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In the 2010 Boréal conference Ted Chiang had an interesting take on the singularity and the computable brain. There is a transcript (in french) here : http://www.actusf.com/spip/ar…

I'm french and I worked with two foreigners (US & Canada) in a parisian startup. One of them didn't bother learning french, and it was ok. He was mostly hanging out with other expa…

This one for example : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8013773 The title was "The Tech Industry vs. San Francisco " : http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/07/07/140707fa_fa…

Main economic institutions [1] already maintains databases of consumer goods and services price across countries, but they don't give easy access to the raw data. Glad to see Expat…

The data format bothers me. Why not use a standard one like JSON?

The Paper demo is quite impressive on my phone (iPhone 5s). Anyone who struggled with touch events in an HTML app should be impressed.

I like how you sumed it up > Famo.us is built around a neat idea: by directly using the CSS matrix3d transform in combination with the window.requestAnimationFrame function, you ca…

Yes that's insane. But the blogger is also to blame here, he should not have used a Hotmail account to share such sensitive information.

why ?

I'm a bit new to bitcoins, but is it technically possible for the bitcoins community as a whole to make a blacklist of bitcoins addresses and "ban" the stolen bitcoins ? Such black…

Relevant Bret Victor video : https://vimeo.com/66085662#t=9m20s

Same thing for French : I have not heard of anyone named Brigliador in France, or maybe in some medieval poetry.

We all know there are a lot of existing tools that does the same things. But I've not met one with such a polished UX. Kudos to the Kimono team, I'll definitly recommend your produ…

I think it stands for "Confederatio Helvetica", and is the official abbreviations (eg : on licence plates)

Can you explain how ? I use git on the command line too, it fits well with my workflow (branch features, "commit -a" when it seems relevant, rebase/squash when ready). Maybe a more…

> It's Borges at his funniest Exactly. My feeling in the first pages of Fictions was : is it some kind of joke ? For those who read the House of Leaves, it's good to know that Dani…

I'm not too versed in Node frameworks : is Sails a direct competitor to Meteor ? If so how is it different ?

Yeah, that's the biggest misunderstanding about the teaching of philosophy in France. At the start you think "Cool, I'm going to learn to think by myself!", though what you actuall…