chevreuil

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by chevreuil 12y ago
In the 2010 Boréal conference Ted Chiang had an interesting take on the singularity and the computable brain. There is a transcript (in french) here : http://www.actusf.com/spip/article-9802.html . To sum it up that is
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by chevreuil 12y ago
I'm french and I worked with two foreigners (US & Canada) in a parisian startup. One of them didn't bother learning french, and it was ok. He was mostly hanging out with other expats, and seemed to enjoy it. Nonetheless, it is
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Antares rocket explosion: The question of using decades-old Soviet engines(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by chevreuil 12y ago|0 comments
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Magic Roundabout (Swindon)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by chevreuil 12y ago|0 comments
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by chevreuil 12y ago
This one for example : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8013773 The title was "The Tech Industry vs. San Francisco " : http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/07/07/140707f
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by chevreuil 12y ago
Main economic institutions [1] already maintains databases of consumer goods and services price across countries, but they don't give easy access to the raw data. Glad to see Expatistan filling this gap. [1] International Comparison Pr
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by chevreuil 12y ago
The data format bothers me. Why not use a standard one like JSON?
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by chevreuil 12y ago
The Paper demo is quite impressive on my phone (iPhone 5s). Anyone who struggled with touch events in an HTML app should be impressed.
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by chevreuil 12y ago
I like how you sumed it up > Famo.us is built around a neat idea: by directly using the CSS matrix3d transform in combination with the window.requestAnimationFrame function, you can describe the complete layout and animation of your app
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by chevreuil 13y ago
Yes that's insane. But the blogger is also to blame here, he should not have used a Hotmail account to share such sensitive information.
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Lucius Shepard has died.(twitter.com)
2 points by chevreuil 13y ago|0 comments
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by chevreuil 13y ago
why ?
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by chevreuil 13y ago
I'm a bit new to bitcoins, but is it technically possible for the bitcoins community as a whole to make a blacklist of bitcoins addresses and "ban" the stolen bitcoins ? Such blacklist would daunt robbers and enforce public t
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by chevreuil 13y ago
Relevant Bret Victor video : https://vimeo.com/66085662#t=9m20s
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by chevreuil 13y ago
Same thing for French : I have not heard of anyone named Brigliador in France, or maybe in some medieval poetry.
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by chevreuil 13y ago
We all know there are a lot of existing tools that does the same things. But I've not met one with such a polished UX. Kudos to the Kimono team, I'll definitly recommend your product.
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by chevreuil 13y ago
I think it stands for "Confederatio Helvetica", and is the official abbreviations (eg : on licence plates)
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Open Source Personal Finance Manager(seeker89.github.io)
57 points by chevreuil 13y ago|40 comments
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Greenwald:“I intend to publish Edward Snowden’s documents to the very last”(telerama.fr)
3 points by chevreuil 13y ago|0 comments
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by chevreuil 13y ago
Can you explain how ? I use git on the command line too, it fits well with my workflow (branch features, "commit -a" when it seems relevant, rebase/squash when ready). Maybe a more complicated workflow could justify an IDE pl
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The electronic newbie(electronicnewbie.tumblr.com)
1 points by chevreuil 13y ago|0 comments
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by chevreuil 13y ago
> It's Borges at his funniest Exactly. My feeling in the first pages of Fictions was : is it some kind of joke ? For those who read the House of Leaves, it's good to know that Danielewski took a lot of inspiration from Borges (
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by chevreuil 13y ago
I'm not too versed in Node frameworks : is Sails a direct competitor to Meteor ? If so how is it different ?
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The French also listen to their allies(translate.googleusercontent.com)
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by chevreuil 13y ago
Yeah, that's the biggest misunderstanding about the teaching of philosophy in France. At the start you think "Cool, I'm going to learn to think by myself!", though what you actually do is learn what other famous thinker have been thinking,
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by chevreuil 13y ago
Agreed, Angular and d3 are two of the most beautiful and useful pieces of JS out there. Radian's approach is very inspiring for the ones that use both of these awesome libraries. But I find it too low level : I don't see the point of manip
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by chevreuil 14y ago
Very cool use of transitions, one of the many fields where d3 really rocks. However, I've always wondered if word trees are really usefull... Sure it makes nice things with the Luther King speech or extract from the Bible.
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by chevreuil 14y ago
There is one constant in the History showing that a generation of human can achieve goals that were admitted impossible by their predecessor Apart from that, there is this thing called ethnobiology, a sub-dicscipline of anthropology, that s
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by chevreuil 14y ago
Le canard enchainé is highly respected by french reader for its accuracy and independence. It happens that they use a satirical tone, but their investigation are always strongly documented. That's why they are feared by every politician and
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by chevreuil 14y ago
Cool name for a location app, even if only French speakers can get it.

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