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by victork2 15y ago
Let me be the asshole: First I don't see how it's relevant to Hacker News in any way. Second, it should be established that quoting Twitter postings is the lowest level of journalism possible for one reason: a twitter posting caries very li
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by victork2 15y ago
Nice initiative. I am not a big fan of writing in Javascript but it certainly is a big plus to have such a nice library like backbone.js. Just a tiny point ... About the drawing of the triceratops, he has very mmmmm.... "developed" crotch a
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by victork2 15y ago
How do you dare speak in such a sensible and understanding manner? Why don't you talk about the times where you met a jerk at your workplace and he was a jerk, and you were offended, so now every workplace ought to be filled with men full o
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by victork2 15y ago
I am French and that smells bad, really bad. This is the kind of law or rules that are born in the heat of the moment; these "think 'bout the children" moments. What happened in France is really sad, but it is what it is: an act by an isola
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by victork2 15y ago
Thank you, your messages are one of a kind compared to the heavy rain of "holier than thou" blog posts on that matter. As a non american(coming from a more egalitarian society, or at least a less objectifying society about women) this is fo
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by victork2 15y ago
Oh my god, what an horrendous design, it made my poor old PC cringe in despair with all the javascript to load! I went to my SPAM folder, all excited, hoping to find some cool math/programming stuff, but it was just a plain boring message:
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by victork2 15y ago
I'm 25. Maybe I was born in a conservative family on spending but I would have to seriously push my parents for weeks to obtain $60 worth of something as abstract as a SDK (like they even know what it is...)! And for families that live chec
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by victork2 15y ago
Don't worry, you're full of respect ;). It's maybe a philosophical question but who doesn't have an agenda? I mean when you buy a device, don't you want to convince the other that you haven't bought a stupid toy or a useless object? Every
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by victork2 15y ago
Funny you mention that, but in a world totally dominated by iPads the price to just have your application being available by legal means is 99$. When I began to code(around 12-15) 99$ was WAY above anything I could imagine. I don't know if
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by victork2 15y ago
Ok, granted, it seems to work but when you look at the configuration: iPad 2 (16Gb, WiFi) Apple wireless keyboard Stilgut adjustable angle stand/case iSSH Linode 512 running Ubuntu 11.04 Apple VGA adapter This is basically the same configur
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by victork2 15y ago
I think the whole question Tablet vs Computer is pretty dumb in the first place. It's not a versus, it's a peaceful cohabitation, only some evangelist and/or journalists want to push us to believe there's a war but that's really not true. T
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by victork2 15y ago
Well Google, a word of warning that will probably never be seen. I have loved you almost since you started. You have been a very good companion, which never crashed, (almost) never disappointed me for many years. Then you changed, you thoug
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by victork2 15y ago
No, probably never. Why? * Work in transit (plane/train/ outside of reach of a network, yes this exists) * AWS or whatever cloud provider goes down * Problem with justice or hackers that go into my server and just delete the hell of it * Re
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by victork2 15y ago
What a "brilliant, well argumented" point... I am not going to comment the article in itself, I think many people have pointed out in other comment that the guy completely missed the point. But I want to answer this comment: There's a reaso
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by victork2 15y ago
There's not only the carbon dioxyde that counts. If you have ever been around a paper/cardbox factory you know how much it stinks and how heavily they use chemicals. I don't have time to read the study but you also have to go beyond first o
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by victork2 15y ago
Totally agree. I mean just look at the whole Anonymous thing: "Hackers" want to feel that they are badasses, feared, they want their internet fame. Professional Blackhat? They just want (your) money! To make a reference to a movie everytime
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by victork2 15y ago
My thought process: See that it can be an interesting concept. Look at the article "mmm why not". Click on GoFlow.com link, see the meme in the front page. It's a bad one. Close page, will never come back.
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by victork2 15y ago
I agree, I went to their main page, immediately had a hipster overload that made me close the page. As for the open letter, thanks for sharing the dirty laundry, that's awesome! Just kidding, I don't really see the point of sharing that pub
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by victork2 15y ago
I get you. But here's the catch, and that's also valid for HN: Is crowd validation always the best measurement of the quality of an article? I agree there are a lot of running in circle conversations on HN. Like "Apache is slow, use Node.js
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by victork2 15y ago
That's quite a bold statement. "hate", really? I personally don't like their posts on HN, I don't even bother reading them anymore. The first few I read where totally devoid of any kind of useful information for me and for most people that
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by victork2 15y ago
hmm I have been downvoted but I deserve it. So to rephrase what I do the problem is a you say not losing data that is going to be inserted but performing operations with the wrong type of data which mean errors. Let's say I have 3 pieces of
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by victork2 15y ago
I can't see the talk at the moment but here is my 5 cents on the subject: The main problem of eventual consistency is not how often that happens, it is: What damage will it do WHEN it happens? Imagine you're a bank, you handle big clients y
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by victork2 15y ago
Well... Journalism has come so low that it reports non information like those! What a sad, sad world we live in, if we are so obsessed with gadgets...
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by victork2 15y ago
Nice ad Cloudfare... Wait, was it a legit article ? NewScientist took a hit in my heart in terms of credibility with this article.
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by victork2 15y ago
Yeah... I stated that in a previous comment but the whole software benchmarking news are often bullshit. I mean just look at the setup: _ Single machine _ Static files (seriously ?) _ Incomplete or even incorrect configuration of Apache, I
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by victork2 15y ago
My god,"hacker" is really used under every circumstances on that website. Next: frying and sauce pans for hackers. Hack your eggs. PS: The only music I listen to while working is the beat of my fingers on the keyboard.
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by victork2 15y ago
Ah damn, yes, you are right ! Nevermind then ;), still interesting though !
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by victork2 15y ago
Could not agree more. But this mentality is pretty popular here. It's fun to compare them to a Richard Stallman, which I feel much closer too.
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by victork2 15y ago
I tend to disagree: from what I have seen having a lot of "pluses" is more a distraction from actual thinking that a plus in terms of productivity. Same goes with a lot of things in life, the amount you invest (in time/ money) for the extra
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by victork2 15y ago
Tomorrow: "In other news, it appears that Facebook has lost every pictures hosted on their services." More seriously though, there were an interesting article on Google DataCenter and how their customize their hard drive to accommodate thei

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