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by luch 12y ago
You're right about the 10 hard drives : if you've bought them identically at the same time, it's likely they all gonna fail in a short time span. I've recently heard about the "3,2,1" rule concerning backup :
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by luch 12y ago
Same for me : my dev pc has a 6 y.o. AthlonX64 with 4GB RAM, which force me to have a second pc to only run Lotus on it ! Six months ago, my manager ask to upgrade my workstation for the standard build provided by the IT dept, with some mod
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by luch 12y ago
I know for a fact that in France they test every single donation, since the "Contaminated blood products" scandal affair in 70'. They even use a 1000++€ AIDS test which can detect HIV within a 3-week time span, instead of 3 m
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by luch 12y ago
On the same topic, I've heard that every supertanker has a proximity radar in order to avoid to collide with small boats. However, in some heavy-traffic routes like the Straight of Dover or Gibraltar the proximity alarm goes off consta
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by luch 12y ago
There is another interesting side-effect : companies from developed countries are unwillingly training low-wage workers from 3rd the world. As an anecdotal evidence, the company I'm working for has partially outsourced their customer s
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by luch 12y ago
I'm not saying my metric is better, the problem lies in the fact that we are comparing oranges and apples here.
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by luch 12y ago
As a French I'm always find those rankings entertaining : for exemple the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) is ranked 65 with a research score 37.1 . The ENS has outputted 11 Fields winning mathematicians (20% of the world's laureate
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by luch 12y ago
Agreed, GIMP is a horrendous piece of software. I know it is extremely powerful (for example combined with G'MIC) but the fact you can't do the most simple transformations (rescale, move, strech and rotate) on the freehand tool sp
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by luch 12y ago
Most people associate Machiavelli with a devious, twisted mind when he was actually simply a pragmatic. He is labeled as an amoral guy since he admits that violent or cunning methods are sometimes useful. Also, as an software contractor, hi
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by luch 12y ago
> Each sub department doesn't have their own sales team haggling internal prices & discounts with other department heads. Yes they do. I'm working for a fairly large company (several thousand employees) where projects ofte
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by luch 12y ago
You might be surprised by the robbers' creativity and drive. For example, you can't put anymore the time and day of a wake in the local newspapers, since burglars used this info to break into the houses of the dead's relative
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by luch 12y ago
Picasso did this once : one day he was relaxing at a park, a woman recognized him at asked him to draw her portrait. Picasso quickly scribbled something and before giving back the drawing, told the woman : "It will be 300$, madam.&quot
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by luch 12y ago
Is your question rhetorical ? Because that's how ITER (nuclear fusion reactor) generate electricity in a nutshell, if you replace the ball by plasma. source : https://www.iter-india.org/images/fusion_experiments2.j
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by luch 12y ago
I don't think you can beat human experience here. Try to find an experienced freelancer or ex-project manager which is willing to make some side money by helping you negociate your contracts. I don't work in freelance, so I don&#x
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by luch 12y ago
Yes, I live in Paris and it said beggars can make up to 30€ a day on certain locations. Moreover they have access to bare necessities like food, clothes, free street clinics and sheltering during winter. Some beggars aren't homeless ei
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by luch 12y ago
yep, the Queen is quite frugal in that matter. The cost of representation and the the perceived splendor aren't really correlated. I've heard a few years ago that Hollande, to break with his predecessor Sarkozy, wanted to travel b
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by luch 12y ago
As a non-native English speaker, the title bothers me : "Bigger" introduce a notion of comparison, so where is the "than" in the sentence ? Is it valid in terms of syntax? The subtitle is no less puzzling : "Multipl
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by luch 13y ago
I did follow Sedgewick coursera course on algorithms : https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~211 . It's frankly a good class, which cover a large range of fundamental data structures (first part on lists,arrays and
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by luch 13y ago
As a amateur musician in several bands, I see those websites popping from time to time, promising to help matching promoters with musicians. It just does not work. I don't know the reason why (too many bands ? too much variability in p
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by luch 13y ago
As a bike commuter on a major city recently hit by a peak of air pollution (Paris), I've looked around for infos, and it's seems cyclists are less exposed to air pollution than motorists or even pedestrians. Sources : http:&#x2
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by luch 13y ago
The second graph (on workweek in hours) is really dodgy : the y-axis range from 38 hours to ... 38.8 hours. Not really a change then. Also I would have liked to have the spread on both graphs, with the 10/90 percentiles.
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by luch 13y ago
some influencial tech blogs (in order less famous) in France use a lot this delicious-clone : https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli . It's a one-click bookmarlet with public/private separations, RSS built-in f
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by luch 13y ago
I'm disheartened by their conversion to Webkit. Tab grouping + session save is one hell of a killer feature : I used to archive websessions in order to track my references when writing a academic paper. I've switched to Firefox fr
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by luch 13y ago
BitBucket ?
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by luch 13y ago
I rarely agree with the author of this blog post : - "Don't bother mentioning your G.P.A." : I know firms are only interested in your diploma's name, but it can be an advantage to mention you passed summa cum laude where
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by luch 13y ago
That what "Not Constructive" is about : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6062876 . It seems they finally have a website !
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by luch 13y ago
If you're from Romania, did you consider taking a year to study abroad using the Erasmus program, to see how stuff is taught elsewhere ?
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by luch 13y ago
I would suggest to take it easy : you're seem to be an intelligent and driven person, and that's good, but life is a marathon. You'll run out of time in the future ('cause work/kids/hobby/drugs/etc.)
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by luch 13y ago
Logic inversion should normally be caught rather easily, flow control misdirections not so much : #define if while . My favorite (C++) : #define private public
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by luch 13y ago
Agreed. An app which does not rely on RTOS/kernel can hardly qualify for "real-time".

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