Joining should be moderated by how long you have been on Hacker News, not karma :)
He did have a point about the drunk dial app though :D
Whatever you do, don't work too much on side jobs while writing your mémoire/thesis. I have seen many people get a part-time or full-time job when they were done with their project, alas not with their writing. It takes…
I hope so ! I'm still pondering whether to do a Ph.D. or not myself. Almost done with M.Sc...
Finnish and Hungarian definitely have their place amongst the hardest languages to learn. If I'm not mistaken, Hungarian has 22 cases of declension.
HackerNews->SlashDot->Pwnage->Real gnome dev message
A much more interesting user interface used in a movie was developed by Oblong (see John Underkoffler). I am talking about Minority Report ;) They are making it into a real UI. Check it out : www.oblong.com
All in all this affair is fishy. However, it's not the first time we hear from google cancelling adsense accounts and cut all communication. I know it's the user's responsibility to make sure his stuff is clean, but…
Found the original article by Paul Graham : http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
What is the blub problem?
Isn't there something better than flash out there? Flash sucks for linux.
I use three languages commonly : French, English and Russian. I can set the language for non-Unicode programs only once, which means I can't display all programs written with a different encoding properly. Please just…
The concept or way to upgrade it is ok... it's just that it almost always causes a lot more trouble than a clean install. My experiences so far : 6->7 : System failure, unable to boot 8.04 -> 8.10 : Alright…
The command line really is hard to make up for, without a lot of hassle, that is. When I'm running windows it's the thing I miss the most. Other than that, it sucks that Firefox is not nearly as polished under Linux as…
I don't understand how a language designed for document programming can be a good choice for controlling a rover.. Is it a joke, is he really serious about this?
That is one fugly slow website.
Minibosses - my favorite video game music band so far. http://www.minibosses.com/ One full album available for free on their website, check it out!
Here in Quebec, Canada, Pepsi has the biggest market share :P EDIT : 59.5% Pepsi for 25% Coke.
1000 wired lists to read while bored
I couldn't bear it anymore past point 15.
By not reading mentalfloss.
Joining should be moderated by how long you have been on Hacker News, not karma :)
He did have a point about the drunk dial app though :D
Whatever you do, don't work too much on side jobs while writing your mémoire/thesis. I have seen many people get a part-time or full-time job when they were done with their project, alas not with their writing. It takes…
I hope so ! I'm still pondering whether to do a Ph.D. or not myself. Almost done with M.Sc...
Finnish and Hungarian definitely have their place amongst the hardest languages to learn. If I'm not mistaken, Hungarian has 22 cases of declension.
HackerNews->SlashDot->Pwnage->Real gnome dev message
A much more interesting user interface used in a movie was developed by Oblong (see John Underkoffler). I am talking about Minority Report ;) They are making it into a real UI. Check it out : www.oblong.com
All in all this affair is fishy. However, it's not the first time we hear from google cancelling adsense accounts and cut all communication. I know it's the user's responsibility to make sure his stuff is clean, but…
Found the original article by Paul Graham : http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
What is the blub problem?
Isn't there something better than flash out there? Flash sucks for linux.
I use three languages commonly : French, English and Russian. I can set the language for non-Unicode programs only once, which means I can't display all programs written with a different encoding properly. Please just…
The concept or way to upgrade it is ok... it's just that it almost always causes a lot more trouble than a clean install. My experiences so far : 6->7 : System failure, unable to boot 8.04 -> 8.10 : Alright…
The command line really is hard to make up for, without a lot of hassle, that is. When I'm running windows it's the thing I miss the most. Other than that, it sucks that Firefox is not nearly as polished under Linux as…
I don't understand how a language designed for document programming can be a good choice for controlling a rover.. Is it a joke, is he really serious about this?
That is one fugly slow website.
Minibosses - my favorite video game music band so far. http://www.minibosses.com/ One full album available for free on their website, check it out!
Here in Quebec, Canada, Pepsi has the biggest market share :P EDIT : 59.5% Pepsi for 25% Coke.
1000 wired lists to read while bored
I couldn't bear it anymore past point 15.
By not reading mentalfloss.