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For better or worse, I think he embodied the tech culture of our time more than anyone else. My bet is that he will be remembered as a capital figure for putting half of the planet on a smartphone, which is a huge cultural change (not necessarily a good one, but still). If he's "second/third leaguer at best", who would you put in the first league?

That is _exactly_ what I've been looking for the past 5 years! Unfortunately I am still on Mojave, so of course I get an error:

dyld: Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_VNRecognizeTextRequest

Any chance to get it to work on poor macOS 10.14?

I didn’t know that, thanks!

Hi there,

Thanks for this release! I use ST every day and I love it: the speed, the efficiency, everything.

The one thing I miss, though, is manipulating files from the left panel (moving files especially). I know there is a plug-in doing that (Side Bar) but it lacks drag-and-drop support.

Any plan to have it natively in the future?

Do you think that Yahoo deserves its fate?

Hi, sorry for the delayed response. Sure, it's not gonna teach as much as C about performance or how computers work. It's used mainly to introduce algorithmic concepts and basics of imperative programming. And I agree with you that Python is a great choice for that.

Of course not! I rather consider I'm talking to the parents through their kids.

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/2400.

Indeed, some people will have the vaccine before them so their parents will have SOME data by then.

Probably the best option if we had some data history, but we have no stats on possible long-term effects for these vaccines, so I would have to compare with other vaccines (which might work differently). It's beyond my knowledge on vaccines to know if these comparisons might be relevant.

Giving medical advice and showing data supporting (or not) vaccination are two different things IMO.

Thanks, that would be a good angle.

Of course, their concerns are valid. But I suspect their fear is more due to the current French anti-vaccination climate than to the careful reading of studies about post-vaccination effects. And remember they can still get the virus at school and contaminate their family.

That would be ok too, I guess... Let the one with the best data win.

As for my employer (= French govt) policy, I'm actually not sure there is one, but if there was, that would probably be to convince people to get vaccinated.

Funny, there is « /2020 » in the blog link.

I think the parent was referring to M. Eric Dupond-Moretti, who, a few months before becoming France's current Garde des Sceaux (Minister of Justice), joined the Assange defense team [0] and sent Macron an asylum request for Assange [1].

[0] https://www.europe1.fr/international/eric-dupond-moretti-va-...

[1] https://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/affaire/assange/eri...

The irony is that, now that he belongs to Macron's government, he seems not to be allowed to issue asylum requests :/

Well, it doesn't _have_ to, but fun is surely easier! Also, I'm sure there are PL in French but they are a niche, which means less choices, less examples, etc. Plus, it isn't that much of a barrier in Python. In the end, it's easier to find French documentation for an english PL than find a French PL.

Thank you for your reply. I had never thought about that, and never done it myself, but it definitely sounds doable as a final group project!

I was considering Flask too... It introduces a lot of stuff and layers they won't understand at first, but getting their feet wet on web development would be very interesting.

What functionalities are you thinking about? Proper float handling to prevent the '0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000004' bug? Manual computation of square roots/sinus functions?

Text adventure could definitely work well! As soon as I talked about the input() function, they were kind of doing that already :)

Very nice idea!

I agree. However, showing them different projects and ask to pick some of them could work well.

I'll have a look, thanks!

You forgot a third kind: FB employees.

> So the real question is, what are you searching for? if you are looking for a single search engine that can answer all of the above then you only have 2 options (in the US) If you are looking for a search experience that focuses on specific verticals there are many options.

Yes, I'm looking for a general purpose search engine. Do you think that satisfying most of the above is beyond the reach of a start up?

Results all appear in Russian to me, even on the yandex.com page. I need to manually select "English" in some submenu. Still, I'll give it a try! You tell me it's a homemade index then?

Google's reverse image search used to be extremely good too (~5 years ago), but it seems to have lost its power in the recent years. I guess Google doesn't want to allow ordinary people to stalk one another based on a given picture...

I would never let a machine automate any decision regarding Trump's account, considering that any action would be scrutinized by the entire world and could have massive repercussions...

So definitely not "a counter incremented somewhere". This is a political decision.

I'm really surprised that nobody mentions tig [0] when talking about git. It is by far the most convenient git visualizer I've ever used, and I use it hundreds of times a day. It's written in C so it's super fast (loads a huge project in a few seconds), and it's a CLI so you don't even have to leave the terminal.

[0] https://github.com/jonas/tig

Very useful, thanks.