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by mablap 10y ago
separatist BS So millions of people who feel strongly about things you don't agree with is bullshit? You might have been too harsh, but you are not helping your case. The city's aiming high. Some people there have a drea
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by mablap 10y ago
There are no elite Universities in Quebec (McGill is pretty good, but not French), and there is zero access to networks from elite schools among Francophones. Another blanket statement. What constitutes an "elite&quot
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by mablap 10y ago
Are you in Toronto? What makes people hesitate before moving to Montreal? The usual "disincentive" is the language - a lot of people (including immigrants) just don't care about learning French. Personally though, I have met
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by mablap 10y ago
If you have some free time ( ;) ) I would be very interested in seeing a proper ranking. Maybe they're limiting themselves to "Deep Learning AI" when they say Montreal has one of the biggest concentrations of researchers in t
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by mablap 10y ago
Puisque tu insiste... -- Self-delusions of grandeur of Quebeckers are funny. What does this article have to do with "Quebeckers"? If you had frequented any of the mentioned universities you would know they are full of for
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by mablap 10y ago
What do you mean by "bottom up" in this context? They mention having a lot of researchers (grunts) and now a brand new startup accelerator. > There just isn't enough quality people to do this in Canada. Do you really belie
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by mablap 10y ago
Here's one data point: There are about 150 academic AI researchers in in an area of 1.4 square kilometre radius in downtown Montreal.
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by mablap 10y ago
Can someone flag this comment? I don't have the option. I had written a proper response but the level of ignorance and apparent hatred displayed in your comment makes me doubt you would have read it.
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by mablap 10y ago
Unfortunately I don't think your attitude is particularly constructive either. Out of the many (many many) web frameworks out there, why should parent bother with this particular one? I think asking for a mobile optimized website is re
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by mablap 10y ago
FWIW, I use Kaspersky in a corporate environment with > 250 Macs and I haven't seen any issue thus far. I've seen plenty of HDD failures, fan problems, Chrome hangups, general system slowness due to problems with corrupted pref
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by mablap 10y ago
then you get people who don't care at all about computers and really never have, working as developers You can say this about any profession though. Just look at the medical field. Some MDs have "true passion" b
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by mablap 10y ago
How preposterous. Let the kid do what he wants. I would say Medicine needs more software engineers than the other way around.
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by mablap 10y ago
I forgot to say that I'm reading your text now :) I had a compiler class with Marc Feeley, author of Gambit-C, and I've been sold on Lisps ever since. I really love the simplicity of Scheme, but I found that it's much easier
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by mablap 10y ago
In chapter 1 you mention that Petzold's book is underrated. If that's any consolation, I have bought the book when it came out and have talked about it to many of my friends since. I wouldn't say it's under rated , but j
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by mablap 10y ago
There are no real details about the OS in the article. Did anybody here work on the project?
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by mablap 10y ago
Meh, I could also ask you to provide evidence that you're not a p-zombie... There's an undivisible thing (particle) that has undivisible charge (electron) which exhibits properties and behaviour that could not be explained clasica
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by mablap 10y ago
Electrons are defined in part by having unit (negative) electric charge. What other conclusion would you make from that experiment?
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by mablap 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment
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by mablap 10y ago
you don't see it in common parlance I think one of the factors for that is the fact that most high-level scientists learn to be cautious about the claims they make. You're much more likely so hear a layman make strong cl
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by mablap 10y ago
Electron diffraction implies wave behaviour, and wave behaviour implies the superposition principle. Is that good enough evidence or are you looking at experiments measuring entanglement in electrons?
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by mablap 10y ago
Technically you could cover your eyes with an anisotropic photon up/downconversion material and "see" infrared/ultraviolet. But yes, clickbait.
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by mablap 10y ago
Is the NZ fauna as bad as Australia's? I have spent a lot of time walking in North American forests, and I feel pretty safe in them, even with possible bear presence (I was in Alaska twice and it was majestic). I'd be scared to wa
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by mablap 10y ago
A family member died from Alzheimers last year. She was both physically and mentally gone. If I had to choose, I'd go out swiftly like my dog, whose spleen fissured from cancerous growth and was put to sleep in the hour. Slow, agonizin
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by mablap 10y ago
This is what I was looking for before deciding to read the article or not. Didn't find it, came back here, and now I just won't bother. Unfortunate.
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by mablap 10y ago
And how is the port supposed the stay functional upon removal of the key? The point of this attack is stealth.
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by mablap 10y ago
Well, that was not very nice. Should have asked confirmation. I clicked on the link thinking there would be an explanation of what this project does.
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by mablap 10y ago
Did you take the time to learn vim? Just start using it. With only a small subset of commands you can be pretty damn efficient. The fact that you can compose actions means that you don't need to remember every command - you can just cr
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by mablap 10y ago
The proposed distro (Debian) was spot on for me. You could probably split the questionnaire between people who want to try linux for the first time, and people who want to try a new distro.
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by mablap 10y ago
Ah, that's cool, but as I often write in French and I'm trying to learn how to write proper Spanish, I appreciate the default-off.
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by mablap 10y ago
My personal strategy is to acknowledge this type of person exists, and act accordingly. This means, unfortunately, not putting too much trust into that person in areas they don't deserve it. You need to evaluate carefully both of your

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