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by vidoc 10y ago
Very interesting article, I've wondered about a universal time several times, tons of pros and cons sure, but it's cool to think that people are thinking about such disrupting alternatives. Reminds me this cool episode of 99% invi
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by vidoc 10y ago
Seems like over the very last few weeks, a new trendy word popped:'moonshot'.
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I'm suffering from Advanced Elon Musk fatigue!
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Facebook may possibly have the ugliest logo and font ever seen under the sun!
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> Ok so has that worked out well for Yahoo? I'm afraid it's a question we will never be able to answer. I wonder about it myself. Disclaimer: i've known the Seymel..Bartz yahoo and I've always thought that there was a
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by vidoc 10y ago
Zurich has an international airport, Zug doesn't
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by vidoc 10y ago
> It really does beg the question if you dislike Israel for reasons other than the moral standards to invoke from your high horse...I dont know you so I have no opinions about your own prejudices, but I think you should take a hard look
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by vidoc 10y ago
"Growth Hacker" LOL
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by vidoc 10y ago
Note that they're always careful not to say whether the world is changed in a positive or negative way :D
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Seems like you are no fan of linux's robust mutexes implementation. Sincerely, you probably know more than me about the implementation and I'd be curious to have your take on it as I have not looked at how (and so late) it was imp
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by vidoc 10y ago
> Perhaps it does. But the point was that the Linux world never seems to get things right. Well in this particular case, seems like this feature was added in linux 2.6.2 (2004). epoll itself was added in linux 2.5.44 (2002), so yep, you&
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by vidoc 10y ago
About the first video talking about epoll design flaws, doesn't EPOLLONESHOT kind of solve this? Unless I am missing something..
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by vidoc 10y ago
> icons still dont make sense Couldn't agree more, My last IOS device was the Iphone 3G, so I kind of lost touch with IOS. Recently found myself trying to help my mom print an email on her Ipad, and felt quiet disarmed as none of th
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by vidoc 10y ago
> The managers seemed like a bunch of frat boys who had been raised up into positions of authority through some inscrutable lottery, and none of them seemed to possess an iota of analytical capability or human management talent. Sounds l
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by vidoc 10y ago
Another hagiographic facebook article with the classic royal-we style we all love :)
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Netflix has a long history of jacking their prices as soon as they get to the next level of subscribers. Their long term strategy might be somehow similar to ticketmaster, except that it'll be way tougher for them to get a monopoly on
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by vidoc 10y ago
You certainly wont be fined for excess of modesty ..
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I think they are. There's no better display of the gentrification phenomenon that's going on over there.
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> They are a vital part of the city culture, the social cohesion, the charm of Paris. my experience when I lived in Paris that this is highly neighborhood dependent. If amazon was to decimate the faux authentic stores of Montorgueuil
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by vidoc 10y ago
> I wrote the original white paper for Larry analyzing the state of the Linux kernel. Would you mind sharing a link by any chance?
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They totally did! I don't count the times I forgot about this while I was stuck on the eastbound traffic on university ave, attempting to outsmart the traffic by cutting through the blocks on the south side. Most of those blocks are b
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Especially considering the fact that most actors are actually recruited based on how they look, in addition to other things of course, but it's undeniable that you don't get an actor gig if you are ugly
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The title of the article ironically reminds me https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Labour_Isnt_W...
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slightly OT but clicking at all those twitter threads, and not being a twitter user myself, I'm having an extremely hard time understanding how the conversation(s) flow. What a terrible interface !
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> Everyone there uses it; only a US tourist would use a taxi there. Or someone wanting a ride after, say, 12:30AM ..
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In a way, it's not the TSA's fault, it's ours for tolerating this insanity. Sometimes I almost wish someone smuggles a bomb through the TSA security line, and successfully storms a plane so we can finally have concrete evide
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The brother of a dad's friend survived a 5000m jump in the 60s. He was doing an airborne jump in the mont blanc area, both parachutes failed (super rare), and he freefalled into a tree. He basically broke most of his bones and spent 2
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by vidoc 10y ago
Oh my God! This can't be true can it? I dont want to wake up tomorrow and learn that the Iraq war adventure was not based on wrong CIA intelligence, but a manufactured one, and 100% of the US political establishment knew it (in additio
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> It's like this: when I run SmartOS, it's like I'm gliding around in an ultramodern, powerful, economical mazda6 diesel (the 175 HP / 6 speed Euro sportwagon version); "Tout ce qui est excessif est insignifiant&
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For me the best part is working from home, without actually working and not being at home.

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