jgtrosh

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by jgtrosh 9y ago
It's not legally wrong, but in the light of recent public outcry it comes off a slap in the face. A legal one, true. Maybe techcrunch has some incentive in pushing this content and should disclaim it, but it doesn't change the opi
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
I think such a system would just get humans used to seeing many large transactions and deal with them repetitively. If you can't make special events pop out more you're not really fighting against the freak accidents.
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
“a barbones distro” ≠ “nothing installed” Maybe you mean nothing more than what comes with the distro's install? In that case a clean Ubuntu counts? I think you should rethink what you have in mind; maybe you mean a distribution with f
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Minor aside: when I worked at Scilab I couldn't bear having to interact with a GUI so I got used to working either in complete CLI mode or sometimes in the partial CLI mode if I wanted to use a specific GUI feature. I only needed it fo
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Unless you install GitHub's hub and alias `git` to `hub` as suggested in the install doc—then some of what you can do in Git is GitHub specific
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
In France it's not so clear cut, but there have been more and more “professional” studies set up in universities. Many studies are actually not clearly « pro » or « recherche » but in between, and give you insights into both worlds. My
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
I think it should be “in three-dimensional space”. The sphere is two dimensional.
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Reminds me of myself, last Friday. Just arrived in Vienna to learn I had a presentation coming up. Had to plan my day, the presentation, type it out, draw graphs, sleep, with not too many hours available. Plowed through successfully but dec
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
The Mischling test checked for one grandparent of Jewish confession. Even Nazis would not consider him the same way they did their victims.
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Yeah sorry I guess your comment wasn't about that. But I don't understand the original comment's point. What is the problem you describe about Lua? That you can't just say "import module" and have many modules
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
The lua interpretors are just fine ; it's not because it's designed to be easily embeddable that it doesn't work just fine on its own.
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
French here: I'd never learned formally about this rule, I was just used to hearing the expression with a vague sense of what it meant; I often say I go down to Paris from the countryside thinking about elevation (bassin parisien) and
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
A life-long practice from lower-tier websites like Reddit of seeing way too much content go past to ever try and catch up with everything. When I was young and 9gag came to existence I remember being able of seeing everything that was poste
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
I can imagine a simple explanation where one mode of gratification aims to pay as low as possible to keep the workforce willing to work at all, and another mode is to use pay amount to avoid talent from going away. Pay is thought about and
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Success in good quality HN comments ?
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
This reminds me of a sign I saw at the top of a rather dangerous ski slope: « la neige ne reconnait pas les bons skieurs » ≈ “snow doesn't recognize good skiers” ≈ it's not because you're supposed to be good that you'll
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Also, giving a name to a formula is "inventing a definition". If you're a programmer and you write a function, or assign the result of an operation to a variable, the act of naming that function or variable can be considered
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Clippy is reborn from its ashes into a cultural icon; it made you react, therefore it's a fun name to choose. Kakoune uses a clippy ASCII art for its immediate help, it's nice.
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
[surf]( http://surf.suckless.org ) seems to fit the bill perfectly?
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
$ Play all Coldplay songs that were the most popular of their album $ Play all Coldplay songs about love $ Play the list of Coldplay songs for my 8 a.m. alarm Now, how would the UI go about specifying which previously defined list you want
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
I think the proposed method should be categorized as a hyperbole.
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
I was surprised to see that at no point in the article does the author express any appreciation at the opportunity his service seems to have given its new users. There is no step between hating the situation because of its cost to accepting
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
To be fair with the previous comment, do you claim CPAN was full of readable Perl, back in 1997 ?
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
> Then an app wanting undue authority would have to incur the pain of getting users to install it in a special unusual way. Isn't that similar to getting people used to installing anything they find on the web on Windows and just pr
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
I'm sure that without that feedback mistakes can happen that might be blamed on UI (didn't press the start/reheat/&c. button all the way through). Similar thought process to most touchscreen keyboards which have feed
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Wait until we train speech bots to fumble at tongue twisters Uncanny valley
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Thanks for your answer. For what it's worth I think the result is incredibly adapted to the art style; I think you overestimate your conclusions and I don't think that is fair to extrapolate claims over the importance of skinny tr
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
Back when going multimedia was very primitive and was clearly just a shiny feature with no direct benefit to anyone other than for the creators to partake in new world, I'd have agreed with your statement. In the current situation of m
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
See the search bar in explorer.exe in its Windows Vista iteration, when searching over non-indexed content. Way to completely break my suspension of disbelief.
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by jgtrosh 9y ago
As suggested in the discussion points, thin lines/stripes get muddled up with wider adjacent surfaces. Is this a problem with the goal of the exercise ? Maybe it needs to be more clearly defined. I suppose the idea is that the method a

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