yannickmahe

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by yannickmahe 15y ago
Small typo : Shenzen should be Shenzhen.
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
I've encountered that many times, with all the headaches involved. What is the reason for this?
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
Nitpicking : Jinan is a city, not a province. It's the capital of the Shandong province. More relevant, it's one of the three largest military centers in China, which I'm guessing is why the attacks stem from there. This does lend credence
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
fast, cheap, good quality. Pick two. 99designs is for when you need just the first two. Choosing these can often be a reasonable choice for a lot of cases.
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
My father used to tell me I should have around 15K€ around in case of emergency. Less at the beginning of my career of course. I have trouble seeing 2K as a lot: I don't think it could cover real emergencies (losing a job, emergency in my f
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
For heritage site, it generally means more money for the site. I think part of it comes from the UN and part of it from the country of the site (so the US in this case?). Wikipedia could gain by becoming somewhat independant for its many ex
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Google’s WebP Image Format Takes On JPEGs With Sharper Pictures(techcrunch.com)
5 points by yannickmahe 15y ago|0 comments
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
1.) 84000 US$ 2.) By Oshkosh 2011, which is end of july this year http://mavericklsa.com/FAQ.html
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
You might want to change the title of the post. For a while there, I thought it was about hte United Kingdom Independance Party (UKIP). Maybe that's just me, though.
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Hacking life towards happiness and less pain(fabricegrinda.com)
1 points by yannickmahe 15y ago|0 comments
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
I like the idea, but as a developer there is little chance I'll do contract work before getting a job when I'm looking for a "real" job. Right now, finding a job is easy enough that I don't think a lot of people will jump through a lot of h
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
I lived in China and regularly had to contact people in Europe. I tried a lot of things, but in the end, Skype was the best overall experience, far better than Google Voice, especially in video. I had a fairly low bandwidth (3 MBps), but qu
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Chromebook : 4th time trying to do "everything on the web"(window.punkave.com)
28 points by yannickmahe 15y ago|31 comments
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
What happens if a function is not bijective?
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
Microsoft would probably worth more than currently however.
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Vente-Privee And AmEx Team Up To Bring The European Flash Sales Site To The U.S.(techcrunch.com)
1 points by yannickmahe 15y ago|0 comments
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NASA spinoffs - side benefits of the space program(thespaceplace.com)
1 points by yannickmahe 15y ago|0 comments
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
It's a Chinese company. Google backlash isn't dangerous, I'm guessing they are aiming more towards Baidu optimization than Google optmization. I'm pretty sure Baidu isn't that regarding of black hat SEO.
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
Same here. Great idea, though.
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
I was going to show that link as well. His explanation of instant runoff convinced me.
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
"The most since 2008". Not a really convincing figure in my opinion. The most since the market tanked only means a recovery is underway.
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
Interestingly, the Chinese word for learning, 学 (xue) also means to imitate/to mimic.
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by yannickmahe 15y ago
Is it possible to cut the screen in half like that ? I mean, wouldn't there have to be a space between the two halves when in "full screen" mode ?
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
This is starting to feel like an arms race. Next, there will be undetectable disposable emails, and then automatic detection of undetectable disposable emails.
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Building a human-powered airplane in only six months(37signals.com)
74 points by yannickmahe 16y ago|5 comments
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Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Goldstar(37signals.com)
2 points by yannickmahe 16y ago|0 comments
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Hey, Look At That -- We Pay More Taxes Than GE*(businessinsider.com)
2 points by yannickmahe 16y ago|0 comments
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
My issue with reading emails as tehy come in is that it breaks my flow when I'm developing. As Jeff Atwod stated here : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/the-multi-tasking-m... There is no such thing as multitasking, so the average
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Beijing Professor Demands Students Have 40 Million By Age 40 - chinaSMACK(chinasmack.com)
1 points by yannickmahe 16y ago|0 comments
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Given the name of the contractor in this case, I think even though it may have been the cheapest, it also felt safe. "Nobody gets fired for choosing IBM", as the saying goes.

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