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by jfoucher 7y ago
Citation ?
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by jfoucher 7y ago
Generally when people come to you about their problems they do not want or even need advice. Whenever I am in that position I try to help them understand the problem, by just asking questions to understand the problem clearly myself. You ca
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by jfoucher 7y ago
I’ve been using the same 2012 rMBP day in day out since I bought it. I carry it everywhere with me, even on a sailboat when I went on a few months sailing trip in 2015. The thing still runs everything i need for work and non-work (webdev +
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by jfoucher 7y ago
Duple home page states "CREATE YOUR OWN PRIVATE CLOUD AT HOME, IN ONE CLICK." This is blatantly false as is most everything that advertises itself as "one click". Please change it to a real number like, oh I don't k
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by jfoucher 8y ago
Not if a new starts growing in place of the old one. The carbon is sequestered in the mass of the living trees so that is what counts
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by jfoucher 8y ago
Nice. I didn't come across MailHog during my research, but it looks pretty good. The API is a nice idea, but doesn't it make your tests a bit brittle ? I usually use the Symfony Profiler to do that, but something similar may not b
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by jfoucher 8y ago
Hi everyone. I just built this over a few days because viewing test emails in gmail is slow and also because I'm afraid the recipients might get test emails (in my case suppliers of the company I work for). I didn't want to use an
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Show HN: A local SMTP server to test and debug your app's emails(mailocal.jfoucher.com)
4 points by jfoucher 8y ago|4 comments
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by jfoucher 8y ago
No need to have different urls for different languages. If you detect that the user's location is in the UK display the UK site, comply with UK laws etc... If that same user sends a German Accept-Language header, show them the UI in Ge
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by jfoucher 8y ago
In Firefox: Preferences -> Language and appearance -> Language
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by jfoucher 8y ago
I never understood why sites try to do geo based localization. Every browser in capable of setting the requested language in the request headers so why not use that ? Technically much simpler as well. And the user can just change the browse
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by jfoucher 8y ago
This guy [0] does it with regular solid fuel rocket motors. Since the engines cannot be throttled, I think he has to try and light them at just the right moment, which does not seem particularly easy... [0] https://www.youtube.co
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by jfoucher 8y ago
They still make them but only wireless now. I have a couple of M570 and they are one of the best trackballs IMO. I mostly use them for CAD though as I could never get used to a trackpad for that. Trackpad for the rest though but only becaus
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by jfoucher 8y ago
I think what the parent is alluding to is that a box shape does not cut through the air very well, and that they should add a more aerodynamic shape to make it easier on the drone.
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by jfoucher 9y ago
Time to come clean about my first CD burner story I guess. In 1998 they were pretty common already but I was a poor student in a foreign country so could not afford one. Office Depot (I think that's what it was called) had a good retur
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by jfoucher 9y ago
Not really replying to the point you're trying to make but I don't think "middle eastern" is a race nor ethnicity...
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by jfoucher 9y ago
Well it was Bocuse so I assumed that the food being exquisite was a given. No need to add to the praise he received along the years.
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by jfoucher 9y ago
> perhaps this was a fine dining restaurant. Actually many would consider Bocuse's to be THE fine dining restaurant.
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by jfoucher 9y ago
I very clearly remember eating there for my twelfth birthday. Absolutely mind-blowing in every possible way. I still remember the cheese cart as if it was yesterday. The food was excellent and the service was... I don't know how to put
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by jfoucher 9y ago
I never liked that gmail "feature" and disabled it as soon as it came out. It's stupid and takes away my control of my email. If I want some emails to end up in a specific folder/tag, or be marked as read, or even not sh
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by jfoucher 9y ago
Haven't read the story yet, don't know if I will. I just wanted to reply to your comment with a personal anecdote. My eldest son died in an accident when he was about 2 ½ years old. The dread wasn't there before. I didn&#x27
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by jfoucher 9y ago
Very true. Considering the whole supply chain for accurate comparison is complicated. Although I think my main point still stands : from an environmental perspective it's rather ineffective to have an electric car in a place where elec
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by jfoucher 9y ago
I we say all three of: charging, motor controller and motor are about 90% efficient, that's already 72% efficiency from grid power to mechanical. So maybe not that easy.
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by jfoucher 9y ago
Coal power plants are roughly as efficient as an internal combustion engine (around 40%) and considering the power transmission losses, charging losses, electric engine inefficiencies and so on, any electric vehicle has worse overall effic
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Minds to Launch Crypto Token(minds.com)
4 points by jfoucher 9y ago|0 comments
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by jfoucher 9y ago
Sorry if this sounds rude, it's not meant to be, but as a foreigner, I really cannot fathom why what are basically homeless people would be called "middle class". How can you be "middle class" and poor at the same t
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by jfoucher 9y ago
In a natural ecosystem, nothing is taken out, whereas in this one, food is supposed to be removed from the system, making inputs necessary.
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by jfoucher 9y ago
I'd like to read your opinions on what this means for the evolution of the internet outside the US. Will the US internet become somehow separate from the world wide web ? Will it be harder or easier for international companies to have
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Show HN: Stati, an extensible, Jekyll-compatible PHP static website generator(stati.jfoucher.com)
1 points by jfoucher 9y ago|0 comments
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by jfoucher 9y ago
Direct link to github repo: https://github.com/jfoucher/stati

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