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Makapansgat pebble, the earliest example of symbolic thinking(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gbog 10y ago|0 comments
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by gbog 10y ago
Well for me React being just a library is the very reason to use it. Frameworks are constraining, you code "inside" them and can't get out. Libraries are giving more freedom, you code "along" them. For example, I wa
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Ubuntu Unity is dead; company to shift back to Gnome(androidauthority.com)
2 points by gbog 10y ago|0 comments
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by gbog 10y ago
When looking for something I use my phone's torch and point on the floor. Last time I found back a little magnet lost by my kid in the 50 metres of alley to our place. So yes I guess it works to force the mental focus.
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by gbog 10y ago
Thanks I think I tried exactly this but will try again. Actually I'd like a command line way which should be more deterministic.
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by gbog 10y ago
I don't know for web external APIs but for an internal network of services talking to each other I've found GraphQL to be very convenient. The "single entry point" and "describe what you want, you'll get what y
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by gbog 10y ago
FLAVOUR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Bluetooh that works DESCRIPTION: I never managed to have my PC playing music through blutooth to a bluetooth loudspeaker. (I'm using Xbuntu, playing mp3s with mpv.) I think it could be because the audi
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by gbog 10y ago
Nature do not always give the correct roadmap. Planes are no birds. Humans tried for a long time to mimic birds with flapping wings and failed, sometime to their death. I think it may be the same with AI: trying to mimic human, or even anim
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by gbog 10y ago
"only existed in the West." Are you sure? I think I remember these mentionned in the vast Chinese classic litterature. It was the nearly the same usage: an expensive piece of parper with a name on it that was sent back and forth t
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by gbog 10y ago
Thanks, I did contribute to Wikipedia long ago (the article about Confucius still has some sequels of my edits), but it happens that I have not enough knowledge on this topic. To me, reminding about Wikipedia's cultural biais is necess
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by gbog 10y ago
Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.
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by gbog 10y ago
Neither do maths, physical laws, etc. I think it is wrong and dangerous to equal Human Rights, which are an ethical decision, to religious beliefs, which are cultural construct much closer to "fictional stories" for non-believers.
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by gbog 10y ago
I like most the python code written by Norvig in http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html and other parts of his site. It's very expressive and simple. Real code will have much more corner cases and logging and error handlin
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by gbog 10y ago
Just my case: 3 kids (7, 4, 1.5), I have all the time I want for my hobbies (mostly in music, prgoramming and gardening) and I get beers and loud music with friends every other Friday. I also have plenty of time with my kids, do a lot a dif
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by gbog 10y ago
That's a very strange thing for us Europeans. When I meet a new guy I will scan some cultural fields and see if we have some common ground where we can sit the discussion for a while, it could be post-modernist philosophy, classical mu
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by gbog 10y ago
Chopsticks. It is tricky to master but once you get it, you have an agility with your hands that cannot be matched even with bare fingers. I often use chopstick for gardening, for repairing things, and plenty of other. Also, it is very easy
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by gbog 10y ago
Reading long lines is also difficult. To me some parts of FE development kind of require deep nesting, e.g. css, but in javascript if you are 4/5 levels deep in the nest (with the "long lines symptom"), then you should do as
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by gbog 10y ago
One scandal doesn't make a general rule. Also as your wife is Chinese you certainly noticed that Chinese people are obsessed with food. In some place like Sichuan it is the only conversation topic that's ever talked about. With su
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by gbog 10y ago
I'm French, have been in China for more than 10 years, my wife is Chinese, kids go to French school. People over-react to pollution in Beijing: it is only 2/3 days a month and still way below levels of most other capitals in SE As
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by gbog 10y ago
Yep. And also, about Krimea, there is this game of musical chairs: once the music stop everyone gets its chair but one. Some seem to consider that after WWII and Yalta, no border should ever change anymore. That's not fair, not natural
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by gbog 10y ago
Depends on what you mean by democratization. If you mean the main part of the country's citizen have the most leverage on country's general guidance by simple weight effect, then yes, and it is probably already the case for China.
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by gbog 10y ago
Food issues is the very reason for me to raise my kids in China. They learn to use chopsticks before forks and knives. They eat rice daily and have no desert. I sometime had to literally tell my daughter: "if you do not eat this chocol
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by gbog 10y ago
Being served, as in having a guy behind your chair when eating and handing you your shirt, like in Burmese days (Orwell)? I bet this is kind of rare nowadays. But to me employing local people to do some very noble tasks like attending to ki
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by gbog 10y ago
Except that the "teachings of Christ as we know them" has already changed a lot over time and has arguably never very close to the guy from Nazareth we can infer from the many echoes we have in the scriptures of his time and repor
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by gbog 10y ago
Never owned a Mac but I have just bought a LG V20 phone which has a second always on screen that looks like the touch bar. On a phone it is actually very useful, for instance having the last five apps you opened readily accessible is excell
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by gbog 10y ago
The American film industry is also a huge propaganda machine which is aimed at consolidating western cultural dominance over the world, expect it's not western culture anymore, it's just the U.S. Entertainment industry. In the mov
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by gbog 10y ago
To me it's so much better if some people can take care of this specialized and noble task. I'd hope the municipality would make it more convenient for recyclers to do their work and get more income from it.
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by gbog 10y ago
For me as a French reader, Taleb's writing style feels familiar, just like French sentences translated in English: long and constructed sentences with articulations, and some soft punch inside. Maybe it is not the proper style for Engl
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by gbog 10y ago
Very uncommon opinion (I'm the only one I know to hold it): we should not spend one dime more for sport, especially in education. Kid have a minimal need for physical activities which can be easily fulfilled with some gymnastic, but we
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by gbog 10y ago
No, because when you want to view the source you mean to view the source of this very document, not the source you'd get by asking to reload the page, it is often different.

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