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Very interesting. There appears to be a push to control open source software, in the guise of protecting children via age control. With OSS, anybody can tweak the code on his devic…

Apparently not : https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-database-83-perc...

It depends on the stakes? In the 90s, the French IRS seized massive amounts of files from Elf, then a major French oil company under investigation for various frauds. Their offices…

It tends to happen with a reasonable certainty to most whistleblowers, from what I gather. So yes, you can swear you read that same story before, and I could swear you will read it…

It's not limited to Japan. The French call them 'trognes' https://www.agroforesterie.fr/la-trogne-arbre-paysan-aux-mil... Other countries do it too : https://trognes.fr/trognes/tro…

>The heat goes into the air Can confirm : I'm reading this from France, we're in the 8th day of the meanest heatwave the country has known since records exist, and it's expected to…

The way it's written is funny, I find. But I'm a programmer... And as GP wrote, it would take a substantial amount of time to explain to a normie (infinite I'd say, but let's not d…

I meant to add that I don't advertise it and just invalidate the account. Omitted it for brevity. There is also the long time friend you do a site for, with an agreed upon price. A…

>If contract broken, sue them. Why throwing a scene? Haha! tell me about it. A client of mine ended his contract in 2010, pretending he did not use my software anymore. He had the …

GP seems to mean that if people cared about audio quality, they would not use bluetooth in the first place? Audiophiles tend to have firm stances on what is acceptable or not, I fi…

Interesting. Nice way to get headers quickly, I'll have a look. Fun project I'm sure, but out of curiosity, is this something that you can monetize somehow? because the fun only go…

I built an accounting app : https://compta.libremen.com Did not intend to at first, but having quit Windows, I had to replace the Access application I had built with an accountant …

Hi, When one clicks on 'Play tutorials', the text at the bottom reads : >Start by follow the instructions Should be 'Start by following the instructions', I believe?

Strange, for me it's the opposite. Just yesterday, I moved some 100 lines of code using a hash quite a few times from the main module to a function using a reference to the hash. i…

>This was one of the big reasons, most of these enterprise coders wanted Perl gone I see some people disagree with you, but reading this reminds me of this anecdote : My brother ha…

I had to laugh out loud at this (by myself). The amount of requests I get on my servers for WP related files is insane

> I have machines at these providers with 1000-1300 days of uptime You did not say what system you use on them, but don't you need to reboot them to apply kernel upgrades, for inst…

Haha! we named our software Marica for "Management des risques et des contrats d'assurance" (we're a French company). We have since translated the software in several languages. It…

Screen writers and actors have a union, both fill some needs that apply to the rank and file but not to stars. May be the model could work for developers?

"But they're the exception, not the rule." Excuse me, you must have forgotten about a certain global financial meltdown in 2008?

Web UI is an interesting problem, but even just building a proper data structure can be very challenging, when the user's environment is complex and one needs to build a simple yet…

"But when you look at it as a probability rather than as an absolute, yes, you should expect more popular things to be better than less popular things, no? " Possibly in areas wher…

How can 3 posts (4 with this one) about the SR-71 Blackbird make it to HN's main page, on the same day?

Sure, but at MtGox, the theft was 477 millions. http://news.yahoo.com/mtgox-opens-call-centre-500m-bitcoin-l... That's a lot of duffle bags to haul.

I would suggest subscribing to and reading the fine postgresql mailing lists (general and performance). It's amazing what you can learn from the questions and answers they get.