Vlaix

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by Vlaix 11y ago
>Free trade benefits all people. At this point it's not economy, it's religion.
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by Vlaix 11y ago
You can't expect the people who are the adjustment variable of worldwide unimpeded trade to applaud with both hands.
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by Vlaix 11y ago
Now make a laptop with a keyboard and touchpad that justifies me stopping frankensteining my old machines to keep them alive. That chiclet keyboard and phone-sized pad nonsense is very limiting.
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by Vlaix 11y ago
Dell tax on options, I'd wager. If you look at the cost on everything that isn't the base, laptop manufacturers generally add an extra 100% on the retail price of these parts. 200% if you're Apple.
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by Vlaix 11y ago
>Support is good and reachable by phone Really ? I used them quite a bit years and years ago, and at the time the support was somewhat garbage, which made me move to OVH.
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by Vlaix 11y ago
Not surprised to read in the comments they're a subsidiary of Online.net. Ever since they've introduced ultra-cheap dedicated boxes ten years ago, it seems everybody's been sub-renting either them or OVH. I wonder why there a
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by Vlaix 11y ago
To be completely honest, I also do it like this at the moment, using Kdiff as a merge tool. I've been thinking about moving over to Ediff, but I'm lazy.
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by Vlaix 11y ago
Serious question, never used a git GUI in my life, is there a practical point to it ? I just can't see myself doing it without zsh, my nested .dotfiles, fasd and so on. And worst case scenario, I can always git them back.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
You guys across the Atlantic need to understand than nobody in Europe ever cared about what the EU votes, unless they're a EU employee themselves.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
Europe fell decades ago. The Marshall Plan we call it.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
Odd you'd say that. Though I'm not a native English speaker, I found Spanish to be among the hardest languages I've come across (more so than Modern Greek or German), and I come from a French background with wide knowledge ac
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by Vlaix 13y ago
As a rule of thumb, English is choke-full of Anglo-Saxon/French redundancies that rarely come to light due to a register separation. Anglo-Saxon etymons tend to the lower registers of language, French (along with Latin, although the li
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by Vlaix 13y ago
The money would most likely go to the French state, hence benefiting indirectly to the whole of French citizens.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
Wow, I went into the negative with that. You guys really need to learn how to take a joke (unless I'm being taken down by the hippie lobby, in which case I'll keep put. No surrendering to terrorists, even those who wield flowers).
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by Vlaix 13y ago
I read "hippies" and rejoiced. If only...
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by Vlaix 13y ago
The number of death is probably more an effect of the general destabilization of the country (which gave ample room, as an example, for various exactions on minorities in Irak besides the war, in particular on Christians) rather than direct
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by Vlaix 13y ago
Getting things done ? You must have missed the Louvois scandale. You know, thousands of soldiers no being paid for almost a year and stuff...
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by Vlaix 13y ago
The adoption of Linux is just consistent with the fact that we're getting poor.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
Most of the French DON'T work for the government and unions have almost no power whatsoever. That's why they make a lot of noise.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
Archiving languages is necessary for linguistics' sake. God knows we'd love to have at least some form of written attestation for most ancient tongues.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
Trying to experience a bit of everything isn't a WASP thing, it's bona fide Humanism. As Montaigne put it : « I like better a well rounded head than a well filled one ». Western Universities are (or should be) the heirs of this tradition.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
City creations are ordered all the time and they do not forcibly fail. Many new world (ie. US, Australia, NZ) cities weren't organically grown. And so were a lot of cities built during Antiquity that are still there in Europe. Greeks and Ca
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by Vlaix 13y ago
I've been able to vote for quite a long time, and never did so out of principle (in a country where 80%+ of the population votes, very much unlike the US). I actually think the need of surveillance for a number of nations (in particular Syr
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by Vlaix 13y ago
I personally support the use of IT as a means of oppression by various regimes. Not so much because of some peculiar esteem I'd have for said regimes, but because I'm kind of fed up by squinty libertarians and source-code rioters telling u
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by Vlaix 13y ago
Funny how the overreaction mostly comes from foreigners or people involved with Wikimedia activities. It may have been handled abruptly (if it were properly handled, there wouldn't be any significant article about the event anywhere), but t
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by Vlaix 13y ago
HN gives me the impression that on a bi-daily basis there's someone, somewhere (generally an American brogrammer with too much hair and weird glasses living in the Valleyr or NY) who WANTS that I want to learn to code. Is that someone act
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by Vlaix 13y ago
When unzooming completely (using Opera), France and Great Britain are conjoined twins. And so on for Morocco and Spain, Denmark and Norway, Sicily and the rest of Italy... Now think about what History would have been...
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by Vlaix 13y ago
I don't really care about the medium itself (though it does seem out of place), but the object of the « performance » sends me back to everything I rabidly hate about our society. It makes me very grumpy.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
One more reason not to attend Rails-related stuff.
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by Vlaix 13y ago
They tend to recruit a lot of youngsters because coding-jobs are typically low on the CS ladder and don't forcibly attract people with more experience (that's a general statement, I perfectly know that specialized coding can get extremely l

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