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by pikzen 9y ago
>I'm starting to believe the only difference between those who start their own companies and those who don't is that the latter convinces themselves that it is impossible, never builds anything, and from their own lack of havin
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by pikzen 9y ago
If that can make you happy, I used that power to downvote you, as your does not add anything of value either. I also upvoted him, for being right :> "X billion dollars can't be wrong" is also a dead horse. Appeal to author
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by pikzen 9y ago
Dear Brian, you're currently living in France and you're spewing that crap? Have you not noticed the ever decreasing quality of our highways which were sold to private entities, our hospitals getting worse and worse as the governe
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by pikzen 9y ago
>OK, what happened to ".join", and who had the great idea of taking it out? .join was implemented using the unstable SliceConcatExt trait. You're kind of asking for things to break if you use unstable things. .join is now
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by pikzen 9y ago
As it stands, the stock market is 50% being average, 49.9999% being unlucky. But hey, at least we're making debt available to more people.
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by pikzen 9y ago
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie
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by pikzen 9y ago
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/e7/2008/11/19/disk-space/ Bear in mind, that was the Vista days, and Windows 10 now supports even more devices. 800MB of drivers at the time. I would not be surprise
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by pikzen 9y ago
Or, in not-libertarian-land, people pay taxes because they enjoy having access to public services such as police, fire departments, working roads, water, etc.
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by pikzen 9y ago
Nuclear waste is cleaner than what coal emits in the atmosphere. Store it in an underground facility, figure out what to do with it later. It's not perfect, but it's better than what we have currently for high volume electricity g
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by pikzen 9y ago
>If you respond again so thoughtlessly or with such poor grammar I will not be responding again. ...Okay then ? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's not as if we were having a meaningful discussion anyways, each of us camping on his positions.
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by pikzen 9y ago
>Do we know any reason for C# not to adopt this as well? Because delegates are a much easier way of dealing with things? Especially with lambda functions. Unless you're talking about the java pattern of passing an entire anonymous c
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by pikzen 9y ago
>Its not like there is some new killer feature in the new google maps that makes it not work on Firefox, I have used it from Firefox in the past week and it worked fine. Even if there were some killer feature, they are free to release it
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by pikzen 9y ago
- Implementing the newest Google Earth through pNaCl, basically ActiveX by Google - Play Store website threw you out if you were using Firefox on Android | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1131601 - Gmail deliv
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by pikzen 9y ago
The developer tools on Firefox Developer Edition(Aurora) are miles ahead on most things aside from the network view, to be fair. Just because they're not integrated into default firefox doesn't mean Chrome is the absolute best.
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by pikzen 9y ago
mmmmh, delicious delicious high quality open source implementation completely controlled by Google. Because Chrome is definitely not known for implementing stuff on their own and ignoring standards. Same way Google is not known for purposef
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by pikzen 9y ago
I have lived in France and followed politics for too long to not know this isn't unique to Hollande. Sarkozy absolutely abused his power and is suspected to have been the cause of the whole Dominique Strauss Kahn affair. Chirac has bee
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by pikzen 9y ago
>RIP France (soon, NF - Le Pen) Hey, you wanna make a bet on that? I'd love to win easy money from gullible people. The only way Le Pen wins is if she gets an absolute majority in the first round. She doesn't win the second rou
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by pikzen 9y ago
wew lad France is not even close to what Edrogan is doing. Yes, our system gives a lot of power to the president, more than in many countries. However, the prime minister is picked amongst the majority in the national assembly, and there ar
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by pikzen 9y ago
Correction for any non french reader: a candidate, Francois Fillon, which is being investigated for seven different charges, including fictitious jobs, embezzling public funds, trafficking influence, fakes and usage of fakes and a list of f
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by pikzen 10y ago
>JVM apps are a huge resource drain Aside from the fact that you don't redistribute the entire JRE with every Java app. Or the fact that their UI toolkits are not horribly hacked together messes, and actually manage to hit 60fps. El
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by pikzen 10y ago
Five hundred and fifty megabytes of memory. To display a chat. Or four.
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by pikzen 10y ago
>swiss-cheese OS I sure hope you're not suggesting that Linux and its dozens of critical CVEs each year is better. Clearly you're talking about running the internet on BSDs, right? Right?
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by pikzen 10y ago
*voila. Unless you really meant "raped", but for some reason I feel like this isn't it :^)
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by pikzen 10y ago
"editor.autoClosingBrackets": false Unfortunately, that also turns off all bracket matching.
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by pikzen 10y ago
>Are there standardized licensing bodies for software developers in the EU and Canada? For engineers, absolutely. For software engineers, absolutely, because they're still engineers. Software development? Go wild, anyone can do it.
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by pikzen 10y ago
All of Europe, also parts of Canada. No place in the US does, indeed.
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by pikzen 10y ago
Have you been trained as an engineer, in a country where "engineer" is a very specific thing and is held to higher expectations, including the possibility of having your title taken away by your peers if you do not respect your du
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by pikzen 10y ago
"the easier we can make it for electricians to wire up my house, the better, isn't it?" Unfortunately, no. Just as a trained electrician will wire up your house so as to not set it on fire as soon as you turn on a lamp, a tra
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by pikzen 10y ago
>But now? People are making all kinds of great new apps, and more often than not, they come out on all three platforms. People are excited about the Desktop again - Electron is so good it's single-handedly revitalizing the platform
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by pikzen 10y ago
>US not entering WW1 means the war would have ended anyways in a year or two That is a fact. US contribution in WW1 was, while very much appreciated, extremely minimal and did not affect the balance of forces that much. The rest is up to

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