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mamadrood

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    Comment #17310145

    I used to drink really heavily, I got 2 blackouts on two nights of extensive drinking and smoking. It's really like two hours of my life were gone, I was conscious, I talked to peo…

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    Comment #13687268

    Talk about a niche.

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    Comment #13687220

    Then what would be the difference between and ? Or is that sarcasm ?

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    Comment #13531776

    They are launching a sequel called CP Island. So don't rejoice too soon.

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    Comment #13492484

    I use ~80 cols terminal because everything is designed to fit in 80 anyway. More than that and it's just whitespace.

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    Comment #13411360

    We only speak this english in France, so now you're prepared.

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    Comment #13411352

    46k is really low in France for an experienced dev and that's outside of Paris. Junior dev engineer earn at least 45k when they begin in Paris, and it gets to 60k in about 5-10 yea…

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    Comment #13411284

    The article is misleading. This legislation [1] only apply to terrorism acts. And basically every modern country that was targeted has similar laws [2]. [1] http://www.assemblee-na…

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    Comment #13316640

    This is simply not true. If you look at the report of the Cour des Comptes regarding the tax rates of the financial sector [1] you will see that France take less taxes on bank than…

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    Comment #13316591

    Yep, we have this status, it's called "Cadre" in France, and you don't even have to be a manager, you just need to have a certain autonomy on your work, which basically apply to ev…

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    Comment #13283698

    I have a part of my family that lived in pretty unstable foreign countries, and they were more than happy of being french when problems occurred because your country will make sure…

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    Comment #13283263

    Okay, I've never worked with a designer that would touch code, so there is that. Macros seem a bit redundant with partial views in my opinion, except they take fixed parameters, bu…

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    Comment #13278557

    I've been using PHP for most of my life, and used various template engine and it always end up with one question : what is the real purpose of a template engine in PHP instead of j…

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    Comment #13276652

    I've had this discussion yesterday with a colleague of mine a bit older than me, he doesn't think that technology will kill jobs, he thinks that the government will probably preven…

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    Comment #13276591

    A lot of people already did that and it's already cheap anywhere in the world. The thing is, to be able to sell it in the US you would have to be approved by the FDA and that's why…

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    Comment #13230121

    Screw that. I don't want to live just to pay the bills, buy a house too big for me, a big car that I don't need and consume more than I should. If you think the way of life of your…

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    Comment #13193835

    > If you want a secure platform iOS is your best bet iOS is far from secure, just this week they released 3 huge security breaches fix. There is even in this release a somewhat sim…

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    Comment #13159718

    IMP must be a Interface Message Processor [1], an Arpanet equivalent to our routers. And TIP must be Terminal Interface Processor [2], not really sure of their usage but basically …

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    Comment #13157754

    The first one no, but the other 3 are set after a nuclear holocaust.

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    Comment #13105589

    That's a good way to build trust with your son. And to be a decent human being. But, sarcasm aside, there is a huge line between scaring / yelling at your kid and physical harm and…

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    Comment #13104802

    And we will keep doing this for the next 20,000 years or so. The surrounding area will be safe long before that but the epicentre will be radioactive for a long time and there is n…

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    Comment #13104719

    I don't know if you're talking about the 3-D Secure / Verified by Visa system, but the major flaw of this technology is that the merchant is the only one responsible for putting it…

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    Comment #13104428

    If I search "are jews" I get a suggestion for "Are jews christians", so I guess I'm not in the "evil" pool of people. Just in the dumb one.

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    Comment #13063239

    Flash also has huge security flaws and memory leaks. Pretty much like Java applets. At least with JS, if it leaks or has security breach, the browser's developer can fix it without…

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    Comment #13006249

    The worse thing is, I don't think they care about losing users, they are like 90s Microsoft, there are no alternative for most of the services they give. They would care about losi…