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sylvinuson The largest Ruby conference in France: dotRB, October 18

You should also check out the other conferences from the same http://dotconferences.eu series in Paris:

http://dotjs.eu (Coming back in Nov 2013)

Happy to answer any questions here!

Are you Ron Swanson? ;-) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Swanson)

sylvinuson Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

My 0.02c: you should change the name. If you already have to append "(kout)" to explain it to hackers, it will be 10x more difficult marketing it to a larger crowd. Or you can start printing stickers that read "you know, without the 'k'" ;-)

Apart from this, great design!

sylvinuson The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble

I'm also amazed by the work done by the journalist into this article over a quite long period of time, the interviews, the fact-checking, ... It's a bit sad that content on most blogs or even respected papers is written several orders of magnitudes faster.

sylvinuson (Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design

I am now patiently waiting for this cable to be jailbroken!

sylvinuson Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs

That is an incredibly useful feature.

sylvinuson The Perl Renaissance

Personal language preferences are fine if they are justified by actual reasons like tech details, community, librairies, ...

sylvinuson HTML5/WebGL source port of Quake

Same for me.

sylvinuson The Perl Renaissance

Opinions on Python aside, I'd never hire somebody saying something like that at an interview, even about a language I don't like. You should really look past petty details when evaluating any tech and come up with actual arguments.

sylvinuson Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails

Me too. I see this as a side-effect of Rails single-threaded craziness, our "modern" Node.js apps run faster than ever.

sylvinuson Steve Heymann Should Be Fired

she mentions 11k signatures but the current count is 2,737. What happened? Did they remove duplicates? https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...

sylvinuson Symbiotic Languages [video]

You can see the other talks from dotJS 2012 here: http://dotjs.eu

The 2013 conference will be announced soon, you can register here to be kept updated: http://dotconferences.eu

sylvinuson Optimizing the ISS solar arrays, a Python solution to the NASA Challenge

I'm happy to discuss the details of my implementation here!

sylvinuson Tiny, Hackable Quadcopter Drone Launches Pre-Orders

You could probably leave the copper coils on the ground somehow, which then I guess would be just like a power plug :)

sylvinuson Why New Relic Is Raising $80 Million Now

They should use some of that money to decrease their absurdly high subscription price when you run 10s of dynos on heroku

sylvinuson How Angry are your Developers?

at least you can submit a patch to that :)

sylvinuson What is opensource and why do I feel so guilty?

You can also have a look at the photos (http://svay.com/photos/2012-11-30_dotjs/) and other videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/dotconferences) from dotJS 2012.

It will happen again in Nov 2013!

sylvinuson Heroku dev status: Git push and API access have been temporarily disabled

I think it's mostly because the dedicated servers at your host don't hide between the convenient API of a PaaS like Heroku. Much more things are happening when you do git push heroku than when just pushing on a remote of yours.

If you tried to write a few scripts to automatically deploy your code on N instances, manage http load balancing and all the nice but invisible features of Heroku, I'm sure you would be down more often than they are ;-)

sylvinuson Aaron's domain registration runs out in Sept. We should archive it in his memory

Might not be true for all TLDs, but I think you can actually pay to renew one's domain even if you don't own it.

sylvinuson Aaron Swartz commits suicide

It was posted in /r/news but didn't make it to the front page. Weird indeed.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/16ffph/reddit_cofounde...

sylvinuson Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP

50-50 is usually a terrible idea, moreover if you don't know each other beforehand.

sylvinuson Letter to TEDx India Licensees

TEDx organizers can ask for discounted tickets if they can't manage the financials. There is also the much cheaper TEDActive conference that does lift the limit.

sylvinuson PyCon US 2013 Accepted Talks

how many submissions did you have?

sylvinuson Hypersonic Flight ‘Breakthrough’ Could Have Us in Tokyo by Lunch

One data point doesn't mean anything... It's the uncertainty that you might spend 1h in line that makes you waste time in the end.

sylvinuson Perfectum Dashboard

It's incredibly annoying to have the loading screen on each page, no matter how much it takes to load. It should appear only on the content (don't cover the nav!) after a 100ms or so timeout.

Apart from that, beautiful theme

sylvinuson Aerographite: six times lighter than air, conductive, and super-strong

I think it's probably lighter than air if you weight it in a vacuum.

I think like a sponge in the photograph it has a fair amount of air in itself.

Just a guess though.

sylvinuson Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

Well after buying the whole Lucasfilm for $4B you'd think buying the IP rights for the Thrawn triolgy shouldn't be that big an issue ;-)

sylvinuson Surviving in-flight breakup of an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18

He mentions that it was his "first ever parachute landing", but I can't imagine a SR-71 test pilot wouldn't have been trained in parachute landings. Any idea why?

sylvinuson Skydiver shatters world record with 24-mile leap

He did not pass the speed of sound :(

sylvinuson Satellite burns up following SpaceX rocket glitch

They shure didn't want this to happen but they also demonstrated they were able to manage engine failure. That's worth something for the future.