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by gbog 13y ago
Ok, some people came back and did let us know that you're wrong. Now would please remove this post about wounded egoes of some Wikipedia editors from the top of the page and let us talk about the important issue of free access to knowl
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by gbog 13y ago
And he tutored Champollion at age of 11!
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, and in music too. When I worked as intern at IRCAM FFT was a big deal, and was the only part of the code we weren't allowed to checkout.
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by gbog 13y ago
Disagree. Readability is not about 4 or 2 spaces, it is about strongly enforced convention that makes these typographic details literally disappear from the eyes of the readers. This effect is very noticeable in book publishing: if you ever
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by gbog 13y ago
> redesigning a thing that works well I really dislike this recent trend we can see in Gnome, Unity, and Google even, but one would be blind to not see the reason behind: They all try to solve the touch issue. Desktops were designed for
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by gbog 13y ago
I don't know, maybe the good old separation between soft and hard science can help here. On the speech side, in soft science, I think the most powerful transmission of knowledge if by pure speech, oral speech, like in podcasts. A good
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by gbog 13y ago
Certainly, but essays predates blogging and cover something else, all essays are not blog posts and all blog posts are not essays.
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by gbog 13y ago
Ok, I guess at least 5 bloggers felt wounded by my comment, which was a bit leaking. Edit: but maybe, if one in hundreds will think twice before writing again something like "If you are like me" in their post...
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by gbog 13y ago
What? Are you comparing idle blogging emmissions starting with "If you are like me" or "I have always been a huge fan of" or "What I will say has been said already here, there and there but I will repeat it anyway&q
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by gbog 13y ago
I have heard there was a French mafia inside Apple, was he part of this? His name sounds French.
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by gbog 13y ago
I have plenty, I like the idea of J.L. Borges: writing the summaries of books I would like to write but am too lazy to. The end of Man - A Scifi book. In the near future, some men start having fertility issue. The trouble is quickly diagn
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by gbog 13y ago
> slower feature velocity I wonder if this is not a positive thing after all, for a mature project. I do not think KDE should add new features at 200 mph speed. I think Ubuntu is actually going too fast.
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by gbog 13y ago
This 99.99% thing is a dangerous fallacy, dangerous against freedom. See the law: you have the possibility to sue the government, in free countries. Only one person in hundred of thousands will ever need to sue for real, but having this ope
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by gbog 13y ago
Sorry, not convenient to search the topic on my phone, but it is kind of common knowledge in China. Our young and old nannies all use qq, and they probably have an email attached to their account but do not know it. many colleagues and frie
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by gbog 13y ago
I think both the article and the comments miss the point. If you take a Linux distro, it is actually bloated, in the sense that it has a lot of useless stuff that take space. However, it's built on a solid, stable architecture which al
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by gbog 13y ago
They use message services such as QQ and WeChat.
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by gbog 13y ago
Weird reasoning. So anything legal and profitable must be done? Even for shareholders I think this can't be true. And anyway it is easy to show that going evil is harmful in the long term, e.g. with developers.
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by gbog 13y ago
I'm running CM since my first android, works well. I had some issues but apps are responsible, and nothing some googling on sda didn't fix, eventually.
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by gbog 13y ago
Here in China people barely use emails and never use gmail, and most run android. Or maybe your note needs to add "in my little personal tiny slice of the world" context?
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by gbog 13y ago
"so it can't have been tampered with" Why that? Have we never heard of defaced web pages? Granted, using shacat is much better than piping into sh. But basic learning from security breaches is that nothing is safe, you only c
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by gbog 13y ago
Hi. Recently most of your published writings are about startups. I sometime hope you will write about a wider set of topics. Just saying...
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by gbog 13y ago
> [a very] painful experiences to install and re-install an entire OS Don't want to be contrarian but I just installed an Ubuntu on an old laptop for my own use, and it took around 1.5 hours, with only a few minutes requiring my att
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by gbog 13y ago
I think it is probably not the money but the hassle. If you're not in the USA or have no credit card or fear using it on internet, creating five fake accounts might just be simpler.
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, comparison is flawed. Imagine Torvalds starting to work on git. Is he sailing to go somewhere? Certainly. Has he a full business plan with all the bs about customers? Certainly not. He sails because he is a sailor, and sailor are explo
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, let's grab a cigarette... or a coke, or a coffee. But all these circuit breakers are bad for health. The best I found out for now is to add hot water to my tea mug.
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by gbog 13y ago
Great but using tests is better, because written correctly you will keep them and they will check forever that the thing is working
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes but no, because producing code is never smooth, or smooth code production is exactly the characteristic of these coding sessions you can interrupt without great loss.
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by gbog 13y ago
I found it useful to start writing an email to some people concerned. I usually start with "it don't work", then because I don't want to look stupid I explain a bit what doesn't work, I feel the need to explain my t
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by gbog 13y ago
There is one nice way to push oneself in the zone faster: just open a broken test in your test suite, it will point you to the next step. [edited to clarify]
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by gbog 13y ago
> they know which keys belongs to which houses Need to be corrected into "they claim to know which keys belongs to which houses", right?

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