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by gbog 12y ago
Here in Beijing there are special "un-official" taxi services that have Teslas. I was once in one of them, one the way to the airport. I was very silent, and looked a bit futuristic (all meters are actually screens) and kitsch ala
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by gbog 12y ago
If you know SICP, I think it's a good example of a textbook with nice problems. My math textbook in French education system were to a similar level of quality. The first two problems were usually to make sure you understood the basic o
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by gbog 12y ago
Well, for me there is a discontinuity between religion in abrahamic sense and football, rock music, and even buddhism. While the former obviously covers what might be a kind of universal religious instinct, it does much much more. For insta
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by gbog 12y ago
I'd like to point out that Far East cultures (China and Japan) do not have the same religious instincts. For them an almighty human-like God who wrote a sacred book is not conceivable. I don't think they can understand what religi
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by gbog 12y ago
> I mean, all software has bugs. That's a cool mantra to repeat but it do not seem to match reality. For instance, in over 10 years of daily usage, I do not think having ever noticed any bugs in vim, grep and PostgreSQL. Just to tak
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by gbog 12y ago
For me in France and Germany the correct angle is that if you do not control your computer, some big crazy American corp do, and can and will do whatever they want with your content, which usually means make money with it.
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by gbog 12y ago
This states the obvious: the very rich or very successful ones are not happy. Bill Gates doesn't have a better life than the first rickshaw you'll find in Kolkata. The main reason will probably because of the kids, which are not l
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by gbog 12y ago
Well, I guess I should thank the great firewall then, for my kids hardly ever watch YouTube, or tv.
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by gbog 12y ago
Listing the difficulties on microservices is useful, but let's not forget the difficulties encountered in monolithic big applications, which are the reason for splitting into smaller pieces. In the big app 1) a single syntax error brea
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by gbog 12y ago
I didn't see mentioned the possibility that the number of topics is finite, and therefore the number of new pages created per day must slow down someday. We live in a world were the main assumption is that everything is infinite, but t
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by gbog 12y ago
Great read. I would go a bit further and say that the goal is not to be an expert and is not related to start-ups. The goal of being open minded and sceptical as described in this essay, is to make sure one do not embrace sheepishly some id
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by gbog 12y ago
Yes, but the point is that vulnerabilities in cvs are likely very few as of today, because the code is old and simple, and have been used a lot.
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by gbog 12y ago
I have never seen anyone saying that pythonic refers to some objective truth. It refers to subjective but real concepts as clarity, simplicity, explicit-ness, etc. There is also one thing that is not really pythonic but still important, it&
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by gbog 12y ago
This depends. If Google is able to run ahead of the others fast enough and have very compelling updates to force competitors to follow them, then yes, their grab on Android is still strong. But my feeling from having looked at Android 5 (wh
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by gbog 12y ago
But money don't buy good memories. I have much better memories of camping with friends for near zero euros, than expensive hotels.
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by gbog 12y ago
In summary, ecology is eating our heads, raising fears and superstitions, and needs to be superseded with a viable meta ecology compatible with science and progress.
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by gbog 12y ago
I don't know if it exists already, but what I would like is a Bluetooth mixing app: say it is installed on my phone, I connect to speakers and I can play music from my phone. Buddies around can connect by Bluetooth to my phone and &quo
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by gbog 12y ago
The problem with China is that whatever you say about her is true, and it's opposite is true too. For example, businesses rely very highly on trust in China, precisely because you can't rely on laws to protect you. But it is anoth
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by gbog 12y ago
A side effect of using books to explore the shared ground between people is that it needs to start with some name dropping, which I have felt is really disliked by Americans in general. As a French, I see name dropping as a quick way to fi
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by gbog 12y ago
Yes. Other commentators here assume he was starving and is now rich, which should be an improvement. But maybe he was not starving, maybe he already had a roof and some food, either from some previous work, or from goverment, or from his fa
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by gbog 12y ago
> there are many here that dream of having their idea be a huge success but aren't really interested in becoming the next Bill Gates or Zuckerberg. I think it's more than you think. I think Notch expressed clearly that he did n
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by gbog 12y ago
> If there are complexities that programmers face that can be absorbed by a compiler, it must be Not sure. If absorbing it would make the compiler much slower, much more complex, or the compiled code less deterministic, or corner cases i
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by gbog 12y ago
> But, hey, that's why people buy/wear different things. I often wonder if the motto let's have our own tastes and buy different things is not just some recent invention intended to help us spend more money. I wonder if in
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by gbog 12y ago
Great, I appreciate getting back control on my files, and it seems this could help. For instance a web-app could have some configuration and save it in a text file instead of in some cookie or session data. Then I could backup this config,
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by gbog 12y ago
How would the loss of one specie of fish affect the "lives of millions or billions of people"? I know the thing with the top predators, but I think nature has many other ways to regulate population of animals, and if some ecosyste
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by gbog 12y ago
But meanwhile these generalist species have specialized, so it is just a regeneration cycle. Moreover I kind of agree with Taleb on the Black Swan / Antifragile theories: the more we protect something (our kids, world finance, ecosyste
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by gbog 12y ago
I don't know. Many people repeat this mantra and fear disruption of ecosystems, presumably because they like nature and want to keep it safe. I also like nature, but in another way: it is a formidable survival machine, and whatever hap
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by gbog 12y ago
I don't even know what is Colbert, can someone explain? For me it is the name of a great man of power under Louis XIV or something like that.
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by gbog 12y ago
I didn't see the one that I'd say is the most important taoist teaching for programmers: "Vomit your intelligence" (found in Zhuangzi, not sure how it is translated in English, in French it's "Vomis ton intelli

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