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by joss82 17y ago
Newest hardware don't always have fully-functional and well-integrated Linux drivers on the day the new hardware is released. This is mostly the hardware vendor's fault and it sucks. What sucks even more is to write an article about that an
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by joss82 17y ago
I thought spam was dead (for power users at least). Good spam filters killed it (gmail and co).
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by joss82 17y ago
I had the same company "facilities" on a much smaller scale while working for HP: free HP house in the first month, HP shuttle, HP cantina,... It's great to avoid employees worrying about non-work stuff. It's a bit big brotherish in a way t
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by joss82 17y ago
Here you are: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N16/dubai.html http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N17/dubai.html http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
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by joss82 17y ago
It means Dubai is an even bigger tax haven than Switzerland (Federer is Swiss). That's impressive. Maybe they are trying to be successful in the Swiss way: no oil or ressource whatsoever, but still plenty of money.
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Last episode from the former BCG consultant in Dubai(tech.mit.edu)
56 points by joss82 17y ago|18 comments
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Such a phenomenom would break the law of conservation of mass and energy so bad it will go back to its mother and cry all night.
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by joss82 17y ago
But he seems like the kind of guy who graduates at 16.
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Not if you look at the real source (not the github link above)
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I thought the figure would be much higher, around 80-90%. Maybe that's why nobody is reading them anymore? Is the economist really the last bastion of interesting informative information or is it just me?
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by joss82 17y ago
There is cheaper hosting here: http://www.kimsufi.com/ks/ 49€/month for a Q6600 quad-core. and 99€ for a octo-core and 12gigs of ram. I'm using their quad core at the moment for 6 months and nothing bad happened. Didn't try their tech sup
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Yet another reason to not start a startup in Paris.
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by joss82 17y ago
I think I'm wrong on this one: A deterministic behavior would rule out free will. Free will would be non-deterministic, by definition. Revised conclusion: We have as much free will as our particles. Still no fate, though ;)
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I really thought that Heisenberg was talking about the reality and not the measure.
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Senescence. Although death is a good motivation for getting things done.
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At a bigger scale, they seem to act randomly, though. But maybe if we could follow one particle in its everyday life, we see how it exercises its free will?
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Heisenberg uncertainty principle prevents perfectly accurate measure of "physical state". So, two brains as physically identical as possible will probably have (slightly) different outputs. But those differences would have nothing to do wi
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by joss82 17y ago
Hurray! Now we can focus on what's really making our application different. And it turns out to be boring. Maybe we should be more creative in our application's core functionalities, should we not?
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It's more about life and recovery.
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1. Pan's labyrinth 2. Good Will Hunting 3. Little Miss Sunshine
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by joss82 17y ago
How can it give you your private IP address? I'm curious... Is there a javascript call to list the IP addresses of any machine? That feels very insecure to me. EDIT: Sorry I forgot to turn on my joke detector.
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But as the article says, if you add a certain percentage of votes to one candidate, you don't actually break Benford's law. I wonder why this law is used for detecting fraud...
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I was thinking of doing that. But does it work in real life conditions? One advantage would be that I won't be tempted to compulsively browse HN and other news web sites.
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Maybe the first artificial intelligence will emerge from Google?
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by joss82 17y ago
Do you really find only 5% of girls your age attractive ?! And you say you were being generous! I've been to London and the girls are not that horrible there, are they? Or was it the beer goggles? Interesting paper, though. Thanks for wri
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How your retina compresses data before sending it to the brain(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by joss82 17y ago|0 comments
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It may has to do with adaptation in human behavior when others enters their "personal space", in a crowded metro train, for example.
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by joss82 17y ago
Sorry to be a bit killjoy here, especially since the article is interesting and entertaining. But what does this has to do with hacking ?
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How to destroy the earth(qntm.org)
77 points by joss82 17y ago|35 comments
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XMLRPC. Very easy to use. There is a solid xmlrpc client in python > 2.2 http://www.python.org/doc/2.6/library/xmlrpclib.html A small criticism : some network overhead (it's XML's fault).

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