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2131.
by seszett 13y ago
Oles (Octave Klaba, the CEO)'s French is always terrible. This is probably one of his best written sentences.
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by seszett 13y ago
I noticed it while trying to make sense of the first sentence which seemed strangely constructed and syntactically wrong. Then after reading it again once or twice, I saw there were periods where I did not expect them.
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by seszett 13y ago
Reading this text with no capitals at all is quite a pain. It feels like you are just trying to look special by not following a thousand-year-old standard.
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by seszett 13y ago
> £2.49 excl. VAT /month > ( £2.99 VAT inc) That's £2.69 service and £0.50 VAT. Seems reasonable to me.
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by seszett 13y ago
Well, this seems to be a kind parody, or an argument in favour of legalising cannabis by drawing a comparison with corn. I don't understand the point, though, since apart from being flowering plants, they have little in common at any l
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by seszett 13y ago
Just for your information then, "Alzheimer" is a simple name, not a compound one and "Al" here is not a prefix (if anything, it should be broken down into "alz heimer").
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by seszett 13y ago
Nobody - I'm not sure where he took that from, seasonal workers get an unemployment indemnity proportional to the amount of time they worked during the year, so in this example, they worked 4 months out of 12, so their indemnity would
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by seszett 13y ago
> tons of vegetables Wow really? On Kerguelen island vegetables were a rarity. We had fresh fruit for one, two weeks after a resupply (from Reunion island, they were actually among the best fruit I have ever had, and not only because the
2139.
by seszett 13y ago
The problem with Antarctica is that you cannot stay there forever. It's not an effective way to flee.
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by seszett 13y ago
I've been on Kerguelen island (which isn't quite Antarctica, but not that far either, and rather isolated too with four or five ship passages per year). You wouldn't "fall in the support vs. beaker camp", you would
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by seszett 13y ago
Hehe, even the middle of the Indian Ocean is better: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Port-aux-Fran%C3%A7ais,+Terre... it was even updated this year.
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by seszett 13y ago
"Fruits rouges" in French (the test was done in France, so most probably in French) has a rather specific meaning, it refers to a mix of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrant and redcurrant, basically. It's of
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by seszett 13y ago
It's the same in France, including along rivers. But especially for rivers, homeowners often block access and it might be difficult to get them to open it.
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Xkcd-style Comic Narrative Charts(csclub.uwaterloo.ca)
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by seszett 13y ago
This SVG/Canvas thing reminds me of this visualization[1] I did last month or so which originally made heavy use of SVG, because it was just about good enough on Chromium (and it made sense for d3js and hexbons)... but when I tested it
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by seszett 13y ago
In France postcodes usually span several towns, or one medium city, and only larger cities have several postcodes (three for my 300 000 inhabitants city, for example). They are not very precise, which is to be expected since there are only
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by seszett 13y ago
For some reason, Kerguelen island and quite a few others in the Indian Ocean don't even exist on Nokia's maps.
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by seszett 13y ago
Here in France, I've never heard anyone say "sequel". Or "engine-x" for nginx (which we usually pronunce as "n-ginx"). SPDY is a bit of a problem because saying "speedy" sounds silly, and the name of "Y" is really awkward in an acronym in F
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by seszett 14y ago
Same in France (plus three days of leave at childbirth) - http://www.ameli.fr/employeurs/vos-demarches/conges/le-conge... I believe it's mostly just Anglo-Saxon countries, or even just North American countries, that are reluctant to give
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by seszett 14y ago
It took me a while to understand, it only works in Chromium, Firefox shows a few images, maybe just a part of the animation at less than 1 fps.
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by seszett 14y ago
I tried a few destinations and found no information for any of them (from Canada/France to China/Taiwan for example). Also, "French Guyana" doesn't have different requirements from the rest of France, it does not make sense to include it in
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by seszett 14y ago
I win at ugliness: http://i.imgur.com/VFHftsC.png
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by seszett 14y ago
I'm not going to take a side, but just to answer a part of your comment on "species that just disappeared" as, apparently, an argument for saying humans might not have adapted to their new diet. Obviously, humans have not disappeared - quit
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by seszett 14y ago
That's always been wrong http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/europe/09/eu_budget_...