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by wiz21 10y ago
TL;DR but it reminds me of Awk...
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by wiz21 10y ago
Interestingly, Japan oil consumption felt by +/- 18% since 2000 while population remained stable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Japan http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=jp&
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by wiz21 10y ago
I was trained on Scheme 20 years ago. Scheme was the moment when I felt I "got" programming right (before that I did lots of Pascal, basic, assembler,etc). Now I do Python. And with Python I "got" something too : writing
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by wiz21 10y ago
I'm very happy my governement makes regulations : * the market didn't decide VW should not fake emission * the market didn't decide Fukushima to be secured * the market didn't decide bisphenol-A is dangerous * the market
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by wiz21 10y ago
Given the fact the communication infrastructure is super deployed (wi fi everywhere, networks everywhere), why would I want to actually move my server ? I mean, the client moves and the network infrastructure make sure the server is reachab
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by wiz21 11y ago
David Braben (Elite) Peter Molyneux (Fable) Sid Meier (Civilisation)
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by wiz21 11y ago
"But it is rare for the power to be perfectly balanced." That's the difference between the powerful and the powerless. The powerful thinks the imbalance is a fact that will never change; the powerless thinks that must change.
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by wiz21 11y ago
hint : human nature. After millions of years of being trained to look over our short territories, we're now watching the whole world. And guess what, we still don't care about things more than 100km away. Hopefully, we'll ge
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by wiz21 11y ago
As a Belgian, this news hit very hard. Our (elected) government deployed military and police presence over the past month to ensure security. What a joke... Not that I didn't know it, but now it's certified : military in the stree
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by wiz21 11y ago
100% agree... My old age tells me that politics are a necessary evil...
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by wiz21 11y ago
That's so clear and so mathematically obvious, +100 karma point for you ! That's basic risk analysis
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by wiz21 11y ago
dead wrong. The majority of people do as you say, but the majority don't understand the balance. Security means protecting a few targets. Privacy means protecting the freedom of every single person. With that kind of reasoning, you&#x2
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by wiz21 11y ago
"50/50 divided" means "nobody knows"
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by wiz21 11y ago
For F#, I didn't know. It looks verrrrrry sweet. For BigDecimal, my grief is that it makes code horrible (at least in my experience, I'm still locked in JDK 1.7). BigDecimal has the problem I see with the rest of my griefs : it is
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by wiz21 11y ago
I can't believe I read this here. Hope you're joking. I don't wear rosy glasses, I won't say there's no trouble, but targeting some people the way you do... awful.
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by wiz21 11y ago
That's a very insightful comment. I 100% agree. And I'd add that I'm still completely baffled to see that some very obvious data support issues are still not resolved in the industrial world (e.g Java) : * Computing with unit
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by wiz21 11y ago
You're going to kill me. But for me There's a bit of Seneca in RMS. The guy makes it so hard to live by its principles that I sometimes wonder what is actual life is. But to me, Seneca is not an issue. What he wrote reminds me of
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by wiz21 11y ago
Donald Knuth is probably swimming in joy right now. This so literate programming (or should I say literate research)...
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by wiz21 11y ago
and of course, a little bit of taxes to redistribute YCombinator money made from startups-that-don't-help-people-to-eat to those people who'd be relieved by basic income
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by wiz21 11y ago
The only point this raises is : are they serious ? This looks quite akin to the Solar Impulse project. It makes us dream of something that looks like a very bad way to treat the actual problem. This guy's energy would be better spend a
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by wiz21 11y ago
nice try... But the methodology kind of sucks... The author should at least get a real server (not a virtual one) so that he can at least control that side of the equation...
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by wiz21 11y ago
Is it me or we already have other of ways to blow satellites ? Such as : a rocket that just happens to go in the wrong direction, a missile, another satellite that goes in the wrong direction...
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by wiz21 11y ago
it compiles, but how does it run ?
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by wiz21 11y ago
I concur 100%. Most of the problems with unicode are like most problem with floats : tons of people don't get how it works (and the good reasons that make all of that tricky)
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by wiz21 11y ago
There was even Mario for Apple 2 ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV_iYmk1Sn4
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by wiz21 11y ago
or they could host it on steam (now that's a bad joke)
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by wiz21 11y ago
The wikipedia page is very interesting, but the motives are not clear, esp. for France. Any idea ?
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by wiz21 11y ago
I'd like to know that too
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by wiz21 11y ago
Interestingly, that can be solved by using nuclear energy too.
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by wiz21 11y ago
>> which I'll probably be unable to find in the future Could you elaborate on this ?

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