requinot59

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by requinot59 15y ago
> Encouraging international visibility, which requires English language skills, is not contrary to that. No, it's not, and international visibility is obviously a good thing! But there is a problem if a PhD is published only in engl
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by requinot59 15y ago
> basically everything is done in French, and much of it is required to be in French. « La langue de la République est le français. » ("The language of the Republic is French"), first sentence of the second article of the French Re
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Go Codewalk: Share Memory By Communicating(golang.org)
2 points by requinot59 16y ago|0 comments
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by requinot59 16y ago
Thanks for sharing a link only Facebook users can access. In the pure hacker spirit: open, transparent access for anyone.
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by requinot59 16y ago
> Sometimes I just want to create some static pages, but I was forced to use either CMS or things like wordpress. Wtf?! To create static pages, I open Emacs and type there. No need of a CMS or Wordpress to create an HTML page! Then to
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by requinot59 16y ago
It might be better to use proper rlimits, and not let a mad process gone wild triggers the OOM. Swap just delays the problem.
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by requinot59 16y ago
You're probably never going to hit the swap for a good reason. You might hit it if you do a mistake (resizing an image by 5000% and not 500%), in which case you will suffer if you let your gigabytes of swap get filled), or if you have speci
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by requinot59 16y ago
> "twice the RAM is the recommended size of your swap file" Don't listen the parrots that repeat something that ceases to be true at least 10 years ago. Swap used to be a useful hack, it is not anymore. > as if I'm going to wait
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by requinot59 16y ago
> I often just turn swap off entirely. And you're smart to do so. Swap is useless for 99% of end-user systems. ChromeOS doesn't use any swap partition, for instance. As for hibernation, it's not available if you use a crypted swap, wh
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by requinot59 16y ago
Exactly. Take a tour of the SF and Mountain View coffee-shops which offer free wifi with a laptop to sniff traffic. Isn't there a not-negligeable chance you might recolt some HN cookies from "interesting" accounts? Once you get them, it's j
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by requinot59 16y ago
> Declining quality of comments? Creeping influence of politics? It's a fallacious argument in my book. Like comparing apples and oranges. Say I run a bakery. What I care the most about is the quality of my bread. So much, I spend a
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by requinot59 16y ago
Like what, in the HN context?
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by requinot59 16y ago
That doesn't protect from cookie/password steal (for instance if you use a public Wifi hotspot). I do care about identity usurpation.
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by requinot59 16y ago
As a side note, news.ycombinator.com should really have HTTPS access. Passwords and cookies in clear HTTP are no good. Anyone here (should) knows it. Firesheep proves it. GMail and Zuckerberg suffered it. Just buy or get a free SSL certific
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by requinot59 16y ago
And I do take yours. The fact than Node is actually using Javascript, which is more similar to Lua than to Haskell, makes your impression very sensible ;-)
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by requinot59 16y ago
> He especially liked Lua Well, not as much as Haskell : "Haskell is pretty ideal but I’m not smart enough to hack the GHC. Lua is less ideal but a lovely language [...]" (at the beginning of the 2nd answer.) > He regrets us
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by requinot59 16y ago
No. They give them a competitive advantage over other OSes by offering a faster Internet experience on ChromeOS. They stick with classic DNS resolving on Chrome the browser, no matter the plateform. The complexity and bloat is having Chrome
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by requinot59 16y ago
Seriously, is the specific and quite "strange" disposition of the periodic table really adapted here? Why not a simple table-based layout, with no useless holes? Here on FF 3.6 on a 1280x1024 display, some of the labels are truncated...
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by requinot59 16y ago
It's not a joke (does it make you laugh?), it's just bait.
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by requinot59 16y ago
I was speaking about the fact that Chrome also re-fetch some of the (most used) DNS entries in the background when they are about to expire (like they do for the DNS "8.8.8.8" servers). I agree that prefetching however can't be done by
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by requinot59 16y ago
> If knowledge is power, then sharing your knowledge empowers others. Yeah and in my nieztschean perspective I don't especially want others to be empowered. Either you have to work hard to beat them, either your competitors are weak e
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by requinot59 16y ago
Thanks for the info foxy lady.
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by requinot59 16y ago
Chrome should stick to its true nature, do one thing well, and leave the DNS stuff (refetch after..., the weird anti-nasty system explained in the post) to a DNS cache daemon. Google could include one in Chrome OS, and don't turn Chrome (t
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by requinot59 16y ago
Whenever I see "Periodic table of", I remember of this blog post by Rob Pike: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2010/08/know-your-science.... "Another sort of abuse is comedy periodic tables: periodic tables of the vegetables, period tab
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by requinot59 16y ago
what's the follow-up of Knuth's words? Please!!!
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by requinot59 16y ago
Yes, thanks Colin, Tarsnap really is gold on today's "cloud era".
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by requinot59 16y ago
http://www.arclanguage.org -> install -> arc3.0.tar/news.arc.
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by requinot59 16y ago
yes/no: it uses simple assignations to (new Image()).src .
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by requinot59 16y ago
Using Ajax for "load on scroll" may be a solution. Or go the reddit way, don't paginate but don't load full sub-threads.
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by requinot59 16y ago
> it's disingenuous and petty to try to punish him Where does he try to "punish" him?! Plus it's a real legal concern, sure in practice cperciva will not sue him, but still...

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