petit_robert

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by petit_robert 2mo ago
Very interesting. There appears to be a push to control open source software, in the guise of protecting children via age control. With OSS, anybody can tweak the code on his device to pass the control, so the idea would be to only allow ce
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by petit_robert 2mo ago
Apparently not : https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-database-83-perc...
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by petit_robert 3mo ago
It depends on the stakes? In the 90s, the French IRS seized massive amounts of files from Elf, then a major French oil company under investigation for various frauds. Their offices where burglarized maybe a couple nights after that. All tha
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by petit_robert 3mo ago
It tends to happen with a reasonable certainty to most whistleblowers, from what I gather. So yes, you can swear you read that same story before, and I could swear you will read it again :-\
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by petit_robert 3mo ago
It's not limited to Japan. The French call them 'trognes' https://www.agroforesterie.fr/la-trogne-arbre-paysan-aux-mil... Other countries do it too : https://trognes.fr/trognes/trognes-a-
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by petit_robert 3mo ago
>The heat goes into the air Can confirm : I'm reading this from France, we're in the 8th day of the meanest heatwave the country has known since records exist, and it's expected to last two more.
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by petit_robert 6mo ago
The way it's written is funny, I find. But I'm a programmer... And as GP wrote, it would take a substantial amount of time to explain to a normie (infinite I'd say, but let's not despair).
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by petit_robert 8mo ago
I meant to add that I don't advertise it and just invalidate the account. Omitted it for brevity. There is also the long time friend you do a site for, with an agreed upon price. And he forgets to renew the bank transfer every year...
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by petit_robert 8mo ago
>If contract broken, sue them. Why throwing a scene? Haha! tell me about it. A client of mine ended his contract in 2010, pretending he did not use my software anymore. He had the source because I had to compile on site for technical rea
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by petit_robert 9mo ago
GP seems to mean that if people cared about audio quality, they would not use bluetooth in the first place? Audiophiles tend to have firm stances on what is acceptable or not, I find.
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by petit_robert 9mo ago
Interesting. Nice way to get headers quickly, I'll have a look. Fun project I'm sure, but out of curiosity, is this something that you can monetize somehow? because the fun only goes so far.
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by petit_robert 9mo ago
I built an accounting app : https://compta.libremen.com Did not intend to at first, but having quit Windows, I had to replace the Access application I had built with an accountant friend of mine to manage my small business. Look
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by petit_robert 9mo ago
Hi, When one clicks on 'Play tutorials', the text at the bottom reads : >Start by follow the instructions Should be 'Start by following the instructions', I believe?
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by petit_robert 9mo ago
Strange, for me it's the opposite. Just yesterday, I moved some 100 lines of code using a hash quite a few times from the main module to a function using a reference to the hash. if %args is the hash holding the data, '$args{key}&
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by petit_robert 9mo ago
>This was one of the big reasons, most of these enterprise coders wanted Perl gone I see some people disagree with you, but reading this reminds me of this anecdote : My brother has a very high IQ score, but poor social skills. He once f
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by petit_robert 10mo ago
I had to laugh out loud at this (by myself). The amount of requests I get on my servers for WP related files is insane
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by petit_robert 11mo ago
> I have machines at these providers with 1000-1300 days of uptime You did not say what system you use on them, but don't you need to reboot them to apply kernel upgrades, for instance?
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by petit_robert 12y ago
Haha! we named our software Marica for "Management des risques et des contrats d'assurance" (we're a French company). We have since translated the software in several languages. It appears that marica in spanish means so
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by petit_robert 12y ago
Screen writers and actors have a union, both fill some needs that apply to the rank and file but not to stars. May be the model could work for developers?
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by petit_robert 13y ago
"But they're the exception, not the rule." Excuse me, you must have forgotten about a certain global financial meltdown in 2008?
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by petit_robert 13y ago
Web UI is an interesting problem, but even just building a proper data structure can be very challenging, when the user's environment is complex and one needs to build a simple yet extensive enough tool. I see it a bit as rock climbing
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by petit_robert 13y ago
"But when you look at it as a probability rather than as an absolute, yes, you should expect more popular things to be better than less popular things, no? " Possibly in areas where no serious money is involved, but I haven't
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4th post about the SR-71 Blackbird
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by petit_robert 13y ago
Sure, but at MtGox, the theft was 477 millions. http://news.yahoo.com/mtgox-opens-call-centre-500m-bitcoin-l... That's a lot of duffle bags to haul.
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by petit_robert 13y ago
I would suggest subscribing to and reading the fine postgresql mailing lists (general and performance). It's amazing what you can learn from the questions and answers they get.
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by petit_robert 13y ago
"This is not sustainable no matter how much you love it" Agreed, I went through the burn out too. Got out of it by starting my work day with a 1 to 2 hour walk in the morning. It serves two purposes at once : first your body recov
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by petit_robert 13y ago
There is a learning curve, but I am fond of mod_perl because you can do almost anything with it. It's also very fast. http://perl.apache.org/docs/index.html You can wrap your existing CGI scripts in it using http
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by petit_robert 13y ago
Not sure what you mean exactly, but in any case I know nothing about Java; my LAMP stack is : Linux, Apache, Mod_perl, Postgresql All very pleasant to work with (1) and stable; mod_perl has a rather steep learning curve, but worth it for we
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by petit_robert 13y ago
>A, in my opinion mmmh... I thought about this too. However, MS is anything but stupid marketing wise, I find. So I dismissed incompetence.
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by petit_robert 13y ago
>Problem was, MS was churning out the "next great thing" >faster than I could learn the last great thing. Same here. I design databases, and MS kept bringing new data access methods every three years; I never could wrap my h

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