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New comment by nsebban in "One Player's Quest to Beat the Seemingly Endless 'Desert Golf'"

nsebban — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:59:19 +0000

The Final Fantasy series has spawned a lot of "stories" like this one over the last 30 years.

A notable one being related to the MMO Final Fantasy XI, with the "Maat's cap" item being created by Square Enix to praise a player who achieved the maximal level on every job available in the game. Which back then needed hundreds of days of slow and frustrating grind.

New comment by nsebban in "The Impossibility of Knowing Mark Twain"

nsebban — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:52:37 +0000

It's a pity how little most people know Mark Twain. He was so much more than the guy who wrote Tom Sawyer. He had many different and uncommon lifes in his life...A lot of inspiring things too.

His 3 volumes autobiography is a long but amazing read, just like his letters. But my favorite is "Life on the Mississippi". All this is close to 2000 pages but it's worth reading.

New comment by nsebban in "Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures"

nsebban — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:13:31 +0000

>Ads should be strictly regulated and the Internet should be completely free and open

While I completely agree with you on both points, I'm afraid both things that are mutually exclusive :(

New comment by nsebban in "Show HN: Sundown – an alternative to Markdown"

nsebban — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 23:31:45 +0000

I'm not sure the world needs a new markup syntax, especially an awkward mix of HTML and Markdown. But I could be missing the point, since I just base this on my own needs.

But thing is, talking about performance and scale goes exactly against your project's credibility. These are pretty much the two dumbest criterias when it comes to markup syntaxes.

New comment by nsebban in "Hedge funds embrace machine learning up to a point"

nsebban — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 20:03:52 +0000

Do they do that ? And why exactly do they do that ?

New comment by nsebban in "Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?"

nsebban — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 15:22:42 +0000

My beloved book. My kids books. My cat.

New comment by nsebban in "Ask HN: I'm a solopreneur and I feel demoralised"

nsebban — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:54:45 +0000

The advice you might get here are worthless compared to a few hours talking to a shrink.

New comment by nsebban in "The Science of Addictive Junk Food (2013)"

nsebban — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:50:42 +0000

To me the fact you'd eat a pizza with bbq sauce is already disturbing. It has to be one of the biggest sources of sugar in existing savoury sauces.

What's wrong with tomato sauce ?

New comment by nsebban in "A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm"

nsebban — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:17:02 +0000

> visual quality

When it comes to food --and specifically fruits and vegetables-- visual aspect is not a good indicator of taste or nutrition value. I would actually argue the opposite.

New comment by nsebban in "The way Microsoft patched a recent bug raised some eyebrows"

nsebban — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:31:50 +0000

It seems sad to me that the same people who pretend to be "hackers" are puzzled by a situation like this one.

Binary patches are a perfectly normal thing, may it be from Microsoft or a random company.

New comment by nsebban in "Chrome breaks the Web"

nsebban — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:51:25 +0000

Excellent point.

Hopefully someday a "lean webpages" movement appears.

New comment by nsebban in "Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm"

nsebban — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 21:06:47 +0000

Progress is not in the absence of taxes. Progress is in a fair and efficient use of the taxes money.

New comment by nsebban in "Facebook and Google Are Actually Net States. And They Rule the World"

nsebban — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 13:40:34 +0000

Definitely. And it would also help "real" states if they started to play nice, by paying their taxes where they're due.

But I think the over-the-top tax optimisation is actually what will ultimately cause them to lose their power (aka boycott by users, huge financial penalties from "real" states, or break-into-pieces scenario a-la-Standard-Oil) someday.

New comment by nsebban in "Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples"

nsebban — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:11:09 +0000

Commands like cat, cut, sort, uniq and awk are still pretty relevant nowadays. Even on huge volumes of data.

New comment by nsebban in "The software engineering notebook"

nsebban — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 19:57:17 +0000

OneNote works wonders for me.

New comment by nsebban in "A collection of non-standard punctuation marks"

nsebban — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:46:34 +0000

CSS :

{ user-select: none; }

New comment by nsebban in "Ask HN: Best backpack for everyday use?"

nsebban — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:38:39 +0000

I think Eastpack exists in the US, and I highly recommend one of those. They're pretty solid, light and waterproof. Style depends on your taste, but they have plenty of models.

Oh, and they're quite cheap, too.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_3_8?url=search-alia...

New comment by nsebban in "I downloaded an app and was part of the Cajun Navy"

nsebban — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 21:14:37 +0000

Hundreds of people opened their home in October 2015 after the huge rainstorm and floods in Cannes and Biot. Several supermarket (Carrefour and Intermarché for sure) delivered tons of food to the people there.

Hundreds of people opened their home on July 14 2016 after the terrorist attack in Nice. Same in Paris before that. And same in Barcelona this summer.

While it's true that American people jump into action, it's just wrong, and immensely disrespectful of the people who helped, to say the same doesn't happen in France or in other countries.

New comment by nsebban in "Wells Fargo uncovers up to 1.4M more fake accounts"

nsebban — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 09:45:29 +0000

I stumbled on that book a few days ago, but the readers' comments seemed to imply the whole book was a heavy dramatization. Is it, in your opinion ?

New comment by nsebban in "US Income Inequality: All for the Top 1%"

nsebban — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:12:40 +0000

> In other words, why graph income and not wealth?

I think it's because people's wealth is really hard to estimate. The border between people's assets and their companies', foundations' and what not are usually blurry enough that you would get a graph that shows no insight.

Although income is not a great KPI, at least there are reliable methods to figure it out, or at least make estimates with a quite acceptable precision.