July 2017

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Replying to @ElieSl

Pareil pour nous, et les banques sont parmi les pires. Aussi, la CAF.
Any recommendations for a science / philosophy podcast (or any audio), not wishy-washy? I'm considering running but the boredom looms heavy.
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Replying to @rubin

Mec, c'est une question sérieuse :-)

Replying to @rubin

Oh, hmm. C'est à dire qu'il est assez loin de la recherche contemporaine, limite anti-philo, et très pop. Je cherche plus hard :-)

Replying to @andreisambra and @slashdeiu

Thanks, will check!
For those scared at the mention of "ethics": this is thinking written with such clarity that all could, and in this case should, read it.

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Replying to @edasfr

Ça fait un bout de temps que j'en parle, donc yes. J'ai déjà fait une installation à l'époque pour @specifiction, je peux m'y coller.

Replying to @null and @Floppy

/me points at the people in the little blue birdie thing.

Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo

Logic of Science is great, but I don't know if I'd recommend that as the learning step. It's pretty steep. For beginners, Morin's?

Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo

Oh, I don't in the least deny that, but I can easily imagine how one would get stuck trying to read it in order as an intro. 🙄
Please tell me robotics labs elsewhere in the world are fighting it off to invite them.
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Voilà des candidates parfaites pour #makeourplanetgreatagain, @VidalFrederique @EmmanuelMacron.
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Every time they see you railing at a tweet, his base feels they're sticking it to you. Stop, and he's just an angry old pervert.
Trump is desperate, his presidency is running out of wheels to lose. Don’t give him the victory of attention. Fight where you can win.

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C’est marrant, j’aurais plutôt pensé que c’est la France Insoumise qui bloque tout à gauche. lemonde.fr/la-france-inso…

Replying to @edasfr

Bon, mais du coup je monte le Discourse?

Replying to @edasfr

Un mini-groupe de confiance en admins, et pour le reste on organise à la volée. Je pense que simplicité est vertu dans ce domaine.

Replying to @edasfr

Franchement, je ne suis pas sûr. Le plus gros problème sera à priori le décollage. Et avec Discourse le bruit se gère.

Replying to @edasfr

Oui, ma motivation est aussi d'éviter de trop débattre du comment, erreur déjà faite :-)

Replying to @pdwn and @edasfr

Mais ND can m'a toujours paru très démocratie directe, non? Avec plein de règles genre pas de représentation dans les médias, etc.?

Replying to @pdwn and @edasfr

Le but c'est penser mieux ensemble. Le tournant habermasien est plus proche qu'il y a même peu de temps. Je veux tenter.

Replying to @pdwn and @edasfr

Oui, ou comme plus généralement compris: trainer au café avec des gens intéressants :-)

Replying to @pdwn and @edasfr

Tout à fait. La plupart des nouveaux mouvements se sont concentrés sur de nvx modes de décision. Ma thèse est que ce n'est pas le problème.
I hadn’t seen that when it came out. Absolutely made my day. thewritelife.com/is-the-oxford-…

Replying to @PushFire

No worries! Didn’t affect me beyond a few weird errors, glad you could get it fixed!

Replying to @msantolini and @XquaInTheMoon

Ok, thanks! I’ll check it out.

Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo

To what degree does the field (or process) crumble if you stop assuming universality?

Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo

But isn’t it precisely that (here, useful) fiction that in part defines a field’s culture? And then leads to the consequences you list?

Replying to @pdwn and @edasfr

Exactement! C’est pour ça que je suis favorable à tenter une approche JFDI :)

Replying to @pdwn and @edasfr

Mais parfois ça prend, surtout avec les bonnes graines. Et si ça ne marche pas, tu n'as pas perdu de temps en process méta!

Replying to @WKCosmo and @SimonDeDeo

In + to Simon's excellent points, I would contend that the universal assumption (at least cislunar) was in physics long before testability.
It may be too much of a historical perspective, but 25 centuries of assuming universality might just produce the conceptual tools and...
...attitude that supports intersubjective complexity, whereas other domains have a far more parochial history, at least until recently.

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Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo, @WKCosmo

"It works" is enough for chess, though. At some point you win or you don't.

Replying to @pdwn and @edasfr

Ben voilà tu viens de répondre à ta question, non? 😇

Replying to @edasfr and @pdwn

Ah ben non! On parle de comment ça se passe en général — c’est du métaméta. Suis un peu Éric, bordel!
Congrats to all! A batch of great essays in there.
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Replying to @edasfr

Physicien. Philosophe. Politique. Écrivain. Justicier masqué.
C’était pas déjà dans la #DPG de Jospin ça?
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Replying to @webaaz and @edasfr

Au moins trois de ceux-là, j'y compte bien!

Replying to @webaaz and @edasfr

Ben si tu veux pas avoir trop honte...

Replying to @trekonomics

I hope you're not too disappointed that it's not even raining.
I thought the advantage of UK plugs was that in case of invasion every household is heavily armed. Can't fuck with someone shaking those.

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There are barriers to that. Chiefly that the HTML version would have to be canonical, and PDF dropped (or made very secondary).

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Replying to @versac and @valeriomotta

J'y serai ai pensé aussi, mais avec ça tu ne peux pas faire le cacou sur les twitters.

Replying to @valeriomotta

Sans présumer de ce qu'il fera, la continuité campagne -> présidence ne me gêne pas autant que l'inverse. J'y vois un sens défendable.

Replying to @valeriomotta

Parler de subliminal, n'est-ce pas déjà faire un procès d'intention?

Replying to @valeriomotta

…soit le voir comme une image de parti plutôt que d’engagement dénote d’une vision de l’organisation politique aujourd’hui dépassée? 🙃

Replying to @null and @helenvholmes

It has occurred to me that writing a lib to manipulate its file format directly might be easier than understanding its UI.

Replying to @null and @helenvholmes

Oh yeah, that’s just the «to infinitAAAAAAAy and beyond!!!» button.

Replying to @Balu_Christiane

Oh dear, that’s a scary thought!

Replying to @valeriomotta

Ça peut être l’un ou l’autre, il n’y a pas de primauté ontique à l’un ou l’autre! Décider que ça *doit* être l’un est un parti pris.

Replying to @valeriomotta

Certes, ms je pense que tu aurais justement peine à faire valoir qu’il y a un lien matériel suffisant pr constituer un financement illégal…

Replying to @edasfr and @pdwn

Lol. Non, j'espère faire une install cette semaine, au pire la prochaine.

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Replying to @domenic

I wonder if a sizeable chunk of that is a service or library being stupid. Eg. an ad network.
I’m considering attending just to meet some time travellers from the future who’ve come to save the world.
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Replying to @GTheraulaz

I’d love to, but Toulouse is a bit far. I’d have to find a job in a relevant domain first (which would be cool!)

Replying to @GTheraulaz

That’s a great idea! No need to even use up any vacation time :)

Replying to @mtsw

Well, I mean he’s called «Iron Stache» and is going against Ryan. If it were legal I would just throw my money at this guy.

Replying to @mtsw and @dccc

Wait, that’s not a parody?

Replying to @mtsw and @dccc

You had me scared — albeit in a credible way — there.

Replying to @tabatkins

Oh, sure — all the more reason to go watch our Swarm Suzerain fry their lowly human arses with their own explosives!

Replying to @domenic

Have you seen the follow-up discussion on discuss.httparchive.org/t/pwa-analysis… ? It looks like it’s possible Google could help a *lot* here.

Replying to @jevakallio and @stshank

Funny, that's been exactly my thinking. And yeah, fuck it's hard.

Replying to @LeaVerou

You need to mansplain back! "Well actually, 10-20 years is baby time at the Web's timescales."

Replying to @meyerweb and @fantasai, @LeaVerou

Mansplaining as a Service. So that would be... a weapon of MaaS destruction? #sorry

Replying to @yoavweiss and @johnallsopp

The ten-foot spiders are vegetarian, it's the dropbears raining down you ought to worry about.

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Replying to @null and @marcosc

Ah! Of course.

Replying to @null and @dauwhe

Because the set of conceptual models that sustain it are relatively unusual, poorly documented, there poorly understood?

Replying to @erikphoel and @SimonDeDeo

What entities would you not consider processes?

Replying to @TzviyaSiegman and @dauwhe

But not before securing a witness protection deal.

Replying to @hsivonen

Yeah, @Medium's app strategy is absurd. They wanted to fix publishing, instead they're making mistakes publishing has already forgotten.

Replying to @erikphoel and @SimonDeDeo

It’s almost like you’re saying that an entity is a process with a (relatively) well-defined boundary. 🙃

Replying to @pdwn and @edasfr

C’est trop sur de la production de texte — peut-être plus tard si on en arrive là!
@SwiftKey Can you please get rid of the wasted space at the top-right of the keyboard and make larger completion buttons? It'd be great!

Replying to @erikphoel and @SimonDeDeo

Oh. I thought that was called economics.

Replying to @SpringerNature and @skdh, @sciam

I thought this was going to be like delish.com/cooking/recipe… 🤔
Je veux les mêmes drogues que le service marketing d’@AirFranceFR.

Replying to @dginev

I’m curious about how PDF stores ligatures — clearly, that’s the source of many of those problems. I’m afraid to look, though…
@adafruit Hi! Given your jobs board is offline, is there someone to contact in the meantime? Thanks!

Replying to @ayymanduh and @Floppy, @ODIHQ

I can’t believe it’s been 5 years already! Happy birthday all!

Replying to @shepazu

All of the above.

Replying to @edasfr and @PascaleLC

Il y a le marcel.

Replying to @edasfr and @PascaleLC

Allons, allons, en mode le mot "jamais" n'a aucun sens!

Replying to @edasfr and @PascaleLC

Voyons! Ça se fait même à l'ONU!

Replying to @edasfr and @PascaleLC

J’approuve à fond! J’en veux un!
Looks to me like Facebook's debugging tool could use some, erm, debugging.

Replying to @kosamari

Just never forget that those aren't rungs up a ladder and it's always fine to go back to steps two or three :-)

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Replying to @gsnedders

There should be a name for that position. Maybe just "reality-based".

Replying to @null and @Floppy

Oh man! We need this!

Replying to @jonty and @pezholio, @Floppy, @pikesley

Not enough machine learning.

Replying to @gsnedders

That’s absurd… Two things can kill it: legal system change, or business strong-arming (as with Apple/Amazon).

Replying to @gsnedders

It doesn’t. That said, I don’t know if you want to enter the fray. Some DRM opponents are really nasty, using words like «corporate whore»…

Replying to @gsnedders

Yeah, I’m not saying you haven’t seen it before, just reminding you that it’s not necessarily a fun occupation :)

Replying to @gsnedders

They have a variety of positions. I think there’s still too much competition between outlets for them to force their way.

Replying to @gsnedders

Part of the problem, which is different from music, is that the new big ones are both producers and distributers. Clashes inside.

Replying to @gsnedders

Yeah, but the global market is trend-setting there.

Replying to @jonty and @pezholio, @Floppy, @pikesley

If you expose this as a SOAP endpoint with built-in data science reporting, I'm sold. So... when do we ship?

Replying to @jonty and @pezholio, @Floppy, @pikesley

ōver But you need the ō. Yes, even on the command line.

Replying to @torgo and @jaffathecake, @mathias, @samsunginternet

Arguably, the British should offer a "Fake it" option.

Replying to @torgo and @jaffathecake, @mathias, @samsunginternet

The browser for fuck's sake. Though admittedly the British could fake it too.
Many great points from Ben. But unsure why he expected @w3c to win a negotiation after Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla already caved.
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Replying to @benadida and @w3c

They'd already shipped. The amount of leverage left at that point is slim. The @w3c has been anti-DRM for years, they didn't just give up.

Replying to @fabricedesre and @w3c

I agree there is value in a stance, I'm less sure that @w3c is well placed to drive it. I've argued for a community-led covenant a few times

Replying to @benadida and @w3c

But you don't get a covenant involving legal departments without serious leverage. That basically vanished when the API shipped.

Replying to @jonty and @pezholio, @Floppy, @pikesley

Yes, it would save on paper costs.

Replying to @AmeliasBrain and @AirFranceFR

Oh yeah, where they started from is great. Then someone said "we should make it distinctively Air France!" and it all went to shit :-)

Replying to @benadida and @w3c, @timberners_lee

Allow me to invert the question: you're @w3c, you're facing EME as a fait accompli, what's your strategy to get a convenant?

Replying to @TheLarkInn

For me it's not so much context switching as losing the stack. Beyond three such interruptions I hit pause and ask to make a list :-)
This is why the real purpose of comments is to document not the code you've written, but that which you haven't written yet.
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Replying to @TheLarkInn

Also, I’ve found that it’s not rude when someone interrupts to ask for ten seconds, then use that time to dump your brain state.

Replying to @TheLarkInn

YMMV but I find that 1) it makes me no longer stressed to drop the thing, 2) I can then pay better attention to what the person asks,

Replying to @TheLarkInn

3) people (esp. spouses :) are understanding, and 4) swapping the state back in can get pretty fast. Just my 2¢!

Replying to @TheLarkInn

Happy if it helps even a little bit!

Replying to @SteveSyfuhs and @ericlaw

Ha! I wish I could bring it down to where it still shows the number!

Replying to @jwajsberg and @w3c

Well, I think that useful acts are better than symbolic gestures that change nothing, but I know it's not always seen that way :-)

Replying to @edasfr

Tu pourrais pas juste répondre "ok, mais d'abord trouvez lui qui un nom moins ridicule"?

Replying to @tabatkins and @brucel

Can't count the times I've wished this'd work.
I love how there's a "D" on the demon, you know, in case it wasn't clear. 👹
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I’m looking for my next adventure. If you’re interested, you know where to find me! cv.berjon.com
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Replying to @yoavweiss

I hope to, at least until summer 2018 to avoid a brutal move for the kids. But I’m open to talking about options!

Replying to @edasfr

Merci Éric :)

Replying to @bogomep

Thanks Bogomil!

Replying to @edasfr

Hahahahaha, bien joué :-D

Replying to @trekonomics

And… the French largely still revere him.

Replying to @trekonomics

I was in a UK/FR dual-programme high school; the view I got from the French side was a lot short of critical — from leftist teachers too!

Replying to @null and @dauwhe

What are you doing reading those old things? Man, that font was such a bad idea :)

Replying to @JiminyPan and @dauwhe

Yup. «Doctor, sometimes it hurts when I use XHTML!» «Well…»

Replying to @jensimmons

Hear, hear. Fail fast is how to research a feature, not how to drive a product...

Replying to @cepcam

C'est une des raisons pour lesquelles je n'ai que peu accroché à Ruby, alors que le langage est cool. La communauté fait tout en vidéo.
When a friend suggests you go live like him in the Caribbean and remote from there. youtube.com/watch?v=GZqGQl…

Replying to @null and @Floppy, @OverEngConf

«Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to refactor, but when there is no further feature you can think of.» A de St-Exaspéry

Replying to @lara_hogan

Ooh, cool! Thanks for the tip :)

Replying to @null and @siilime, @JiminyPan, @dauwhe

I’d be curious to hear why!

Replying to @null and @siilime, @JiminyPan, @dauwhe

I’m not convinced state-of-the-art XML parsers are faster than the state-of-the-art HTML parsers, and if they are I doubt it matters often!

Replying to @null and @siilime, @JiminyPan, @dauwhe

Styleable XML never worked; you could never do links and a bunch of other useful things like that. HTML can be deeply semantic, too.

Replying to @null and @siilime, @JiminyPan, @dauwhe

Halt-and-catch-fire is only a benefit to lazy developers. It actively hurts end users (who get something broken they can do nothing about).

Replying to @null and @siilime, @JiminyPan, @dauwhe

It’s the opposite: XML devs are lazy, they want things to blow up without testing. But it doesn’t work, it just hurts others :)

Replying to @null and @siilime, @JiminyPan, @dauwhe

HTML === styleable XML with semantics :˜)

Replying to @null and @siilime, @JiminyPan, @dauwhe

I’ve been there man. But the HTML options tend to have much better DOM implementations, so I decided to be stubborn about something else :)

Replying to @null and @siilime, @JiminyPan, @dauwhe

And life is so short!

Replying to @null and @dauwhe, @siilime, @JiminyPan

I don’t /> but I close plenty of implieds, and quote all but boolean attributes. It’s just that I don’t want to think.

Replying to @null and @siilime, @dauwhe, @JiminyPan

Except of course… all you need to type is `async` :-}

Replying to @null and @siilime, @dauwhe, @JiminyPan

Still valid, just useless. And the English language, you know, it’s awesome :)

Replying to @null and @siilime, @dauwhe, @JiminyPan

No, not that far. Are you talking about the same Finnish for which people can’t even agree on whether there are 14 or 16 cases?

Replying to @null and @dauwhe, @siilime, @JiminyPan

I wish more XML toolchains just took HTML as input. It’s useful, it’s easy, and it’s well-defined.
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Replying to @null and @prushforth, @dauwhe

Actually, it should. If a publication is a composite resource, pointing to one of its subresources should probably not load the whole thing.

Replying to @ElieSl and @n1k0

Merci :-)

Replying to @ThierryStoehr

Merci Thierry!
What's this world coming to...
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Replying to @aeoye and @tabatkins

So… all we need is a F&F / PSY crossover and we’re good to go. Let’s get @TheRock and @psy_oppa in the same room for a chat, okay?

Replying to @pdwn and @edasfr

C’est ouvert! politiqu.es

Replying to @kevinschawinski and @seanmcarroll

Clearly it must be because they want you on that job.

Replying to @edasfr and @pdwn

Ok, merci, je checke.

Replying to @edasfr and @pdwn

Je pense que c’est réglé pour les deux. Je te mets admin :)
Brexit likely to lead to more expensive beer (oh, and other products). C’mon. It’s still time to call this off. economist.com/news/britain/2…
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Replying to @edasfr and @pdwn

Cool. Pas d’urgence, comme tu t’en doutes je suis aussi assez occupé. Je crois que @ElieSl était intéressé aussi.

Replying to @edasfr

Hahahaha, petit plaisantin!
OMG, those are so good. I’ve only been waiting for this since the Dawn of the Web. Thank you V8 team!
Quoting a tweet by @mathias ↗
@dontcallmeDOM Ha, je t’ai vu! Pour ta peine: BAM, administrateur :)
Un projet qui aide réellement, au quotidien, à la transition énergétique. Allez les soutenir, bordel!
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Replying to @rhiaro and @csarven, @Twitter

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars, would hire as UX designer again.

Replying to @edasfr

Moi aussi! Pas à 100%, il y a toujours la place de faire mieux, mais très largement positifs. Et c’est marqué «libéral» sur ma tronche.
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Replying to @heydonworks and @zeldman

That's why they're profitable. But you can't get there if no one uses your service to start with.

Replying to @heydonworks and @zeldman

Sure, but I don't think that speaks to the original point!

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Replying to @AmeliasBrain

Alors, it's clearly a sign of the End Times.

Replying to @dr_l_alexandre

Le sens critique, ça commence par comprendre ce dont on parle avant de l'ouvrir.

Replying to @poulpita

Merci Virginie!

Replying to @le_hasard

Tu nous fais une vidéo?

Replying to @LogicalAnalysis

Really? Where? It's a lot cheaper in Paris than in NYC...

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Je ne dis pas qu'on ne peut pas parvenir à une conclusion similaire, mais pas en racontant n'importe quoi sur les AIs ou HTML.

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Je répondrai plus long, mais "I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance." Asimov

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

L'algorithmique est le point de départ des sciences de la complexité. Quand 50% votent simpliste, on peut hésiter sur cette ignorance.
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Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Je ne parle pas de devenir codeur, on peut démontrer une AI correcte en 50 lignes de code. Démystifier le nouveau quotidien, pas inutile.
There should be a literary game in which you write a story from a given @TheBJPS article title. Dibs on "Counterfactual Desirability"!
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Replying to @TheBJPS

I almost went with that one! I wish you’d mentioned the wombat on the cover.
Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking at #eprdctn about how to get useful data out of horrible formats. Moby Dick inside! ti.to/wileylabs/2017…

Replying to @benwerd and @natematias

I... I want to hear about the Marmite escargot.

Replying to @benwerd and @natematias

Be that as it may, you did say Marmite escargot 🐌. Those who of us both French and Australian enough to eat Cadbury Vegemite need to know.

Replying to @erikphoel and @TheBJPS

That's a great choice as well! Haven't read it yet; with luck, it too may have a wombat.

Replying to @sapinker

The linked diaeresis article explains why, too :-)

Replying to @ElieSl

Méfie toi, mouvement social en vue (selon tes dates).

Replying to @versac and @gouvernementFR

Lisibles tout court, niveau accessibilité c'est en-dessous de tout...
'murica!
"Sine paenitentia rudi modo ne intraveritis." The new motto for standards. Cc @dauwhe
@dauwhe This is the most accurate technical summary of http-range-14: berjon.com/http-range-14/

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Le rapport au vote est une incapacité endémique à saisir la complexité.

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Pédant? Peut-être. Ma propre science est la philosophie — il a pu arriver que nous soyons accusé de ça…

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

C’est bien ce que je dis — il ne s’agit pas d’apprendre à développer, qui est de toute façon un artisanat. Mais une question de fondamentaux

Replying to @trekonomics and @HuffPostPol

Hahaha, OMG, what a grisly, depressing choice.

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Exemple: j’ai appris la logique avant le code. Je peux dire que, pédagogiquement, c’est beaucoup plus clair en code qu’en notation!

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Je vois l’intérêt principal du code comme une projection pédagogique simple et concrète de concepts difficiles et abstraits.

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Le fait de pouvoir intervenir, manipuler est essentiel. C’est un outil de pensée critique puissant que de saisir l’abstrait littéralement.

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

La complexité biologique du point de vue métaphysique et du point de vue d’un automate cellulaire ne sont pas les mêmes!

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Je… ne crois pas que je sois en train de mépriser quoi que ce soit…

Replying to @gabriel_mathy and @trekonomics, @HuffPostPol

Well it’s like when that vulgar, noisy uncle comes to town. Can’t take him to the good places where he’ll embarrass you.

Replying to @trekonomics and @gabriel_mathy, @HuffPostPol

I hadn’t realised this, but Trump would have paired up so damn fucking well with Sarkozy.

Replying to @trekonomics and @gabriel_mathy, @HuffPostPol

Sure… but think of the Gaddafi-Putin meetings we could’ve had!

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

J’ai toujours pensé que le programme de L avec mathématiques du citoyen et probas de base était meilleur que les options plus «avancées».

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

L’enseignement des maths (en tout cas tel que je l’ai connu) est strictement inutile, au quotidien, intellectuellement, et pour la science.

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Mais pourquoi enseigner le principe d’une boucle de façon non manipulable plutôt que manipulable? C’est juste de la pédagogie.

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Personne ne parle de XML; ça c’est juste pour les artisans.

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Je ne crois pas que tu dises quelque chose de très différent de ce que je dis, j’ai juste une vision pédagogique axée sur le faire :)

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Pour moi, absolument pas. Je n’ai compris le sens des maths de lycée qu’en étudiant Leibniz…

Replying to @null and @borisschapira, @dr_l_alexandre

Il y a d’ailleurs beaucoup dans le cursus de philo qui m’ont ouvert au code; en maths, je pense rien. Et pourtant j’aime bien!

Replying to @dginev

Perl was built on classic quotes.
A Daft Punk medley to close a military march, full with drone views, hand-clapping generals, Trump, Macron…
Quoting a tweet by @franceinfo ↗
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Replying to @TzviyaSiegman and @liza

I don’t know! Whenever we are next in the same geographic area maybe?

Replying to @liza and @TzviyaSiegman

Ha! I will probably be in Boston a couple of days next week — schedule uncertain. Let’s see how this lines up!

Replying to @hadleybeeman

Is it possible that GS1 has something like that? I have some dim memory...
Using @FirefoxNightly? Try setting layout.css.servo.enabled to true! Seems to work well so far. (Suggested by @jwajsberg)
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Replying to @jwajsberg and @FirefoxNightly

I'm not on the Aurora channel so I'm pretty used to that!

Replying to @jensimmons

Do you know what type of snake it was?
I’ve been looking at «Web Science», because it should match a lot of my interests. It’s proving hard to find a usable entry point.

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Replying to @mariejulien and @Bouletcorp

J’ai essayé deux ou trois fois de commencer une saison, sur les conseils de fans — je n’ai jamais réussi à finir un épisode.
Humani nil a me alienum puto. Well, except the people getting mad over #DrWho being a woman. Alienum those, very much.

Replying to @anatudor and @jwajsberg

What’s… what’s the other way?

Replying to @edasfr

Replying to @anatudor and @ShaneHudson, @jwajsberg

I don’t know if I’m qualified to declare it «normal», but it certainly feels very, very familiar! 🙃

Replying to @null and @IanMulvany

Yes, I’m aware of lots of great stuff that’s applicable but not released under a «Web Science» label. Netsci certainly has strong web roots!

Replying to @null and @IanMulvany

I guess I’m wondering if «Web Science» actually makes sense as a distinct label for that area. It certainly doesn’t seem to stick.
Oh, it's ridiculously overpriced but you can get second hand copies at saner cost. Mine smells of burnt plastic, but hey it's the Web ;-)

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Replying to @ZachWeiner

I don't know, but if it doesn't work it should probably work.
There's a lot to like in the US, but seriously folks, WTF is the story behind the drowning of perfectly fine sushi rolls in mayonnaise?

Replying to @JibberJim

I think you have France confused with Belgium? I've never seen mayonnaise once my chips.

Replying to @JibberJim

That's... McDonald's. Responsibility for Vichy, Rwanda, sure, but not that.
I wonder how much paper is wasted annually just because browsers insist on sucking at printing.

Replying to @skdh and @addthis

Someone should totally start a "Demons as Drawn by Physicists" art collection.

Replying to @Chris_Perry_61

I doubt it has its own rendering engine, no?

Replying to @null and @soilandreyes

In fairness that’s not browsers’ fault, but yeah, I hear you!

Replying to @null and @dauwhe

DOIs?

Replying to @seanmcarroll

When used well, either can be decent. If you’re bad at presentations, Prezi just gives you more rope to shoot yourself in the foot with.

Replying to @seanmcarroll

It’s the old Web saying: «Design on the Web is like sex in a bathtub: if you know nothing abt sex it won’t help to be an expert on bathtubs»
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Nested Links (has a few inaccuracies, but amused me all the same): kizu.ru/en/fun/nested-… (via @nhoizey)

Replying to @null and @nhoizey

Oui moi aussi, mais ça m’a bien fait marrer.

Replying to @null and @dauwhe, @nhoizey

Yes — it works. Throw in role=doc-footnote on the object and it’s even borderline semantic!

Replying to @null and @nhoizey

Pour nous c’est le genre de question qui revient tout le temps, surtout des p dans des p ou ce genre de chose.

Replying to @null and @nhoizey

Sémantiquement, on a des cas de paragraphes en plusieurs parties où tu as du texte, la phrase ne s’arrête pas mais contient un bloc (maths…

Replying to @null and @nhoizey

…ou liste typiquement) puis la phrase reprend. Les puristes voudraient pointer, annoter ça comme un unique paragraphe.

Replying to @null and @nhoizey

L’exemple de @dauwhe avec un p dans une footnotes inline est assez classique aussi du p-dans-un-p.

Replying to @null and @dauwhe, @nhoizey

That doesn’t work though, the inner `aside` gets pushed to after the `p`. There is magic in `object`.

Replying to @null and @nhoizey, @dauwhe

Tu ne la rends pas forcément là visuellement, mais le contenu est à un endroit «logique» par rapport au sens.

Replying to @sophgaston and @ElliotLepers, @ppppolls

I would guess that those who think otherwise have already left the ship.

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Replying to @null and @Bouletcorp

Messtalgia

Replying to @torgo and @prushforth, @LeonieWatson

I'd watch that!

Replying to @LeaVerou

To tone brolice.

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Now you know.

Replying to @ourmaninjapan

Seriously?! How come this isn't more common knowledge?

Replying to @ourmaninjapan

Whoa. Just. Whoa.
Engineering: basically the art of preventing emergence.
Quoting a tweet by @zeigenvector ↗

Replying to @ourmaninjapan

I plan to test on self, usually they find me quite yummy 😋 I think my 8yo would do things easily, not sure about the 4yo.

Replying to @ourmaninjapan and @marsf

Huh, worth a shot, thanks! I assume that's solid as well opposed to the weird gooey stuff some people use, nothing special?

Replying to @tabatkins

Until it is drained of blood, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Replying to @rubin and @EmmanuelMacron

Ça m'arrive presque tous les jours.

Replying to @null and @dauwhe

Not all crushes are creepy. Eg an intellectual crush.

Replying to @tabatkins and @dauwhe

You mean, if the list of people I have Twitter notifications on for were to become public, that would be embarrassing? 😇

Replying to @Keithamus and @patrickhamann

Same here, works great. Also, I found a trick to reboot just the TouchBar OS once, though I can't seem to find it again :-/

Replying to @HenriHelvetica and @mjackson, @HTTPArchive

Do you know if the pace is increasing as well?

Replying to @ElieSl and @mariejulien, @JulienMoya

Vous devriez en parler sur politiqu.es. 😚

Replying to @CT_Bergstrom and @existentialcoms

I reckon "The Theory of the Mountain of Shit" pretty much speaks for itself :-)

Replying to @janl

And a pain to debug. And a source of bugs. Given multiple options from npm, it almost never go for a streaming module anymore.

Replying to @heydonworks and @janl

There's a point for a number of cases. I used equivalents a lot in Perl. But in Node it's basically a premature optimisation turned popular.

Replying to @temptoetiam

Non, mais j'ai pensé la même chose. Le Xennial a connu le vinyle dans sa fraîche jeunesse.
The English Historical Review compares @C_Berthezene to Tocqueville for her «Training Minds for the War of Ideas» 👏🏻 academic.oup.com/ehr/article-ab…
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Replying to @null and @marcosc, @MichielBijl

Nope. I wrote plans for it at some point but decided against it. My opinion is that multipage specs are a sign of bad spec design.

Replying to @skdh

Children cause it, but it then becomes infinitely communicable by any bearer of any motile species.

Replying to @trekonomics

Whoa, some of the block material under this tweet... 🤢 Who the fuck left the moron factory running overnight?

Replying to @trekonomics

Good job on that hellbanning — it’s really bad!

Replying to @trekonomics

I have no idea, but I don’t think so. Could easily find that out empirically.

Replying to @null and @VivaMachina

Good luck!
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Replying to @ElieSl and @manueldiaz

Oui, c'est pour ça qu'il n'y a pas de liens forts, de sentiments d'appartenance dans des organismes comme Mozilla ou le W3C. #OhWait
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Replying to @patrick_h_lauke and @heydonworks

Well, they *are* scrambling to attract the financial sector and startups...

Replying to @jwajsberg and @ElieSl, @manueldiaz

Bien sûr, mais c'est pas comme si ça ne faisait pas vingt ans qu'on les crée!

Replying to @sapinker

The problem with peers (that they see often) is that they're likely with the same bilingual background & you can't pick which lang they use!
Valerian: nul à chier. Dialogues pourris, aucune action, sexisme, etc. On dirait un mauvais film des 90s.
Looking for the @SMBCComics about the overqualified female sidekicks (as a perfect description of Valerian), but can't find. Any pointer?

Replying to @alanstearns and @SMBCComics

Thanks, but it looks like it’s not one of the indexed ones (OhNoRobot only has a subset).
They don't get killed. They hibernate until the next generation reinvents them. Eventually, some pass into usage.
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Replying to @null and @Floppy

Yeah, it really sucks. Pick one browser where it works, print to PDF, link PDF. Painful, stupid, but works. Eg cv.berjon.com.

Replying to @allafarce

Books, made of paper. If engaging enough they'll disconnect anything IME.
Luc Besson ne lit pas. Ça explique le point ahurissant auquel Valerian est mal écrit.
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I'm guessing "Usage Elasticity" might capture the idea. When the dam breaks, your service collapses. I think FB Messenger has to be close.
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J'avais oublié cette pratique de salopards des bars parisiens qui t'amènent de l'Évian pour la grenadine.

Replying to @null and @vlentz, @Medium, @facebook

Je ne parle pas de ça, juste de la nullité croissante de certains services qui ne se traduit pas par une perte immédiate d'utilisateurs.

Replying to @teleclimber and @Medium, @facebook

Sort of, but for the Medium it's content more than network.

Replying to @AmeliasBrain

That's part of it, but it's not just for social media.

Replying to @bfluzin

Social-traitre.
Remember: Flash was killed first and foremost by mobile performance. Who's next?
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Replying to @bfluzin

Ah ouais Notepad c'est bien minimaliste.

Replying to @null and @siilime, @Medium, @facebook

It's hard, but I would argue that Messenger shows there's lower even than the Facebook app.

Replying to @bfluzin

Hahaha! C'est vrai que le BDSM était à la mode sur le Web de l'époque :-)

Replying to @Trinart

Nothing on the Web :-)
Visas approved, looks like you'll have to suffer my presence in the US a little while longer.

Replying to @julien51

Now I just need a way to pay the rent ;-)
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects", by Ted Chiang. Some good ideas, but predicable structure, nothing overwhelmingly memorable.

Replying to @alexmilowski

I don't think that ever killed any tech :-)

Replying to @skdh

What type of talk at what type of conference and what process the speaker had to go through?
7, de Tristan Garcia. Style pataud, détails voulant choquer façon branchouille BFM, ça me tombe des mains. Il n'y a que moi?

Replying to @null and @dauwhe

Me too! Where are you headed?
Le @libe des grands jours.
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Replying to @null and @dauwhe

Whoa, have fun! I'm off to Champagne this afternoon :-)

Replying to @__apf__

Ha! My TLS is flawless!

Replying to @seanmcarroll

There are many good reasons to strengthen our hand in naturalised ethics, this is one of them. But is AI on our top ten list of threats?

Replying to @heydonworks

I do that often enough that I aliased them.
Seriously @Forbes, you need to retract. Not even the title makes any sense; the rest of the article is deranged mutant snake oil.
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Some vacation reading.
Quoting a tweet by @C4COMPUTATION ↗

Replying to @msantolini

Ha! En parlant de septembre... On peut faire la pub maintenant? Ça serait cool de pouvoir linker au site 😇
One interesting aspect of emojis is that they are written-only text, text with no obvious vocalisation. Is there linguistic precedent?

Replying to @msantolini

Oui :-) Mais comme je ne vois rien sur le site, je n'étais pas sûr.

Replying to @LeonieWatson

I think the mapping to spoken language is much closer. I presume writers/readers have a sound in their head when handling those.

Replying to @LeonieWatson

I was precisely wondering how they are read? Do you mostly get the Unicode name?

Replying to @null and @_james_fuller

It could be spoken if needed though.

Replying to @edasfr

👯‍♀️🔰👘🎏? (But good point)

Replying to @null and @_james_fuller

That's a wee bit older than medieval Latin!

Replying to @edasfr

Certes, mais il y a une différence qui me paraît plus que de degré.
Delighted to say that I'll be speaking at #CCS17 about the Web as a substrate for human/machine hybrid intelligence! ccs2017.wixsite.com/adhesion
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Replying to @domenic and @LeonieWatson

That matches my understanding of Japanese (admittedly based on Murakami characters explaining how to pronounce their names). However...

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Replying to @nicoleamurray

Interesting. Is it only not meant to be vocalised, or does it have no obvious vocalisation? LMAO isn't meant to be, but I vocalise it easily

Replying to @nicoleamurray

It's a lot less clear to me how to vocalise something like 😆 or 🤣.

Replying to @nicoleamurray and @edasfr

Yes, they clearly have very strong semantics :-)

Replying to @AmeliasBrain

People vocalise maths all the time! It's embarrassingly overloaded, but people speak it. That said, knot theory notation seems hard to speak

Replying to @Trinart

Yeah, there's the small detail of financing the trip but I'll have something figured out by then!

Replying to @dylanbarrell and @LeonieWatson

I don't think we know for sure. But I would think they would could be read as whatever ancient Egyptian was.

Replying to @edasfr

Je pense qu'il y a un nombre de cas qui de substitution non négligeable. Mais je n'ai pas de chiffres à l'appui.

Replying to @LeonieWatson and @domenic

But how would you know? There isn't a clear set of pronunciations that others would recognise.

Replying to @LeonieWatson and @domenic

According to Wikipedia, hieroglyphs were actually plain and simple phonetic. Like Finnish it would seem.

Replying to @Ls01

Oh mais ce sont des dahuts!

Replying to @Ls01

On les reconnaît à la longueur des pattes. Tu devrais pouvoir organiser une chasse à la tombée du jour.

Replying to @edasfr

Ou je passe trop de temps sur le twitter 😆

Replying to @nicoleamurray

I dunno, I've told enough people to RTFM :-)

Replying to @nicoleamurray

But photographs aren't verbal. I reckon the closest are facial expressions.

Replying to @ubiquitic

You see concepts? Like Sixth Sense Wittgenstein?

Replying to @LeonieWatson

I wish it would. Varying glyphs makes them ambiguous, a common text mapping would address that.

Replying to @LeonieWatson

If only we knew people involved in standards!
Yo dawg, I heard you like legacy document formats so I put some...
Quoting a tweet by @TeXtip ↗

Replying to @mrgunn

Also mark a reply as key to the thread so you don't get the same point twenty times.