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by foobarge 7y ago
Contrasts with "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates
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by foobarge 8y ago
You just won that thread. Congratulations.
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by foobarge 8y ago
Asterix is nice - that's just scratching the surface of Belgian/French cartoon though. In the same vein, I'd recommend you to dive into the work of masters like Franquin, I really recommended it - the Marcinelle school let em
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by foobarge 8y ago
Thank you - this is quite a find. I remember banging my head against the limitations of the HIRES mode and eventually doing everything in text mode with redefined characters - I was working on a windowing system at the time. Best thing in f
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by foobarge 8y ago
> That's not how France works ;-) Schools don't decide much, everything is decided by the central government in Paris and then implemented everywhere. Citation needed - that's not the case. Schools are ran in a collegial m
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by foobarge 8y ago
> Let schools set and enforce their own policies. Most already were (my son's school was.) > It seems to me that the main result of having an actual legal ban is that teachers are now prevented from using smartphones in class for
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by foobarge 8y ago
> where somewhere like Iceland is cooler than Rwanda You are technically correct.
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by foobarge 8y ago
> Turn the thing off if hands aren't on the wheel, end of story. Search "Tesla Orange Trick"
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by foobarge 9y ago
Agreed - and it's been proven (citation needed) that a low calorie diet prolonges life. But here we are, needing to consume more energy because we do things (good, bad, useless or wasteful) with our time (and these things aren't
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by foobarge 9y ago
Which source did you use for Babylon Sisters?
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by foobarge 9y ago
And people ask me why I read HN comments. Thank you for that explanations!
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by foobarge 9y ago
The print could have buttons to trigger different filters.
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by foobarge 9y ago
Please note that salaries are horribly depressed in France - in areas like Paris, the cost of living is comparable to places like San Francisco at easily 1/3 of the salary.
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by foobarge 9y ago
Excellent, thanks for sharing! "THE B1 IS SO ANTI-TECH IT HAS AN ANALOG BATTERY LEVEL INDICATOR ON THE DASH" LOL.
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by foobarge 9y ago
Ah - well, Tesla found a way to make EV sexy and I'm sure they have very ambitious goals. I'm just hoping that what's next steps down a bit from the luxurious (at least to me) interior and focuses on cargo space that can be u
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by foobarge 9y ago
I'm fortunate enough (no pun) to be willing to spend money on an EV and I just don't find what I want. I understand Tesla had to produce vehicles like these to make people realize EVs actually were usable cars (usability predicate
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by foobarge 9y ago
Alas not yet.
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by foobarge 9y ago
I'm not exactly implying that buying a car to show off and assert status is reprehensible. Have I touched a nerve? Anyways - I'm just saying that I hope EV manufacturer move up (or down) the immaculate luxurious interiors trip soo
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by foobarge 9y ago
Nice but still not what I need. I need a long range electric car whose interior I won't be afraid to damage from time to time. I need something that moves me, my family and my stuff (skis, bikes, windsurf + sails, mountaineering gears,
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by foobarge 9y ago
Raising the price of gas in the mid 70s made it possible to get very sober vehicles, so this might work as well. Of course, it's far enough in the future that it can be canceled and amended enough to become useless. I do appreciate the
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by foobarge 9y ago
Same here - not a the same level though :-) Undisclosed location from the European Alps - I've always worked remotely, even when my company HQs were in Sunnyvale and I was living a few blocks from the office.
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by foobarge 9y ago
I work for the big G. and I work from home. There's a couple hundred employees that work full time from home, a minuscule amount in comparison to the work force. I travel to the office every two quarters and I usually get nothing done
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by foobarge 9y ago
50 and coding. There's nothing more satisfactory that carefully crafted code. Or maybe just releasing something and mostly never looking back because it. just. works.
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by foobarge 10y ago
"So why might eating chillies be good for you? The researchers speculate that it could be that capsaicin is helping increase blood flow, or even altering the mix of your gut bacteria in a helpful direction."
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by foobarge 10y ago
I live in the French alps and from time to time I see Teslas in ski resorts - these cars are sometimes coming from far away. The furthest away one was from Denmark.
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Say hello to Waymo’s new self-driving Chrysler minivans(arstechnica.com)
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by foobarge 10y ago
I was at the Free the Lizard party - what a blast. I remember Google speaking there - I won a pair of boxer briefs, with a strategically placed "I'm feeling lucky" printed on them - I still wear them. I left the Valley in 200
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by foobarge 10y ago
I've done something similar 21 years ago: a C interpreter targeting a virtual machine. The runtime had a dynamic equivalent of libffi to call into native code and use existing native libraries. I added extensions to run code blocks in
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by foobarge 10y ago
I'm nearing 50 and I'm still coding. I'm looking forward to retirement where I'll be able to code more (contributing to open source stuff for instance) and do all the things I don't have the time to do now (more har
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by foobarge 10y ago
There's mention of interpreted sections in the code. Do you know if it was possible to manually enter interpreted code to have it ran by the system afterward - or even program some of software by hand (being dictated hex) in case somet

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