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by webreac 10y ago
I have just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World... that was very different from what my teacher said. For him, germans were far more effective than uk in bombing war production factories a
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by webreac 10y ago
I fully agree with you, but this does not contradict the article. If the lobbying effort of Microsoft was more developped, Microsoft would not have been stopped by government. It was an error for Microsoft even if it is in the benefit of wh
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by webreac 11y ago
We have also the word "informatique" which is not exactly computer science nor software engineering.
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by webreac 11y ago
If ubuntu can run, you just need Xming to have all GUI applications.
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by webreac 11y ago
The banner asks politely to disactivate the ad blocker. You just need to deactivate it on the page and you can read the article. You have a message of thank you. I think wired is very polite in its anti-adblocker policy.
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by webreac 11y ago
I can not find it using google, but there was a Go champion who had stop playing go during one year to earn money playing mah jong.
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by webreac 11y ago
I have read that a go world champion playing against god would need between 4 and 5 stones of handicap.
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by webreac 11y ago
AFAIK wine is still needed for a bunch of old app: I have installed ubuntu on the computer of my old parents. Wine was mandatory to use powerpoint viewer. Personally, I need the windows version of firefox to watch catchup TV (DRM protected
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by webreac 11y ago
I am very suprised to see the association of the word microsoft, 1987 and functional programming. As far as I remember, Simon Peyton Jones research (and this book) has made him famous. I was very sad that such a talent was hired by the &quo
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by webreac 11y ago
A video of high def images in 60fps would require huge bandwidth. It may also add annoying codec artifacts. I am not an expert, but I think it is unrealistic.
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by webreac 11y ago
maybe, but I think that reducing the lifespan by 50% does not produce a reduction of 50% of the price for the seller, but often mean a reduction of 50% of the value of the product for the buyer. It is very bad also for ecology.
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by webreac 11y ago
I do not have a quote under hand, but preserving our history is important to make us better. Most of the recent history would already be lost if archive.org was not there. I do not see how giving to this cause could turn wrong.
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by webreac 11y ago
Their hardware was too expensive, but their support was too cheap. When oracle has changed the prices, it has more than double the cost of support. Sun has developped a lot of software that was given for free (AFAIK): NFS, NIS, ...
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by webreac 11y ago
Ada has a lot of qualities that are not given in this small article. For example, try to read the C++ standard and the Ada standard.
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by webreac 11y ago
It seems that IBM is in bad shape because of a non-disclosure agreement. Maybe the lesson should be that NDA are bad.
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by webreac 11y ago
Last year, my entry for level0 of stripe3 was a tiny perl script with no tricks ( http://pastebin.com/XLZmmPX7 ). Using perl, you can not win speed benchmarks, but a C program significantly faster than the "normal"
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by webreac 11y ago
I finished my school in 1993. None of the computer science teaching was on PC. I have used mainly sun but also HP, next and VAX computers. PC were only used for word and excel. The school was lending special network card for the few pupils
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by webreac 11y ago
They asked to install wire-tapping hardware on your servers because it is cheaper than hidden wire-tapping. If they do not ask again, it may be that their hidden wire-tapping hardware is in place. Or maybe, this is only conspiracy theory ?
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by webreac 11y ago
many scientific revolutions have occurred after improvement of measure instruments. If we start to have a continuous measure of our blood, there may be revolutionary discoveries about health.
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by webreac 12y ago
I didn't know. My last professional development in C++ was in 2002. At that time http://www.comeaucomputing.com/ was my reference.
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by webreac 12y ago
"Most C++ compilers (G++ included) do not yet implement export". For me, non compliance with such an old spec is a bug.
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by webreac 12y ago
That is why I love perl: the manager can not understand it and can not say it was simple.
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by webreac 12y ago
I really do not like when bad habits are encouraged by the optimizer.
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by webreac 12y ago
This article is very good, but it is very short about gzip. Event if there was no technical innovation, I think that gzip was really important for development of compression softwares that are not patent-encumbered.
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by webreac 12y ago
How can he be so wrong when comparing compiled languages and scripted languages: "Every step up the ladder increases the human readability factor and portability, at the cost of runtime speed and program size." Just think about re
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by webreac 12y ago
hp was often really good for hardware, sometimes also for software.
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by webreac 12y ago
I have seen a world champion of backgammon giving demonstration games with childs. He has won each time, but if the child had made a double at its last move, he would win. There is no random.
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by webreac 12y ago
In 2014, compliance with sql92 should be a minimum.
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by webreac 12y ago
sadly they are bad at copying. For example, Oracle sql has substr instead of the standard function substring.
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by webreac 12y ago
It seems, it is same difficulty to switch from XP to linux than from XP to 8.

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