stygianguest

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by stygianguest 15y ago
I've never lived in a cul-de-sac (which btw is french for a dead-end street), but spent my childhood playing outside all the same. Narrow, one-way streets, with plenty of speed bumps. I walked to school. Currently I reside downtown, overloo
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by stygianguest 15y ago
What about programmers from developing countries? Ubuntu offers everything needed to program you application and a decent living off their presumably western clients. Just a thought.
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by stygianguest 15y ago
I would contend that C does very little in the way of preventing errors and debugging them if they occur. The claim that "[..] only two C-specific errors have thus far caused any real problem in the Converge VM," is completely beside the p
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by stygianguest 15y ago
I cannot talk for your the grand parent, but I can think of a million reasons to have such a job. Great colleagues, good benefits (vacation, health-care, etc.), tied to a small town without good opportunities, ... By the way, fixing other p
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by stygianguest 15y ago
In safety critical applications everything is very conservative by necessity: they are complicated systems consisting of many parts, ensuring correctness requires a rigorous workflow and complete toolchain. They involve not just multiple pe
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Ah, so that probably means he's not actually working 9 solid hours per day. That's better. I admit to doing the same, albeit at different times of the day (10h-19h).
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by stygianguest 15y ago
I'll just make a comment from my cosy European perspective. He's still working 9 hours a day. But it's okay, he "doesn't feel as burned out". Seriously, is this what is expected, or is it just the default?
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by stygianguest 15y ago
The main problem with sheet music is copyright law. Its differences across Europe will make anyone's head hurt. If that weren't enough, the established publishing industry is extremely conservative. In my experience the musicians --that is
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Perhaps this is a good opportunity to change that. Actually, I'd expect at least the bigger distributions to use git already. Git enables them to pick and choose from the updates and merge it with their own patches (alternative schedulers a
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Your situation doesn't seem that different from mine actually. I'm also married, which does make a big difference in lifestyle. But I cannot possibly bring myself to throw away books. It's (almost) religious. Books are the foundation of civ
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by stygianguest 15y ago
While the idea of minimalism really appeals to me, its practice does not. After moving at about once a year for the last 10 years, I have had many rounds of culling needless stuff (although I could do another round). But there are so many t
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Sorry, missed that. Very interesting and indeed, his opinion easily trumps mine. However, I would like to see some evidence rather than the word of an expect (if only to learn). For example he says that "This code has the mark of having bee
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Worse is better does not apply to bitcoin as a cryptographic system, only as a monetary system. As a cryptographic system it makes a clear choice for more features over simplicity. Make no mistake, bitcoin is a very complicated system. Not
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by stygianguest 15y ago
How is it, that this can be done anonymously? Are trades protected by the first amendment? I have to admit, someone is expressing a very strong opinion here. Personally I think this is a mistake. Wasn't the financial meltdown caused by the
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Well, in many cases it helps to know multple languages. Case in point: uxoricide. There were quite a few other words I knew from other languages in the quiz (English is not my mother tongue). That and the amount of words I know RPGs in the
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Unfortunately no word on the current state of Chinese capital controls. I thought it was quite hard to get money out of China.
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Indeed. Take netflix. Setting that in the 27 countries of the EU requires 27 different contract negotiations with the respective copyright organisations. Another example would be the social web. Suppose a French and American facebook launch
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by stygianguest 15y ago
If it forestalls Alzheimer's there should be significantly more of it in the exceptionally monolingual Anglophone world compared to the rest of us. Can't find any evidence in that direction, other factors such as longlivity and simple genet
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by stygianguest 15y ago
In a way, the same could probably be said of American entrepeneurs. Drugs is a business, an illegal one, but still business. Imagine the (potential) talent wasted, although perhaps the talented ones don't get caught.
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by stygianguest 15y ago
I have been living and working in France for almost three years now. I enjoy an effective 45 days of vacation a year, since the 35 hour work week is translated to vacation. The pay is not very good compared to the rest of the world, but it
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by stygianguest 15y ago
I wonder why it is so easy to take down these sites, as I am under the impression that Anonymous consists mostly of script kiddies. Are these attacks DDoS? That shouldn't be too hard to arrange if you're with enough people + perhaps some un
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by stygianguest 15y ago
For a second I thought 60+ was referring to an age. That would be real news.
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by stygianguest 15y ago
For all people laugh about the French and their vacation, they understand this. Life is not about work, it is about us.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Indeed, all conjecture, zero substance. Once more: don't expect serious journalism from Fox News. Nevertheless, I can quite easily believe Teheran lacks the technical knowhow to defend themselves. And given the large number of involved part
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Why base it on C? Programming parallel systems is a new paradigm, one that is distinctly different from the imperative world of C. Just compare the example FFT on wikipedia ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Opencl ) with for
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Some of the questions seem really stupid. ``Where did you register the domain name?'' seriously? How is that ever an issue. It could have been so much better if there had been a real interview. Lazy journalism?
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by stygianguest 16y ago
I'm really dissapointed that the ministery of peace has always gotten more research money than the normal variety. It seems hard to defend especially since the cold war ended. Some people must be really eager to start a new cold war with Ch
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by stygianguest 16y ago
This is actually one of the first really positive reactions to Perl 6 I've seen so far. It seems quite nice indeed, but I have yet to really try it for myself.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Personally I don't really like the wording of 'extraordinary evidence'. In fact, for most extraordinary claims the level of evidence the scientific community requires isn't that extraordinary at all. There is also a very real danger of misi
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Most Jews were no immigrants. They had been living in Germany for centuries. Ironically, during most of that time, Jews were forced to be different, banning them from most occupations and from owning land. Modern North-American culture is b

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