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by gwenzek 9y ago
I guess the elephant is the room is piracy. How do you enforce people paying you if you let the source available so that other can reuse it? Should you let your app be closed source and share the code only on formal request? So you have a p
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by gwenzek 9y ago
> This can be impractical if G is a database table that is very large. Unless if the new format G2 is a super set of the old format G1. Read protobuffers best practice to know more about this.
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by gwenzek 9y ago
> I also wanted to talk about how OCaml came about. Did you expect it to be the language everyone taught in French schools? Since 2012 most students learn Python, which is a shame IMHO. Learning OCaml will make you a better programmer fo
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by gwenzek 9y ago
Wow, I wasn't aware that Unity had that! I mostly use Sublime because of this and whish all programs have one. Now I'm sad that it's gone…
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by gwenzek 9y ago
Flattr actually ask the users for money. Here it's not clear where the money comes from. The whitepaper mentions in-app purchases and ads display.
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by gwenzek 9y ago
France also have a lot of nuclear plant in the Rhone valley in the middle of the country
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by gwenzek 9y ago
I think it would be the only solution, because it will always be easier to manipulate your benefits than earnings. Although we could imagine something more complex: pay taxes on (revenue - expenses to compagnies that also pay taxes). So no
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by gwenzek 9y ago
Jupyter switch really easily from Python2.7 to Python 3 to C# because the front end and backend are separated. Not sure why they are having issue here.
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by gwenzek 9y ago
Clickbait title. Should be something like: efficiently find the most frequent items in a stream of data. TL;DR: split your items by chunck of 8 bits. Store for each chunck A the number of time you saw it before the chunck B followed by C.
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by gwenzek 9y ago
They also charge you more if you visit their website several times in a row or if you look up the prices from a Mac book. So that's personalized.
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by gwenzek 9y ago
I'm not sure what's you're point. For me the bad thing is that drug addiction is increasing. OD is just a proxy for that, since it's something easier to count that the number of addicts. (b) seems legit to me. If you OD
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by gwenzek 9y ago
I agree that the numbers of the articles are poorly chosen. That said the number of OD per year is increasing sharply in the US [1] Thus article shed some lights on why the DEA seems to have more trubble than before keeping in check the pai
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by gwenzek 9y ago
Also mobile phone were really rare 15 years ago and the GDP/PPP was almost the same. So it seems to me that the article miss an important point. My explanation would be that the economy was less moneytized. Lot of slaves means few sala
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by gwenzek 9y ago
I don't really understand how it works. Are the git objects encrypted before being pushed? In that case how are they handled by the server? Does it accept them even though they make no sense? What Github is going to show?
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by gwenzek 9y ago
There are extensions that allows you to remap the shortcut to your liking. It's not a one size fits all problem.
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by gwenzek 9y ago
> For this to work well they need to predict new orders in advance Calls for deep learning! Or using data from last week…
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by gwenzek 9y ago
> some kind fuzzy search screen that appears on a key-binding Firefox kind of does that. If you type Gmail and you have a Gmail tab open you will see a "switch to tab" entry. It support fuzzy search so it's handy.
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by gwenzek 9y ago
It's funny how the feature description is exactly my firefox setup. Tree style tab, mouse gestures to close and switch tabs, ability to suspend tabs…
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by gwenzek 9y ago
Agreed l. Also network effect may happen IRL and on FB, no need to rely on Patreon for it
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by gwenzek 9y ago
Or just because ads is not viable before reaching 5M views a month. While convincing 1000 fans to give you 5$/month is easier. Patreon allow people with small community of dedicated fans to make a living while YT allows people that mak
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by gwenzek 9y ago
> So, Where do we draw the line between a company rightfully refusing to host inappropriate content and a company "abusing" its network effects?. I don't think the app description of Gab is an appropriate content. Google s
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by gwenzek 9y ago
I'm suprised at the Java-C# comparaison. When are this numbers from? The following blogspot explains how the author improved C# implementations after seeing defavorable C# results. https://anthonylloyd.github.io/blog&#x
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by gwenzek 9y ago
> lack of funding on solving the hard problems in this field Also some of the hard problems like spam detections are only ads related. If you build a decentralized social network you don't face those
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by gwenzek 9y ago
Totally agree with you. I think a successful decentralized network should come with pre-configured Raspberry Pi that would act as a web server hosting the user pictures, contacts… And maybe a bit of friends data for backup.
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by gwenzek 9y ago
GitSavvy + GitGutter GitSavvy is a really thought-out Git integration for easy staging/commiting/stashing. It's one of the things that make people say Wow when they see me work. Also I use a small plugin to add terminal comma
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by gwenzek 9y ago
Naive question from Europe. What's the influence such NYT article may have on the legislators?
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I don't think the article advocates for b): > How can these benign, universally loved innovators be stopped from turning into evil, soulless corporate behemoths? Break up companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon, (...) Or perha
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by gwenzek 9y ago
> My point is that if arab revolutions of the 60s or post soviet revolutions of the 90s had happened today, they may have opted for the “Chinese Model” instead. What about Arab spring of 2011? They still tried to setup a democracy afterw
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Do you have a user-agent addon that works on mobile?
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by gwenzek 9y ago
I'm a Firefox user working at Google. A lot of internal tools are Chrome only and when they get released to public they have a lot of technical debt to make it compatible with FF. The thing is engineer seems to always go for the latest

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