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by gbog 14y ago
> It's unfortunate that we don't get more foreign perspective on HN and Reddit. Agree. But you should be aware that culturally different point of views and requests to avoid US-centrism on HN are often downvoted. I have experienced it m
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by gbog 14y ago
Nice! A question to the creators if they are listening. What is this medium.com you say have inspired you? I followed the link but it asks permission to access to the list of my followers on twitter even before I can have the slightest idea
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by gbog 14y ago
I liked the idea and the design of the site, and stumbled upon its Code of Conduct. http://conf.writethedocs.org/code-of-conduct.html I was expecting some advices like: "please be short when asking questions to conferencers", "no phone ca
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by gbog 14y ago
One thing to remember is that most writers did write too much. Take George Simenon, he would be greater had he signed less pages. There is a current fad in showing everything, but it has not always been like this and many artist would
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by gbog 14y ago
Yes, I meant a myriad of very small dicts. In this case a plain built-in is faster.
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by gbog 14y ago
if you have a lot of them, plain dict may prove faster.
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by gbog 14y ago
America is a continent, you mean US. mixing both is rude to millions of non US Americans.
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by gbog 14y ago
Same in Android actually.
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by gbog 14y ago
When something is conveniently enclosed in parenthesis, it means it is an extension or addition, right? Anyway, yes I replied to the "where users go", and not to the "where users pay" thing, because I think it is two problems. So apparentl
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by gbog 14y ago
1. 500px ditched from Apple store 2. "Nice, more people will go away from Apple store" 3. "Developpers go where user go (and pay)" (ie iOS) 4. me: "user go Android". 5. you: "How is this at all relevant? do both" Well, sure you can do both,
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by gbog 14y ago
> Developers go where the users go You are aware that, except in a tiny fraction of the world, users are going massively android, right?
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by gbog 14y ago
Nice to see an article about China here. When I read Fred Wilson or Paul Graham I always wonder what they think about China and all the weird stuff happening in this country, but they seem either uninterested or deaf.
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by gbog 14y ago
Disagree. Anti-Apple crowd has at least partly a very solid and rational ground to stand upon. Apple's much admired and followed direction is pointing exactly to the opposite way that most hackers should prefer and push towards. Look at an
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by gbog 14y ago
Maybe, but no. Anti-Apple anger can also come from people like me who prefer open protocols, open markets, open ecosystems, and are saddened to see people naming themselves "hackers" using tools that are obviously handcuffing them.
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by gbog 14y ago
Right, but I was not talking about passphrases giving root access to critical machines or documents. I was talking about passwords for Twitter or HN accounts, or those used heavily in entreprises. I have a friend head of something in a big
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by gbog 14y ago
Many "middle-brow" dismissals here. I think if a mammoth like Google pushes forward strongly enough, it might achieve some results. And it probably takes all its mass to push this particular piece - the almighty and alstupid password, away.
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by gbog 14y ago
what I prefer is don't disturb by default and ping by irc if you want to talk.
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by gbog 14y ago
Hello, this tone is not the tone we readers wish to read on HN.
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by gbog 14y ago
I think Instagram shows pretty much the opposite example of the "throw anything at the wall with any techno you want and fix later" mentality that is trendy todays. They were seasoned enough to choose Python and Postgres, two technologies t
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by gbog 14y ago
why? you assume that they have a computer already.
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by gbog 14y ago
I know a guy in the industry, the Pi has been the object of very lengthy discussions about its connectors already, I don't think they forgot the VGA port.
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by gbog 14y ago
I was in the hopes to find a deeper analysis on the problems encountered by ruby and rails recently. We get very interesting and obligatory postmortem analysis for every minute a popular site is down, but when a major framework is found
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by gbog 14y ago
> solar energy lands on the planet and is wasted. How do you know? I actually don't see how even one milliwatt of it could be "wasted": Even if it arrives in the midst of the ocean, this milliwatt is still heating the water, which allow
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by gbog 14y ago
This works also for anything from guns to nuclear bombs.
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by gbog 14y ago
> Software services are evolutionary Sure, but changing the tech stack is much harder than rewriting some parts of it. And some setups are easier to adapt than others. Thus choosing the best available option when starting a new project
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by gbog 14y ago
This 'cut from the bottom' structure is maybe necessary but really fatiguing. When I was learning Chinese, we had to read such news articles. When you have to analyze it word by word, it becomes evident that the authors is just diluting the
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by gbog 14y ago
> Technology and business requirements move too fast to worry about writing software that will be around 10 years from now This is a common belief but I do not think it applies very well in most cases. If you write the last pic sharing
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by gbog 14y ago
You have better ways to ask for explanations. Not the OP but I can give some reasons for Javascript and Node.js to not be the best option for a rewrite if the goal is longterm maintainability: - js / node.js is very young, it might fade out
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by gbog 14y ago
To all those commenting on Beijing pollution: have you ever been in other Chinese cities? I have been in Shijiazhuang, Chengdu, it can be much much worse. I would like to see air quality index from these places... But anyway Saturday was na

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