guylhem

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by guylhem 13y ago
Indeed, working on a slow machine is the best thing one can do to produce optimized code. At the moment I'm using a macbookair3.1 with 4 gigs of ram- and it might even be too fast IMHO to add good constaints.
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by guylhem 13y ago
It was based on fvwm code, but it evolved independently. What was good is that it enabled fvwm modules to be ported very easily. Good memories from a long time ago (started doing that in 1997 ... wow! cf http://www.afterstep.org&
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by guylhem 13y ago
Glad to see some people are still using AfterStep. We put a lot of work into that - it was running just fine on my Toshiba 110CS, the main devel computer I used back in 2001 (and it was dated even back then - http://www.computing
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by guylhem 13y ago
"TECS was the first pre-DHS database of Federal government logs of international travel. Several other “systems of records” (a term of art used in the Privacy Act) about travelers, including the Automated Targeting System (ATS) and DHS
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by guylhem 13y ago
Krugman says so many wrong things - about bitcoin for example, but not just about that. So, who cares ? Also, he seems to miss how many people complained about Microsoft in the 90s while most people seem very happy with their Apple products
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by guylhem 13y ago
As the measure clearly shows, the homeless interest were the #1 concern for those who voted in favor. That's sure, as in "We need to protect them people from themselves". Unfortunately, it may not be enough. "think of th
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by guylhem 13y ago
In order to reach your goal of "using language to erode stereotypes about the types of people involved in tech enterprise", would it be better to reserve the use of "him" for failures and "her" for success? I t
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by guylhem 13y ago
Most of what I do involves loading text files with fixed width records. A file is between 500M and 4Gb. Then I do things with these records. So far I have not found anything faster than perl unpack (1), but I would be happy to. I plan to in
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by guylhem 13y ago
In perl5 : - I can have a prototype running in a matter of minutes - I have access to a vast library of modules doing everything I need (which helps the former) - I write quick and efficient code Do I really care about what other people thi
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by guylhem 13y ago
I'm sorry but it is just as racist as when people complained about Orkut being "invaded" by brazilians. There's a product, there is a population, and a good fit. How exactly is it a problem? If you don't like indian
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by guylhem 13y ago
It's a great opportunity for all Mathematica users to now share code in a well curated website, where all the experts will be. I wonder what will happen to stackexchange.
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by guylhem 13y ago
Utterly outrageous. Copyright laws apply both ways. The subtitles were created by other people. They own the rights. If their work was raided or reused by other companies such as netflix (mentioned in the article) THEY should be able to s
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by guylhem 13y ago
You're missing the point of drugs - some people experience intense joy from taking drugs.
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by guylhem 13y ago
Yes VC is less abundant, but if your plan is absolutely dependant on VC, maybe something is wrong. In Europe, you get other valuable things, like a vibrant place, health coverage, etc. I'd put Canada in the same bag. IMHO, the ideal pl
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by guylhem 13y ago
I guess the european definition of a startup is different that the american one. European startup : able to buy back shares, carefully select employees, refuse 8 digits funding because it doesn't want to go public, rent a country house
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by guylhem 13y ago
"Scientists call for more regulation (ie more grant $) before the devices is sold to the public, film at 11." The only problem is the DIY crowd. A 9V battery is not exactly under regulation. What people do with their body is their
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by guylhem 13y ago
It's not about the problem going away or not. Saving a life also increases cost, especially if the life you are saving is non productive (ie require food) Fact is, there will always be people dying on earth. It's sad. But why both
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by guylhem 13y ago
If you remove the "stealing" part, re-birthing is about creating value and recycling. People are spending their time and skills in creating good cars (ie that the market is willing to buy) from unusable cars. They take say 5 bad ones and ma
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by guylhem 13y ago
So basically, you didn't lost it. Good for you. Yet using full drive encryption + daily backups (or dropbox or google drive or whatever webfs) + having a spare machine at home (so that you can spare the trip to a computer store and have a m
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by guylhem 13y ago
What I read from your example : this head of the company wilfully destroys parts of the information paid for by the company, then complains about it. If it is to be a learning experience, this will produce obedient slaves and avoid any crea
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by guylhem 13y ago
The core problem in the blog post is the (perceived) arbitrary judgement of the value of the work. Let's suppose the parent evaluation is right, which is not self evident given how the emotional attachments impairs judgement. The article sa
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by guylhem 13y ago
Disclamer - I don't really "enjoy" food, and I would happily live on soylent green if it was available - to get done with it and save time. I don't know how my personal experience may apply - a large university hospital is not the army. But
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by guylhem 13y ago
Considering the outrageous prices charged by motels in every city I've been (up to Chicoutimi) and even by road side motels near nowhere, I'm not surprised :-/ >Business groups like Montreal’s Bed and Breakfast Association have been
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by guylhem 13y ago
>When rejecting candidates for my own company I wanted to tell them why I rejected them, and how to improve, but I have been told not to do it, for legal reason. When the laws prevent you from giving actionable feedback to the person
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by guylhem 13y ago
Excellent analysis. Weakness is the reason why some posturing fools can extract surplus from productive workers. Various answers have been proposed by different philosophy - from a worker revolution which michaelochurch seems to support (co
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by guylhem 13y ago
The article is partial to a very western view of education. Lecturing from a book, or from notes, is sometimes the right thing to do, especially when teaching to students who will have trouble following the class otherwise (by lack of disci
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by guylhem 13y ago
> Isn't it my moral duty to do that? No, there is no absolute "moral duty" to anything or anyone. There is a thing called "guilt", that some people try to induce (moral manipulation), when you don't do the things they want you to do.
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by guylhem 13y ago
Thanks for this interesting counter argument (and for the upvote, although the effect was quite short - I guess there are more emotional than rational voters). It is quite valid - if we have a strong suspicion on something, it could be help
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by guylhem 13y ago
First, we would need some time to get the experience to reach that rock. Then, considering the effort spent acquiring experience, it would be better to focus on a large asteroid. In fact, it would be even better if we could find a way to s
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by guylhem 13y ago
The proposal mandating 50% of something in food marketed to kids is stupid nonsense. If anything, reason should tell you that evolution must have selected for a "resiliant" digestive system - so much that it's thriving on anything we throw

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