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by gbog 10y ago
"somewhat controversial"? That's a little bit of an understatement. Most of his books have created long and reverberating flamewars all over Europe.
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by gbog 11y ago
Baidu Pan is a kind of online MFS, a distributed file system. It is very convenient inside China for "instant torrenting": if the file you want is already in the cloud you get it instantly. Also, it's free, you get 500G for $
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by gbog 11y ago
Ok, but let's not forget that half of internet is not there. E.g. Chinese people do not use Google. If we could agregate data qq.com could very well be above them all.
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by gbog 11y ago
It's something else. Take the old synths for instance, their sound wasn't specially great by themselves, but guys like Kraftwerk and Telex, and Black devil disco club were excited with them and did commit a few good tracks. Then t
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by gbog 11y ago
Always the same argument, and still wrong. It depends 100% on the desirability of the expected result. I have seen a non-IT guy do an incredibly complex serie of super user operations on his PC just to install CS. He was very motivated. But
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by gbog 11y ago
> flexible Flexibility is good for frameworks, not for languages. I read once a list of good and bad adjectives applied to paintings by Chinese painter Shi Tao. In the same vein here is my list for our topic. Good computer languages are:
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by gbog 11y ago
School calendar is an annoyance. But I managed until now to have no fixed activity for the kids on week-ends, and we avoid birthdays (another annoyance), so when we want to go to second-hand furniture markets, we just fill a bag with 2 diap
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by gbog 11y ago
There are some changes in my life because of the kids, most are good changes (having three genuine smiles welcoming you after work), some are annoying (having to shout on them so they clean the Lego field in the living room). None of these
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by gbog 11y ago
> "Great parents make huge sacrifices in the best interest of their children". I have 3 kids all below 6yo, and can't understand why people believe they have to make so many sacrifices for their kids. I go drink beers with
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by gbog 11y ago
That's for medium high status of those who need to make sure they "have it". A bit like the "I'm CEO bitch" on Zuckerberg's name card: Really high statuses persons have no name cards, and they have no need
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by gbog 11y ago
I have the opposite experience. When searching in Bing I almost always feel "no way that what I'm looking is there somewhere", even for something as simple as a programming language query.
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by gbog 11y ago
That's wrong on two points: - Microsoft is still the bad boy it has always been, it still owns unfairly 95% of pcs worldwide. There is no reason to be forgiving with this behemoth. - Bing being profitable or not is completely irrelevan
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by gbog 11y ago
I don't know much about Scandinavian design but I hope it's not ikea, which is just cheap and ugly, and can only fit in cheap open spaces or appartements without any style. We had to throw away all our ikea furniture when we moved
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by gbog 11y ago
Same here. Nothing can be built upon Markdown mostly because it allows raw html. Many nice and solid extensions have been made for rst.
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by gbog 11y ago
I found 7 occurences of sentences starting with "And", it seems a bit too much to my ears. Having one or two may add some weight to something important, but if everything is important, nothing is.
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by gbog 11y ago
> Mongols more advanced after their conquests than before Maybe, but the point is that Mongols, for some reason (maybe geography and weather?), did never stop being fighters. They never "settled down" to grow wealth, which is a
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by gbog 11y ago
> was WWI You mean "wasn't" ?
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by gbog 11y ago
Yes, that's the second order analysis. But the mantra stating that war brings wealth and competition, that war is "sane and natural" from civilisation point of view, is wrong. Peace is the "sane and natural" state f
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by gbog 11y ago
> "peace doesn't make money" Not so sure about it. Peace and stability is the main driver for civilisation booms. Maybe sometime wars can shake the tree but storms do not help growing big fruits -- long sunny days do. Chin
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by gbog 11y ago
China certainly has drug problems, but it is not like in West: i'd have to search carefully to find one French guy of my generation or below that never tried hash. In China most Chinese I know never tried. It's just not the fashio
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by gbog 11y ago
China, too, have a far lower drug use rate. Not sure for Japan and Hk, but for China I think there are two main reasons. One, she was "locked in turmoil" during the 70s and the 80s, so did not get the influence from this period. T
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by gbog 11y ago
Or better, change the completion to should the description there when typing "make <tab>"
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by gbog 11y ago
And why not Akira?
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by gbog 11y ago
Written natural language is the best for human to human communication, but not for human to robot. The best we have now is computer language. For giving orders, spoken natural language is the best for humans to humans, but for human to mach
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by gbog 11y ago
That's a point, robots as toys. But then it's just some advanced puppet, all the fuss about AI can't be just aiming so low. And the propension of human kind to create life is real but it's more fruitful in biology, with
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by gbog 11y ago
"Like human" and "rationally" and "think" and even "act" are too human to describe robots. That's anthropomorphic. Robots will be like robots, act robotically, they will compute, operate, etc. An
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by gbog 11y ago
Maybe I'm being too contrarian but I still think this new AI thing (with Google et al. going down in the rabbit hole) is just the same as before: a dead-end. The good example is how we invented planes. Or, precisely, how we failed at m
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by gbog 11y ago
Yes, yes and yes. That's exactly the "secret" of Chinese economy boom miracle: despite all the issues in this country, it's people feel safe enough to invest time and money in some activities that may improve their life,
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by gbog 11y ago
Yes, redundancy helps in noisy environment. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, and the mistake here is to think human languages are "communication tools". If they were, they could be easily simplified, replaced by better too
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by gbog 11y ago
> no subjunctive tenses > no tones etc. According to this view a perfect language would have... what? So are we in the same game as in computer language, with this discussion about how many features should we allow? My view on this ma

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