rodelrod

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by rodelrod 11y ago
In my case: Evernote, Office and SQLyog. Also the Adobe Suite, but if find that to be unusable under wine so I go for a VirtualBox.
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by rodelrod 11y ago
My (slightly customized) Portuguese layout gives me both every accent you need in French and easily accessible braces. The French AZERTY with the inverted number row may be too screwed up for any hope of rescue, though ;)
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by rodelrod 11y ago
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were actually interested in the answer. I won't get into an emacs/vim war, thank you, I got tired of it circa 1999.
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by rodelrod 11y ago
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key Personally, mapping Caps Lock to Ctrl (which I do anyway) and using Ctrl-C works best. I use vim and IntelliJ's vim emulation on an international keyboard where Ctrl-
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by rodelrod 11y ago
Also speaking as an employer, with the exact same mixed origin as you (judging by your handle!) but working in another European country: Europass CVs are poorly formatted (cut-off tables, meaningless whitespace, poor typography,) too long,
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by rodelrod 11y ago
I add multiple data points in the form of an X32, a X61, an R61i, an X200 and a X220 all running Ubuntu perfectly. The only real problem is running Windows or Mac software which is always doable but somewhat clunky under Wine or in VMs. If
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by rodelrod 11y ago
I was doing a lot of this 12-14 years ago, building Access VBA front-ends to remote data sources in Oracle or MySQL (not PostgreSQL because its ODBC driver was practically unusable) and using Word and Excel for reports and publishing. It wa
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by rodelrod 11y ago
The little girl on a leach is the future Louis XV, by the way. More information on the Wallace Collection website: http://www.museumnetworkuk.org/portraits/artworks/wallace/im...
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by rodelrod 13y ago
This is slightly off-topic, but I think many of the comments on this thread would be enlightened by a little reminder: proper names were always translated whenever you crossed a language border well into the 20th century. Eleanor of Aquitai
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by rodelrod 13y ago
That is all very true, but these maps are far from meningless. The author maps political regions rather than nations in the modern sense. Take for instance the way Spain changes colour each time there is a major dinastic change. Although na
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by rodelrod 13y ago
We've been working with the Oracle connector for MySQL [1] without any problems. [1] https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/
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by rodelrod 13y ago
That's a very good point. I tend to drop down quickly from the ORM to do SQL level optimization on hot spots, and that is the case of the applications where I have used this connector. Also, we are talking about entreprise applications
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by rodelrod 13y ago
MysqlDB was holding me back from Python3, but that problem was settled with Oracle releasing a Python connector for MySQL [1] that works for both Python 2.x and 3.x. It's a solid and very complete library and it's DB-API compliant
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by rodelrod 13y ago
A careful reading of that timeline and its sources shows that all the "emancipations" listed before the 18th century are highly localized and/or short-lived, so I would agree that the widespread concept of freedom from slaver
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by rodelrod 13y ago
Was there a good reason to have allowed the licenses be traded in the open market? This is what has driven their values to these outrageous levels.
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by rodelrod 13y ago
Oh, but in what regards programming I fundamentally agree with you. And in what regards cooking, I'd go for an hybrid model as you mentioned, rather than a purely declarative one. I got side-tracked by your reference of one of my pet s
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by rodelrod 13y ago
Recipes try to micro-manage you instead of giving you the right information. This works in the same cases where micro-management works. You had plenty of biscuits before, you know how you like them, and if you have experience baking them yo
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by rodelrod 13y ago
Or, my favorite category, cookbooks. Look at traditional baking directions: "Begin heating oven to XXX, mix dry ingredients in bowl, add butter, whip, ..." Doesn't get any more imperative than that, and yet people around the
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by rodelrod 13y ago
The Innovator's Dilemma was written in 1997, too early for Kodak to be a case study. In fact, Kodak's stock was at its peak. Maybe Kodak's executives should have read it more carefully. Or maybe they did, but it's just a damn hard problem
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by rodelrod 13y ago
Scientific research in this area points in the opposite direction: woman, like man, see themselves as more attractive then they actually are. In the following study, photos of the subjects were merged with photos of more attractive and less
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by rodelrod 14y ago
Mostly everything that ended up changing the way I saw the world. Proust, for instance.
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by rodelrod 14y ago
I was in the docks, arriving by boat from another island. Like everyone in that boat, we were held up for many hours waiting to get our passport stamped and a bunch of young locals started harassing our girlfriends (we were 6). We were the
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by rodelrod 14y ago
I live there, just next to the train station that you describe as being in a war state, and while there are worrying incidents in the outskirts and suspicious neighbourhoods, center Paris is by far the safest city I've ever lived in, and th
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by rodelrod 14y ago
Even if you concede that the basques did have an early start on exploiting the Newfoundland fisheries, that would have given them an edge for a few centuries after the year 1000 (more like 1400 if you wait for the necessary navigation techn
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by rodelrod 14y ago
I have the same setup and the same experience. More importantly, I've had the same setup for many years, so there's no pain, ever. I'm baffled as to why people keep changing OS and setups and repeatedly incurring the cost of change. It's ju
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by rodelrod 14y ago
Individuals from all nationalities are nice. Especially the ones you meet out of their national cocoon. They're just nice in different ways. It's when you deal with them as groups that the cultural differences start to grate you. And when t
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by rodelrod 14y ago
Here in Paris, if you're under 30 a 220-square-foot apartment is considered spacious. And it will not be "carefully designed".
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by rodelrod 14y ago
True. French/Swiss trains are my absolute favourite place for work. On the other hand, they make the worst audience for rock concerts.
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by rodelrod 14y ago
I'm surprised at the lack of understanding of the music phenomenon surfacing in this article. Is this the current state of cognitive psychology? Complex mathematical relations in harmonics induce more tension than simple ones. We've known t
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by rodelrod 14y ago
Numbers do get reused. I live in Paris and last year a friend freshly arrived from my hometown in Portugal was attributed the cellphone number (major French operator) from a german acquaintance of mine that had moved out of Paris a year bef

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