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> Encouraging international visibility, which requires English language skills, is not contrary to that. No, it's not, and international visibility is obviously a good thing! But t…

> basically everything is done in French, and much of it is required to be in French. « La langue de la République est le français. » ("The language of the Republic is French"), fi…

Thanks for sharing a link only Facebook users can access. In the pure hacker spirit: open, transparent access for anyone.

> Sometimes I just want to create some static pages, but I was forced to use either CMS or things like wordpress. Wtf?! To create static pages, I open Emacs and type there. No need…

It might be better to use proper rlimits, and not let a mad process gone wild triggers the OOM. Swap just delays the problem.

You're probably never going to hit the swap for a good reason. You might hit it if you do a mistake (resizing an image by 5000% and not 500%), in which case you will suffer if you …

> "twice the RAM is the recommended size of your swap file" Don't listen the parrots that repeat something that ceases to be true at least 10 years ago. Swap used to be a useful ha…

> I often just turn swap off entirely. And you're smart to do so. Swap is useless for 99% of end-user systems. ChromeOS doesn't use any swap partition, for instance. As for hiberna…

Exactly. Take a tour of the SF and Mountain View coffee-shops which offer free wifi with a laptop to sniff traffic. Isn't there a not-negligeable chance you might recolt some HN co…

> Declining quality of comments? Creeping influence of politics? It's a fallacious argument in my book. Like comparing apples and oranges. Say I run a bakery. What I care the most …

Like what, in the HN context?

That doesn't protect from cookie/password steal (for instance if you use a public Wifi hotspot). I do care about identity usurpation.

As a side note, news.ycombinator.com should really have HTTPS access. Passwords and cookies in clear HTTP are no good. Anyone here (should) knows it. Firesheep proves it. GMail and…

And I do take yours. The fact than Node is actually using Javascript, which is more similar to Lua than to Haskell, makes your impression very sensible ;-)

> He especially liked Lua Well, not as much as Haskell : "Haskell is pretty ideal but I’m not smart enough to hack the GHC. Lua is less ideal but a lovely language [...]" (at the b…

No. They give them a competitive advantage over other OSes by offering a faster Internet experience on ChromeOS. They stick with classic DNS resolving on Chrome the browser, no mat…

Seriously, is the specific and quite "strange" disposition of the periodic table really adapted here? Why not a simple table-based layout, with no useless holes? Here on FF 3.6 on …

It's not a joke (does it make you laugh?), it's just bait.

I was speaking about the fact that Chrome also re-fetch some of the (most used) DNS entries in the background when they are about to expire (like they do for the DNS "8.8.8.8" serv…

> If knowledge is power, then sharing your knowledge empowers others. Yeah and in my nieztschean perspective I don't especially want others to be empowered. Either you have to work…

Thanks for the info foxy lady.

Chrome should stick to its true nature, do one thing well, and leave the DNS stuff (refetch after..., the weird anti-nasty system explained in the post) to a DNS cache daemon. Goog…

Whenever I see "Periodic table of", I remember of this blog post by Rob Pike: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2010/08/know-your-science.... "Another sort of abuse is comedy perio…