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by gbog 13y ago
I hate lights on motion (or sound) detectors. What if you want to stay there for while, maybe talking with a guest, or reading some paper? Or maybe you want to hook something on the wall? Well placed switches are good enough, no?
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by gbog 13y ago
You know that simplicity of use is very complex to achieve, and requires complex tools behind, right? Actually it is even true for music instruments: A piano is very complex inside and can be played relatively easily, while a violin is much
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by gbog 13y ago
There is another way, we do not need to be either in a big spaghetti blurb or infinite micro onions spread all over the place in multiple files. With some work and some luck: - all functions are short enough but all of them do something mor
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by gbog 13y ago
I think it is useful to compare with how stereophony works, and it might indicate that 3D is indeed a dead-end, a superfluous gimmick (as noted in other comments). The simple --too simple-- view is that screens have to reproduce reality, th
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by gbog 13y ago
Decentralization in itself do not have a cost. When this architecture is applied to some concrete case it may have cost it even be wrong. For example one can argue that if Europe had been kept under a central authority since Charlemagne, Eu
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by gbog 13y ago
What do you mean? Are you referring to these kidnapping? Do you have stats?
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by gbog 13y ago
I know that, my kids go to French school mind you
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by gbog 13y ago
I'm not taking about petty theft, I'm taking about educational environment. I think growing in a place where you don't feel safe is bad. Feeling secure and building self confidence is the most important for a balanced persona
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, they flee because they feel their wealth is not safe in France. And they do, a lot of them. I do not think France would miss them for the loss in tax income. But I think France should be more welcoming with successful people, and accep
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by gbog 13y ago
I don't know. For example many rich people flee France right now, and in some respect it is also because of private property not being safe. Kids: maybe I'm foolish, I want my kids to grow in China. The air is bad but they will re
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, same in France, you can't be doing nothing but being explicitly looking after money is very much frowned upon. Meanwhile in the US people are happy to use yearly income as the scale to compare people. Which is certainly wrong: any
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by gbog 13y ago
I call bs on this tests have a cost mantra. They may have value, i.e. be useful, and then it is ok to spent a few minutes fixing them if needed. But if fixing them is costlier than their expected value, then just skip them. I see many reaso
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by gbog 13y ago
Thanks for these details. I'm interested because I usually don't carry a bag, and care about mobility and availability. I also like the idea of taking picture without disturbing too much the (human) environment, e.g. without shoot
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by gbog 13y ago
Very choppy and hard to go back. On the plus side, I didn't know about these "Smartphone Attachable Lens-Style Camera", is there someone here able to tell me if it is worth it? (I have a Galaxy Note and no other camera).
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by gbog 13y ago
I believe Java, PHP and C++ are the most common platforms for sites built between 10 and 5 years ago, with the exception of Douban.com (where I work) which is Python. There is a lot of scaling issues and challenges, and some discussion abou
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by gbog 13y ago
Roll back in the 80ies, you will see the same comments about Japan doing no innovation on cars, electronics, etc. I work in China tech sector, young Chinese are innovating furiously, but it will be more obvious when there will be one or two
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by gbog 13y ago
Maybe because UAE is not very far and they might one day be more openly confrontational?
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by gbog 13y ago
We disagree on most levels. Entertainment is to art what a tabloid is to Iliad. Torture is not a topic. Examples of topics: war, love, jealousy, courage, friendship, etc. Torture is not uncomfortable per se, it is hot in US because of recen
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by gbog 13y ago
I may not steal staplers, and would certainly not pee in my neighbour's letter box except if really drunk, but, if I were in the position of Israel, which is a very unconfortable position, a war in fact, I would certainly work hard to
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by gbog 13y ago
If I were a French general and a colleague from the US came and said, ok, we help you sell this dish to the arabs but we add this little thing in here so a bell ring in my office if they plan to lightgun a nearby country. I'd say yes.
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by gbog 13y ago
Not sure the world you are talking about really qualifies as "civilized", but I agree with the sentiment. UAE, except for the oil, should be a few dunes of sand with a few tribes, not sure what for they would need war satellites.
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by gbog 13y ago
> torture is portrayed I think the root of the problem is more about torture being portrayed at all. Even if you portray it a the evilest thing, you are still playing with the spectator's bowels and disgust thresholds in ways that c
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by gbog 13y ago
Wow, you got it wrong: it must be my mistake, I was a bit too assuming on the context. - For me being "foolish", in the mouth of Steve Jobs, means not caring at all about what other people will say or think. I see a link with the
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by gbog 13y ago
>> GVR himself has acknowledged everything I said > I hate to be picky, but he only acknowledged portions of what you said. Read it and for me he did not acknowledge anything at all.
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by gbog 13y ago
They aren't secretive, but they are hungry, and they are foolish. I'd venture the shanzhai chinese geeks fiddling relentlessly with hardware in Guangzhou are much closer to Steve Jobs' ideal than the average Apple Store clien
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by gbog 13y ago
Well, you can be not so rich and still take holidays, and enjoy them, why not? All travels do not need to bring you to expensive places.
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes hash-n-slash is bad for domain names, that's what I meant: it is a good poison, it will accelerate it's death.
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by gbog 13y ago
The problem is that .COM is de facto the universal entry point.
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by gbog 13y ago
This is quite an interesting experiment, and a step in the good direction, which should and must lead us to the complete removal of domain names. Why are domain names bad? That should be obvious. The main symptom of domain names' inher
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by gbog 13y ago
What a good news!

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