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by username42 13y ago
I have a paper sheet full of complicated passwords on the wall near my computer. The access to my flat is protected by a very good physical key.
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by username42 13y ago
In short, Win8 is usable because the keyboard shortcuts are effective. That is the wonderful world of touch-screens.
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by username42 13y ago
nothing about node.js ?
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by username42 13y ago
I am very happy that Ubuntu GNOME is present. This means no unity for the next 3 years ;-)
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by username42 13y ago
The non associativity of addition is obvious, but for the multiplication, I understand why it does not give always the same answer, but I do not see why a change of the order could change the accuracy.
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by username42 13y ago
I fully agree. IMHO scala has one problem: the compiler slowness. It is really a marvellously designed language.
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by username42 13y ago
I can play go (I am 1kyu). The game against crazy stones is really impressive. I feel that Ishida played at his best level against crazy stones and that crazy stones would not have won if it hasn't found the marvellous move 52. In the
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by username42 13y ago
IS it really redistribution or network caching ;-)
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by username42 13y ago
I had the same idea. This remains the most plausible theory (IMHO) I have heard since the beginning.
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by username42 13y ago
Is aura another competitor for mir and wayland ?
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by username42 13y ago
Removing read access gives an illusion of security. To avoid this false impression, it is better to leave the permissions.
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by username42 13y ago
it was very famous 20 years ago when X configuration required complex frequency calculus.
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by username42 13y ago
Ada is not a mess. C89 was not a mess. Almost all languages become a mess when the become older or when standard committees are involved. For C++ it was a mess very early. After C++98, it was an awful mess of compiler incompatibilities. Str
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by username42 13y ago
I have exactly the same complaint for the Go language. The game of go is famous enough (the new Drosophila of AI), to not reuse its name.
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by username42 13y ago
caml-light was a marvellous language to teach computer science (I have learned it in 1992). It was interpreted bytecode. Later "Caml Special Light" has improved its speed. More later OCaml has added objects. There is a good histor
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by username42 13y ago
This link is really interesting (more interesting than the original article).
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by username42 13y ago
I seems too easy to disable developer tools. What about a fork of chrome that prevent disabling this tools
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by username42 13y ago
CNIL is probably the single office in French bureaucracy that understand internet. The problem is that it is alone and has no support from government and has very reduced means of action.
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by username42 13y ago
Don't use IE and "never install microsoft office"
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by username42 13y ago
In France, most of the PC have a Windows license sticker even if there are running linux. I think the statistics are biased by the fact that it is difficult to buy a PC without a windows license. Among the last 3 computers I have bought, no
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by username42 13y ago
At coursera.org, there is an excellent resource for learning about compilers: "Stanford University - Compilers"
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by username42 13y ago
Word 2002 is still the standard where I work mainly because of the insane UI change of Microsoft. Why would LibreOffice copy Microsoft when its main compelling advantage over Microsoft is to avoid this mess ?
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by username42 13y ago
You think so ?
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by username42 13y ago
Older macs were more robust. I think this is one reason of the failure of apple against microsoft: when you have a computer that enables you to do your stuff without problems or failures, you do not need to replace it by a new one. Microsof
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by username42 13y ago
I am working since 1994 and I can ensure you that the amount of paper produces has never stopped reducing. We have shared directory where we had many shelves. Paperless office is not yet there, but it is always improving. For example, I am
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by username42 13y ago
Refactoring is something that has to be done before adding features. If you first start by adding features, ignoring the fact that the code needs refactoring, the code becomes impossible to maintain. Stopping development of new features dur
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by username42 13y ago
The advocating strategy is simpler: UTF8 strings are a lot easier to handle than UCS2. What is complex is that windows API is inconsistent and more oriented toward UCS2.
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by username42 13y ago
I am also convinced that wide char should be avoided and are one of the bad thing of java. It is very nice to see that more and more people agree and that important projects like VLC already apply this principle. Will 2014 become the year w
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by username42 13y ago
Disclosure: the full article is a joke.
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by username42 13y ago
Or some documents about alien first contacts.

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