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by reacweb 8y ago
Maybe it should be easier to give monetary rewards so that popular module maintainers get more motivation to care.
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by reacweb 8y ago
This article is very good and OCaml is an excellent language that is underappreciated (IMHO). I have used Caml-Light when I was student and I loved it.
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by reacweb 8y ago
When I was young, I have bought the standard C++ in pdf because it was less than $10. I think it was the maximum I was agreeing to pay for it. Sometimes I find a reference to research articles I would like to read. I have no access to unive
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by reacweb 8y ago
Naming is difficult. Good names suggest the right metaphore to understand something. But for git, there is nothing similar in physical world. "push" "pull" and "merge" seem ok, but even "branch" is an
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by reacweb 8y ago
Compression has always been a patent minefield. Even for something as simple as gzip, it was a lot of legal work. For video compression, it is much worse. I am suprise that VLC does even exist despite such a minefield.
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by reacweb 8y ago
At my company, they want to pay for software so that they can ask support or blame someone if something wrong happen. I think, the best license is: expensive commercial license (to be taken seriously), free license for personnal use (to be
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by reacweb 8y ago
Maybe we should train to code without screen: just a keyboard and a headset.
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by reacweb 8y ago
"4GB RAM is required in your device for downloading a Linux image". This remind me the requirements when I was student: 4MB RAM were required for Linux kernel compilation from command line, 8MB if X server was running. My PC had 1
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by reacweb 8y ago
wind is very quickly limited. hydroelectricity is already almost at its max. fossil is ecologically catastrophic. We do not know yet how to recover from past pollution. Nuclear is the cleaner, but accidents are unavoidable.
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by reacweb 8y ago
I am in favour of nuclear and I am very sad that nuclear progress has stopped during so many years. But, I completely agree with you. Trying to revive nuclear is a fight of the past that distract from investing in long term solutions. IMHO,
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by reacweb 8y ago
I always find it difficult to write css. The fact that this framework is half broken on Microsoft edge 41.16299.726.0 is a good incitation to use reputable frameworks instead of trying to create it myself.
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by reacweb 8y ago
java plugin was a reputable good security sandbox. Features were added and some subtile security problems were found. Oracle repeatedly failed at fixing these problems because it wanted to avoid breaking old applications. The consequences o
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by reacweb 8y ago
I thought fedora was used by redhat to have many users testing features for free before shipping these features to redhat paying customers. Redhat works very well and hardware support is excellent. I use ubuntu at home, but for enterprise c
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by reacweb 8y ago
kiwitcms looks promising. At my work, we have a lot of manual testing, but we have also some automated tests (that we want to run during the night using a "planning" to avoid conflicting access to shared resources). Do you know a
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by reacweb 8y ago
Windows keeps on moving. For me, this means that the software or game I have bought will stop working. Thanks to wine or virtualbox, I can still use what I own or old games bought on GOG. I do not play much, but recently, I wanted to show f
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by reacweb 8y ago
and forbid GMO (at least in France).
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by reacweb 8y ago
I had a 3 days Perl formation with an excellent teacher (17 years ago). I do not code much in perl, but when someone in the buildong has a bug in a perl script, he comes to see me. I think the perl books are not very good for a beginner bec
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by reacweb 8y ago
I remember a time where mastering Stroustrup and the two Scoot Meyer was enough to be considered an expert. Even as a Perl lover, the level of intricacy of modern C++ makes me very reluctant to choose it on a new project.
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by reacweb 8y ago
Consumer goods are cheap also because the cost of their disposal (or recycling) is subsidised by society.
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by reacweb 8y ago
First, Sun Microsystems. Second, maybe Radioshack. Third, the twillight zone.
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by reacweb 8y ago
I am developping my SSG. For the moment, it is for file in *.md ; do echo " converting $file" pandoc $file -f markdown -t html5 \ -H templates/header-prod.html \ -B templates/nav.html \
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by reacweb 8y ago
In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica the conclusion that 1+1=2 appears only at page 379. It was a hard proof ;-)
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by reacweb 8y ago
It is the first time I work on a project using protobuf. Previously, I have used corba, asn1 and xml. Protobuf (in java) is a real pleasure to work with.
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by reacweb 8y ago
If google trust its users, root account shall be available.
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by reacweb 8y ago
The chance to be irrational is 99.9999...% (99 followed by an infinity of 9). And mathematically it is the same number as 100.
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by reacweb 8y ago
I think you are right. The direction of Google are selling their soul to government in order to protect and develop the company. But a majority of the employees are still dedicated to their old motto: "Don't be evil".
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by reacweb 8y ago
Police in France is very very different of police in the different states of US.
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by reacweb 8y ago
IMHO, corruption in french police is not widespread. The situation of police in Marseille (your link) is very extreme and not really representative of the whole country. The optimistic view is that police is fighting very hard to stop corru
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by reacweb 8y ago
It is obvious that former police officer working as private have their relation network. This makes former police officer so valuable. Active officers trust them and want them to succeed (they may need to go private themself one day). I hav
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by reacweb 8y ago
Work in police exposes people to many traumatic situations. You may encounter very tragic situations or cases where your efforts to help result in more damages. Facing a gun is traumatic. This work can hurt even the strongest and can ruin t

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