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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Not to mention that we have the former president Nicolas Sarkozy on trial for corruption right now. He just took a few millions from Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2008 campaign. And there were a slew of big international military contracts
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Being from France and having worked in a company that deals mainly with government contracts, I've seen some of these aspects first hand. The company I was in was far from being as horrible as the one mentioned in this post and managem
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
compared to Azure, the AWS UI is way behind. The AWS UI doesn't handle multiple subscription, it's somewhat annoying when you have multiple accounts (let say dev and prod ones). With Azure, you can federate several subscriptions.
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
The launch was in 1977, the construction of the probes started in 1975. So it's between 41 to 43 years ago. If you were a young engineer at the time, let say 22, you are now 65 years old, if you were 30, you are now 73. So there is a g
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Maybe because they have less and less people who know how to read and program with this particular assembly language? The program was written more than 40 years ago, most of the people who wrote it are probably retired now. Also, it's
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Enigma security didn't rely on security through obscurity. Having the machine didn't enable the allies to decrypt the messages. It relied on the secret of the... secret keys and the monthly key books. It's also quite interest
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I've used cherrypy + mako in a few projects ( https://github.com/kakwa/dnscherry and https://github.com/kakwa/ldapcherry ). It's quite easy to pick-up and does the job very well. It suppor
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
1) A dedicated GPU in a laptop, specially a thin one like the X1 Carbon, is a bit of a nightmare. It consums a lot energy, it needs a lot of heat dissipation, and it can even reduce the life span and robustness of the laptop. 2) The X1 carb
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
In soccer, the gap is not always that high. In France, for example, there are a few examples of lower levels teams reaching the semi-finals or even the final of the national cup. I remember for example Calais in 1999 or 2000 (amateurs forth
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
There were older Citroen cars with a lot of plastic/composite parts. For example, the Mehari used a lot of plastic parts (ABS) and is from the late 60ies. It didn't prevent rust completely however. For example, the Mehari was as p
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I would love to see the following funding scheme: Have a service that provides a list of Open Source projects properly indexed (github projects, sourceforge, projects with their own infrastructure) where the projects/individual contrib
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I did the same in one game. One of the civilization was way ahead of me in term of tech. Fortunatly I had a large empire, able to produce a lot of units, and this civilization was rater small. So I sent loads of units on this civilization t
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
As a child, I loved this game. I remember spending hours on it, not knowing what I was doing. I had an english version of the game, and being 9 or 10 at the time, I didn't speak a word of english. It took me ages to understand that you
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
the whois on their domain is bit weird: Registrant Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
36K euros a year "Brut" (before social security) was my starting salary in the Paris area. I know that Berlin is a little bit cheaper (in term of rent) than Paris but I would expect it to be about the same as Paris in term of sala
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
What you say is 100% true, but I would go one step further and not have npm installed on any production server. And it's not specific to npm, I would do the same with gem, pip, cpan, etc. Not to mention curl http://ex.io&#x2
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Write code to have an impressive features list in the product, even if half of them have 3 bugs per line of code. It's not a strategy I approve, but it can be effective from a commercial stand-point, specially if the half that doesn&#x
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I will be sarcastic, ironic and voluntarily provocative: he is an idiot, if he was a real 10x developer, he should have chosen a complex code architecture only understood by him, that way he would have been the only one able to implement an
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
If you are running a stable version, it works fine, yes. However, having zfs outside the mainline kernel is a bit of a pain. There are frequent breakage in kernel APIs, and the ZFS on Linux project always plays catch-up with these changes.
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Could it not be done through conventional ways like TODO or FIXME?
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
"And then you can took a look at the commit messages and you cringed more than a little". Commit history in cowboy projects tends to be really bad. I've seen a lot of "not so professional" comments in them like: * e
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Frankly, I'm not sure why Google would acquire RedHat, SAP or Oracle. I'm not sure what will be gain from that. Google probably doesn't care about the softwares these companies provides as it has its own internal alternatives
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Also, requiring the driver to pay attention on what the automation do is a bit unrealistic. It's really difficult to stay focus and (mostly) do nothing at the same time. Monitoring automation is boring. Also switching from a passive mo
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Personally, I've used: https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb (for implementing an RFC 3161 (crypto timestamp) service. It's a fork of https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose (The Civetweb for
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Floppy disk ^^. I had to do it for an old Compaq Proliant DL 360 G1 (with no USB ports) back in 2012. It was for an old Intel NIC (e100 driver).
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
thanks ^^ For information, the bits of code that is handling "font index encoding": https://github.com/kakwa/libemf2svg/blob/master/src/lib/emf2... To https://github.com&#x
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
It's really difficult to achieve. The article mentions EMF/EMF+. this format is basically a list of calls to GDI.h and is a bitch to map to other graphic stacks when you are not on Windows. The specification of the format is publi
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
The chance of a personal project building a large community are quite slim regardless of the license. Chances are a personal OSS project will only attracts a few dozen users and maybe a handful of contributors (contributing mostly small bug
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
It was exactly my reaction from reading this title. A.I and Big Data are in themselves tools, but access to those tools is highly more likely if wealthy. So they will be used toward the self interest of the wealthiest, and, consequently aga
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
enviably, I'm not so sure... Most of the plants are quite old, and will cost a ton to renovate (~50B euros for the "Grand Carenage") or close. They also represent a growing risk as they get older. There is also the well known

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