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by gutnor 13y ago
Load of heated comment like "France is shit" ? I think I read somewhere that it was a feature of HN to remove article from the front page when those kind of things happen. (take that with a grain of salt)
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by gutnor 13y ago
France is selling globally (tourism) its atmosphere, lifestyle and culture. Cities around Europe are spending enormous amount of money to revitalise their city centers after the devastation caused by huge mall and supermarket built in the 8
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by gutnor 13y ago
The community indeed. I'm still a /. reader, but I have to say, it is very occasional that I do not know what the comment will be before opening them. Most of the +5 comment are traditional /. "meme" (OSS good, clos
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by gutnor 13y ago
> There’s not all that much being done that demands thirty years of experience That is key isn't it. I don't live either in the Valley, but observe it through HN goggles. There seems to be an infinite amount of money thrown to
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by gutnor 13y ago
There is another possibility. You were never really an owl. I see that with myself, I live the owl life because 1. I love to be in bed. It actually do not matter when. 2. I hate going to bed when there is work the next day or it is a we day
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by gutnor 13y ago
Drug ?
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by gutnor 13y ago
Once one job has been automated away, all the people that were doing it need a realistic reconversion plan. A farm worker can convert easily into a factory worker, but cannot learn mandarin, software engineering or whatever overnight. (no
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by gutnor 13y ago
They put RFID in one way underground ticket now. The time it is cheap enough to include everywhere is coming fast. However, I'm not quite sure that will be enough for shops to automate. The problem for shop is that an automated system
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by gutnor 13y ago
Noise vs Information on a shared project ? Imagine we are both working on a project. I don't care to know that you merged 3 times from master yesterday before pushing your feature. Also I don't care to know details like you forgot
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by gutnor 13y ago
Seriously where do engineering stops and design starts to make that statement work ? Looking at Google Map, Google Search. Those "defining" application of Google, in addition of incredible engineering they redefined what a map and
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by gutnor 13y ago
Actually that is a perverse effect of being poor in a consumer driven society, and it is even worse in a society that value Freedom so highly like the US. Because being poor is a complete absence of freedom. If you want to get out of it, yo
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by gutnor 13y ago
It raises a good point that we cannot (and should not) prosecute people for the consequence of bad but legal business decision. However that also means that "self-regulation" is a get out of jail free card. Which I sort of underst
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by gutnor 13y ago
Standards cheap replaceable parts brought the PC to dominate their very expensive IBM counterpart. See the problem, is that this idea, with today's technology would be more expensive to build than the device it is competing against.
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by gutnor 13y ago
People fail to realise that traders also use all the Apple rumors to make their purchase decision. The market value of Apple before the keynote reflect (to some extend) the value of Apple if all the rumors were true. There was a lot of posi
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by gutnor 13y ago
That assumes you are still capable to follow that process. Apparently the current procedure does not take your present circumstances into account. (like mild dementia, alzeihmer, nursing home example in the article) In Europe, once you get
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by gutnor 13y ago
Well that would certainly be a nightmare for Apple if Amazon was coming with the equivalent of a Galaxy S4 for free. But I'm not quite sure that Apple would be the worse off compared to others. I does not really matter whether or not a
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by gutnor 13y ago
> "My casual impression is that Apple’s lock isn’t nearly as secure, in part because it’s relying on the loyalty of individual customers — in contrast to Microsoft, which was largely relying on the loyalty of corporate IT managers,
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by gutnor 13y ago
Is it hard to read or hard to understand ? Generally when we say "hard to read" we mean both. Especially because as you said, you read the code for a purpose, and that purpose is very often business related rather than purely aest
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by gutnor 13y ago
You only need to transmit the key once, and the timeframe for that is anytime between installation and the first request of the NSA. That is a lot of regular ping message, directory listing, software update that can be overlooked in that pe
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by gutnor 13y ago
By coincidence I was watching again the "Don't talk to the police" video on youtube. Seems to me that this guy had to talk a lot, answer a lot of questions, without any of the protection the 5th amendment is supposed to provi
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by gutnor 13y ago
Well, to be fair in many large organisations, most people are not even interested enough in their own job to talk about it with their colleague. Hell nowadays, I'm happy when people in the same team talk to each others, normally with
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by gutnor 13y ago
Actually that is a weird ads. It seems targeted at 'us', i.e. tech guys mostly. Looking at the spec, it seems that this tool has all the necessary bits inside to compete with Leica tools. Yet the ads is very silent on all that. IM
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by gutnor 13y ago
Clean nudity is inferior to clean clothing, that's OK. However, we allow fully clothed homeless that haven't bathed in months, or even anybody with poor personal hygiene. We allow dirty street, dirty buses and public transports, k
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by gutnor 13y ago
And that's what those 3 letters agencies do or at least should do. In addition of planting backdoors their job is also to make sure that their system are backdoor free. In any case, the Microsoft is providing government with the source
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by gutnor 13y ago
Let's talk about public outrage. In the last decade the US has officially invaded countries, tortured prisoner (and still continue), lied and spied its citizen, blatantly ignored the responsible for the biggest crisis in a century. All
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by gutnor 13y ago
7 people with guns to pursue the buyer of 12 pack. It would at least a homicide to get that amount of police force around here.
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by gutnor 13y ago
I don't know for the data, but I pay 8 times less (! 25p/min vs 3p/min) to call a mobile in foreign country than another mobile locally in the UK and only 2 times cheaper when making call in a foreign country. I never really
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by gutnor 13y ago
"liable to costs relating to the individual's detention and removal'' should they allow him to travel. According to the Home Office's website that charge would be £2,000" Being a little bit cynical, but 200
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by gutnor 13y ago
Frankly, outside of a keynote with an audience expecting to be impressed, I doubt a weather app would get a thunderous reception. At the end of the day, that is just a weather app with cool graphic and the guy reviewing apps probably sees a
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by gutnor 13y ago
There are 2 things: 1. GMO is famous for making crop that produce herbicide or other sort of toxin, terminator seeds, or stuff that resist to things that you would not like to be sprayed on your food. Bad PR. "Technically cool" food is not

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