the Avignon festival as a teenager in 1986, with a score interpreted by a live symphonic orchestra ( https://festival-avignon.com/fr/edition-1986/programmat
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by fermigier 2y ago
Yeah. Don't fuck with scroll, don't fuck with crtl/cmd-click, don't fuck with copy/paste (specially in password fields), don't fuck with the back button, etc.
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by fermigier 2y ago
Not a comparison, but a fairly comprehensive list that I maintain, with github stars as a proxy for popularity: https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-python-web-frameworks Note: as you probably know, popularity is not
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by fermigier 2y ago
TL;DR: is this a cloud service or an on-premise thing?
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by fermigier 2y ago
"Contract programming for C++ was implemented back in the 90's." -> Did the proposal authors contact you or refer to your work (or any other previous work)? It not, that would be a shame. "It also appears in the D pro
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by fermigier 2y ago
A reference for your dissertation? The usefulness (or lack thereof) of contracts was famously discussed in 1997 in this paper: https://www.irisa.fr/pampa/EPEE/Ariane5.html (with additional comments here: https:&#
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by fermigier 2y ago
Well, the basics, oversimplified, are this: - In general, elliptic curves are solutions of P(x, y) = 0 where P is a polynomial of degree 3 in two variables. "Points" on the curve are solutions of this equation. - If you intersect
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by fermigier 2y ago
This discovery was already commented a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41475177 As I wrote in the comments, I was the record holder, twice, in the 90s: Fermigier, Stéfane - Un exemple de courbe elliptiq
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by fermigier 2y ago
I hope they keep flamethrowers handy in case any Norwegian dogs start acting funny...
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by fermigier 2y ago
Fun fact: Audrey Tang, creator of Ethercalc, went on to become Minister for Digital Affairs for the Taiwanese government.
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by fermigier 2y ago
"it becomes incumbent on you to have a disaster recovery plan should that service suddenly become unavailable to you." -> It's already hard when you are a seasoned IT professional. I don't know a single person in my f
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by fermigier 2y ago
AIDE has been around for 25 years: https://aide.github.io/ IMHO the right thing would be to use another name.
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by fermigier 2y ago
Title should say it's 13 years old and currently unmaintained. BTW: a modern, maintained alternative (With Python instead of Lua) would be Pyxel ( https://github.com/kitao/pyxel -> discussion: https:/&#x2F
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by fermigier 2y ago
I'm worried about the license. Flyon contains code from Preline which is "dual licensed" under the MIT license and a proprietary "fair" license. > Preline UI is free for both personal and commercial projects, rel
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by fermigier 2y ago
43 years of actors: a taxonomy of actor models and their key properties (2016) From the abstract: The Actor Model is a message passing concurrency model that was originally proposed by Hewitt et al. in 1973. It is now 43 years later and sin
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by fermigier 2y ago
I wasn't raised (as a technologist) by the internet, but by cassettes, floppies, magazines and books. But we share at least one experience: the horrors of ndiswrapper. 20 years later, I recently tried to install Ubuntu on an old Intel
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by fermigier 2y ago
Never been much into BF nor esoteric languages in general, but I love this attitude! Regarding the comments at the top of https://github.com/bf-enterprise-solutions/ed.bf : I believe a modern-day developer comparable t
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by fermigier 2y ago
In French, we call it "Le cycle en V" and we think it's beautiful.
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by fermigier 2y ago
I guess I thought that I could make a bigger dent in the universe as an open source entrepreneur than as a mathematician. Also, the fact that, at the time, the decision to switch course was not irreversible, given a new French law that had
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by fermigier 2y ago
Running an open source software business... Founded https://nuxeo.com/ and now https://abilian.com/
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by fermigier 2y ago
I broke the record back in 1992: Fermigier, Stéfane - Un exemple de courbe elliptique définie sur Q de rang ≥19. (French) [An example of an elliptic curve defined over Q with rank ≥19] C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 315 (1992), no. 6,
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by fermigier 2y ago
Thanks. So, as I suspected, the gap between 7 and 8 is quite huge (16 years).

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