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by gbog 13y ago
I wonder if some day we will see cool things with real Chinese names, I mean Chinese characters. Here it would be Arduino云
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by gbog 13y ago
That's were we can see some or most entrepreneurs are not like real artists. (Not saying they should be...) Take the same choice, but apply it to a musician: I am Universal, I propose to give you a lot of money but I buy your past and futur
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by gbog 13y ago
That's sad and unwarranted
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by gbog 13y ago
> anything is better than Disney Channel I'd say anything is better than TV. And also, anything is better than tablet games, but TV. God, my 3yo can play hours of lego alone, crafting "planes submarines" and things like that. And I am n
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by gbog 13y ago
So we feed kids with ads in order to feed them with tv?
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by gbog 13y ago
Pascal: "vérité en deçà des Pyrénées, erreur au-delà" Something required here is avoided there, and the reverse. In France it is ok and even polite to tell a girl (say, a coworker) "you are beautiful today", but I think this would not be co
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by gbog 13y ago
To add on this line: I was once having a Dimsum dinner with a friend's friend. The guy was French. He held the discussion for 15 mn about his trip to this island in Indonesia, and the sole purpose of the vacation report was to say how bad i
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by gbog 13y ago
> challenge any claim that using something like TDD necessarily implies that your code will evolve a robust, modular design. Obviously there is not "necessity" here. You can indeed add more coupling with wrong tests. But this is a side
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by gbog 13y ago
> unintentionally offensive The problem is that there is a current emphasis againt those faux-pas when the offended part are women, while it is not the only case, and maybe not even the most critical for the better of human beings. I'd
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by gbog 13y ago
> "Inherent hatred for Microsoft and anything it does, even if it is good. I think is pretty sad since I see this attitude from people that should be objective from a technical standpoint" I have the inverse feeling: recently, just beca
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by gbog 13y ago
Did you check if the flash content was vector animation or video?
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by gbog 13y ago
> it saves some typing Your macropy is very interesting, but please do not use this argument. "Saving some typing" is the least interesting side-effect of some macros. To clarify my point: in most of the industry, we all fight hard to g
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by gbog 13y ago
My argument is that there are some limits to what can be exposed to the public. You won't show on tv pictures of abused children to fight against children abuse. As a father, each time I see dead children I can't stop imagining it could be
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by gbog 13y ago
It seems you could easily get a nosql postgres if you limit yourself to one table with two columns (id, json). Snark apart, it would work quite ok, no?
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by gbog 13y ago
This means nothing. There must be a limit to what one is allowed to edit on a photo, or you would accept the Soviet or Mao era propaganda edits?
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by gbog 13y ago
I also feel this photo (not the event) do not seem natural. I don't see why this opinion should be shameful in any way. It has nothing to do with the event itself or the poor people in the scene, it has everything to do with a photographer,
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by gbog 13y ago
Why no, the point of the article is that this is not one photo, it is a collage.
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by gbog 13y ago
The dead children just make it worse ethically. There are thousands ways to make a political point, the ones using dead bodies or suffering kids should be out of question. It is despicable.
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by gbog 13y ago
Don't want to be the prototypical middle brow dismissal but this sounds like a bad idea to me. Or it would need to be 100% implemented in the guts of the language. Why? Because strings need to be pickled, memcached, passed to other machines
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by gbog 13y ago
"STOP. Right now." I dislike this new trend which consist of SHOUTING at your reader and ordering them to do or not do something (for their own good, obviously). This is used to give some weight to very dull advices, like when you should o
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by gbog 13y ago
Probably not. When I was in Nepal, I noted shaking head left and right means "yes". And "no" is done with the hand open, rolling it on the axis of the arm ("couci-couça" in French). BTW Children are sponges, they copy you. For instance my w
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by gbog 13y ago
Ok. Is there any rationale behind it?
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by gbog 13y ago
OT: Where from come this seemingly odd and new habit of spacing inside parentheses? I always write "(a, b)", mostly because it is closer to English (or other languages) typography, and it seem to have good readability, plus it is, I believe
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by gbog 13y ago
Side question, rant. I love the syntactic side of list or dict comprehension (in python) and often use them but as soon as I have to debug or expand the functionality, I have to slice them into for loop. And then I hate myself for being laz
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by gbog 13y ago
Re somewhat unimportant problem: It depends. In our code we have constants integers used as kinds marker that get stored in database. Messing them would break things bad. And we have them everywhere. And we have maybe over a thousand of the
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by gbog 13y ago
The question I think is fundamental but that I didn't see asked nor replied is this: if we had a data store that had full performance, full scalability, etc., would we design it as a relational database or not? Said otherwise: the debate ab
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by gbog 13y ago
> many people (maybe more than half the world?) don't actually measure out their hunger in grams and milliliters You seem serious here, so I have to take it seriously. Then I'll break it to you: people who measure their hunger in grams
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by gbog 13y ago
Just reading Antifragile, and stumble on this seemingly immortal shitcliché: one need to eat "At least 55 grams of protein per day", "Around 50% of food energy from carbohydrate". I do not even want to know what a carbothing is. This is pla
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by gbog 13y ago
> distinguish truth from fiction > read a lot > distinguish truth from fiction = difficult to learn from reading Sorry but you are plain wrong here, it seems. Distinguish truth from fiction can only happen if you have good eyes,
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by gbog 13y ago
Oh I so wish someone in Google+ team would hear the stance about hover, and why to avoid them. When I want to follow an author of a post, I have to play maze with my mouse, and often I just abandon the task in the middle.

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