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by tajen 4y ago
The most surprising to me is that NodeJS says they are affected https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/openssl-november-20...
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by tajen 8y ago
What is difficult with ffmpeg is the sub-language in each argument, which depends on the filter you’re using. I can learn to lookup the manual, but if I have to go to the internet to learn the syntax of the filter, I’m better off googling m
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by tajen 8y ago
We use colons for the same reason as in English, but there is a space before colons in French (Microsoft Word inserts it automatically for you in French), and no uppercase after the colon.
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by tajen 8y ago
There are studies that the larger the bed (at home) and the fancier the reception, the shorter the marriage. But more friends means longer marriage. Basically a barbecue with heaps of mates predicts the longest marriages. Of course the stat
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by tajen 8y ago
In French, no space before a comma or a period (unless want to explicitly communicate your disdain for computery things or you’re above 60) but we do put a space before : ? ! Example: « Pas de palais : pas de palais ! » (^Quote from the Ast
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by tajen 8y ago
Atlassian has always forbidden to talk about the performance of their products in their ToS and in their previous EULA. We all know why, but we don’t talk about it. One of my customers even raised the issue with them, saying it would cause
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by tajen 8y ago
I work with beaten husbands and most often, the beating starts because of their inability to produce income for the wife. Most divorces start after a layoff too. If you believe you have value beyond your ability to produce, it’s nice, many
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by tajen 8y ago
or Gmail. From there, control on any online account you have. Gmail used to be the argument to log in to their services. Now, if you use Gmail, it’s probably better to dodge the other services, by fear of losing Gmail.
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by tajen 8y ago
But not acting could be worse, it could ruin the whole sector of Java, Scala and the JVM, be it discredit or economic irrelevance.
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by tajen 8y ago
I didn’t give facebook my phone, my email has timed out (and facebook knows it, it deactivated my email) and I forgot my password, more or less intentionally. So the only thing tying me to Facebook is my browser cookie. I have to say, I’m s
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by tajen 8y ago
Gmail itself was in beta, until recently. Everything was in beta.
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by tajen 8y ago
and the historic basis of patents is “Strong protection for 20 years, but you gotta share your invention”.
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by tajen 8y ago
Problem in Europe is that there’s always a chase against rich people, too. One could not build Apple in France, they would get mugged – at best you get laws against the concentration of money. Meanwhile you get benefits if your startup is i
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by tajen 8y ago
XML-separated values? Fortunately no: command line program for indexing, slicing, analyzing, splitting and joining CSV files.
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by tajen 8y ago
I once sent 49 rejection letters (for an internship!): « Here are statistics about the 50 applications I’ve received. » Received big thanks from at least 50% of them.
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by tajen 8y ago
What about groupchat?
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by tajen 8y ago
In Sydney I would always avoid the main CBD street (George St). It’s so noisy with cars, it doesn’t only prevent people from talking, but also thinking... It’s a classical case of 3-lane street with busses going 60kmh, with glass buildings
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by tajen 8y ago
That is statistically the most usual ending of your story in 2018, if that comforts you. Be strong. Be aware that there are thousands of people who empathize with your situation, whether or not you succeeded to find life after separation fr
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by tajen 8y ago
No license required? nor fee? I mean, if you can rent any physical media it’s a big loss of revenue for a studio, I’ve always assumed the studios got a share of rentals.
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by tajen 8y ago
blablacar.com limits the complaints to 120 characters. And once, they gave the complaint to the driver before they rated me, so the driver rated mr 0/5.
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by tajen 8y ago
Look, I went last week to the police station reporting a minivan who tailed me, then overtook me on the right and drove back into my car. Granted I wasn’t going at full speed (I was maintaining distance with the car in front, which made the
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by tajen 8y ago
Isn’t that a reproduction of the (well-criticized) Stanford experiment, which already didn’t need to be demonstrated because we already demonstrated it with the Nazi horror?
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by tajen 8y ago
If I left bad rating to carpooling drivers who drive unsafely... I’d do it every time. For some reason, although I’m ok with one offense at a time, drivers really want to both phone and drive over the speed limit, and tail the next guy, at
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by tajen 8y ago
Why didn’t they keep both the touchbar and the F keys. That would have been so awesome for developers, it would have enabled so many usecases without killing existing ones.
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by tajen 8y ago
My iPhone volume gets more quiet over time. I used to be able to do the washing up while listening to Youtube or Netflix on speaker, I can’t anymore. I used to be able to listen to Youtube on the street with earplugs, not anymore. It decrea
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by tajen 8y ago
GDPR applies if you are a European citizen visiting a website while on holiday in USA, for example. It doesn’t seem to me that GDPR stops when crossing a border. Which is why it has so much worldwide reach.
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by tajen 8y ago
The IP of the source torrent is published.
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by tajen 8y ago
The public safety of no people having different political opinion, of no people who would want to raise awareness on the problem of Amazon for this instance, because they could cause unsafe words being told to your ears.
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by tajen 8y ago
If a European goes there, he’ll have to sign a GDPR agreement? but if the city grew tired of that, they could forbid access to Europeans altogether. Which I’m not surprised would happen one day, perhaps not under this form, but becausr of o
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by tajen 8y ago
« A door seal’s gonna cost as much as a new machine sir. » Every repairman. It’s a difficult economic issue. Suitably skilled repairmen only exist medium economies, where we produce enough income to teach youngsters soldering, but when the

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