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by reacweb 9y ago
already using ubuntu gnome since 2013 because I did not like unity. I am so glad this is becoming the main flavour of ubuntu. If I have well understood, any new installation of ubuntu should use ubuntu gnome in order to be future proof. Or
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by reacweb 9y ago
I have a 6" phablet and I often travel with my "huge" bluetooth keyboard. With connectbot, tmux and vim I have a decent environment for small programming tasks. I can't code without my keyboard. IMHO the strength of Blac
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by reacweb 9y ago
printing to pdf should be independent of printer.
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by reacweb 9y ago
people remain longer at school because they have no hurry to work ?
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by reacweb 9y ago
They are hiring unskilled people who are paid during their training.
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by reacweb 9y ago
typo: 09/2015
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by reacweb 9y ago
scaleway customer since 09/2017. It is true that CPU is slow: apt-get update/upgrade is about 10 times slower than on my desktop. SSD disk is not very fast. There are network slowdown sometimes, but it is generally a lot faster th
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by reacweb 9y ago
The single paper I have understood about this subject is http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01676423879... . It is the foundation of the Caml Light language that latter gave birth to the famous
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by reacweb 9y ago
As a disclaimer, I love Ada (and Perl) and I regularly despise C++.
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by reacweb 9y ago
"Code should be easy to write, easy to read, easy to maintain, and most importantly, it should be reliable". Ada is not easy to write. Perl is easy to write (but not easy to read or maintain). When I was student, Ada was the main
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by reacweb 9y ago
yesterday, I have received a link to download some tutorial from china: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1sl993lV . I have performed the download using firefox, but the connection is so bad, there are many failures. I have tried
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by reacweb 10y ago
I do not like javascript. I am using it on my server because of performances. It has about the same execution speed as java, a slightly smaller memory footprint, but with the async io, it ensures best use of cpu with none of the hassles of
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by reacweb 10y ago
Most of the scientific breakthrough were preceded by improvement of measure instruments. IMHO a constant monitoring of some health indicators of many people good give invaluable data for researchers.
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by reacweb 10y ago
After a major change of desktop like a switch from gnome 2 to unity or gnome 3, it is not surprising that users may need to refresh their configuration files. I am doing dist-upgrade since 2009. They were all smooth except the upgrade to 16
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by reacweb 10y ago
My working environment is windows+exceed+putty. All my developments are performed on remote linux box. This means that 90% of my X11 usage is via network transparency. On slow connections, I use vncviewer and x11vnc that I dont bother to la
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by reacweb 10y ago
Build something that helps you in your everyday job. This can increase your motivation to improve it and keep working on it regularly. When it starts being useful, try to find another user to get feedback and increase feature. Before consid
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by reacweb 10y ago
Yes! IMHO a stable distribution is more important than new features. The fact that 16.04 has broken my network access because of my NAS mount point is one more proof that people at ubuntu and gnome are still trying to mimic windows and have
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by reacweb 10y ago
Solar energy is already almost unlimited. Cost of solar panels are regularly decreasing and power storage is improving. If the surface of earth becomes tiny, we can put factories on the moon (or in orbit) with this same cheap energy. Maybe
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by reacweb 10y ago
One of my friend was a fast reader. I was astonished by how well he remembered a book he has read so fast. It seems that optical recognition is a distraction that reduce the focus on the ideas. When you read faster, this distraction is redu
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by reacweb 10y ago
I think I can talk about 20 minutes about Camembert, but I am not an expert. If you add roquefort, sainte maure, boulette d'avesne, hervé, 40 minutes is not long. Have you heard about the chimay ( http://chimay.com/en&#x
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by reacweb 10y ago
As a french, I think that "potato crisps as a side dish" is a good idea when receiving a young child. In schools, childs often refuse to eat vegetables and prefer to choose french fries. When receiving a foreigner, I will ask for
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by reacweb 10y ago
"But here’s the challenge: you’ve got to convince doctors and nurses that they are the ones uniquely placed to break the cycle of violence." If health care is used to fight human traffic, human traffic victims will not have any mo
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by reacweb 10y ago
IMHO, AWS is fabulous when your needs are a fast moving target. When you have something stable and have time to optimize for performance and cost, dedicated servers are better (cheaper and/or faster). There is no silver bullet.
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by reacweb 10y ago
I do it often for my website. The unix command is sshfs remotehost:remote_dir local_dir. How do you do it with windows 10 ?
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by reacweb 10y ago
When an application you have legally installed on your own computer is communicating with the outside world, it seems a fundamental right to inspect the exchanged data to check that it is not leaking personal information. If the data is enc
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by reacweb 10y ago
I think Windows 7 SP1 (out in February 22, 2011) is closer to Ubuntu 11.04, but your point remains fully valid.
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by reacweb 10y ago
XP was the last unobtrusive OS of microsoft.
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by reacweb 10y ago
I do ubuntu dist-upgrade since 2009. I have done 2 full reinstall. Once to try linux-mint. And another one a little latter when I bought a new ssd drive (switched to ubuntu gnome). The main upgrade issue was with systemd in 16.04: it found
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by reacweb 10y ago
I had a dual boot since years, but I really switched to ubuntu only in 2009 (thanks to vista64 not supporting my scanner and printer). It is the main home computer that is also used by my wife. In order to make the switch as smooth as possi
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by reacweb 10y ago
Greenpeace is fighting nuclear waste recycling. For me, it is a proof that they are manipulated. Disclaimer: I have worked at "La Hague France" between 1994 and 1999.

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