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by jackjeff 7y ago
The only thing in that list that would is of interest to a government are messages. Fortunately no-one really uses iMessage in China. People use WeChat and (you guessed it) the Chinese government has access to these. As for the End-to-End e
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I have been on receiving end of browser bugs, developing cutting edge JavaScript applications. It's VERY useful to be able to use the UA string to do something like: if (Chrome version X) then { do this crazy workaround because Chrom
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For a native English speaker, Italian is easier to learn than German according to the Foreign Service Institute. https://effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/languag...
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This is what France does. The Académie Française is responsible for defining the proper spelling of words and update the intricate grammar rules. At some point the Éducation Nationale adopts the changes and requires that all children learn
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There is a lot of foreign series and movies on BBC4. Lots of Nordic noir crime stuff. There are also many French shows: Engrenage/Spiral season 7 has just finished. Much easier to catch these on iPlayer than freeview.
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It’s not about preferring one style or the other. These developers are blind to white spaces and consistency in general. They semi randomly change style within the same file, even if this is something that they themselves have created from
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Anecdotally I found there is a high correlation between one’s ability to write correct English and one’s ability to write correct code. If I’m in the hiring side and I see a “its” vs “it’s” mistake it counts against you. A higher correlatio
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by jackjeff 7y ago
I’d kill for a YouTube client for AppleTV or to go back to the old one before Google decide to trash the UI with immaterial design everywhere. YouTube has the worst UI on AppleTV by far.
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Is there a way to continue "using slack" but actually rewrite your own client with Markdown support... maybe something that is actually NOT using Electron and gobbles up resources. I had a quick glance at the API. It does look
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And yet despite these conditions and the fact that half of the sailors would die, people still signed up for the job. I find that even more mind boggling in a way. I assume the living conditions of the poor outside of the galleons were not
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Frenchman expat here. I do recall OCaml being somewhat popular among teachers and professors some 20 years ago. All the coding I learned in high school and then the first years of college was in either Basic, Pascal, OCaml or Matlab. I did
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I wonder if it’s for export control. 7 chars x 8 bits = 56 bits. This used to be the limit for max size of symmetric keys by the US.
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I’m surprised Trump’s trade war has not “escalated” to banning the Chinese emoji yet...
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> C++ is as complex as you want to make it I second that. I always find the attitude of “C++ is bad so I’m going to stick to C” really bizarre. You can use C++ as a better C. - use type inference and references instead of pointers. Writi
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I’m not entirely convinced it’s fair for non residents to vote, especially those that have no intentions of coming back. Election results for French expats are typically very different from those back home. LePen was not even close to be qu
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I’m old enough to have used paper dictionaries and yet I don’t miss them. Today I have a dictionary of every language I speak in my pocket. The serendipity of using paper dictionary exist online. Some dictionaries (like Merriam Webster show
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by jackjeff 7y ago
I'm French but living in the UK for the past 12 years. British people have no problem saying "no" in my experience, and I don't think there is a large difference between France and the UK. In both countries, it is mostly
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by jackjeff 7y ago
Wow... what a ton of BS. I disagree with most of it. - "Google/YouTube made an anti-competitive move against LiveVideo". Ok, on the face of it (if you believe everything Lapinsky says) then it is really bad, as in "illeg
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by jackjeff 7y ago
Well if you’re happy with that then you can write your app with Xamarin Mono for iOS in Visual Studio. You can do it all in C# without even learning Swift or Objective C.
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Shocker. I heard you are also forced to buy a Windows PC to write software for Windows!
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Suddenly I’m less impressed in the Mossad. Really they recruit hackers on FB? If I do a quick samples of people I know, there’s a super high correlation in being a hacker/developer and not using Facebook. Maybe they should try HN inste
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> they are always going to be entering the environment they'll end up in land fill or recycled? The environment will never see them, at the very least they will never end up in the sea... If I recall correctly most of the plastic b
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UK here - I just pay whatever they want me to pay for the bags. I can almost never remember to bring them to the shops. And if I do, I forget them in a car anyway. It used to be 0.05 GBP per bag, now 0.10GBP. If it gets any more expensive I
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by jackjeff 8y ago
Oh the irony of reading this article on a four and a half year old iPhone 6 fully patched and running the lastest version of iOS...
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EU laws do not apply to the rest of the world. No need to spin up TOR. Put your site in California that should be enough. I don't see HN caring a rat ass about EU law, in the same way that HN did not ask for a publishing license from t
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This code would probably a lot shorter if every function call was not followed by a ‘if err != nil’ statement. This reminds me of Win32 programming.
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I use my AirPods a lot (like 1h to 2h daily for commuting and chores) and after one and a half year, I have no battery issues. I don’t recall depleting the battery ever.
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The BBC article and wikipedia entry hint to Jin Yong going to Hong Kong (was this exile?) and some of his publications were initially banned in mainland China and Taiwan. So it seems he was not well liked by the elite/party at first. Q
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Don’t choose France. I used to live there but they’re off by an hour. Same time zone as Poland. It’s ridiculous. Best thing I did for my health was crossing the channel...
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This was a year round DST. How about having a year round correct time instead?

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