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by smonff 10y ago
100% agree with that. I graduated an art school in France. You don't have to pay for that, the fees are extremely low (you can pay it by working 3h a week as a waiter). So the problem is surely elsewhere than around the financial probl
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by smonff 10y ago
It just means: "You are not a part of the club".
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by smonff 10y ago
Because Emacs made it.
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by smonff 10y ago
Diversity for a richer ecosystem.
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by smonff 10y ago
QA? Do it in Perl please!
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by smonff 10y ago
I love you.
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by smonff 10y ago
> Simple HTML will do. It will, as a side effect, save 1G in RAM.
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by smonff 10y ago
Maybe because art art school you always do the same thing: so doing it continually for one semester or restarting projects on shorter times, the final thing would be quite the same, except that if you work on more small projects, you will m
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by smonff 10y ago
It is not because something is larger that it is better. These stats prove the hype, not that it is good quality code, with good quality documentation, with a friendly and safe community, and a reliable archiving system for it's depend
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by smonff 10y ago
I don't know why there is so much hype on debating if companies got sexism and racism or other oppression issues: they do have some, period. And it should be strongly improved. If we pretend the contrary, we really have to question our
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by smonff 10y ago
Also check this comment on the <nettime> mailing list https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1610/msg00021.h...
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by smonff 10y ago
Reacting this way is surely the worst thing you can do.
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by smonff 10y ago
> For me spaghetti code is called so because when you start pulling on one string of the code you end up spilling everything. A 5-layered for/if statement does not have this property but using abstractions everywhere does. So in the
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by smonff 10y ago
Bill is also surely a part of management.
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by smonff 10y ago
Always ask yourself if you don't write vermicelli code before qualifying Bill of spaghetti coder. And don't forget that vermicelli should be used in soup , not with bolognese . Now the question is: will you be able not to
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by smonff 10y ago
Also, the way you describe mathematics can sometimes look like contemporary art (here, I think to Fluxus for example). For me saying programming is tied to maths mostly is not a good thing: you'll be a better programmer if you studie
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by smonff 10y ago
There is fields of programming and languages that actually require zero knowledge in mathematics.
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by smonff 10y ago
Also you can be a good writer by knowing grammar intuitively and not being able to explain the formal rules.
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by smonff 10y ago
I started deleting my emails and I feel really better that this big stack of crap is erased forever. The whole concept of archiving mail is disgusting. Everybody is concerned by climate change, but seriously, storing all these data is crazy
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by smonff 10y ago
There is some artist working on this in a critical way that could have been quoted in the post: - http://www.the-wabsite.com/works/relaxation-situationnelle - http://www.the-wabsite.com/works/paris
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by smonff 10y ago
This is art. It reminds me a 2004 french projet called "la Poudre Verte" (Green Powder) http://www.poudreverte.org/ > THE SOLUTION FOR ALL YOUR COMPUTER PROBLEMS. The exclusive process of the green powder guara
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by smonff 10y ago
Yes, it is possible to use package management GUIs in Arch. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#...
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by smonff 10y ago
Also https://www.browserling.com is a good bet
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by smonff 10y ago
Read this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659718 Note: I tried Sublime for approximately one year and don't use it anymore.
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by smonff 10y ago
>the learning curve of emacs that isn't exactly beginner-friendly I started to learn emacs in 2006 after a friend show it to me in it's no-window version in a OS X Teminal. We were at the time art students and most of us did
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by smonff 10y ago
With explanations like this, guinea pigs could fly.
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by smonff 10y ago
> Flattr Plus will “eventually” be integrated into Adblock Plus > Once Flattr Plus goes through its beta process and the model is proven, the functionality will be incorporated into Adblock Plus and made available to millions of peopl
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Adblock Plus and Flattr’s new project will let users automatically donate money(venturebeat.com)
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by smonff 10y ago
The "ideals" [...] "of making the web a cleaner place" by blocking ads except for advertisers who paid the blocker is, very dirty. What seems to happen here is the "pay-for-everything-you-will-access" paradig
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by smonff 10y ago
Wait... You should take a look to The Definitive Guide To Procrastination (involving a monkey, a monster and a darkwood) : http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin... Part 1 gives you a reasonn

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