@Clt_VoyagesSncf Pour une annulation, le site renvoie vers le tél, le tél vers un guichet. On est très loin d'une gare — on fait quoi? Merci
January 2013
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Replying to @Clt_VoyagesSncf
non, comme je disais le site dit d'appeler, le serveur vocal dit d'aller en gare, ce qui n'est pas possible...
Replying to @Clt_VoyagesSncf
Sauf que comme je vous l'ai déjà expliqué (deux fois...) le serveur vocal renvoie en gare pour "problème technique".
Replying to @yvg
n00b ;-)
Replying to @yvg
bah des excuses, des excuses...
Pour cause de travaux je suis embedded chez @spintank. Je découvre la ferveur incessante du monde impitoyable de la comm'.
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Replying to @null and @notabene
Tu t'en rends compte maintenant?
Replying to @null and @notabene
Mais oui c'est fun! Par exemple l'algo de w3.org/html/wg/drafts… a au moins 8 bugs, dont 2 majeurs. Les trouver, c'est fun ;)
Replying to @null and @notabene
Et si ça t'amuse, tu devrais venir en écrire avec nous!
Replying to @null and @notabene
Justement, tu connais le dicton: "if you want something done, ask a busy person" ;-)
Replying to @null and @notabene
Mon expérience est que les gens qui arrivent à en faire beaucoup peuvent souvent faire un petit truc en plus ici ou là.
Replying to @null and @notabene
Alors que si tu demandes à un glandeur, tu vas attendre longtemps :)
Replying to @briankardell
Trust me I have ;) I love the pic there, there's a facial hair theme.
Replying to @null and @notabene
Il y a du petit comme du grand! Et puis un petit peu ici et là ça s'accumule.
Replying to @null and @notabene
Tu te fais une journée "looking up weird shit on Robin Berjon"? Parce que je te préviens, tu risques de finir tard ce soir.
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Replying to @null and @notabene
Ah, oui, ReSpec c'est un mal documenté mais sinon c'est de la balle :)
Replying to @null and @notabene
C'est pas une spec en fait. ReSpec c'est un outil pour écrire des specs plus facilement, et la doc fait auto-exemple.
My cat, Billie, makes her own lol. Featuring here in Escaping The Cupboard From Hell. youtube.com/watch?v=dpRx7i… No cupboard was actually hurt.
Replying to @leonor_de_b
Il faut certainement beaucoup de tolérance pour regarder.
Replying to @null and @sgalineau
No, that's what we tell recruits it's like so they don't run away. In reality...
Replying to @null and @sgalineau
haha, hadn't seen that side of it. My cat certainly is in more ways than one.
Just froze for a few minutes in a library. I couldn't recall how one used to find books in such places.
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Is it possible to deactivate the Facebook nanny that tells you it's dangerous to leave when you click a link? It breaks Firefox Mobile...
Les Chocolats Voisins, tout simplement sublimes de racisme (trouvé dans une papillote par @projectitude). img.ly/rBzi
Replying to @tehu
Non, c'est un vote électronique (on ne pourrait pas fonctionner en papier...).
Replying to @tehu
Non, les futurs votants n'ont pas accès à l'état actuel du vote (moi oui, mais je ne donne que les chiffres de la participation :).
Replying to @poulpita
Yay! :-*
Replying to @brucel
Especially on mobile! You might *move around* outside!
Replying to @briankardell
By looking at the live results and comparing them to records of previous votes :)
Replying to @briankardell
And it's now 8 votes away!
Replying to @briankardell
All voting in W3C uses our WBS (Web Balloting System), it's a simple voting system (with a number of nice features).
Replying to @briankardell
Depending on permissions, the results are available to different people. For TAG, they're team-only.
Replying to @briankardell
You'll know soon :)
@humourdedroite Les chocolats Voisin pensent à vous dans les papillotes: img.ly/rBzi
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Replying to @briankardell
Midnight Boston time. It can take a little while for results to come out after that.
Replying to @briankardell
Indeed — and it would be worth it!
Replying to @briankardell
Actually I thought we were the 9th all day. It turns out the 9th is tomorrow (and so is the end).
I sadly seem destined never to find a JS templating language that I don't regularly want to strangle with my own bare hands.
Replying to @codepo8
"nothing real" can be a pretty attractive proposition in some cases :-)
Replying to @julien_igel
xslwhat? Nah, templates *can* be good, it's just the solutions available in js that aren't.
An inspiring view of our neurones as feral, selfish cells by Daniel Dennett edge.org/conversation/n…
Replying to @dlandgren
J'attends avec impatience le bouquin qui sortira de ses recherches en cours!
Marché sur l'eau: le bateau maraîcher de Paris. Un beau projet à soutenir (et à tester) fr.ulule.com/marche-sur-lea…
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Replying to @briankardell
sure :-)
Bah Firefox Mobile, why do you always lose my open tabs?
Replying to @briankardell
it certainly does!
Replying to @mounirlamouri
Release. I'd file but it's hard to repro. I *think* that it loses my tabs whenever there's an autoupdate.
Replying to @mounirlamouri and @mfinkle
Usually I notice because I clicked a link in another app and only end up with one tab. Tabs from last time is (...)
Replying to @mounirlamouri and @mfinkle
(…) wiped then I think by the new page/set of tabs.
Replying to @mounirlamouri
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Since it seems to happen on updates it's hard to know if there's a heisenbug :)
Replying to @mounirlamouri
I used to be on Nightly but it crashed often and the UI was flimsy so I changed. Is it better now?
Replying to @mounirlamouri
Ok, thanks, I'll give it a new shot.
The <main> element has landed in HTML github.com/w3c/html/pull/5
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Replying to @dr_cyno and @cynorrhodon
Franchement, la photo me fait un peu peur. Le prix aussi.
Replying to @scottbw
C'mon man, it's all about love!
Replying to @jminuscula
Happy? Disappointed? Surprised?
Replying to @stevefaulkner
I would expect you to keep editing it, but perhaps not the original document? That would dupe content. @simevidas
Replying to @indio_bns
It's a semantic element to indicate what the main content of the page is. Useful for accessibility, Reader-like stuff @jminuscula
Replying to @lhirlimann
Replying to @jonathansousa
that would be great!
Replying to @quatremer
Je suis toujours surpris par vos réactions sur la langue française. C'est un nationalisme qui tranche avec le reste.
Replying to @quatremer
Mais ce problème est partagé par vos confrères européens. Or il faut bien une longue commune. Pourquoi préférer le français?
Replying to @MartinCarayol
Ce genre de négociation est difficile, les interprètes n'aident pas; une langue artificielle encore moins. @quatremer
Replying to @quatremer
Mais est-il seulement possible de faire justice à toutes nos langues? Et sinon, pourquoi ne pas aller au plus pratique?
Replying to @MarcNOTREDAME
La négociation c'est mon métier; avoir une langue de travail commune est très pratique. Et aussi une richesse. @quatremer
Replying to @tabatkins
You'll never get us all, it's CSS4EVER. @stshank
Replying to @mpopp75
can't you just use Unicode for that?
Aaron Swartz. We’ll miss you.
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Is someone organising something for Aaron? A massive liberation or some such maybe?
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Ça fait quand même bien peur ces défilés d'ouvertement homophobes.
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Replying to @null and @notabene
oui, ça donne envie de faire une série du genre "fourophile, pas antisémite !"
@GDegrenne Il est impossible de joindre votre SAV sur votre site, le lien vers un supposé "formulaire" est toujours faux.
A bunch of @w3c jobs, inc. accessibility engineer, Web apps expert, packaged apps expert (many in the Chinese office) w3.org/Consortium/Rec…
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Replying to @null and @marcosc
Damn right!
A la table ronde #netneut de Bercy. Bon, c'est une grosse table hein, elle prend tout l'amphi.
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Comme toujours à Bercy, le wifi est très, très neutre. #netneut
Replying to @lhirlimann
Seulement s'il se dit des trucs intéressants avant que je m'endorme. Là, PPT plein de texte de l'OCDE...
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Replying to @bortzmeyer
C'est ça :-)
Pour L'OCDE, le système actuel marche bien, et a encouragé les opérateurs à investir dans l'infrastructure. #netneut
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Replying to @null and @nitot
c'est même neuneutre, non ?
Replying to @null and @notabene
je me demande s'il y a eu des recherches sur la saturation du réseau à cause des animations VideoTex exclusive du Minitel rose.
Selon @lauredlr, l'autorité de la concurrence se penche sur les pratiques anticoncurrentielles des OS mobiles. #YADuBoulot #netneut
La place des opérateurs dans l'innovation française montre moins la force de leur contribution que la triste faiblesse du reste. #netneut
EdF crée de la valeur en permettant à la pub en ligne d'exister; pourquoi n'auraient-ils pas aussi leur part du gâteau? #netneut
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Replying to @scmilblick
hehe :-)
Tout le monde cause du spam sur #netneut, dans l'appli Twitter Android je ne la vois pas. Filtrage ?
Replying to @BelBlog
peut-être un test A/B?
Replying to @null and @alberror
Malheureusement oui :)
Replying to @FradiFrad
Bonne intro au sujet, merci! Question: je n'arrive pas à savoir si les opérateurs électriques ont des accords similaires.
Replying to @FradiFrad
Je me la pose parce que je soupçonne qu'ils doivent avoir élaboré une solution (potentiellement similaire), depuis le temps.
Replying to @null and @alberror
Je crois qu'on était qquns à se connaître sans se reconnaître :) Mouif, débat rabattu, et annonce minuscule de défausse.
Le W3C vu de l’intérieur, très bon article de @dontcallmedom letrainde13h37.fr/35/le-w3c-vue-…
Replying to @dr_cyno and @cynorrhodon
"intelligibility" being the key word there.
Replying to @dr_cyno and @cynorrhodon
Where's that from?
Free Will, by @SamHarrisOrg. A brilliant short book that's well worth reading. amazon.co.uk/Free-Will-Sam-…
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Replying to @dr_cyno and @cynorrhodon
Ah oui, les Digital Humanities c'est une bonne mine de WTF :)
Replying to @dr_cyno and @cynorrhodon
Je trouve qu'elle a souvent des élans inspirés, mais peut avoir du mal à développer.
Replying to @dr_cyno and @cynorrhodon
Oui, c'est une universitaire américaine à succès en somme :)
Replying to @tabatkins
best explanation ever, man.
Replying to @stshank
say you have a text and you want some words to be shown as an image representing them. You could just replace the words, but then
Replying to @stshank
you'd have lost the content. Or you could put the pics next to the word, but that would break looking for word sequences.
Replying to @stshank
those two are what the DOM permits today, and how it's done in popular components. Shadow DOM adds a new dimension to handle this.
On my way to @takeoffconf, see you there for what looks like a great programme!
Replying to @stshank
in practice it's of course more complex, and gets really interesting when you have multiple component sources.
@romainhuet t'es pas là, ça va ?
At @takeoffconf, it was -18C overnight but we are warm in our hearts.
Replying to @takeoffconf
What's the hashtag?
Replying to @_richtr and @richtibbett
No, it's not live streamed unfortunately!
#takeoffconf @immir is live-coding some cool stuff Meteor can do. It always makes for good demos.
My #takeoffconf slides on Web.Next are up at berjon.com/presentations/…
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Replying to @_richtr and @richtibbett
They won't give you much, but here they are: berjon.com/presentations/…
Replying to @hsivonen
I don't think the slides really work without me presenting them :)
@j_timmer Didn't you rather mean "trawl through Chinese cell phone records"?
Replying to @aljopainter
Yes, I'm so in love with the Care Bears!
Replying to @Ls01
Sauf si tu crées les conditions qui font que les geeks produiront ce type de produit pour le Papi du Cantal?
Replying to @Ls01
Tu es fou! @fleurpellerin a courageusement pris la décision de demander au @CNNum d'étudier la question!
Replying to @Ls01
En même temps tu as essayé d'utiliser Diaspora?
Replying to @Ls01
Ça donne une très bonne idée de pourquoi personne ne s'en sert...
Replying to @philocrate and @Elie__
Thanks :)
Replying to @mailjet
Thanks :)
Replying to @philocrate and @Elie__
Merci encore :-D
@ZorbaXQuery You have the wrong media type (text/plain) on your Mac download.
I just realise as I see him speak that the @rodneyrehm I drank with last night is the same who wrote this gem: coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/des…
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OH:
— "This is all pure 3D CSS"
— "No, this is just sick."
#takeoffconf
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@romainhuet Il parait que du coup tu viens pas :( Remet-toi bien!
#takeoffconf For those wondering what "carbonnade" is (apart from what we're eating tonight), this should clue you in: google.com/search?q=i+car…
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Legit — Git Workflow for Humans. This looks pretty slick #takeoffconf
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"I have to make a confession. It's not easy to say in public. But… I love XML." @wcandillon #takeoffconf
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@wcandillon Please meet @hsivonen, he's da man to speak to regarding your parser integration.
OH: "Why is it that every phone mapping application decided that the only useless piece of information in the UI is the scale?" #takeoffconf
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Replying to @theFakeW3C
hey, you know what? I might but I think I'll take them to a bar first :-)
@wcandillon BTW, we were talking about this last night… w3cmemes.tumblr.com/image/40281760…
#takeoffconf Anonymous neither forgives nor forgets that most people didn't show up for the 5K run this morning.
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"90% of data visualisation is crunching through bad, broken data" @ireneros #takeoffconf
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Replying to @null and @HTeuMeuLeu
Ça c'est pas grave pour des apps un peu complexes. Mais Meteor a d'autres problèmes.
Neat #datavis trick from @ireneros: make you get that "31º" is Celsius or Fahrenheit by switching its colour from red to blue. #takeoffconf
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"3D is only ever cool in movies — who wants to look at a rotating chart? Hypercubes suck." @ireneros at #takeoffconf #datavis
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OpenVis Conf in Boston, May 16-17. Sounds cool! #takeoffconf
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Replying to @null and @HTeuMeuLeu
En fait c'est plein de dragons. Essaie juste d'avoir un <title> qui change quand tu navigues ton app.
Replying to @null and @HTeuMeuLeu
Ou si tu as un template inclus conditionnellement, la persistence du formulaire en cours ne marche pas.
Replying to @null and @HTeuMeuLeu
Mélanger templates et routeur (ce qui est assez naturel) donne pas mal de flickering.
Replying to @null and @HTeuMeuLeu
Aussi, dès que tu dépasses la démo, ça devient vite compliqué de se souvenir de ce qui va sur le serveur ou le client.
Replying to @null and @HTeuMeuLeu
Bref, des bonnes idées mais c'est complètement expérimental.
"We're geeks. It's easier for us than it is for most people." #takeoffconf
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"The number of passwords you should be storing: zero. Get out of the password business." #takeoffconf
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Replying to @null and @HTeuMeuLeu
Oui mais là c'est pire ;) Enfin ça reste prometteur, mais pas pour tout de suite. Je reste sur Angular.
Replying to @null and @wolframkriesing
It won't be very interesting without the speech to match :)
The Riak thing actually just crashes on my Mac. Do you reckon there's a Nexus 7 in reporting a bug? :) #takeoffconf
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#takeoffconf The now famous Dancey Dancey "I completely fucked it up" youtube.com/watch?v=KIcjrt…
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#takeoffconf @asciidisco demonstrates the world's most expensive light switch: computer controlled lamp over Web Sockets.
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"By the way, if you're ever attacked by an AR Drone, just flip it on its back." @asciidisco #takeoffconf
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Replying to @null and @xavierballoy
No, it seems blocked one way or another.
"La moitié estime que la concertation a été suffisante, tandis que presque autant pense l'inverse" Merci @lemondefr, merci.
Thunderbird hit v1.0 in 2004. You'd think by now they'd have figured out how not to constantly corrupt mailboxes.
@wcandillon So, how's that NodeJS binding coming along? cc @ZorbaXQuery
Replying to @lhirlimann
Hmmm, that sounds promising. Do you know if it's possible to convert existing boxes (that aren't in IMAP)?
"Everything in canvas is better if you use globalCompositeOperation" @29a_ch #takeoffconf
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Replying to @lhirlimann
I'll see if I can hack around that limitation. Thanks for the pointer, the corruption is really annoying...
Heh. I still haven't figured out how to run Cloud9 usefully on my local laptop, but I've already had a pull request accepted into it. OSS <3
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Replying to @lhirlimann
It's not "that folder" it's many folders… I'll try compact/rebuild, but only when back home so I have a backup:)
Replying to @bortzmeyer
Quelle page?
Replying to @meyerweb
What's "Flash"?
Replying to @bortzmeyer
Ok. Je demandais juste parce que ça pourrait informer mon boulot si jamais ça vient d'un problème de la spec.
Replying to @bortzmeyer
Par exemple il y a peu j'ai trouvé une infinite loop dans un algo de la spec. Une implém correcte en serait problématique :)
Replying to @bradneuberg
No, no — it's 1800 BCE, which means nearly *4000* year ago. Yeah the Greeks figured out a thing or two.
#takeoffconf has been great, don't miss it next year!
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Sur le menu de la cantine maternelle de ma fille: Croc tofu à l'ail et fines herbes bio sauce provençale. This. Is. Montreeeeuuuuil!
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Replying to @tabatkins
Column-based UIs are verticality-neutral so you *could* get there. It still fucks with my brain though... @garannm
Replying to @MymiEK
du poulet au gingembre :-)
Replying to @wcandillon
yay!
Replying to @rodneyrehm
which parts do you mean by infrastructure? At this point HTML has little more than a repo.
W3C gets a new host in China \o/ w3.org/QA/2013/01/w3c…
Replying to @rodneyrehm
Honestly, we don't have much. There's github.com/w3c/html-tests… and darobin.github.com/test-harness-t… but we need more.
Replying to @rodneyrehm
We might be getting some new very soon whose first job will likely be to document all of this in a usable manner...
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Replying to @rodneyrehm
Excellent!
Replying to @rodneyrehm
Yes I do, we run it :)
Replying to @rowleyaj
Hi man, I don't think that was my talk :) Are you talking about the not-storing-passwords thing?
Replying to @rowleyaj
No worries :) Re external services, if they fail it's indeed a problem. But I'm not sure what the original speaker had in mind!
@www2013rio It looks like your site has been compromised to offer installing a crufty Flash player. Please act quickly!
Replying to @kiphampton
No no, some of us can actually be pretty damn blind all over :)
Replying to @null
@david_megginson... show and becomes a lot more about genuine implementation. Bottle of wine? @simonstl
Replying to @null and @david_megginson
Actually, I hate SQL for… SQL, and schema evolution. Have you tried JSONiq? jsoniq.org @simonstl
Why your distributed social network will not work programmingisterrible.com/post/394388343… (via @recifs)
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I wish @brucel got to pick all our specs' terminology. The <infolump> element would just so rock my world. w3.org/mid/op.wrc2dea…@bruce-pc
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Replying to @brucel
Bah, it's moronic @twitter that can't URL shorten :( lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi… should work
Replying to @brucel
This coworking place has books. It makes me say strange things.
Replying to @anssik
Confirmed tango down, @w3c_systeam has been pinged. @dontcallmedom
Replying to @null and @david_megginson
Oh yeah, I'm sure it has its uses. But I do Web stuff and I don't want to be anywhere near it :)
IanF: By saying "No DRM in HTML5" it's not clear that we're not blowing off our own own hand in an effort to deal with a thorn in our finger
Replying to @dr_cyno and @cynorrhodon
Il te faut un coworking, ça marche top pour ça :)
Replying to @dr_cyno and @cynorrhodon
Ah, oui, c'est sûr que c'est pas le même télétravail ;)
Replying to @anssik
Thanks for making it in the first place :)
Viruses of the common cold, rhinovirions all! One day humankind will exact revenge. That day, you'll wish your capsids were never replicated
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2012 into 2013: web standards in perspective, by @chrisdavidmills netmagazine.com/features/2012-…
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So, Cameron wants the UK to get a Norway-like deal whereby you have to apply EU rules to commerce but don't have a say in creating them? Hmm
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Replying to @wcandillon
Rodolfo! Rodolfo! Rodolfo! Rodolfo!
Replying to @null and @xquery
alas, no, not this year :-(
Replying to @null and @xquery
baby on the way more like :-)
Replying to @null and @xquery
there may well be, we'll find out. Thanks!
My 3yo daughter asked me to "teach her about computers" tonight. Any pointers where to start? I reckon Knuth might be a bit heavy for now.
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Replying to @sressler
Yes she is too young for that, but it's an interesting pointer for later, thanks!
Replying to @null and @apphacker
I'm not sure an overpriced keyboard-less laptop is the best option, but I am thinking about a Nexus7 indeed. Thanks :)
Replying to @asciidisco
Interesting, thanks. She's indeed too young. I wonder about Scratch since it's point & click: scratch.mit.edu
Replying to @glazou
Replying to @glazou
Ils l'ont pas en VOD :(
Replying to @glazou
Ah ouais t'es trop un hacker toi.
Replying to @null and @sgalineau
I only have 1-3, coming in at 4.2kg. So if 1-7 existed, they'd likely come close yeah :)
Replying to @asciidisco
Yes, it's quite nice and has been around a while. And it's all SmallTalk so very extensible.
Replying to @null and @apphacker
that's a good point but I think it's too expensive for something only she would use.
It's a great thing that Facebook went native, because it's, like, never slow and never buggy now. Right? Right.
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Replying to @meisterluk
yeah I was thinking of Scratch, thanks. But no daughter of mine is ever learning Python ;-)
Replying to @bertails
merci je regarde !
Replying to @Fondapol
Il faut notamment lire le chapitre d'Aaron, le reste n'est pas terrible.
Is there any good reason people use Thrift instead of just some JSON over HTTP?
Replying to @thommay
Which is fine for internal stuff, but for a public API it introduces a world of indirection, pain, and hard debugging.
Replying to @thommay
Also, I'm looking at the generated JS code, and I suspect that whatever is gained in decoding is lost in processing :)
Replying to @rodneyrehm
Yup, that's what CSSOM is for!
The very worst unicorn tattoos the-drone.com/magazine/les-p…
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Replying to @edasfr
Ce sont les mêmes qui parlent de la fin du PC. Tellement fini que MS Windows vient de faire 24% de croissance.
Replying to @null and @xquery
WANT
Replying to @bortzmeyer and @Tabathaflooze
En anglais, avec un g dur (mais un i court, pas comme geek). En français, on dit image bougeante palettisée. @bortzmeyer
Replying to @null and @xquery
So long as it leads to feeding me delicious pizzas I'm all for it using up all the recovery money.
Replying to @null and @xquery
The website is missing a "convincing your wife you need one at home" section.
Replying to @null and @nitot
D'ailleurs, arstechnica.com/business/2013/… @edasfr
Replying to @iskra2006
Exactly :) Poor unicorns!
@evernote Any chance you could expose a REST API at some point? This Thrift stuff you have is just insanely painful.
You can tell your web API is bad when it turns out to be simpler and more pleasant to use AppleScript instead. cc @evernote_dev
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Replying to @odiszapc
Yeah, I just gave up on using the API because something was blowing up in Thrift and it proved too painful to debug.
Replying to @tobie
I don't think so — for something to be worse than AppleScript it has to be pretty damn bad :) @evernote_dev
Quelqu'un aurait des infos sur une panne de Free vers Montreuil ? J'ai soudain une crainte que la v3 ne soit plus supportée...
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Replying to @edasfr
il faut croire que non vu que j'en ai une dans mon salon :-)
La ligne 6 est saturée dès Nation. #MetroPourTous
Replying to @jungkees
yes, there's a global default for the time out.
Replying to @tabatkins
we get to use you for $100? I had no idea you were so cheap.
Replying to @jungkees
I'm travelling and don't have the docs handy, but if you're seeing timeouts then sure!
On my way to SFO!
I wish we had BrowserID (or whatever like it) and that the identity were made part of the origin.
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Replying to @julien_igel
By self-closing you mean <x/>? Or knowing that <x> is always empty and processing as such? Problem is: there's no latter in SVG
Replying to @julien_igel
That's HTML5 baby!
Replying to @julien_igel
I doubt it, and no, the purpose isn't to piss off XML people :)
Replying to @julien_igel
Compatibility with what exists both in terms of implementations and content.
Replying to @julien_igel
That doesn't self-close. Look at your DOM for data:text/html,<div/><div/>
Replying to @julien_igel
Hmmm, no, actually that only ever worked in content served as application/xhtml+xml, which is 0.001%
Replying to @julien_igel
Hmmm, no it wasn't. <div/><div/> would always give you nested divs. You could only use /> in places in which it didn't matter.
Replying to @FremyCompany
define coherent :-)
Replying to @FremyCompany
Oh, you mean it's a human-oriented rather than arbitrary-rules-oriented API — then yes :)
Replying to @FremyCompany
I'm not saying it's pretty (it had to be in part backwards compatible) but I think union types are perfectly valid.
Replying to @FremyCompany
In fact, they're even supported by WebIDL :)
Replying to @FremyCompany
The world is messy. Any clean API is either wrong or a lie.
Replying to @tabatkins
That's… not a trend line :)
Replying to @tabatkins
I mean: I don't think it's even *supposed* to be. It's labelled "Laffer curve" which is something else altogether :)
Replying to @tabatkins
I haven't done economics in a while, but IIRC a Laffer curve is just a doodle you use to justify your preferred tax policy.