gorog

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by gorog 15y ago
Well, Google real customers are advertisers. They sure need to welcome their customers in their network.
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by gorog 15y ago
I'm happy with Netvibes. It has a widget view like iGoogle and a Reader view like Google Reader. I find the latter to be better now. It integrates with Facebook and Twitter, if it's the kind of social stuff you want. It won't push what othe
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by gorog 15y ago
> Assuming they lose in court They sure can't win in court as they're not informed that they're being judged before the judgment is passed. There is no possible defense. > on something as difficult to prove as "neglecting to secure
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by gorog 15y ago
* Lack of sunlight
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by gorog 15y ago
As far as I know, Eurozone businesses and individuals can have their bank account anywhere in the Eurozone. Paypal and Stripe may only have offices in Luxembourg to serve all EUR countries. That's the upside of a unified market. The UK and
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by gorog 15y ago
They just replaced the pretty but useless wallpaper on the desktop by a full-screen version of the start menu. Start typing 'wo' and you get the link to Microsoft Word (and WoW, and your 'wonderful.jpg' file, etc), just like in the old star
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by gorog 15y ago
Windows Azure seems pretty cool. At least it has the best relational database of the big three clouds, and the best blobstore+CDN solution. However, it makes IIS mandatory, which seems (I'm still learning) to be optimized for short queries.
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by gorog 15y ago
I have a 17'' (1920*1080) laptop at home and a 27'' iMac at work. For displaying the likes of Netbeans, both are comfortable. I don't display the browser in full screen on the iMac because it's ridiculously large. For watching videos howeve
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by gorog 15y ago
I don't think the critics of the NYT where out of touch with reality. The big 3 French newspaper (lemonde.fr, lefigaro.fr, liberation.fr) are all much easier to scan than the likes of the NYT.
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by gorog 15y ago
I would include a pattern matching line: $date = "2011-07-29"; $list($year, $month, $day) = explode("-", $date); With whatever is cooler than a date, or with the company's creation date.
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by gorog 15y ago
My bank only allows passwords to be made of 5 numbers. The interesting thing to note is that if they had any significant problem with this scheme, they would have changed it. Maybe we worry too much about the strength of passwords. The pass
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by gorog 15y ago
This past year I followed a web development course. I'm now supposed to work 3 months for free. I don't mind it because I've been jobless for a long time before. The problem is, I just can't find an employer (in France). I get the interview
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by gorog 15y ago
VPN will become the norm. Internet access will be 30€ for the ISP + 5 € for the VPN. Not that much of a big deal for the citizen, more worrying for Paris as a tech scene.
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by gorog 15y ago
Oh please people stop using this top bar that appears after we scrolled, it's today's version of blinking flash banners.
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by gorog 16y ago
No, they're centralized like Twitter. StatusNet is like the Wordpress of microblogging. Each Wordpress installation is its own isolated island. It's the same with StatusNet.
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by gorog 16y ago
Plus Nokia certainly negotiated a great deal. If they get WP7 licenses for 1$ when others get it for 10$, they have room to provide better quality for the same retail price, while making comfortable margins. It's not because Apple develops
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by gorog 16y ago
It's hard to find a great company name. There are some WTF names like Apple Computers, or obscure acronyms like IBM. Specifically English words like MySpace are great for English-speaking customers, not so much for others. Invented proper n
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by gorog 16y ago
We already have wavelet codecs like Dirac, which are quite exotic compared to MPEG4 / VP8 / Theora.
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by gorog 16y ago
Wait, China allowed Skype? Where has their protectionism gone?
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by gorog 16y ago
Riak is distributed (it automatically shards data on many servers). CouchDB runs on a single server, although it can easily have as many mirrors as needed. Also, Riak features an integrated full-text search engine.
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by gorog 16y ago
And leave the Web as a set of static pages like in the nineties? Web applications are desirable, if only because they're multi-platform. Javascript is what saved us from those slow and not so safe Java applets (and Flash, Silverlight, which
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by gorog 16y ago
Yandex has its own index and shows good results in English (but no photo/video search). Exalead has its own index too but it lacks a good junk filter à la PageRank.
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by gorog 16y ago
It relies on Google Voice which is not available in France anyway.
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by gorog 16y ago
A little while ago, Twitter only stored our last 20 tweets and discarded the previous ones. When they stopped being that much ephemeral, no one noticed.
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by gorog 16y ago
They won't ditch the euro, it's what saved them. The drachme would have worthed nothing if it were still Greece's currency. The healthier EU countries created a fund in order to save their own currency, the euro, and had to save Greece in t
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by gorog 16y ago
Definitely. Those who write for the web don't need TeX. Those who write for print must not do the job of their editor. Manuscript standards are technically minimalist. They must look like they were written on a typewriter. LaTeX is for self
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by gorog 16y ago
Uh, as a reply to myself, I think I confused an IPO with a tender offer.
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by gorog 16y ago
They're just relocating/centralizing their headquarters in Luxembourg. The IPO is from their Luxembourg office on their US office. Not a big deal.
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by gorog 16y ago
http://www.zenbe.com/shareflow I remember this resembles Wave, minus the wiki thing. It's not free, however.
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by gorog 16y ago
It's exactly the feature I desperately wanted a few months ago, but then I modified the UI so that it loads a page for each piece of information that's important enough to have it's own URL and the result was considerably simpler to use. Th

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