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by vmarsy 11y ago
(2014) should be added to the title. There was some previous discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8562483
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Yes, I didn't look for the rock star/rockstar, but you're right, if people feel the need to mention words such as rockstar/ninja, it's already a problem. Thank you for answering mreskto question about what you used
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Nice looking plot, but looking at May 2015 who is hiring post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9471287 I count 7 occurences of ninja, 2 of them is in the username/email of the poster , so the real count is 5 , her
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by vmarsy 11y ago
The current title is wrong (The idea that “Education leads to job” is not true anymore). The real one on the page is : Hard-Core Career Advice For A 13-Year-Old EDIT: ^ The title was updated The author says: And remember, there are zero fo
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by vmarsy 11y ago
For a more basic introduction: https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/en-US/training-cours...
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Advanced Tools and Scripting with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start(microsoftvirtualacademy.com)
1 points by vmarsy 11y ago|1 comments
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Powershell ISE? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315244.aspx
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by vmarsy 11y ago
No, sum_f is a functor , only its operator() is overloaded to receive 2 parameters, the constructor of the struct is a default constructor that takes no argument. http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/functors-function-
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by vmarsy 11y ago
And a French one: http://www.qarnot-computing.com/technology Qarnot computing
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by vmarsy 11y ago
A very interesting historical read with a biased view pro-Napoleon, but the facts seems pretty well explained. Only the last paragraph briefly discuss the title, as if the author could have predicted the future for 150 years. But as the fre
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by vmarsy 11y ago
I agree with the wrong title for that article, But, why do you think that understanding C by learning assembly is a terribly wrong-headed idea? Some professors tend to disagree and prefer a bottom up approach of learning. The main advantag
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by vmarsy 11y ago
I don't know how the MySQL one works, and if it does provide disk-based durability at all, but the way Microsoft SQL server does it is explained Section 7 (at page 7) of [1] They use a log stream and checkpoints stream that are writing
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Pretty interesting! tldr: Instead of trying a random sequence of antibiotics, the authors present "a precise, ordered schedule of antibiotics that doctors could rely on and know that in the end, resistance will be reversed, and an anti
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by vmarsy 11y ago
The Timeful team has built an impressive system that helps you organize your life by understanding your schedule, habits and needs. You can tell Timeful you want to exercise three times a week or that you need to call the bank by next Tues
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How does the calculator percent key work? (2008)(blogs.msdn.com)
128 points by vmarsy 12y ago|57 comments
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by vmarsy 12y ago
I would see the use for getting quickly restaurants/businesses hours, my solution right now is to query " <name of the business> hours" in google and hope that google provides the small information box with the hours. H
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by vmarsy 12y ago
For Android only, a modern Caller ID system from Facebook. Hello will show you info about who’s calling you, even if you don’t have that number saved in your phone. You will only see info that people have already shared with you on Faceboo
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by vmarsy 12y ago
Texas has a project of a high speed train between Houston and Dallas, it would link the 2 cities in 90mn (instead of 3:30h of driving, or 70mn of plane. So if you spend more 20mn more at the airport than at the rail station , the train woul
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by vmarsy 12y ago
I like your description of your journey through school but your anecdote is a bit odd: > As an example of what we do this year the first project we worked on was to recode the malloc function in c [...] after some research i found that t
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by vmarsy 12y ago
I think it's a great initiative! It might work, it might fail, but at least it is trying! I hope they will manage to produce well rounded graduates, and not just monkey coders. > France already has a reputation for creating great e
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by vmarsy 12y ago
Very impressive, at your age I was still 4 years ago from my C Hello world! Putting altogether an AI, and a webpage is even more impressive. it asked me the same question multiple times sometimes, I was disappointed by this reply: I&#x27
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by vmarsy 12y ago
An interesting anecdote about his time in Academia in the video: Some of the stuff I thought was really interesting to work on was unpublishable. I once wrote a paper on how to do abstract syntax trees 30 times better than GCC, and the pap
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by vmarsy 12y ago
This is one of the classic posts here: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20is%20processing%20a%20so... Very good comments in some of the submissions
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by vmarsy 12y ago
I think that French startup is worth mentioning: http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/sigfox-raises-115m-to-take-... It's a low power high range network for IoT, when in place it could help a lot of people
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by vmarsy 12y ago
Is it just Amazon's catching up with Azure ML launched last year? (And cutting prices by 80%) Azure ML also supports R and Python custom code, which can be dropped directly into your workspace. And this was even before Microsoft acq
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by vmarsy 12y ago
you could prevent reviews of >3 stars to be posted if you return the item. As a legitimate purchaser, you would return the item only if you hate it :in that case your review is sincere, or if you don't need it that much: in that cas
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by vmarsy 12y ago
I think Amazon already make these reviews show more, with a "verified purchase" shiny badge on the review (And probably shows up higher than non verified purchases)
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You Can Now Run Android Apps on a Mac or PC with Google Chrome(theverge.com)
2 points by vmarsy 12y ago|0 comments
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by vmarsy 12y ago
in France I think we choose the gender of the french word when possible, otherwise it seems to default to masculine? un job -> because of " un emploi, un boulot, un travail" une [surprise] party -> because of " une
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by vmarsy 12y ago
I always thought pourriel was from "pourri" (rotten/lousy) + "courriel". Both convey a correct meaning for spam!

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