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lucdon Why I won’t be attending Systems We Love

I watched some videos from Brian Cantrill. He was mean with Larry Ellison.

lucdon Ask HN: What is your favorite Google chrome extension?

Switchy Omega Proxy switcher with autoswitch ability (according to url) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/proxy-switchyomega...

Screencastify Video capture from desktop/tab/webcam https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screencastify-scre...

The Great Suspender Automatically suspends unused tabs to free up system resources https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

Open Screenshot Can capture an entire page, even if bigger than screen https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/open-screenshot/ak...

lucdon The French Number – Connect to a random French person and talk about anything

Apparently french ambassadors are supposed to speak english.. Maybe I'll try, just to get some english speaking training..

lucdon The French Number – Connect to a random French person and talk about anything

As the death of Adam Traoré, and Sarkozy aiming for presidential bid..

The question was about burqini, and you disgressed a lot..

lucdon The French Number – Connect to a random French person and talk about anything

Exactly, unfortunately there is a blantant lie in France, propagated by our politicians and most of the mass media, for more that twelve years.. Its about secularism implying that religious signs should be banned from the public space.. In fact it is exactly the opposite.

I just hope that the wise decision from the "conseil d'état" (roughly the french supreme court) ended this joke...

Apparently our politicians like Manuel Valls don't agree they want less and less freedom and human rights..

They're the first to show no respect to secularism, when they express public views regarding religions, publicly participate in religious events, and when they try to meddle with religions (ie: fondation des oeuvres de l'islam en france).

A lot of racist hypocrits only care about animal rights when it comes to the muslim ritual slaughtering, and the women's right but just about islamic clothing.. Today secularism is too often anti-muslimism in disguise..

Politicians want the votes from racists, and/or are too happy to divert us from their failure, betrayals, corruption, unkept promises etc.

lucdon France’s top administrative court overturns burkini ban

It was a local initiative of two or three populist mayors. Fortunately the conseil d'état is here to protect what is left of "Le pays des droits de l'homme", and its decision should be regarded as the French decision.

Regarding our indigenous culture.. Go after some women on the beach, because their body is too much covered.. while our indigenous culture is silently eroded by the very invasive american one. Seems misguided at least..

lucdon France’s top administrative court overturns burkini ban

Outside of nudist beaches, which represent a tiny fraction, swimming in the nude isn't tolerated on french beaches. (maybe you were joking ?)

lucdon Tcpdump is amazing

You also may want to use the "-A" switch if you are looking for ASCII content, the command ngrep..

lucdon We Are Now at Peak TED

The video on how to use one paper towel is not from TED conference. It's TEDx

lucdon A Day at the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon

A lot of these project could easily qualify as contemporary art..

lucdon Badgers are driving hedgehogs extinct

badger badger badger ...

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/badger.html

lucdon Swarm vs. Fleet vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos

Yes Joyent's Triton may be the best way to run docker containers, not only for ZFS, but for Illumos Zones, network virtualization.. You may be interested by this article from Casey Bisson, about running Mesos on Triton:

https://www.joyent.com/blog/mesos-by-the-pound

lucdon Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret

France voted against the european constitution (referendum), only to see it instated through Lisbonne treaty, this time without referendum.. So much for EU democratic values..

lucdon Ask HN: How did you deal with depression?

Rather than taking medication, you may want to take some supplements with 5-HTP, a precursor of serotonin. IE: Griffonia Simplicifolia.. It does have far less side-effects, no dependency.. Far less popular with the pharma industry because not patentable..

lucdon How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East

surprised ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2138565

lucdon LLJS : Low-Level JavaScript

lucdon Facebook’s Blu-Ray Powered Cold Storage Data Center

FTA: Last month that startup, Optical Archive, was acquired by Sony. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/05/27/sony-...

lucdon LLJS : Low-Level JavaScript

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client

Native Client is a sandbox for running compiled C and C++ code in the browser efficiently and securely, independent of the user’s operating system.

lucdon Matrix HiFi – Blind testing high end full equipment

Heard several loudspeakers in a local hifi shop and chose the Quad. For the HC preprocessor there wasn't much choice available at Emotiva price point. For the amplifier I was leaning toward a Yamaha from the P-S series (http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/global/en/products/poweramps/p...), Crown happened to be more easily available. This one and the Crown have regulated fans. The Yamaha has less distortion and a security cover to lock volume knobs settings..

lucdon Matrix HiFi – Blind testing high end full equipment

I use an Emotiva UMC-200 (HC preprocessor, fine for stereo too),a Crown XLS 1500 amplifier (intended for professional use) and Quad 22L loudspeakers..

The most noticeable upgrade was the automated room correction included in the preprocessor. It more or less removes the room acoustics from the equation, as well as the speakers coloration.

IMHO correct speakers, powerful amplifiers (professional audio power amplifier may be considered) and good room correction makes a great combination.