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by alexis_fr 5y ago
> and helped sort things out How? Being overloaded for a long time is also sometimes a sign that the business is failing. Which is horrible: It is when a founder is the most tired that he has to deal with the most unknown part of the wor
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
I have noticed this behavior on Ubuntu in 13.13. On the other hand, I kept the habit of expecting a script to fail when modifying it (most of the time, starting a command in the middle makes it fail) but it never seems to occur on macOS’s b
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Even being a paying customer has little value. Remember that Jordan Peterson was #15 of Patreon with more than $1m revenue if I’m correct, yet he was removed abruptly, I think in the wake of being referenced in the Christchurch terrorist (t
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
A lot of businesses will hide their failure under the pandemic. This is really bad, since people with wrong business models in upside trends, will get access to benefits and help in downside periods by having an excuse for their failure, en
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
+ Deaths by obesity from staying home, + Home violence, + CO2-increased houses make people much less clever, + Demotivation/decrease of testosterone makes people durably less productive, further hampering our ability maintain the littl
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Do you even need to be an official to do that? Perhaps a newspaper could do it, to accurate news.
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Maybe those Youtubers were less popular because their predictions are less accurate and their logic is flawed, and people are able to see the difference? Why is biasing information the role of Youtube, shouldn’t USA and other countries educ
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Youtube still profits from free content.
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
The American idea used to include anti-monopoly rules. Granted Amazon is not a monopoly, but the idea was to keep businesses small (and govt small) so no single superior entity would reign abusively on individuals. And that would make the f
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Maybe the NSA can decrypt RSA or Diffie-Hellman. We don’t know. Maybe they save it for when they’ll get the keys. Another way is to saturate so much the network with spy equipment that it’s futile to search and remove it.
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
I’m 37, I’ve had 1 year in my life around 33 where I went out to have beers in the evenings, 3-4 times a week. I never fully recovered my work ability.
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Upside of Chrome profiles: Use a bright red theme for prod sysadmin profile, and blue for work. So you never type « p... » on your work profile by mistake... Don’t laugh, usage is widespread.
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
I have an iPhone 7 and I was reluctant to change because of FaceID, which I don’t like, and screen size of new models. This SE makes me think the opposite: I look forward changing. So it is a real game changer. (I don’t buy Android becaus
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Atlassian is not the only one who wrecked login by implementing SSO across all their instances. I really don’t recommend using in-app dual logins (for example Gmail’s dual login), and stick to using separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profi
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Same as OE/Œ in French, then.
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Some studies already say they survive 7 days on masks, and a flight is only a few hours. HN is really becoming an echo chamber where there is only one leading trend, downvoting to hell the various opinions, and it is really bad for HN’s abi
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
While using Twitter helped a lot to anticipate the events before confinement, I find that it doesn’t help much during confinement. It is saturated with people who are looking for information, while all there is to do is wait. Since there ar
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
There will be another scandal with infected masks, it is bound to happen. At one point, a large percentage of the population is infected unknowingly, and manufacturing masks in a pure environment won’t be easy.
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
This. I had revenue for 5 people but didn’t succeed to find them, just 1, so I feel very well off and I keep the positions open. However, we’re on a corporate market that errs in the side of luxury, and even with an incredibly safe runway,
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Since we’re integrated between OS and hardware on Apple platforms, they could implement a “Turn on your microphone” dialog. I think this support excuse is too commonly used, when there is obvious value in the result. He’s not a minority, ev
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Don’t change anything now. I’m not saying « don’t change », but I’m saying emergencies are a bad time to evolve on character traits, particularly because you may be believing an excuse that they used to fire you, when in fact you were just
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
Funky bicycle masks with colors or logos were often 30-80€ in 2016, and despite not being even FFP1. There is an opportunity, but there is also a feeling that health apparel should be bland and ugly if they are serious. It’s like wearing a
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
I know no-one here seriously thinks about buying and storing a barrel in their cave, but it’s still worth saying: Oil is surprisingly very toxic, it contains a lot of uncontrolled compounds with sulfur for example, by definition (The goal o
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by alexis_fr 6y ago
> if I see someone use a linked list Or a hashmap to prepare 3 variables to pass to Json serialization.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Given a lot of countries are declaring the state of emergency, « state of war » for Emmanuel Macron (France), a lot of them can and will require the use of hotel, cars, or even « nationalize companies » (Italy and France). Why not also acce
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Italy has stopped providing respirators for 60+ year old people. They let them die. They give priority to the younger. Source in English: https://twitter.com/damienrieu/status/1238759988329418752
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
I can confirm: Since France’s president has closed bars, the psychosis became widespread, people now take real measures. Before that, everyone was keeping business as usual awaiting instructions, which is the worst way to let the epidemic g
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
So Ubuntu is open-source, but if I fork it, it comes with « Ubuntu » in package names, therefore I’m infringing on their trademark?
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
So why do we cancel so many million-dollars events? It seems we’re voluntarily halting our economies, stopping the production of some goods but also of some code and research, in front of a tide that will come anyway . Edit: I see the down
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
A sequence of numbers could be called, with a little approximation, a barcode. Which makes me wonder why credit cards don’t have an actual barcode to easily enter it on the computer.

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