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by valisystem 13y ago
> Business income is volatile. Yet, a very few concentrates a bigger share every year.
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by valisystem 13y ago
To me it seems that the PC distinction comes more from the AT motherboard format used by IBM PC. It's the standard format that triggered the replaceable/upgradeable parts that made IBM PC popular, and really explain the PC naming
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by valisystem 13y ago
I like sublime, but what I would give to have it ditch the open file list paradigm entirely, replace it by a file history, and keep the undo info regardless of the open/closed state.
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by valisystem 13y ago
actually yes, [] derives from BCPL, see evincarofautumn comment just above. ( link to comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6886488 derived from this submission : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by valisystem 13y ago
No. Indent space is just an opinion/preference/habit.
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by valisystem 13y ago
I just happened to finish it today. I already knew throughout the book that it would be a very important read, in several aspects. The very end is about the cargo cult in science, and it looks like he put this collection of anecdotes of his
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by valisystem 13y ago
EXIF rotation tags exists because it was way more simple for camera manufacturer than actually move the pixels around depending on orientation sensor on camera. That said, what I don't understand myself is software devs that thinks it&
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by valisystem 13y ago
Learning is never a waste of time, but would that time being better employed with another technology? I think, definitely, yes. Important point, whether you like php or not, you need to know why. If you like it because you are comfortable w
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by valisystem 13y ago
Frowns and interrogative looks I guess. When someone does not act as the norm in situations you are expected to, people just reacts negatively, since reacting positively requires to question yourself and make a decision whether you endorse
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by valisystem 13y ago
Definitely yes. Them or others, whatever. And Not for every issues. But I want to ear about issues that have been worrying for a long time and/or annoyed a lot of people, or that are very complex and shady. And the only way to encourag
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by valisystem 13y ago
You have to adjust your evaluation with the volume. If you're heading for the winning team, then alright, good intelligence on performance will be rewarded. But if you are three investors on the entire competition, it is very likely th
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by valisystem 13y ago
You're right saying that it's the proper behavior for such a semantic. But the problem is, @@ notation can make you forget you're not manipulating something that might be shared and re-assigning an ancestor class variable acc
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by valisystem 13y ago
Making ipv4 a second class citizen working like an low performance compatibility layer for legacy seems like a great migration plan to me. Especially if performance would go down progressively.
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by valisystem 13y ago
I see many reaction around the indulgence towards pickpockets you can read in the article. It reminded me about Vidocq, that at some point in his memories denounce the behavior of high society towards thieves that, he says, could even ask p
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by valisystem 13y ago
Firefox does it by asking you to enter a code displayed on a device that already has the key. My guess is that the displayed key is used to decrypt the actual key on the device, and that the key is never seen in clear on the network.
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by valisystem 13y ago
Please stop. This adds nothing to the conversation. Don't worry, it's not your personal mission from saving the world from NSA spying, and if you want to do something relevant, talk to people individually in a open minded conversa
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by valisystem 13y ago
It is not the change of license in itself that makes people think it is a questionable move, it is the strategic nature of this decision. When building a solution/product, you have to choose the components you use, and invest in it, in
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by valisystem 13y ago
I think you deeply over value the USA military initiatives, and under values one's of other countries.
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by valisystem 13y ago
Your hell will be plastic foam corks. And those win hands up for medium duration of storage : they have some of the properties of the classic corks and let the wine breath a little (twists tops do not), with no disadvantages. They are used
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by valisystem 13y ago
"A great many people" : it seems that the author is excluding himself from the group, where his statement is just prejudice, making him inside the group. This is some kind of freak irony, and it does not feel intended.
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by valisystem 13y ago
My favorite was this one : http://youtu.be/ZiTX4dchAnQ Necros / Isotoxin
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by valisystem 14y ago
> it is the US and the EU who put trade embargoes on buying goods from North Korea. And this is mainly the reason of why people are starving there. That's not true. People are starving because the government is totally inept in making
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by valisystem 14y ago
This is UI madness, things hides, moves and pop around with no obvious relation with my input. The main news timeline is promising though, but greatly needs visual codes for differentiating and qualifying content. It's great to focus on the
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by valisystem 14y ago
I really like the part on detection of hardware failure to guide users on a computer maintenance page. Computer enthusiast, which are many amongst gamer, are just very eager of this kind of information, discovering it by a game you like tha
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by valisystem 14y ago
The productivity increase is amazing !
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by valisystem 14y ago
Maybe they did that right after writing it clear text in http logs stored in publicly accessible files.
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by valisystem 14y ago
The "Welcome to" is still left without explanation.
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by valisystem 14y ago
> And yes, every day I go home and realize that my brain is wrung out, my mind is exhausted, and I am totally happy with it. I had this issue the first two years I worked full time as a developer. It disappeared eventually.
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by valisystem 14y ago
I had this problem too. Looks like this thing relies on browser implementation details to run properly.
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by valisystem 14y ago
For both of your interrogation, old fashioned PHP devs used to (and I do not doubt that some still) deploy that way.

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