levesque

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   by levesque 14y ago

   When backing a kickstarter, I pay for what is advertised and described. If they make the hard deadline, they will do it. If not, I'll get my money back. There is no such guarantee for Python support. I fund them, maybe I'll get Python supp
2. 272.▲
   by levesque 14y ago

   I won't back them based on a maybe. We'll talk again when python support becomes more than a teaser :)
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   by levesque 14y ago

   I think you should put journal publications before conference publications, as they are generally regarded as more important.
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   by levesque 14y ago

   Not a chance to make an academic resume one page long, even for print. There are too many publications to list, and they should all be there.
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   by levesque 14y ago

   Yes, poor Unity developpers. They wanted to make this configurable, but Gnome prevented them from doing it. Edit: </sarcasm>
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   by levesque 14y ago

   Is there any reason why you choose to boot from a disk? Normally you can upgrade from within your own installation without problems.
7. 277.▲
   by levesque 14y ago

   To me, this is probably the first step to support Linux and Android, not at all a bad move.
8. 278.▲
   by levesque 15y ago

   In the same vein, I check http://techmeme.com/ daily.
9. 279.▲
   by levesque 15y ago

   What's the point of this article? Feels like (tech) celebrity gossip.
10. 280.▲
    by levesque 15y ago

    Is it? I never found myself wanting for such an ability. For me, the e-ink display is much more interesting than dynamic scrolling/skimming.
11. 281.▲
    by levesque 15y ago

    What would you say is the level of the book? I am intrigued by your enthusiasm, but I think I'd be wasting my time if I went reading an introductory book.
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    by levesque 15y ago

    I had the same feeling when I saw this. R is a great tool for statistics, very useful when you need to do in-depth statistical analysis (analysis of variance, etc.). It doesn't strike me as a good choice for a hacker's book - which makes me
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    by levesque 15y ago

    So far, I'm not a big fan of gnome3 (and Unity), but I'm going to give the gnome developers some credit and trust the direction they took. They spent countless hours thinking about what to do - I didn't. They refactored most of gtk, simplif
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    by levesque 15y ago

    I'm not sure Canonical supports XFCE in any way, and now they also no longer support KDE (financially, that is). There were hiring one guy to work on Kubuntu, that's not much if you ask me. So we're down to two (Gnome-shell and Unity), an
15. 285.▲
    by levesque 15y ago

    Any free alternatives to iSSH? I don't feel like paying 10$ just to try it out.
16. 286.▲
    by levesque 15y ago

    Since when is being a web programmer a prerequisite to participating on HN?
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    by levesque 15y ago

    I simply refuse to believe that :) As soon as you start thinking it's out of your control, it becomes out of your control.
18. 288.▲
    by levesque 15y ago

    Also, don't post a link to a post containing the link.
19. 289.▲
    by levesque 15y ago

    The problem is you shared the circle to people who already had that circle (or part of it).
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    by levesque 15y ago

    The problem with this kind of thing is I can add all the people listed here to circle I will call HN, but the people who get added by me will have no idea who the hell I am. They would have to check this list to verify if the guy adding
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    by levesque 15y ago

    In my case, it's more a matter of praticality. My nook is lighter than a book and contains many books, so if I don't feel like reading one type of book I can switch easily. Less importantly, I can hold the nook with one hand and still be ab
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    by levesque 15y ago

    I was surprised when I learned that google was launching a project to search for efficient renewable energy sources - doesn't seem like their field at all. That they are closing it now without having produced much (has anyone heard about an
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    by levesque 15y ago

    I, for one, will certainly consider switching to pypy when they have a stable, usable implementation of numpy :)
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    by levesque 15y ago

    Awesome, I can't wait to be back on Debian, nice to know Gnome3 might be a viable alternative to the bound to die Gnome2 and the sometimes disappointing Xfce.
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    by levesque 15y ago

    I'm going for Debian, will try gnome shell to see how far it has come since it's beginnings and once I find out it sucks (most likely outcome) I will install XFCE.
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    by levesque 15y ago

    On the love of Jobs vs hate of Gates (or Microsoft), I am currently reading Steve Jobs biography, and I found a passage that highlights Apple as hypocrites quite more efficiently than anything I might say : " The Apple raid on Xerox PARC is
27. 297.▲
    by levesque 15y ago

    Currently browsing the listentothis subreddit using your website, I must say it is quite enjoyable :)
28. 298.▲
    by levesque 15y ago

    Nice, although I find myself annoyed to have to wait after the vote counts to load (they only get fetched on mouse-over, right?)
29. 299.▲
    by levesque 15y ago

    See also http://www.reddpics.com
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    by levesque 15y ago

    Yeah, I am quite annoyed by that as well. What's the point?