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by webreac 9y ago
Making young kids work with old farts may be very effective. Young people learn fast and old ones are chalenged to prove they are not outdated and can work with young kids. If both groups are open minded, the result can be great.
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by webreac 9y ago
Most of windows 3.11 was in assembly and p-code (according to the book "undocumented windows"). A lot of assembly was still present in 95, but almost all was converted to C/C++ in XP and vista.
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by webreac 9y ago
If man pages were up to date, this should be the index of chapter 2. I have discover unix with sun in the 90s and I am very nostalgic of the quality of man pages. At that time, man pages were complete and up to date. My latest frustration w
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by webreac 9y ago
If it is smaller, is it easier to learn?
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by webreac 9y ago
If I am diagnose as early cancer, it could be a good motivation to switch to a more healthy lifestyle: more sleep, less food, ...
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by webreac 9y ago
YouTube-dl provides the list of all the available formats. You choose the desired quality.
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by webreac 9y ago
I am surprised private keys have never leaked.
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by webreac 9y ago
Like vlc
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by webreac 9y ago
I remember having used minitel 1B (80 colomns) in 1992 to connect to my school from home (600km away) to send my updated (using vi) report (in latex) to my teacher. The main drawback of course was that the phone line was always busy. It was
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by webreac 9y ago
Degradation of infrastructure is caused by heavy vehicules (trucks), weather and bad driving. Tunnels solve these 3 issues.
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by webreac 10y ago
terrorists are vulnerable of manipulation.
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by webreac 10y ago
a C1 or VC1S at scaleway is 3.6€ per month. This gives you total control to install anything (nodejs, ...)
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by webreac 10y ago
I think it is a shame for America. In a state governed by fair laws, people should not fear arbitrar individual decisions. This fear concerns the non us travelers, but this fear is more and more present for us citizen (for example https:&#
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by webreac 10y ago
This small reduction of particle pollution was the result of a very old study. At that time, there was no brake regeneration and the car was very heavy. I guess there is no recent study because the result would be obvious.
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by webreac 10y ago
If the experiment you need to prove a model is an experiment that occurs naturally without intervention, you can prove a model just with observation.
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by webreac 10y ago
I wonder if these tricks to defeat emulators have the opposite effects. They give truly interesting chalenges that can motivate talentuous developpers.
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by webreac 10y ago
My old mother (born 1936) is using ubuntu since 2013. She can read her mail, answer or forward, view powertpoint, video and pictures, web surf, print stuf, write letters (its her most complex task). I use ssh and x11vnc for remote administr
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by webreac 10y ago
I think that a key explanation of Oracle success is that the complexity of their database administration has created a generation of full time jobs: DBA. These people are like salesman working for Oracle to defend the future of their job. T
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by webreac 10y ago
IMHO, the single big break of backward compatibility was between windows XP and Vista 64.
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by webreac 10y ago
I always have an ssh tunnel toward squid running on my scaleway server (3.6€ per month). The portable version of firefox allows me to avoid the enterprise policy that prohibit customizing proxy in chrome.
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by webreac 10y ago
I have a nissan leaf. It is plug every night on a normal outlet. It is a 49 month leasing. Battery replacement will not be my problem.
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by webreac 10y ago
When I was student in french "classes preparatoires" (between 19 and 20yo), my binom was fond of books. He read between 2 and 3 books per day when most pupils had difficulties to cope with workload.
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by webreac 10y ago
and sell subscriptions to old news ?
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by webreac 10y ago
I have discovered generics with the Ada language (yes, I am old). When learning C++ template, my first feelings were that it was an insane inconsistent hack. Many C++ compilers struggle during many years before standard was reasonably well
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by webreac 10y ago
Maybe they are completely finished and bug free ;-)
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by webreac 10y ago
I think that you can have these speeds with Bugatti and Porsche only if you are a good pilot. With tesla, you can do it if you have a foot.
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by webreac 10y ago
or maybe not http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/nuclear-isnt-the-only-energy...
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by webreac 10y ago
The pollution of cars is nothing compared to coal pollution comming from Germany: https://blogs.mediapart.fr/sue-landau/blog/170314/german-coa...
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by webreac 10y ago
As a non english native, the man page of cron is far more complete and easy to read than many other pages (find, tar, bash, ...)
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by webreac 10y ago
I agree with you. Watermarking hurts only pirates. Who would trust a watermarking remover ?

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