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by guylhem 16y ago
Why so much prejudice against Perl on Hacker News??!! I should know, because I shared the same biased views until I had a job which required quick iterations of complicated computation of a large dataset with limited hardware. I never had r
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by guylhem 16y ago
I will never forget an high school assignment in physics in France, where we were asked to calculate how a wheel of a given diameters would put marks to the road if it had a pen attached at a given position. Our teacher always said she acce
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by guylhem 16y ago
If you want to hire only 1 or 2 persons, how long will $10k last you? (same question for $5k in case the costs are not linear) On avoiding permanent presence, do you mean not living in India, or not living in the office space?
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by guylhem 16y ago
Coming from the EU to India might be easier than from the EU to Colorado. If the visa situation was different, maybe, but if the problem can be redesigned to use average coders as explained by the earlier comment, it might be a better idea
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by guylhem 16y ago
Beautiful story. The way you listed to the market, built the right product in the right moment - just perfect. One think caught my eye: $160 for your office space?? From what I've seen on http://blog.freshdesk.com/freshdesk-gets-a-fresh-of
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by guylhem 16y ago
If you are using debian my notes are on http://fr.blog.guylhem.net/2010/12/installer-etherpad.html
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by guylhem 16y ago
Excellent read - but all that won't fit in a backpack :-) Extract from another site I follow : "Remember, you must be able to RUN with this bag (therefore I suggest a backpack)". Good thinking ferfal! To trim it up, check ferfal.blogspot.co
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Google support : no support for nicknames typos(en.blog.guylhem.net)
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by guylhem 16y ago
I remember spending some time with iTerm in the past, and being frustrated when it crashed, but since I found out about controllermate I reverted to terminal.app My reasons : * 99% of what I need is there by default (ex: the 4 features here
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by guylhem 16y ago
> compare me with a kid who comes from a privileged background had extra tuitions for SATs and had all the time in the world to spend on his studies and did much better in SATs is probably unfair It sure is. But life itself is unfair. I
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by guylhem 16y ago
You ask a nice question - why no female fencing team? Well if a) there are students who want to form it and b) they will be good enough competitors for similar teams ok, but imposing it just because a male fencing team exist is stupid. Rega
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by guylhem 16y ago
Thanks for the info. You had success in Georgia - wow. First report I saw of success in a warm climate. Maybe I could try your tricks if you are willing to share. The only thing I just don't use is deodorant. It gives me real skin problems
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by guylhem 16y ago
yep 3 times a day but that was not enough.
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Where were you during that year? I mean, did it get hot?
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by guylhem 16y ago
I can't stay away from work more than a week. And I'm not sure I'd be welcome at work during a no-soap experiment..
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by guylhem 16y ago
I live in the FWI, in a tropical climate. Outside temperature is quite stable around 30 celcius in the daytime and a little less at night, say around 25. Here, avoiding BO requires a minimum of 2 showers a day. I tried this for a week and w
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by guylhem 16y ago
IIRC the american dream doesn't come with any warranty. There's no entitlement to success. He did his best but failed. Kudos to him, but he'll have to try again.
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by guylhem 16y ago
Not a whole lot of information about it online. Could you recommand other interesting companies mixing healthcare and software? I'm thinking about going to HIMSS conf in Florida this february to see who's doing cool stuff and looking for he
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by guylhem 16y ago
I for one hadn't read it yet (or I may have alzeihmer :-) I've read some others essays from PG but not that one. It's interesting and I will upvote it to recommand to others who may also have missed it. But I agree with you, do not upvote o
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by guylhem 16y ago
The gmail transfer question is interesting. I spent some days trying to upload my mail archives and looking for the best solution. In the end I configured 5 pop3 account on my server for gmail to fetch concurrently, and filled them with my
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by guylhem 16y ago
I'd rather suggest Nietszche or Atlas Shrugged because they are better remedies against actual nihilism IMHO. But whatever you read, if you find some value in it - keep going ! Try lesswrong and transhumanist websites if that's your thing.
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by guylhem 16y ago
Doing is easy. Finding out what you want to do is not - at least not for me. It also seems you are self-deprecating. You must have some value - you were not paid for doing nothing! But maybe what was found valuable in you by corporate ameri
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by guylhem 16y ago
For the last recruit tests I gave, it was the easiest way to discard applicants without proper C knowledge. A wrong answer predicted a bad score on pratical (and lenghty) tests like code commenting, finding bugs, etc. Anecdote: When correct
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by guylhem 16y ago
So what's your plan? Should someone like this do as he please, regardless of the consequences for the others? That's exactly the attitude the article attacks! To follow up on the original subject, let me rephrase what I understood from your
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by guylhem 16y ago
Honestly I can't remember about how. I think I might have tapped twice on his shoulder but I'm not sure. Anyway it was during the following conversation that it happened - when I asked to share the wine and that I remember quite well. The s
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by guylhem 16y ago
I still don't exactly understand why he did that. Maybe PTSD as you suggested. And I still can't believe someone would steal from an open bar. He was laughing all the while. It really looked like playing tag to me so I played along. Then he
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by guylhem 16y ago
(Some details I forgot to say: the cocktail was in big garden. it was summer time. people where waiting around a table to have their glasses refilled) Please enlighten me. I have 2 scenarios - either he stole or he was playing tag. If he pl
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by guylhem 16y ago
here a copy of an email I sent after reading that article. It's not only guys hitting girl, it can take may other forms. The problem is, being mostly outcasts, we lean to tolerate untolerable behaviour. -- Following an HN link, I read your
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by guylhem 16y ago
oops. you're right
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by guylhem 16y ago
Yep ! Totally crazy movie with Jason Statham. If you can recommand similar movies I'm listening! (already saw the sequel BTW)

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