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by luch 10y ago
I get what you're trying to say, but how is it more insecure than doing "git clone; make; sudo make install" or double-clicking on a NSIS installer ?
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by luch 10y ago
Interestingly enough, France used to make the same naïve mistakes the Japanese did : follow too closely the bid "rules", not lobbying enough, not taking political landscape into consideration, not attending to "social events&
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by luch 11y ago
> I often feel my line of work is grossly misrepresented by dizzying fields of esoteric numbers and references to ancient cryptography when I'm happy to find myself many of my days engrossed in the security characteristics of some p
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by luch 11y ago
That is one explanation. I've worked in avionics telemetry & remote sensor fusion and there is actually a push to go from synchronous archs (using PCM on I2C buses) towards modular and networked archs (using some variant of IP&#x2F
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[A] How to do a GitHub pull request?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by luch 11y ago|0 comments
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by luch 11y ago
I happen to work at a place where I'm inclined not to do more than 40h/w, and working 50+h/w is simply not possible. The fact that you've so "little" time to code taught me and my colleagues to be brutally effi
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by luch 11y ago
Mostly C++ and a string search utility (like grep) since the codebase is massive. There are others languages (I recall Java and Perl) but their use are marginal.
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by luch 11y ago
As someone who has worked in Switzerland, how did the Swiss Franc cap removal (against dollar) has impacted tech industries around Zurich ? Some of them took a 40% hit on their margins.
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by luch 11y ago
Unfortunately it's not under active development for several years. Lots of good ideas though.
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by luch 11y ago
There is the issue of cascading failures also here : several of my friends working for majors European power grid suppliers still have nightmares from the 2006 power outage. A vessel ship cut a power line in Germany, which triggered a domin
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by luch 11y ago
Well that's to be expected from a one-man company (IIRC). There used to be a time when you had yearly releases at best for commercial software (and you had to renew your license in order to get the new version). Not every company has t
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by luch 11y ago
Exactly. His post is rather long to be only an outburst of angriness. I think he is pretty pissed off by the recruitement process and decided to take it up a notch in order to make it grotesque.
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by luch 11y ago
Tandems are also used when recruiting pro bass players / drummers since you often need one and only one of them in a band but it has to be always present for gigs. Usually they are in duo, backing each others in several bands.
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by luch 11y ago
That's why every big Western European cities force new building houses to have an underground car park, and are pushing to remove free street parking. That's currently happening in Paris : every parking space in the street is char
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by luch 11y ago
Exactly, government-managed retirement funds were created after WWII, at a time when there was few retirees and a massive young workforce. Now it's the other way around : the demographic transition is hitting the retirement age all ove
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by luch 11y ago
Having the satisfaction of doing a good job ? Not everyone is working simply in order to become richer, there are some which also wants to have a meaningful impact on society. I like when my clients says the tools I've developped are e
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by luch 11y ago
It's just a matter of generation : I haven't played any of the games you listed, while I know every 3D AAA games mentionned before.
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by luch 11y ago
Funny enough, Laurent Chemla (Gandi's founder) did publish an essay in 2002 called "I am a thief", denouncing registrars' artificial prices (Gandi did cut prices at that time). An extract [FR] : http://www.che
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by luch 11y ago
Well it's military airplane so it's a bit special here, usually it's the costumer (i.e. the army) which is liable if the plane has passed the final tests. However it's a complete different matter for civil airplanes : it
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by luch 11y ago
And he's also wrong. I assume he's French, and French law specifically says that any unwanted access to restricted parts of a "data processing system" is punishable by a hefty fine and/or prison time. For example, I
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Ask HN: What is the current stable help generation system for Windows?
13 points by luch 11y ago|8 comments
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by luch 12y ago
The comma is not a big deal : it's a problem caused by tone equalizing (aka temperament). Think of instruments as ladders : they have all the same steps, but start at different heights. When combining several types of instruments, the
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by luch 12y ago
I live in France, where nuclear energy is dominant, and I can tell there are some serious issues with nuclear power. First, nuclear can be extremely inefficient since it's heavily centralized : I have friends working for energy distrib
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by luch 12y ago
Actually yes, I know an economist (working for the BCE) half-jokingly preaching it. According to him, lottery should be reserved to people who can afford to lose 10$.
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by luch 12y ago
I'm actually a fan of the following proverbs. They are less pompous, and more humourous : http://theprofoundprogrammer.com/post/28552672458/text-maybe... http://theprofoundprogrammer.com/post&
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by luch 12y ago
You're implying Greece did take Euro money without any intention to repay other countries. The reality is much more nuanced. Greek did take part of a fund destined to boost their economy, like Western european countries with the US&#x2
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by luch 12y ago
Generating money from programming is hard, really hard. I'm a professional developer (though a junior one) and I can't find ways to do it reliably. If it's still interested in programming, here is my list of languages : - Des
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by luch 12y ago
Totally. At my work, a team of 5 devs manage to version their 25 years old software (>10.000 files) using SourceSafe ! No branch, no merge, only a central repo and intelligent check-in/check-out. They are way more efficient than the
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by luch 12y ago
Yep, for me GPS is the reason I've changed my dumbphone for a smart one. Too bad this Nokia does seem to have it.
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by luch 12y ago
Hey, I might be interested : I'm considering learning to play the piano in order to help me transcribe some songs (I currently doing it using my trumpet but it's pretty tiring). I'll take a look if I finally decide to buy a M

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